MY TURN
To some of you this post will not be nice. To some of you this post will make you chuckle. To some of you this post will say simply: "Oh, so you are not asleep after all" and to some of you this post will simply be what you should pass on to your superiors quickly.
So here we are again at the learning post… I sometimes wonder why we bother at all. It seems that you teach someone something and IF they get it at all, it simply doesn’t last.
I know how this happens though. You see what happens is that if you are away for a while, say a couple of years, everyone naturally assumes that you are "very far away and forgetful". You should translate this as: "Senile, too weak to reach out, too far away to correct things, toothless sipping soup in a magi retirement home somewhere".
Oh yes yes yes I have heard the stories, it's not like they were uttered where the likes of me can't hear! Oho! Old Scott won't find out, Scott's lost his teeth, Scott's gone weak, Scott's just a Wiccan these days and several others even more ludicrous than these. So it is that I find myself in an interesting and fun position of taking a moment out of my somewhat busy schedual to correct the same.
Ok - "Old Scott won't find out" - Now this is funny .... times past should say to all concerned that Scott ALWAYS finds out! Someone, somewhere is always listening for information that they can sell and that is a simple fact of life - just like the one that says sooner or later all things wind up on my desk.
"Scott's lost his teeth" - a panacea for those who are too short skilled to have witnessed recent events or too dull witted to remember what happened to the last set of people who used this as an advertising slogan. For the record, there was an important anniversary last week but who remembered? Ohhh yes I know several people mistook the flack flying for some sort of spurious promotion but well ... they were wrong last time and will find out that this chocolate has wasps hiding in it too. Step 1. Place the point of the sword to your belly, Step 2. Lean forward quickly!
"Scott's gone weak" - This is a good one with plenty of meat on it. You see apart from being the modern equivalent of the old: "He has no power but he is dangerous" (yeah like THAT works!) it is also how certain people that I can't be bothered with any more salve the gap I leave. As I put it to one hapless years ago: "NO, I am NOT your friend! I have NEVER BEEN your friend! While it is true that I have used you for certain things over the years does NOT mean I am your FRIEND! And NO, the fact that I do NOT want to have anything to do with you does NOT mean I am afraid of you or that I hold a grudge against you - YOU SIMPLY AREN'T WORTH WASTING MY TIME ON BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT MY FRIEND!!!"
"Scott's a Wiccan": This one is also fun if for no other reason that it comes from people who have never actually met a real Wiccan, and only know what they do about them due to the programming I gave them long ago when such was useful to me. Even with all that taken into account - I am still not a Wiccan. What I do is not Wicca, nor is it even Wica and I know for a fact that neither of these pseudo traditional factions would have me due to some very fundamental belief and practical differences.
Now for a final word. Of late there have been several people monkeying around with stuff I left behind. Stuff that I have repeatedly told people would do them NO DAMN GOOD if they messed with it. They have begun doing so again and in so doing tripped off any number of early warning systems I had set up to monitor things. Amusingly enough most of the alarms have been interpreted by the foolhardy adventurers as being good signs. Well they do say that one feels most alive before death. Anyhow, for the record, QUIT IT WHILE YOU CAN. There you go - my obligation to the well being of these ex-worthies is now complete.
LASTLY, this last weekend there was an attempt on this place and those who continue under it's protection. The people responsible have been warned in the past, warned again recently and so I will simply lastly say:
To those few who still troll my stuff for info to sell - make sure this gets back twice as fast!
So here we are again at the learning post… I sometimes wonder why we bother at all. It seems that you teach someone something and IF they get it at all, it simply doesn’t last.
wherein you tell them something, beat them until they can get a grip on it and parrot it back BUT a little time seems to erode the memory just like the shifting sands.
I mean look at this mug ... what about it suggests a forgiving and reasonable disposition!?
I know how this happens though. You see what happens is that if you are away for a while, say a couple of years, everyone naturally assumes that you are "very far away and forgetful". You should translate this as: "Senile, too weak to reach out, too far away to correct things, toothless sipping soup in a magi retirement home somewhere".
Oh yes yes yes I have heard the stories, it's not like they were uttered where the likes of me can't hear! Oho! Old Scott won't find out, Scott's lost his teeth, Scott's gone weak, Scott's just a Wiccan these days and several others even more ludicrous than these. So it is that I find myself in an interesting and fun position of taking a moment out of my somewhat busy schedual to correct the same.
Ok - "Old Scott won't find out" - Now this is funny .... times past should say to all concerned that Scott ALWAYS finds out! Someone, somewhere is always listening for information that they can sell and that is a simple fact of life - just like the one that says sooner or later all things wind up on my desk.
"Scott's lost his teeth" - a panacea for those who are too short skilled to have witnessed recent events or too dull witted to remember what happened to the last set of people who used this as an advertising slogan. For the record, there was an important anniversary last week but who remembered? Ohhh yes I know several people mistook the flack flying for some sort of spurious promotion but well ... they were wrong last time and will find out that this chocolate has wasps hiding in it too. Step 1. Place the point of the sword to your belly, Step 2. Lean forward quickly!
"Scott's gone weak" - This is a good one with plenty of meat on it. You see apart from being the modern equivalent of the old: "He has no power but he is dangerous" (yeah like THAT works!) it is also how certain people that I can't be bothered with any more salve the gap I leave. As I put it to one hapless years ago: "NO, I am NOT your friend! I have NEVER BEEN your friend! While it is true that I have used you for certain things over the years does NOT mean I am your FRIEND! And NO, the fact that I do NOT want to have anything to do with you does NOT mean I am afraid of you or that I hold a grudge against you - YOU SIMPLY AREN'T WORTH WASTING MY TIME ON BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT MY FRIEND!!!"
"Scott's a Wiccan": This one is also fun if for no other reason that it comes from people who have never actually met a real Wiccan, and only know what they do about them due to the programming I gave them long ago when such was useful to me. Even with all that taken into account - I am still not a Wiccan. What I do is not Wicca, nor is it even Wica and I know for a fact that neither of these pseudo traditional factions would have me due to some very fundamental belief and practical differences.
Now for a final word. Of late there have been several people monkeying around with stuff I left behind. Stuff that I have repeatedly told people would do them NO DAMN GOOD if they messed with it. They have begun doing so again and in so doing tripped off any number of early warning systems I had set up to monitor things. Amusingly enough most of the alarms have been interpreted by the foolhardy adventurers as being good signs. Well they do say that one feels most alive before death. Anyhow, for the record, QUIT IT WHILE YOU CAN. There you go - my obligation to the well being of these ex-worthies is now complete.
LASTLY, this last weekend there was an attempt on this place and those who continue under it's protection. The people responsible have been warned in the past, warned again recently and so I will simply lastly say:
YOU HAD YOUR SHOT AND MISSED US.
WE DIDN'T MISS - YOU'RE SIMPLY TOO DAFT TO SEE WHAT WE HAVE DONE TO YOU.
IT'S BEEN FUN - BUT NOT NEARLY ENOUGH FUN.
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posted by BissekArt at 8:27 am
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