My view of the world

The boss’s daughter is at the store, working with our programmer, trying to get the collections data straightened out. In the course of this, she called each of our other stores ,and told them not to put certain loans into collections, until further notice.
Today, she got a call from one of the people she had spoken to, this person wanted her to help transfer one of the loans, that she had specifically mentioned into collections.
Excuse me, which part of no, don’t you understand?

This is the way it’s gone since we changed the software, it was bad before, but, with people getting familiar with the new software, the number of mistakes has increased exponentially.
Yesterday, our programmer turned off his phone and actually took a day off, so I got to answer the dumb questions. There weren’t many, but they sure were dumb. Like, I put the loan under the wrong store number what do I do now, …oh, I don’t know, how about, rescind it and do it under the right store number?
Fortunately, most of the questions were saved for today.
A couple of our loan officers are stressing, big time.
One because, she’s worked 12 days straight, including her days off, and the other is stressing, because she hates confrontation, and some of our customers are unhappy, because of some, unavoidable changes.
I’ve got a bet with someone, as to which one of them will snap first. The sad part is, I like them both.
But yes, I’m perfectly willing to make a profit from the situation.
The good part of this whole mess is, that the boss’s daughter has seen, first hand, what a zoo this place is, I think, in the future, the bosses will be a little more tolerant of our programmer’s quirks.

Today, one of the girls called me for a price on something one of their husbands wanted, and didn’t like it, so one of the other girls called the boss and got the price she wanted, (They have him so wrapped).
This doesn’t bother me, the truth is, if it were up to me, I’d have given it to him.
What bothers me, is that they think I’m stupid, rather than tell me, they changed to spanish, they warned the husband and his friend, when they saw me coming, they shut down the screen, that showed the sale, and they were too stupid to pull the receipt off the printer.
The end result of this silliness is, that, no matter what I say, every time one of their friends wants something, they’ll call the boss, to get a better price.
And people ask me why I don’t socialize more with the people I work with.

I just downloaded the latest Oscuro’s Oblivion overhaul. It’s 400meg and changes an amazing number of things. I recommend starting a fresh game, because so many things have been modified and added.
There are new weapons, a large assortment of new critters, and not all the dungeons are leveled.
Instead of running into a vampire patriarch when you’re a level 3 and kicking his butt, you get killed, because, as far as I can tell, this npc has a set level.
All of the dungeons seem to have been modified, re-textured and so on, so this is like a new game, and without leveling they feel like the old ad&d dungeons, where there are some places, smart players avoid.
The potions are different, all the health and such seem to be so many point for so many seconds, instead of a permanent effect, and the bottles are now color coded.
The troopers now travel the roads in pairs and there are more of them, this means the roads are actually safer. Although I still want to locate the female npc that I ran into when I originally installed Oblivion, her comment was, “Whatever you do, stay off the roads.”

At least some of the mods work, like Wolfies, my hideout and the light armor mod that lets you buy pit or stalker armor.
Wolfies has a glitch that has nothing to do with this upgrade. The secrets are crumpled bit of paper, that put gold, lockpicks, repair hammers and so on into a chest in the bedroom. The glitch, is that everytime you read one of these papers, you get more of whatever it gives you. This gives you virtually unlimited gold, lockpicks and so forth.
Some of the crabs and rats are smaller, but I don’t know if the damage they do has been changed.

It seems to take longer to get to the next level, but this could just be my imagination.
I just restarted the game and I’m a whopping level two, which means, I’m getting my butt kicked in the arena, I could be wrong, but it seems that the arena npcs are not leveled and are tougher than I remember them.
As a test, I saved then installed the tower mod that gets you an invisible tower up at pale pass, so I could grab an enchanted sword that comes with it. I then went into god-mode and beat the arena, but my sword ran out of enchantments, so I don’t know if the extra damage would help but even with sword doing 10 damage I must have hit the Grey Prince 15 times before he finally died.
Now I get to go back and try to beat the arena for real. I also killed my very first opponent, and got the “observed by” message. When I slept, to level-up LaChance showed up.

As a side note the voice of Emperor Uriel Septim VII was Patrick Stewart (startrek) and Lynda Carter (wonder woman) is the voice of the Nord and Orc females.

Before you install, go to Oscuro’s page and read what he says about using your old save games, then I recommend turning off all your mods and trying them one at a time.
All in all, it seems to be a good, solid mod, that’s fun.

I saw more on the news, about the great Las Vegas billboard heist.
The report now says that the security guard, was asleep, and the guy who did it was wearing a cape.
According to witnesses, a person, presumedly male, waited until the guard was getting his much needed beauty rest, then climbed the billboard, broke into the plastic case, and threw several handfulls of one dollar bills to the street, before climbing down and making his escape.

A billboard with a plastic box full of money is robbed by a man in a cape, while the overpaid guard, caught 40 winks,… yeppers, that sounds like Vegas, lets see Atlantic City top that one.

As far as I can tell, even after hearing the owner of the dot com deny it, it had to be a publicity stunt.
The bad guy only took about a third of the money, he wore a cape, although, in a town full of Elvis impersonators, this alone, doesn’t make him stand out, and he then threw handfulls of his ill gotten gains to the people in the street.
According to an anonymous source, who happens to write on occasion for the, Las Vegas Blog, there were odds posted on the dot com website, as to if and when someone would try to steal it.

Breaking news from Las Vegas, home of some of the world’s finest, and some of the world’s dumbest, advertising stunts:
Last night at about 10:20, 09/05/06, the news reported a billboard, put up by an online company, probably another online poker promotion, with $100,000, in cash, in a clear plastic box. The bright yellow billboard, with an arrow pointing down to the display box, full of real money, read something to the effect, “You can win this cash”.

This morning, at about 6:10, 09/06/06, the news reported, that while the security guard, who was supposedly watching the money, was in a store getting something to drink, or in his car sleeping, depending on which story you believe, someone just couldn’t resist, they climbed the billboard, broke into the box and took $100,000 in one dollar bills.
I have no doubt, that the people who did it will get caught, the police, who didn’t know about this stunt, until about 10:00 last night, when the news called them for comment, found a car, this morning, on the east side of town, with, “a lot of cash,” inside.

Can you imagine, trying to run off with 100,000, one dollar bills. Ok, now you’ve got them, aside from using them to buy a hernia belt, what the hell are you going to do with that many singles, tell your bank that you made really good tips last night?
I know, I know, you tell the guy at the Mercedes dealership, that you’ve been mowing lawns and saving from your paper route since you were 10, just so you could buy a car.
I shouldn’t make fun of the so called criminals, after all, they were just opportunists, who saw all that cash just sitting there, undefended and couldn’t resist.

What were the promotors thinking?
You put all that cash out in plain sight, in a plastic box, and then hire a rent-a-cop, who’s goal in life, is to find a real job, or who is trying to get by on social security, and needs to supplement his income, either way you get someone, who’s anything, but, a highly trained professional.
And then you look shocked when somebody steals your money.
If this turns out to be an advertising stunt, then they got the coverage, but if it’s a real robbery, and it probably is, they sure look dumb.

This is just a suggestion, but, if your brother in-law, suddenly wants to pay back all that money he owes you, and he wants to pay you in one dollar bills, you might want to hold off for a while, you never can tell, if these guys don’t get caught soon, the company may offer a reward.