Complaints @ MindSay 
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New month, new blog entry. Nothing new to report, nothing new to bitch about. Pretty much everything is still the same. Same worries, activies, and complaints.
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I’ve read a lot of rants in this newspaper about the amount of noise, clutter, and general inconvenience from all the construction going on around campus. I too have muttered under my breath about having to walk out of my way to get around a construction barrier...but I wonder how many of us, when we’re sitting in our nice, air-conditioned classrooms and complaining about all the noise the guys working on the roof are making, even give a thought to how those guys feels up there in 90-plus degree heat, just working hard, trying to keep that roof from crashing in on our heads someday. Probably not that many.
From changing light bulbs, emptying trashcans, and unstopping toilets to digging ditches and laying pipe, and putting new roofs on buildings, the men and women of Facilities Services keep this school running, and we just take them for granted.
There isn’t a fellow on this campus, myself included, who hasn’t experienced poor aim in the bathroom from time to time. (I hope this isn’t an issue for the ladies). We don’t have the wherewithal to wrap a wad of toilet paper around our hand and wipe it up, and, other than those too lazy to even consider that to begin with, it’s probably because there’s evidence another lousy shot was there before us. We just correctly assume someone is going to come along behind us and clean up our filth.
In the wintertime, after a freezing rain, it’s not the salt fairies who come along to clean off the sidewalks and steps so we don’t bruise our buns...or worse. A human being was out there in the freezing cold, breaking his back to keep us from breaking ours.
We need to think about these things the next time we’re griping.
The men and women of Facilities Services provide a clean environment for us around our campus and in our buildings; they keep us cool when it’s hot out and warm when it’s cold; they keep us safe from faulty wiring, busted pipes, and falling plaster.
Is it too much to ask to say thanks? I’m sure they don’t expect it, but I bet they’d appreciate hearing it once in a while instead of a lot of complaining.
© 2007 by J.D. Lewis
Yesterday was, by human standards, a complete failure. I will attribute it to a collective lack of faith and perserverance on the part of my co-workers, one in particular who was the "leaven" that ruined the whole batch. I can handle change and roll with the punches. I saw yesterday as a challenge and speared it head-on but your attack is weak when your ranks are grumbling behind you and in the end I, too, was praying for the day to be over.
Is it hypocritical of me to say I have no patience for people who have no patience and only complain about those who complain? Then again who amoung us isn't a hypocrite? Only Christ was perfect and I marvel at His perfection at times like these when I seem so far from Heaven and where I need to be in my Christian walk.
Yesterday was the extreme case though and I saw just how far it could go. He hates me because I bit my lip and did my job while all he could do was grumble and complain. Who got the more work done I ask you? IT'S YOUR JOB. You come in, you work, you get paid, you go home! That's all there is too it.Yeah you might not like your boss or his bright ideas but -hey!- he signs your paycheck at the end of the week! Really, people, what does complaining get done? Other than bring everyone else down, what does it accomplish?
I was maybe the last to fall, yesterday, but if the least that we accomplished was to prove to management that the system isn't working then at least we accomplished something. Hopefully, prayfully, today, we can take the "bright idea" out back, shoot it, and lay it to rest, baring the scars of yesterday as reminders. Oh yes, there are scars maybe not visible but the damage is done and perhaps, if the plan is resurrected, the team will completely fall to pieces.
We shall see. My victory is in Christ, not in the works of my own hands. I made it through yesterday and will so again today with my Lord's help.
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. ~ Romans 13:1
A hot-tempered man stirs up dissension, but a patient man calms a quarrel. ~ Proverbs 15:18
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Prayer - Will, Jae and Fabio who have no idea what they missed yesterday, Self
Anyway, I'm waiting for Dad to take Mom to work so that we can go to Sam's Club and Walmart. I need to buy a few things. :( We're out of food at home, I starved all day. I had a little packet of spicy noodles and that's it. On the upside, I think I'm getting skinnier from all this starving. LOL. Yay for me, though.
Loc should be coming home either today or tomorrow. Who knows. I called her number the other day and someone picked up, it wasn't her, though. I asked if I could speak to her and her friend just hung up. The person that picked up is her roommate. She's like, this biker chick. Or at least she looks like one. Anyway, then Tiep called back, and she picked up, but as soon as she did, she hung up. I don't know what her problem is.. But Loc shouldn't be lending her cellphone to her friend. Who knows what she does with it. No wonder why Loc's phone bill is up to $700. Oh well. It isn't really my problem, but Loc is my sister and I don't want her getting herself into this type of trouble. She can't exactly pay this bill. To top it off, she also has a credit card bill that is about one or two thousand.
On another note: I don't know why I never blogged about this or told you guys, but Maya has heartworm. (Remember Maya? She's my new dog. A Siberian Husky mixed with German Shepherd. She's beautiful!) So, Tuong took her to get that treated and now all is well, except for one thing: Maya can't run or play for a month, straight. The medication that they put into Maya to get rid of heartworm takes awhile, but in the meantime, if Maya runs around or anything like that, the heartworms will travel to her lungs and she wouldn't be able to breathe. Thus, she dies. And I don't want that happening, but I want her to have fun, too. She might be a little depressed because she's hurting right now. They had to shave off two patches on her back to insert this medication. As for Lexi (my other puppy, the Yorkshire Terrier), Tuong also got her checked out for heartworm, but she tested negative. Thank god, too. I don't think Lexi would be able to handle it. I'm grateful that Lexi is okay, but I'm hoping for Maya to turn out fine too...
Tiep is really annoying me lately. It's like he always thinks he's right, or something. And even when he isn't, he won't admit it. He's being stupid. 'Nuff said. Same with Tuong. But she's just plain stubborn and has this massive attitude problem.
And I don't know what Mom's problem is these days. She just called me stupid and yelled at me for calling the dogs back into the house. They were barking, I have a headache, I couldn't stand it. She's like all other Asian moms. They expect us to know everything that they do. It's so tiring because she's yelling day and night. It's like she can never be happy with us. But, you know, I love her and all. She's my Mom. And Dad... Gosh. Right now Dad is having problems with his back, and he's going to see the doctor after he drops Mom off at work. I hope he's okay. I'm sure he will be, but I would like him in perfect condition and perfect health.
Well, I think I covered every family member. I don't know why, but it just seems like I can't get along with any of them. Well, except for Dad. I'm a total Daddy's girl, heheh.
So, since my Dad has decided to go to the doctor, I get to sleep in. He'll call home whenever he's on his way back from the doctor's and Tiep, Tuong, and I will get ready to go. Time for my beauty sleep!
Why do men cheat? Why is it, their biological desires seem to go unfulfilled and lead them to divorce court in the end? Every man is different, but the consensus is that sex driven men are being denied at home by their wives. The wives are using sex as a reward to keep their men in check. For example, if men refuse to help around the house, they will be denied.
Vanessa Lloyd Platt an attorney in the UK is amazed by how many women file for divorce right after the new year, in her post “Why we divorce lawyers are having a VERY happy New Year” for the Daily Mail she writes:
“For as long as I’ve been a divorce lawyer - some 29 years - it has always been the same; the first working day after the Christmas break is the busiest of the year. It’s a bit like the stampede on the first day of the January sales, except we have customers queuing up round the block for divorces, not discounts.
…In simple terms, it’s the fact that Christmas is one of the few periods of the year when husbands and wives are forced to spend a lot of time with each other. For the same reason, September is also a busy time for divorce lawyers, coming straight after the long summer holidays, and it seems to be the same complaints uttered every year.
A lot of people, especially women, get very excited about the build-up to Christmas and New Year, and have an image in their heads of a perfect family Christmas - a beautifully decorated house, stress-free cooking, charming children and a happy family playing board games in front of the tree.
Naturally, the expectation is far better than the reality, leaving many wives frustrated and disappointed that their dreams and hopes for the festive season have come to nothing.
…Many women complain that their husbands spent most of the Christmas and New Year festivities in the pub and not in their company, depriving them of the love, attention and support so many of them crave.
Having believed the holidays were the one time that they could isolate their menfolk from work and other distractions, the distractions still won.”
…Other women complain that their husbands do not do their fair share with the children, leaving them not only to do the shopping, cooking and clearing up, but also to provide endless entertainment for the little darlings as well.“
And yes, American Women feel the same way as their UK counterparts. These women just can’t seem to understand that they cannot train a lion or a grizzly with this mentality. It’s simple. If a woman loves her man freely and shows him appreciation, her man will do whatever it takes to keep her happy. That’s the secret ladies! Write that down! Yet many women feel they can use the promise of sex or the denial of sex to manipulate and change their man’s behavior. That will never work. It goes against biology. Why do you think we are built this way? We are not built with wide child bearing hips? Why do you think we are physically the strongest of genders? It’s because we can go out into the jungle and kill things and bring it back to the cave for the family to eat. Don’t send us mail, citing examples of physically (hooked on roids) strong women. Yes we are aware of a tiny percent of the freaks out there who deep down inside have p*nis envy. Man is king of the jungle and will always be. To deny otherwise, is to deny our biological roles. It has nothing to do with Male Chauvinism.
Over at the Don’t Get Married Forum, some brothers of ours comment on the dillema:
thechief writes: “This is probably my favorite “theme”, if you will, to this board and the MRA movement as a whole. The fact that we aren’t losing out on sex if we refrain from marriage because sex eventually dries up in a marriage anyway. They stop giving it up. And as I’ve said before, I don’t even think it’s something conscious for most of them. At some point they just realize they have everything they wanted out of a marriage (the house, the kids, the security, etc, etc) and they don’t have to give it up any more. This, combined with a passive/aggressive streak I think most women have that makes them uncomfortable whenever their man is too happy or contented means that eventually they decide ‘OK, that’s enough sex for you.’
Did they honestly think we wouldn’t mind?
The good news is that some prominent women (Dr. Laura, Jennifer Roback Morse) realize this is a problem and are encouraging women to rethink denying their men sex. There’s also a body cream–the active ingredients are testosterone, estrogen and progesterone–that supposedly helps keep the female libido up. I’m an optimist, maybe there’ll be a sea change some day.
Until then, frankly, there are call girls. As I’ve said, I respect escorts more than most women because at least they’re honest about the fact they’re f*cking you for your money.”
The Reverend Porckchops (Always a favorite commented on our story “What Would Life Be Like Without Feminism?“: “The feminists at N.O.W. are working diligently to legalize prostitution everywhere in America, so once the feminists at NOW get prostitution legalized everywhere in America then the marriage rate should plummet to near zero.”
We got an email from M. Hunter in reply to the Reverend’s comments that we felt should be included in this main post:
“And why exactly is that a bad thing. If prostitution were legalized it would solve a lot of problems for both sexes. First of all suckers wouldn’t have to worry about buying their ‘dates’ a dinner and a movie just so they might get a kiss. That means that as a guy you are paying $55 just to get your foot in the door. If you’re lucky enough to get laid by the third date you’ve just spent $165 and that’s not counting the time you’ve wasted that could be put to other uses. I don’t know about you but I would much rather bang a hot 18 year old legal prostitute that has been tested for stds’ then try and pick someone up at a club (which is basically has to do with chance) or waste my time dating.
Also think about how legalizing prostitution would effect the dynamics of male/female relationships. A manipulative woman would no longer have “******** it would only backfire on her when her husband stopped by the local brothel for and banged a hooker just out of high school. For professional gold diggers (think Anna Nicole here) it would be harder to manipulate rich and emotionally gullible men. There would also be less marriages for *** or money. People might actually start getting married because they’re (gasp) in love. powe
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