it’s 10:20 pm and moe’s not home yet. she’s usually home by this time, and she’s not answering her cell… i hope everything’s okay… (it is… it’s now 10:40 pm and she just walked in)
so i started my job in may. shortly after i started, we did a job for pagliacci pizza which was a 2 colour, 2 sided take out menu. majid said that we’ve done this before, and i should set it up 4-up on 11×17, work and turn so that we can save a plate, so that’s what i did. the next day there’s a big fight between greg, the press operator and majid which goes on for most of the morning. the fight is over the paper that majid bought for the pagliacci job. it’s recycled glossy stock, which builds up way more static than non-recycled gloss (although that and the fact that it’s recycled are the ONLY differences), and thus it sticks together and won’t run smoothly through the press… which makes it practically impossible to print an 11×17 job. after reprinting the job twice over the next 4 days, finally majid decides that we can print the job if he cuts the paper in half and i re-set the job 2-up rather than 4 up… which makes three plates rather than two.
the next time we did the job, around the end of june, i would have expected majid to have learned that either he not buy recycled paper or he should charge more for the job if it is to be printed on recycled paper. i would have expected majid to have learned that if he bought recycled paper, that the job shoudn’t be set 4-up work and turn, despite the fact that it saves a plate… and i have a brain injury for god’s sake! but no… the same fight happened between greg and majid – although we only had to reprint the job once this time before he figured it out this time…
the next time we did the job, around the middle of august, it was the same deal: 11×17 4-up, recycled paper, big fight between greg and majid that takes most of the morning, two reprints of the job…
we just got the job in again today… guess how he wants me to set it up? 11×17 4-up. i ask him what paper he’s bought for the job. recycled gloss.
8-/
either he’s INCREDIBLY stupid, or something else is going on that i’m not aware of…
my new mantra is going to be “i want to quit my job, i want to quit my job, i want to quit my job…”
UPDATE i’m running sound for the hurricane survivors’ benefit concert at the Hale’s Palladium saturday. appearing will be Jamais Trop Tard, The Canote Brothers and Les Femmes d’Enfer at 3:00 pm, and The Honky Tonk Revue, How’s Bayou, The Rolling Blackouts, The Dangerous Flares and Jo Miller at 8:00 pm. come down to 4301 Leary Way NW for sausages, gumbo, red beans and rice, beer, and more music than you can shake a stick at. $15 suggested donation.
… all at the same time… 8)
here is a mirror of the page you get when you’re in the united arab emirates and you try to access a url that is somehow in violation of whatever kind of rules they have about such things in the united arab emirates… you realise, of course, that as well as seeing this web page, if you’re in the united arab emirates, the caliph of securing internet from horny anti-islamic bastards like you now has your IP address and there’s a chance that, if whatever site it was that you were trying to look at is heinous enough, you’ll be getting a visit from the goon squad of the ministry of securing internet from horny anti-islamic bastards like you… rather like they want to turn the US into eventually…
waveland is what the kingdom of heaven will look like… and, you know, i think it probably is…
Me: well shit… a conversation with God.. and an unplanned, but entirely welcome invitation to join
the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ of which i would probably be a member if i actually had luxuriant flowing hair… and was a scientist…
they filmed a giant squid!! for real!!
if i didn’t have somewhere to put all of the bizarre web sites i find i would run out of room… i get back and check most of them out eventually, but sometimes it takes a while. 8)
and you should check out Ruby. The ZBS Foundation orinally wrote Ruby 1 as a radio drama, so it comes in 5 minute “segments” and plays for more than 4 hours, and is fantastically complex but a real pleasure to listen to. Ruby 2 through 5 are somewhat less fantastic, and were written for CD distribution, rather than for radio, so the format is a bit different. i think the 5 minute segment is perfect for “getting into peoples’ heads” on a level that most people probably aren’t aware of, and as such, i think Ruby 1 is an excellent way to get the message out…
Aaah, I like. I haven’t seen that yet, at least that I recall, but I like that there’s a Ruby in it. 🙂 *adds it to list of stuff to read later* *pauses to consider ‘later’ and hopes it comes*
actually i like “i want to quit my job” better, because it implies that i will be in a place where i won’t have to have a job at all… of course that won’t mean that i’ll just sit around and do nothing all day. here is my rationalle for this, although i think you may have seen it before…
Wow, your job sounds so incredibly confounding and frustrating. Sucks to have a job and sucks not to, eh? And in your case, I think you started out with a better head than most to begin with, so it’s to be expected that even post-brain injury, you’ve still got more sense than most. But yeah, does he like, have a serious closet drug habit or something? Maybe a better mantra might be, “I will find a great new job, I will find a great new job…”.