New World

Wow! I haven't written in here in forever and a day. No matter though. This is my last post in this blog. I have started a new one at Seekeria.

You get what you give.

Well to answer those of you that asked "No, I did not get selected for the semi-final selection process for Survivor". It is all well and good I had fun doing it and got to see myself on the news a couple of times as well as on our local news channel's website.

Putting this all in perspective for myself I really have no negative, or positive , feelings about this. Our lives we are given are what we make of them. If we deny ourselves the chance to try anything new, then we are already submitting to defeat.

Some things we all should keep in mind as we live our daily lives:

1) Don't be a tourist, instead, be a traveler. What this means is that we should all experience life to the fullest. Inundate yourself with the locale you are in. Know what goes on in the smallest of shops, the biggest of malls. Experience the quaint little bookstores as well as the hardiest taverns. Don't be a person that follows the preset routes of a bus telling you where to go and at what time. Meet the locals walk in their shoes. Find a life you have never experienced before and take joy in it BECAUSE IT IS DIFFERENT.

2) Never tell a child that something cannot be done. Step down from your place up on high and let them show you a world that is magical, and where anything can happen.

3) Keep your dreams alive. Make yourselves a list of things you want to do, things you want to have. Sit down and write them down with your partners, a friend, a love one. Dreams have more power when they are shared with another. It is when we dismiss them that we are untrue to ourselves. These are not goals, plans, ideals. There are instead whimsical meanderings of a person that is escaping the day-to-day doldrums that the world presents to us as “normalcy”.

4) Fulfill another’s dream if it is ever within your power. By doing this you may just in fact enable them to fulfill someone else’s dream.

5) Believe in the magic of True Love. With divorce as rampant as it is today, and affairs having become a standard part of a relationship. You need to be the one who rises above that and takes chances with your heart. When those encounters fail do not give up. Keep the magic alive.

6) Do not love with conditions attached. Love completely, wholly, truly, and faithfully.

7) Every now and then make the time to watch a sunrise, smell the air of an oncoming rain, or enjoy the feeling of the wind in your hair.


While I could come up with many, many more things for you to think about, and how you accept them into your life. I believe that I will stop here at number seven.

Some say it is a perfect number… Who am I to be the one who argues it?

This guy is my idol!

Apparently, this is an actual letter of resignation from an employee at "Zantex Computers", Australia, to his boss, J Pilgrim. His boss, known as Pilly, apparently resigned very soon afterwards!

Dear Mr Pilgrim
As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have a few very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your consistent and annoying harassment of my co-workers and myself during the commission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time.
Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every little nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen. I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" for the hundredth time. You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an IP is.
Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will.You walk around the building all day, shiftlessly looking for fault in others. You have a sharp dressed useless look about you that may have worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle. Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation; however I have a few parting thoughts.

1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal to give me a bad recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is "I prefer not to comment." I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own.

2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I am going to publish your "favourites list", which I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files. I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not usually viewed favourably by the administration.

3. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your mothers birthday", you neglected to mention that you were going to take pictures of yourself in the mirror nude. Then you forgot to erase them like the techno-moron you really are. Suffice it to say I have never seen such odd acts with a ketchup bottle, but I assure you that those have been copied and kept in safe places pending the authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please. I hate having to correct your mistakes.)

Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody, and all of your little twisted repugnant obsessions will be open to the public.
Never f*** with your systems administrator. Why? Because they know what you do with all that free time!

Sincerely
Adrian Barragan