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Work grumblings.
Oct. 23rd, 2008 09:42 am*grumble*
I'm missing a $20 bill and hell if I can figure out where it went between yesterday at lunch and this morning as I did no shopping. :P (And if someone took it, they inexplicably left the rest of the cash in my wallet, so I'm pretty damned confused right now.) I'm mostly annoyed because what I have left is ALL I have until payday, assuming that even then there's something left after paying my bills...
In other news, yesterday's car ride to the unit luncheon was an awkward one - the driver went into this odd Soldiers for Jeebus mode and started preaching at us. (I think she may have meant it as a discussion topic rather than a lecture, but... not work-appropriate, people. Seriously. Go you and your rad God fangirling, but keep it to yourself when you're on company business, mmk?) I think it was mostly interesting because every person in the car was a different religious background - one Lutheran, one Catholic, one Baptist(?), and then me, the odd Buddhist-agnostic (because Catholic school and Lutheran households just ain' t my thing, thanks - I don't need the guilt or the casseroles). On the bright side, the drive back to the office was nothing but thinking up creative insults regarding the diminutive size of the dicks of other drivers doing stupid shit. [Welcome to the OC, where you can't escape the Bible-thumping or the luxury car wankers.] One of the women later mentioned something about the day's sermon, and I mentioned I was Buddhist and I think she was wondering if I'd cut her throat and drink her blood until I explained that basically, the onus (cue blank look for SAT words) is on the individual, rather than the blank check from above, regarding one's outcome in life/death/whatever. A really, really trite summary, but... I rather felt like I should start using small words and speaking slowly after a few minutes, because I get that reaction every time, which is why I just don't bother talking about personal topics (duh? it's work, it -- and politics -- have no place here, as we are neither a religious outreach nor a political campaign office). That and these tend to be the same group of people that lump folks with brown hair in with those with brown skin because ZOMG we're stained by SIN!!! and get rabid and frothing at the mouth if you're not whitebread upper-middle American (them eeebil terr'ists and all that). They can handle the concept of being Jewish (it's in the Old Testament, it must be true!), and reluctantly accept that not all Christians are their brand of Gawd, but Heaven help you if you're neither of those two.
Anyway. I'm done ranting and rambling about it - most of the time it's a non-issue, but yesterday just bugged me because we were pretty much just trapped in the car with nowhere to go. (And asking for a different ride back means bringing up all the reasons WHY I want to swap cars to avoid ten minutes of mild discomfort and annoyance. So.... meh.)
Oh, I took moar pics of The Boots - and I'll be working on them tonight to get 'em uploaded if my computer cooperates.
I'm missing a $20 bill and hell if I can figure out where it went between yesterday at lunch and this morning as I did no shopping. :P (And if someone took it, they inexplicably left the rest of the cash in my wallet, so I'm pretty damned confused right now.) I'm mostly annoyed because what I have left is ALL I have until payday, assuming that even then there's something left after paying my bills...
In other news, yesterday's car ride to the unit luncheon was an awkward one - the driver went into this odd Soldiers for Jeebus mode and started preaching at us. (I think she may have meant it as a discussion topic rather than a lecture, but... not work-appropriate, people. Seriously. Go you and your rad God fangirling, but keep it to yourself when you're on company business, mmk?) I think it was mostly interesting because every person in the car was a different religious background - one Lutheran, one Catholic, one Baptist(?), and then me, the odd Buddhist-agnostic (because Catholic school and Lutheran households just ain' t my thing, thanks - I don't need the guilt or the casseroles). On the bright side, the drive back to the office was nothing but thinking up creative insults regarding the diminutive size of the dicks of other drivers doing stupid shit. [Welcome to the OC, where you can't escape the Bible-thumping or the luxury car wankers.] One of the women later mentioned something about the day's sermon, and I mentioned I was Buddhist and I think she was wondering if I'd cut her throat and drink her blood until I explained that basically, the onus (cue blank look for SAT words) is on the individual, rather than the blank check from above, regarding one's outcome in life/death/whatever. A really, really trite summary, but... I rather felt like I should start using small words and speaking slowly after a few minutes, because I get that reaction every time, which is why I just don't bother talking about personal topics (duh? it's work, it -- and politics -- have no place here, as we are neither a religious outreach nor a political campaign office). That and these tend to be the same group of people that lump folks with brown hair in with those with brown skin because ZOMG we're stained by SIN!!! and get rabid and frothing at the mouth if you're not whitebread upper-middle American (them eeebil terr'ists and all that). They can handle the concept of being Jewish (it's in the Old Testament, it must be true!), and reluctantly accept that not all Christians are their brand of Gawd, but Heaven help you if you're neither of those two.
Anyway. I'm done ranting and rambling about it - most of the time it's a non-issue, but yesterday just bugged me because we were pretty much just trapped in the car with nowhere to go. (And asking for a different ride back means bringing up all the reasons WHY I want to swap cars to avoid ten minutes of mild discomfort and annoyance. So.... meh.)
Oh, I took moar pics of The Boots - and I'll be working on them tonight to get 'em uploaded if my computer cooperates.
