According to Energy Fiend (http://www.energyfiend.com/) it would take 12, 285 Hershey Kisses to kill me. So for all those wanting to overthrow the dictator (danielle and doug) here is an opportunity. ha ha ha...

According to CTV News, Ralph Goodale has said that the upcoming caucus retreat and cabinet meetings in Regina and Winnipeg (respectively) is hoped to be a "helpful step" in quelling Western alienation and thoughts of separation. WWWHHHATT? Are these people so naive as to think that spending a couple days in a 5-Star hotel or resort in some Western city discussing how they are going to win Quebec support in the next election is supposed to help quell western alienation?! I find such a thought more of a cold hard slap in the face!

Here we have the Liberal government who made a deal with the cities of Ontario, another with Quebec, and yet none with the Western provinces; who appoints a seperatist Quebecor as Governor General; who will probably be taking the unconventional step to appoint a Quebec judge (which a required 3 of out of the 9 judges are already) to replace the retiring Alberta judge in the next coming months; who are probably the most undemocratic government this nation has ever seen; who are so corrupt in their dealings in the sponsorship scandal that it makes them look more like a mafia; and who yet still continue to ignore the Western provinces in almost every way! And we are supposed to all of a sudden shower the Liberals with our undying thanks and gratitude for holding a couple meetings in one of our 5-Star hotels or resorts! No thanks!

If this is the Liberals idea of solving all the problems or issues western Canada may have, than do us a favour: don't even bother coming here. I would rather be spared the slap in the face.

You can find the Article from CTV News here:
http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1124473891128_119883091?hub=topstories

So I guess there is nothing exciting happening in my life (as usual) except for work. The past few days have been...well, strange. For some stupid reason that I cannot understand, the head supervisor on our shift took two weeks of holidays in the middle of the summer when he is needed the most. Last week was not a problem, as my shift was working on the day shift and therefore had the entire front office and other supervisors keeping an eye on us. Now that we started the night shift this week I have pretty much watched the entire organization crumble.

Now in order to understand what I am about to say I will give you some background information you might need to know. There are 3 supervisors on a shift. One who supervises the punches, another who supervises the collators and the head supervisor who runs the perfect binder while supervising the coiling, boxing and shipping area. Now because there is no head supervisor, we have no one supervising my area (coiling, boxing and shipping). Now you would think that the other two supervisors would work together to cover this area, but they just keep on supervising their own area. Adding to the problem, the front office did not really fill the other supervisors in on some of the tasks that they would have to perform during the head supervisors absence. Now this has led to some interesting events.

At the end of the shift last night, both the supervisors came up to me (the shipper) and asked if I knew how to shut down the plant. Me. I am the shipper! How am I supposed to know how to shut down the plant? I admit that I know alot about how everything works (maybe more so than the other two managers), but how would i know how to shutdown? Anyways, that was interesting.

Today I was bored out of my mind at work. There wasn't much to do. So I found these bands that had a peelable end and I started wearing one around my sleeve. As shipping dictator I decided to establish an army and therefore I managed to convince and "conquer" all the coilers and boxers and make them join my "army". I also made a alliance with the quality checkers and therefore my reign extended over 3/4's of the PSA part of the plant. I decided that I was going to annex the punchers, which left me with only the collators and the two supervisors. It was pretty amazing. I even made my own propagandist newspaper in which I wrote letters to my subjects concerning what was going on. Now by this time we were on pace to run out of work to do and so the punching supervisor starts to suggest that we might be sent home early.

Because many of us did not want to go home and lose a bunch of overtime, we decided that we had enough power (partially because i said that we should keep on going at least until we catch up and because the other two supervisors don't really know anything about our work) to resist being sent home early. But by the time 10 o'clock came around we were really starting to run out of work. Basically because none of the supervisors were making the call of wether to send people home or not, each boxer and coiler decided for him or herself if they wanted to go home than or not. I even saw a coiler go home at 9:30! Having a mixed opinion over such decisions, I nevertheless looked at it in a good way as those who wanted to stay would have work at least. Anyways, at 1:00am (third break) the collator supervisor comes up to me and asks, "Did a whole bunch of coilers and boxers leave at lunch?" And I'm thinking, " Your asking me this now? 3 Hours after it happened?" And so I explained the situation to him and he didn't seem to happy. I wouldn't either, as basically everyone was goofing off and not working the entire night. It kind of looked like a zoo (no jokes). It was a mess. Obviously we need the two supervisors to either pay attention or we need another supervisor for my area. We also need a supervisor to make the decision on whether to send people home or not. The incompetence sometimes.

I'm pretty sure that as dictator, I should be made supervisor. I know more of what is going on concerning the boxing and coiling area as well as how everything works altogether, and if things don't change, the entire organization will probably burn down to the ground. All too crazy people up in there.

Anyways, until the next time, out.

Hey Guys! A little while ago, my Aunt Fenny, Aunt Gretje, and my Oma went to the Sovereign Grace Deaf Conference in Kentucky. Here is a picture of the conference attendees. At the conference the attendees focused on the Beatitudes which Jesus gave in in his Sermon on the Mount. How wonderful it is to see God's great message is available to them as well!

Why do they make these things uglier every year?

Hey Guys! Well it is official! I finally shipped Redeemer's Agendas for the upcoming 2005-2006 school year tonight! Having Redeemer's agendas go through definitely topped off a great day of work: we ordered in pizza, received ice cream from the boss, and got paid. Yet such excitement lead to great disappointment when I looked at how ugly the agenda covers were. To the left is a scanned version of the covers; I apologize if they aren't the best quality - I am working on a very old computer.

ARE THEY TRYING TO MAKE THESE THINGS UGLIER EVERY YEAR? IM PRETTY SURE THIS IS AS UGLY AS THEY CAN GET!! The front cover looks like it is of a tree! You can barely even tell that it is part of the front quad! The back cover is more interesting than the front cover! Why didn't they put the back picture on the front cover? Like, what is going on here? We then realized that it was a mural picture - flowing from the back onto the front. Like anyone is going to look at it that way anyways. Pssh. These covers are so ugly that they have been rated the most ugliest covers to go through Premier this summer (well so far at least)!

Added to the disappointment was the extreme lack of coupons for Williams this year. As if they aren't making enough money off of us already. The only slightly redeemable aspect about this agenda is that my name is in the policy as Treasurer of the Senate (yeah for me!). You may send me flowers and gifts (preferably in large cash denominations). Anyways, I am quite sure that I'm going to have a talk with the designers of these things to give them some ideas for next year....

That's all for now, peace.