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The Blog

i know i promises not to blog about the blog anymore but  it  thought that maybee one of you could figure out how to change something for me. i has been pissing me off for some time and i cant find the parameter to change. every time you click on a link it takes to that website and you are no longer in the blog site. is there a way to get it to open a new page when we click on a site.?

So I got this new job....

So I got this new job supplying reports for management supplied with data that comes from the field. Essentially I take somebody's paperwork and compile it with the thousands of other bits of data and make it look pretty so a manager can see what is people are doing or, more often than not, not doing. Yeah, I know it isn't very exciting but they are going to pay me way more than I deserve to fiddle around with some data and make it look pretty, so I will stick with it for a while. I do have something to complain about though. This is a company that is essential to the general population; providing a service that is absolutely necessary to maintain our way of life and they make a huge profit doing so. The group I support is central to installing the hardware for the infrastructure on which this service runs and has a huge budget. This company is also in the process of spending half a billion on a software package that will keep a record of every transaction, accident and r

Drunken Master

Three day vacations inspire me to do nothing, especially considering the rarity of having even two days in a row off. So, being the lazy bum I am, I spent that time mainly watching movies. The new subscription to NETFLIX helped tremendously, giving me access to thousands of movies online and recommending the shitty ones to me regularly. There's no telling what you'll find once you begin your online search, but, based on my personal movie habits and ratings and such, it suggested Drunken Master. I have not seen this movie probably since I was ten and I realized that I had never really watched it all the way through, or bothered to get that into it. It really is a good movie! My one main criticism is the dubbing... Jackie Chan whines the entire movie and I prefer subtitles any day. What I wanted to mention, though, is that I think Karate Kid stole a lot of it's plot from Drunken Master. A disturbed teenager learns to become a better person and change his life through the use