I miss being trusted

I used to use cash at the gas station. It doesn't make sense to me that I can't use cash because "some other guy" likes to drive off without paying.

I have used the same gas station for almost a year now because it was the only gas station that would still trust me enough to take cash - but they no longer trust me either. I was a faithful customer. Every Monday after school. But to them, I am no exception. Apparently I was baiting the system so that one day when my tank was EXTREMELY empty, I would just fill it and run.

They think that if I pay first, it is no different than if I pay after. But, if they are not going to trust me with their fuel, why should I trust them with my change? Oh, that's right - I am the villanous customer and they are the upstanding corporate American representatives.

Perhaps I should commit a crime. It seems as though the American Courtroom is the only place where I am innocent until proven guilty. It would be nice to feel trusted once more.

Filler...

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How about that weather....

Yeah - it was pretty miserable... Luckily, it was raining... ya know, cooling things off a bit.... (I like the "+", just in case you weren't sure it wasn't that COLD....)

See? I wasn't kidding!

Elizabeth, CO - August 26, 2006

New Rule!

Do you remember playing tag when you were 4 or 5? There was always some other kid that, whenever you tagged them, they would shout "NEW RULE!" and come up with some stupid reason why you can't have just tagged them.

The game's a lot more irritating when you are 35 and the game has higher stakes.

My New Favorite Quote

"I use humor to keep from killing people."

-Dr. Bertice Berry

Thoughts on immigration and terrorism...

They come here to find a better life, but they refuse to assimilate to our culture. And they are affecting our economy. Now the Californians have "purchased" our mall to engage in terrorist-like activities.

What good is an outdoor mall in Colorado? (Notice that all of the "concept drawings" on the website are summertime. Californians refuse to acknowledge that winter happens in Colorado when it is 75% of the year! Those are the four seasons of Colorado: Already winter, winter, still winter and construction.) I like the name of the website: "Celebrate Southglenn"? How, by tearing it down?

These Californians never understood the concept that, sure, lots of people do their "shopping" at Park Meadows because it is elegant, but when the Colorado Natives went to do their purchasing, they used to go to Southglenn where the prices were reasonable because they didn't have to pay such high taxes and pay as much of the store owner's lease.

The first reason why sales dropped at Southglenn was that with the influx of so many Californians in the last two decades, they had to shop out Southglenn until they were able to build their own mall - then they all when away and left the Colorado natives to themselves - we actually liked that they all went away. The second reason that sales dropped at Southglenn is that Park Meadows was advertising and Southglenn wasn't. It's called economics - they wanted to redevelop Southglenn when they bought it, so they made sure it wasn't successful.

It is weird to see a building that you have known for 30+ years with a hole ripped in the side of it - if the instigators have a permit or not.

I say that we find a way to send them all back....

There goes the punchline....

So, 12 years ago, my boss spend a good sum of money to bring all of the computers in our office up to Windows 95 from Windows 3.11 (good times...) After an hour, I went into his office and declared, "I don't see much of a difference - I mean, Solitaire is exactly the same!"

Well, in Windows Vista, Solitaire has been improved.

(Just a side note, by the end of the day, I had hacked Windows 95 and had replaced the Windows 95 logo - with the pretty clouds - with a "Happy Mac".)

I accomplished a summer goal!

My XBox Live gamer score is now over 1000 points. Yeah, it was a retro game(Frogger) that pushed me over.

Good times....

Arg!!!!!!

Have you ever spent three days of your life on a project just to watch it go "poof"? Yeah - that was my last 3 days.... Well, right now it looks like it will take only two days to do the second time.... I did figure out what caused all of the computers to fail.... So, it won't happen the second time.

Thanks for the great seats, Poole!

So, we went to the Michael W. Smith concert last night at the Denver Pavillions - the friends we went with bought the tickets... I pulled out the new cell phone and got a picture of the stage from our seats - second row - right behind a lighting support post. (You can almost make out Smitty's shoulder right next to the post.) I was able to see the rest of the band pretty good though. (And Melissa was sitting next to me and could actually see pretty well.)

(Still learning to use the camera phone - somehow the resolution on the camera got set to "crappy". Better luck next time.)