funny email subject, 22 July 2004

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my guess is its either about porn, making my penis bigger, or refinancing the car that i don't have.

he passes, with gliding colors

not quite flying colors.  but then again, the person who designed the test obviously wasn't aiming very high.  today, at about 14:30, i got my food workers card.  yay!  except that means i'm just one step closer to working for the union.  i may or may not have mentioned it already, but i really don't like unions; i think they're pointless, and bad for business.  but i need to put my principles on hold, or else i won't be able to buy books for classes this fall.  which would be kinda bad.

so if you're ever really bored and have $10 to blow, go get your food worker card.  the test is ridiculously easy... i could've passed it even without the instructional video.  as long as you're not drunk or dead, or some combination thereof, you should be able to too.

finally

well, i finally got a job, starts next week.  can we say "yay" for the fred meyer deli?  i didn't think so.  and it is, unfortunately, a union job.  that means i'll make more per hour, but with union dues or whatever it'll come out to less.  i hate unions.  but i have to put my principles on hold, otherwise i won't be able to afford books this fall.
 
on a side note, i think i'm going to start an (x amount of time) weird email subject line post thing.  or something like that.  to post all those weird subject lines, like "poke commit sidewalk" and stuff like that.  if nothing else, it'll give me a reason to log on, maybe i'll think of something else interesting to write.  and now, before i become totally incomprehensable, i'm done.

The Heart of Yorkshire.

Looking east from the crossing tower of York Minster.

Me, inside a 13th/14th century limestone coffin in the undercroft of York Minster.

Ruins of a Catholic abbey in York, destroyed by Henry VIII's troops. Also featured: Alyssa and Corliss.

Looking west from the crossing tower at York Minster.

He may have it right.

well, i found another blog i like: From the Lunatic Left. i think the guy is a conservative democrat (they do, apparantly, exist), though i'm not entirely sure... so far, his political posts seem to be pretty balanced.

that's about it, really. just wanted to let the 3.5 people who actually read this in on another pretty cool blog. i'll probably put up a few more pics from my trip, but i guess you'll see those first if i do. did that make sense to anyone besides me?

More changing of the guard. Unfortunately, my camera focused on the heads in front of me instead of the soldiers.

Changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace

The White Tower, also from the Thames

Big Ben and the houses of Parliament, from the Thames

i may have been wrong, but kerry still sucks

wow... could've sworn i put up some stuff saying what's wrong w/ kerry's plans for our country, but i guess not. in the meantime, a friend has pointed out that two of my arguments are inaccurate, and, in an effort at fairness, i'll include his counterpoints.

1) kerry is complaining about outsourcing american jobs, yet he wants to raise the minimum wage. employers, not wanting to take a cut in profits, will either: A) fire employees to save money; B) raise the cost of goods and services to save money; or C) outsource jobs to save money.

--counterpoint: forrest totally shot down point C by saying that minimum wage jobs are pretty hard to outsource. i hadn't actually thought of that, but it makes sense. burger king would have a pretty hard time doing any thing if all its burger-flippers were in some small third-world country, like cambodia, haiti, or southern california.

2) john kerry has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to the economy. he says that he will create 10 million new jobs in his first four years; but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were only 8.2 million unemployed people as of june 2004. is he planning on unemployment going up by 2 million in those 4 years?

--counterpoint: yeah, he kinda shot this one down too. i can't believe i hadn't thought of it, but he said the population would probably have increased by then. i checked into that, and the US Census Bureau projects that by 2010, there will be an increase of what i would consider the working age (20-64) population, to the tune of about 19 million people.

3) kerry has no confidence in his chosen VP candidate.
--"In the Senate four years -- and that is the full extent of public life; no international experience, no military experience, you can imagine what the advertising is going to be next year.... When I came back from Vietnam in 1969, I don't know if John Edwards was out of diapers then." --John Kerry, January 2004
--"John Edwards is ready for this job. He is ready for this job." --John Kerry, following the Edwards announcement

i didn't actually argue that one with forrest, but i'm sure he would've had some complaint about it. oh well. he may be a confused individual, but he's still a pretty cool guy.

i think thats about enough complaining for now... assuming i still know how to do it, i'm gonna put up a few more random pics from my trip, and then go attempt to have some fun.

And I thought I was just being sarcastic when I said it was probably on the other side of the island...

Tropical Medicine?

there we go

so i got the whole picture thing figured out again... kind of. turns out i just wasn't adding a caption like it wanted me to. but i still can't figure out how to make them all part of the same post, which could get really annyoing.

This was actually part of a lotion ad, but I thought it was pretty funny.

A funny sign from York.

d'oh

or maybe not. that program isn't working as well as it did the first time, so i might have to wait before more pictures go up.