Ash the Mighty

Those who actually have a LiveJournal membership may want to add me as a friend and view my journal from there, as I will no longer be posting my un-edited views on life, the Universe, and everything on my un-password protected website. Let’s just say that I value where I am in the world right now and I’ve discovered there are consequences for those who speak out.In an entirely “unrelated note,” there is a column called “The Vent” in the last page of the A Section of the Tribune newspaper. Yesterday’s edition had someone point out that what with the use of torture, walls being built on our borders, and no assurance of privacy; this goverment is looking a lot more like Communist Eastern Europe than the United States. I’d say that it’s not just the government which is bearing that resemblence. I’m HORRIFIED that I feel I can’t exercise my freedom of speech.

But you’ve gotta tow the line if you wanna live, I guess . . .

DAMN THE MAN,
~Ash.

I don’t blog a lot. At least not as much as some of my friends (but I won’t name names *cough* and *cough*). I feel bad about this sometimes because I know I’m certainly not any more busy than either of these two ladies . . . but then something comes along and makes me glad I don’t.Turns out that a girl I know — no need to name names, let’s just say her first name is similar to my own — was fired from a job — no need to name jobs, let’s just say it’s for a company that I am familiar with — for posting on her livejournal. Her personal livejournal. Which was set to “friends only.” And which never actually named the company that she was working for. Now I’m certainly no lawyer type, but I don’t really know if a company can legally fire someone for writing an entry which isn’t specifically defamatory (I’ve read said post, it was just venting about the job and how she doesn’t much like it, but again names no names and doesn’t mention the name of the company), and indeed they turned around and without explanation hired her back a week or so later.

SO, you will notice that this entry is locked to friends, so it won’t find itself published on AshRhodes.com. Further, I probably won’t be talking about my job pretty much at all anymore. Better to be safe than sorry when you need your job!

Take care everyone and in general I must cry out DAMN THE MAN!

~Ash.

HAPPY TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!!! Arrrrrrrr!OK, I feel better now.

~A.

First and foremost, I must announce that I have a new nephew. My sister-in-law Brianne gave birth to Zephyr Marcus Proffitt on Tuesday afternoon, the 12th of September, 2006 via C-Section. Despite being almost a month premature, he is the picture of health (if a bit small) and is utterly beautiful. Here’s a picture of him with his dad:

Aren’t they cute?

In other news, I’m still suffering greatly from the kidney stones which have yet to pass, alas. I’m still working for GD and am enjoying it more or less. More when people are buying things from me and less when they aren’t . . . like tonight! Hmmm. What else? Well, A_____ has set a date on which she is going to North Carolina to work for the Renaissance Festival. She’s taking off on October 4th, so any time after that feel free to give me a call/text to occupy me as I’ll be bored and lonely.

On a totally shallow note, I’ve discovered the HBO/BBC series “Rome”. It is absolutely FANTASTIC and I love it to tiny little gory/lewd/perverted/violent/pagan pieces. It gives real insight into how life might have been back then in a very similar vein as the other “ultra-realistic” HBO drama, “Deadwood”.

And finally, in the spirit of keeping in touch, I have recently re-installed the audio driver on my laptop and so now have a working microphone again. This means my Skype works again (OK, OK, for the first time)! Those who might want to take a chance that I’m at home can try me at username “dtarhodes”. Best of luck with that!

Take care all and speak to you soon . . .
~Ash.

P.S. I’ve become a domain/hosting/email/everything else reseller! The site is still very rough and will be undergoing a design change soon, but you can check it out (and buy things for pretty cheap!) at SIK Domains.com. For the roughly one person who will get the joke (Crank), I’ve also registered a new domain name just for fun. EBHON.com stands for Emotional Black Hole Of Need and was the name of the server system in the Johnston Center at UofR. I’m easily amused, but it’s good fun!

I am not currently at work. This is because earlier today I had to go to the ER. Because I had intense pain in my abdomen. I was afraid it was my appendix. Instead I’ve got kidney stones (this apparently explains me pissing blood a few weeks ago better than the runin w/ the asshole at Big Bang).I think I might have preferred appendicitis.

“The pain involved in passing a kidney stone through your urethra is as bad for males as if you were giving birth” quoth the male nurse who has had stones. Female nurse agreed . . . I’m gonna need more percocets, I think. Of course there’s some doowackey that breaks them up with sound waves . . . but please note that I have not been w/ GD for 3 months yet, meaning no insurance!

Double Blah.

~A.