Rant Thread II

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Murder.Of.Crows

'bout time.

Okay, I'm going to hang out the front of your house now, and sing...

Are you asleep yet?

...how about now?


..... Now?

......now?????

[Renatus]

Ugh, I go down for supper tonight, and ask who ate my leftovers from the night before, and if the plate with the green beans uneaten was my brother's. I get yelled at for being spoiled and told to shut up because she's trying to relax and focus on her schoolwork....

Less than a min later she is complaining to me, without me saying a thing, about one of her petty little disagreements with my father, and I ask her why she can't find a middleground. She yells at me to shut up, she's trying to relax and do her school work.

So I see shes watch a pbs special with Tony Bennet doing duets with other musicians, I remember that with her Tony Bennet Koss headphones (which she never wears because she hates how it messes up her hair but wont let anyone else use), came a free downloadable album containing all of the Tony Bennet duets being shown on the tv program she is watching. So I once again, as calmly as I can express myself, tell her about this. She yells shut up she's trying to do her homework and relax, and runs off to her room with her school stuff.

Crazy Bitch.

[Murder.Of.Crows]

Originally Posted by Fruitbat

Okay, I'm going to hang out the front of your house now, and sing...

Are you asleep yet?

...how about now?


..... Now?

......now?????

Ironically I did get some birds that wouldn't shut up last night. But, if I saw you standing out my window screaming at me, I think I would only laugh and then feel a little frightened at how you know where my house is.

[Alan]

Neither Toronto nor McGill accepted me to their programs. Fuck you Saya! As a Canadian I hold you fully responsible for anything Canada does to me!

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Murder.Of.Crows

Ironically I did get some birds that wouldn't shut up last night. But, if I saw you standing out my window screaming at me, I think I would only laugh and then feel a little frightened at how you know where my house is.

C'mon MOC - I'm a fruitbat, I don't stand, I hang... but perhaps there is a bird conspirocy (sp?) going on, you know like the cat one (but the cat one is real).

Oh and for the record, I too would be scared if I knew where you lived because then I'd be pscyhic and to be honest if I were pscyhic, I'd use my powers to find out the winning lottery numbers, because anything else just would seem like a lot of hard friggin' work.

I got covered in shit three in three hours today. Babybat has gastro and boy has he been exploding. Going to run out of clothes and towels soon... hurry up washing machine/tumble dryer.

Crap, what is it with my spelling today... I'm in creative mode so I'm making up friggin' stories about everything and anything and not stopping for typos.

[Pineapple_Juice]

I hate makeup. Why wasn't i blessed with perfect features?

I have like...droopy eyelids on the outer corner so i did my makeup to cover it from lots of tips and tricks i learned. It worked but now my eyes look super far apart like i have some disorder or i'm cross-eyed.

Fuck makeup, i'm just going to wear a paper bag with holes cut in.

[Versus]

So I'm running a range for unit that's training on their machine guns. I guess they had 50 people shoot 4 iterations and only one person qualified. They said it was because of the wind. I know for a fact that the wind won't bother a 5.56mm round until further then 600 meters, which was their furthest target, but whatever. So they say they want to shoot at night and want us to put infrared chemical lights on the targets to mark them. So we go and set them all up, but when we get back, I notice they have a bunch of pas-13s (thermal sights) set up. So I ask this dumb bitch in the tower "You guys have nods (night vision), right?" she says "No. Why?" I tell her that you can't see infrared sources with thermals. She says "Yes you can! All the training manuals and my NCOs say you can!" and all I can do is stare at her and finally say "Okay. You're right. I'm stupid."

Because I don't know anything. I only have a GED and never went to college.

[Pineapple_Juice]

Gun go boom?

[Spooky Spencer]

Originally Posted by Pineapple_Juice

Fuck makeup, i'm just going to wear a paper bag with holes cut in.

I just told my dad what you said about wearing a paper bag over your head because it was funny.

He asked me to ask you, "Have you considered a stand-up comedy career on the Gong Show?"

[Fruitbat]

Got visited by the JW's today. It's freezing and I just let them stand there and try and give me their words of wisdom, wiithout saying a word in response. Then they asked me if I had a faith, and I said yes.....

... I've got a faith, faith of the heart - star trek enterprise theme song... Oh yes I have faith! praise the warp drive. May Dr Flox always be there to tend to your wounds.

[Versus]

Originally Posted by Pineapple_Juice

Gun go boom?

Err. I was mad because they wasted my time and tried to argue with me about somethingly clearly within my purview. A lot of officers have this "I don't need to listen to a word you say because I have a degree, which makes me smarter then you and more knowledgable about everything" attitude. Saya and I agreed that she was a political science major.

Also, you shouldn't worry about makeup. Saya and I would totally bang you.

[Renatus]

Originally Posted by Versus

Err. I was mad because they wasted my time and tried to argue with me about somethingly clearly within my purview. A lot of officers have this "I don't need to listen to a word you say because I have a degree, which makes me smarter then you and more knowledgable about everything" attitude. Saya and I agreed that she was a political science major.

Also, you shouldn't worry about makeup. Saya and I would totally bang you.

That's the thing I don't like about the way people think these days, they work on the old basis that knowledge is limited and can only be acquired over the time of an entire lifetime, and through intensive studying such as through a university. This value has not been adjusted to take into account how much more easily one can acquire knowledge than one could a century ago.

Instead you have people interpreting it as a sign of disrespect, when in fact it is just the opposite, it is you being respectful of the fact that they don't know something that you know, and that you want to enlighten them.

At least thats how I interpret it.

Then again it could be entirely due to(rather than partially due to) one thing(I think) I heard from my father, about how young officers tend not to listen to their more experienced but lower ranked enlisted men, a foolish mistake.

[Renatus]

Oh well, I could be completely off, I'm running a fever at the moment.

[Solumina]

From what I've heard you're spot on Ren. There are a lot of officers who have zero practical knowledge and even the greenest 0-1 outranks any enlisted person, some people also seem to think that if you outrank a person then you are better than that person in every possible way.

[Saya]

It cracks me up because I'm in a third year anthropology course about war (specifically the American War in Vietnam), and my prof thinks I'm brilliant but a lot of the points I bring up in class, I steal from Versus. Dude could run intellectual circles around a lot of my classmates any day.

[Versus]

Yeah, you guys are spot on. And to Saya: I maintain that I'm kinda dumb. I hide it only by trying to talking about things that I'm familiar with, or think that I have a grasp on. When was the last time anybody saw me speak about something intelectualy? Yeah.

[Saya]

Originally Posted by Versus

Yeah, you guys are spot on. And to Saya: I maintain that I'm kinda dumb. I hide it by only talking about things that I'm familiar with, or think that I have a grasp on.

Everyone does that. There's a reason I don't really participate in discussions about economics.

[Versus]

Or shoe shopping.

[Solumina]

How the hell is sourcing the right felt the most difficult part of putting together this craft class? Seriously our suppliers only have super soft floppy felt (which you can only get in multicolored assortments so I can't even get some and just use a little fabric stiffener) or the stuff that you stick on the back of furniture to keep it from scraping/denting your walls. I'm thinking we may just have to use petty cash and buy the stuff at Michaels.

[Renatus]

Originally Posted by Solumina

How the hell is sourcing the right felt the most difficult part of putting together this craft class? Seriously our suppliers only have super soft floppy felt (which you can only get in multicolored assortments so I can't even get some and just use a little fabric stiffener) or the stuff that you stick on the back of furniture to keep it from scraping/denting your walls. I'm thinking we may just have to use petty cash and buy the stuff at Michaels.

How old is your resort exactly? I don't suppose you would be willing to share the name of it with me, through a pm for the sake of privacy if you feel so inclined. I must admit though part of the reason I ask is because I remember years ago an offer of cookies you once made should I ever come to visit.

One thing I do my best to never forget, is offers of hospitality, made to or by me.

[Solumina]

The property itself was a functioning plantation back in the early 1700's but it became a resort in the 80's and was purchased by DRI just a few years ago (I think four years ago but I'm not 100% sure). I work at the Historic Powhatan Resort but our sister resort Greensprings is newer and better maintained (although our Activities department is way better).

[korinna5555]

I miss some of you.

[Solumina]

Some of us miss you too.

[Renatus]

Originally Posted by Solumina

Some of us miss you too.

I concur

Originally Posted by Solumina

The property itself was a functioning plantation back in the early 1700's but it became a resort in the 80's and was purchased by DRI just a few years ago (I think four years ago but I'm not 100% sure). I work at the Historic Powhatan Resort but our sister resort Greensprings is newer and better maintained (although our Activities department is way better).

Judging by the looks of the picture and activities list it seems as if it was better off in the late 80s/early 90s.

Though I do like the looks of the menu. Such as the tiger prawns with smoked gouda grits(it sounds like an entree I had in Lafayette), or the apricot glazed quail, perhaps with a side of white truffle potato au gratin.

What do you think of the game room? how is your activities department better? and how far is the rail station?(if I were to stay there I feel like I would want to take the rare opportunity to use rail travel:P)

[Solumina]

The rail station is a fair bit away and the public transit around here doesn't quite reach our property (the bus does stop at the park maybe 1/4 mile away but there are no sidewalks), though you could take a taxi or rent a car.

I'm not gonna lie the game room leaves a lot to be desired, it only has a handful of arcade games and a couple of snack machines and that is all there is, the only people who actually seem to enjoy it are bored 13 year olds whose parents don't want to do anything but lounge around the pools (which the game room is right off of).

Our activities department is better cuz I'm in it . We are also much larger than our sister resort so we are able to provide more of a variety of activities and have a larger space to use for activities, we also have a much more pleasant manager who actually cares about her staff so we are all much happier and it shows. You can access our list of sports and stuff online but we will be offering a lot more events once things start picking up around the beginning of April (off season is super boring around here).

We actually have two restaurants on property (Greensprings does not but both are open to the public). The Kitchen restaurant is fine dining and that is the one with the dishes that you mentioned, the food is quite good but, while they brag about our sustainable garden and having local food the only stuff that we grow on property are the herbs and figs and of the rest of the food only some of the seafood is locally sourced (our new chef is working with the new food and bev manager to improve this but has made little progress so far, then again they pretty much completely overhauled our other restaurant so they haven't been able to devote much time to it yet). The Grill is our casual dining restaurant, it was recently renovated and has a new menu, it just reopened earlier this week so I haven't checked it out yet but I have heard that it has improved substantially (as it used to be pretty blah, not bad just nothing special). That being said I wouldn't really recommend either, at least not if you were interested in going out for dinner (if you don't feel like driving or just want something convenient then they are great options), not that I think you would be unhappy with them but there are just so many truly outstanding restaurants in the area that I would feel compelled to recommend first.

Unfortunately for this place the company that built it slowly went out of business, Powhatan and Greensprings were the last of their resorts to be sold off and it really shows that things weren't kept up while the company was going under. Diamond has been (very) slowly renovating both properties (things have been easier and faster at Greensprings as the resort is newer and about half the size), thankfully our new (well newish he started last year) GM has been pretty aggressive about fixing the place up, there are just a lot of issues from past management that he is having to clean up. Honestly if he is able to keep going the way that he has been I think the resort will really be a great place again by next year, I mean since he started last year we have remodeled the restaurant one, redecorated the front lobby, re-paved most of the roads, and are currently restoring the manor house and renovating the recreation center, additionally there have been stricter quality controls and a faster pace for unit renovations, so the guy is making a lot of progress, unfortunately our last three GMs were just a little more concerned with lining their own pockets than doing anything for the property.

Edit:err wow that ended up getting long, guess there was just a little pent up frustration that wanted to come out. Also if you do decide to visit Williamsburg but don't stay at this place I'll still make you cookies.