Tuesday Something...

Yeah...  Adding a short of the week is a pain in the butt with this blog.  So...  It's going to be switched around just a smidgin...

Equine related rant of the week.  The other rant is just for rants in general.  This one is specially for the equines of our lives...

I know you can't exactly ride the head...  But you can't hide it either.  

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Exactly what is this thing and how in the world did he get deemed worthy of stallion material?  I know the one picture must be just at the wrong angle but even when he's being ridden...  His head and neck actually look disproportionate to the rest of his body.  Come on people!  If you have a stud he has to be awesome!  If he's not awesome geld him!

All I have to say on that.  Still shuddering at the sight of the stud...

Maji

Monday shot of the week

I love this shot and I don't know why!  Oh wait...  Yeah I do.  I love this shot because I love this car.  I swear I didn't have it's photoness in mind when I bought the car.  It just kinda turned out that way after I bought it.  But it does take a nice shot doesn't it?

Friday... 0600...

It's Friday 0600...  Know what's wrong with the picture???

ITunes has still not uploaded the season starter of Grey's Anatomy!  If they have I certainly can't open it...  Still though...  itunes is on my list.

That being said I had to walk out on Grey's Anatomy halfway through the first epp.  Why?  Because it was time to go to work.  Evil hospital...  I so to be able to download something worth watching right about now.

At the moment it's the Q word...  A word I can not say for it will bring upon a plague of people who want to be seen for absolutely nothing...

For that matter...  For those who go to the ER for every little thing that you could really see your doctor for in the morning.

1. If you come in by EMA for something minor that has plagued you for 2 weeks we are not impressed that you have the ability to dial 911.  (Just so you know they train dogs to do that to)  If you come in by EMA you had better be sick...  If not you will be labeled a ninnie.  Enjoy the waiting room with all the other ninnies.

2. This is not show and tell.  You don't have to fish anything out of the toilet to show me.  (You really don't since I'm the clerk.  Show the nurse if you insist on that behavior)  If you did fish something out of the toilet no you may not use my pen.

3. When you come in you are triaged.  Which means that someone of medical license takes you into a room and asks you questions.  They are deciding how sick you are.  Just because you came in before the elderly lady who is having a heart attack does not mean you get to go first.  Sit down and don't bother me.

4. Do not for any reason speak the words to me "You already have it in my chart"  The nurses don't have your chart and when I ask you questions I'm verifying information.  If I didn't need the information I wouldn't be asking you.  So when I ask you for your insurance card and you say "You have it on record"  Don't be surprised when it doesn't show up on a bill which you now owe the entirety of.  If you come to an ER bring your insurance card!

5. Do not utter the words "My doctor has all my information already" when checking in for any reason.  Look around.  Does the Emergency Room in any way look like your doctor's office?  No?  There's a reason for that.  I'm not going to go hunting for your information.  I'm also not walking across the street to get your file.  Give me your address.  It is easier after all.

6. If I give you both a vomit bag and a trash can and you still insist on vomiting on the floor I'm not cleaning it up.  I'm not paid nearly enough for that.

7. The emergency room has a completely separate definition of sick than you do.  If you claim to be sick you had better be dying.

8. Kidney Stones are not an emergency.  Painful yes.  Emergency?  Hardly.

9. Do not ask me how much longer it will be.  I don't do sympathy so trying to look pitiful won't work.  It's entirely up to the nurses because I have no medical degree.

10. Do not ring the bell to get my attention when I am sitting right infront of you.  Just because I am writing something and do not immediately look up upon your being seated does not mean that I don't know you're there.  Give me five seconds to finish what I'm writing.  Also in the case that I honestly didn't hear you...  A simple "Excuse me"  Would suffice.  Every time I hear the bell I die a little inside and want to throw said bell at you.

11. Do not say to me "My Doctor called ahead."  Look out in the waiting room.  I'm willing to bet that half of them said the same thing.  It didn't help them either.

12. It's not smart to tell me that you have no intent on paying the bill.  I do report this stuff you know.

13. One complaint per customer please.

14. If you come in by EMA have a way home in mind.  I'm not making arrangements for you.

15. Don't come back to my window after you've been released from the ER and complain about the service.  Guess what...  The people I work with?  Friends and Coworkers.  You?  Annoying person.  You do not have my sympathy in the matter.  It's also not going to change anything.  Just because you didn't get the drug you wanted doesn't mean you didn't receive good care.  We're going to laugh about you when you leave.  

16. Don't sit in front of my window and not say anything.  It is much faster if you cooperate.

17. When I ask you what's wrong don't give me your life's story.  Complaint of Leg Pain is much better than "When I was a boy I had a cat (Fill in mindless stuff here)  And that's why today I have this horrible ache in my right lower leg"  Guess what I'm going to take from that story?  Leg pain!

18. Why on Earth would you come into an ER where it's bright and loud and busy when you have a migraine.  1st Migraine?  Sure I understand that if you don't know what's happening and why your head feels it's going to go kaboom.  Frequent Migraines?  Should know better by now...

19. If I know your name upon walking through the door it's not something to be proud of.  I promise you I'm not nearly as happy to see you as you are to see me.

20. The pain can always be worse.

So that's my list.  Mostly because it's Friday 0600 and I have decided I really....  REALLY  Hate my job...

Maji

Friday's stupid folks awards

It's winner take all this week!

The Friday Stupid peoples awards!

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Please someone tell me this is a joke...  Worst off...  This is local!  This is in my area!  That is my local paper!  Folks in GA have lost their flippin' minds!

I can't decide who deserves the award...  The man who made a bad situation worse by not holding it...  Or the police officer for accusing him of battery for it.  I mean sure it was disrespectful...  But come on!  You can't handle a little gas?

For a long time I kinda tossed this one back and forth...  Who deserved the stupid award...

Finally I decided on one person who was most deserving of the stupid award...

The journalist...

Has news gotten so dull that you feel you must go digging through stupid civil cases to find the most trivial case about a police officer and a drunk fighting over a rude body function?  Seriously?  Is that what you want to report on?

Not the war?  Not politics?  Not anything else but some guy who had to pass gas in the police station and the cop took offense to it.  That's what you think news is?  I could have gone my entire life without hearing this story and my life would not have changed or would I have cared that I had not heard this story.

Journalist guy?  You have one the Lucid Dreams Stupid peoples awards.

Please don't reproduce...

Now for something a bit more infrequent.  I'm not gonna say this is the awesome person award...  It's far from awesome....  It's actually kinda sad.  However...

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Mind you I hardly think this guy is awesome.  You can not abandon 9 kids and be awesome.  However, alot of people are really tearing into this guy.  What I say?

He may not be father of the year...  He left his kids.  He's far from father of the year.  A chimp would be a better Dad.  However, at least he had the guts to sit back and say "My kids are gonna be homeless soon if something doesn't change.  I can't take care of them...  So let me find someone who can."

At least before it got to a point that his children were in danger because of starvation or needed medicine and he couldn't provide it he did have the guts to take his kids to where they could get help.  He took them to a place where he knew for a fact they would be warm, dry, and fed and left them with someone who could get them to someone who would care for them.

He had the guts to permanently give up custody of his children because he knew he couldn't take care of them.  So there you have it.  He gave up his kids.  He's a horrible father.  BUT he seems like a decent person.

So...  Sucky dad guy?  You're O.K.

Everyone else?  Cut the guy a small break.  Just a small one.

Maji

New Kitt Vrs. Old Kitt

Most folks already know I'm a Knight Rider fan...  A huge Knight Rider fan...  I absolutely adore Kitt for pure Kitt cuteness.  I also adore Karr but that's another story.  So people have asked me...  Which is better.  New Kitt...  Or old Kitt...

Personally I gotta Say.  I LOVED the old Kit.  Nothing can compare to him.  He was adorable.  The new Kitt just isn't Kitt.  He doesn't have that charming voice and isn't nearly as cute.  Though while he's not Kitt he kinda gives himself a whole new character.  The new Kitt without a doubt is HOT!  He reminds me of someone a bit infantile...  You can almost see him putting things together.  And lets face it...  The Mustang body is hot.  I do love that pony doncha know.

So which do I like better?  They are both separate characters to me.  The new Kitt is not Kitt.  However, he's still a great character who deserves recognition in the Knight Rider hall of fame.  Thus you have it.  They are simply not comparable.

Thursday Rambling of the Week (Us poor out of work designers)

There is a breed of people out there.  They are a strange people...  They fear the sunlight.  They are pale.  They tend to spend long, long hours fixated on an object of value...  They often go hungry for their chosen profession.  Who are these people?

Designers...  Photographers...  Artists...

We often work by night, fixating for hours over details on the computer such as web sites that we just have to have up by the end of the week.  Starving artist is not just a saying it is a lifestyle...  And we are obsessive to the extreme.  (You try getting that absolutely perfect idea for something in your head and then try to sleep.)

As an artist I have something to say about the horse industry in particular but I'm sure this goes for many others as well...

If you have a business...  A real honest to God business...  Yes breeding horses is a business.  Once you call yourself a breeder that's simply what it is.  (Which is why I have only 2...  They are not a business they are my babies and the only children I will ever have)  Anyway point being if you have a business POST A PROFESSIONAL LOOKING WEBSITE!

It won't kill you.

I understand how expensive it is to have someone build one for you.  When I build a web site a very basic one starts at about 1,200.  That my friends is actually very cheap because no matter what you might think, putting a web site together is very time consuming.  I've spent hours on a single page and still didn't entirely finish the thing.

That being said there are programs out there to help you!  Geocities has page builder.  Freewebs has a very basic and simplistic style and while yes they bombard their page with advertising you can become a registered member and all that will stop.  Go that extra mile!

While on that note, Freewebs has some very good web designs.  I've used them before when I needed to throw something together for say an RP I wanted to throw together and didn't want to spend money on a site until it gained a following.  (I don't spend time or money on RP sites unless it has at least 10 loyal followers.  Until then it's freewebs and freeboards for all!)  But when using freewebs...  Don't replace they're suggested backgrounds with horrible pictures of something odd...  May it be your horse or your dog solid backgrounds are not overrated!

So...  With that in mind...

Show us the not to do's!

D and D Stables  -->  Rule number one.  Don't put photographs as your background.  Period.  You can work them into your design...  But for the main background solids and muted patterns are your friend.  Busy makes text get lost and we don't like lost text.  Lost text doesn't even like lost text.  This one has a box for the text to find a home in but the background is still just to loud.

Three Hats Farm  -->  I just can't even start to touch on all the things that is wrong with this site.  I like the solid background colors but...  Their links are getting lost and why is there an animated gif as their heading?  That's just distracting and tacky.

Dangerzone  -->  There is something wrong with these people.  There really is...  Not getting into a match about Pitbulls...  I've known some very nice Pitbulls...  I saw the cutest one the other day that was trying to pose as a tough dog.  Their pictures are horrible and while yes they have changed their site to be more muted...  (A week before everything was this blinding pink that hurt my eyes)  It still screams 15 year old did it.  For that matter...  Don't let an unproven 15 year old touch your business anything...  For that matter if you sell horses but you also breed dogs...  Put the effort in to give them each a separate page.  Link back all you want but give them their own pages!  Also first impressions are hard to get back.  Take decent pictures of your horses so that a person looking at your horse doesn't get the wrong first impression.  Since they can't lay hands on the horse at first this is often what is primarily judged in the first few seconds of contact.

Stone Face Stables  -->  Yeah...  Free webs is ok for a temp fix.  I like freewebs I really do.  But this page says to prospective customers...  "I don't really care, just wanted to throw something out there so I could make lots of money"  Put a little effort into your site!  Freewebs has hundreds of layouts that would be perfect for a horse ranch and you chose that one?

Sunspot Pintabians  -->  Alright Pintabians is one of those breeds like a Goldendoodle.  It's a mutt with a fancy name.  I use to have one of those...  He was a pinto crossed with an Arab.  We called him a mutt.  But he was still cute and I used him in beginners riding lessons when I was a kid.  He was sort of a baby sitter back then.  Again...  We called him a mutt.  That however is not what I'm going on about today.  This site actually isn't bad.  It's not great...  But it's not bad.  I actually kinda like some of the graphics and headers.  However...  If you have a business...  Keep things to that business.  Don't sell your useless junk on a web page.  Then it's just a train wreck.

So there you have it.  Maji's crash course to web pages.  I swear I'm gonna write a book on this stuff...  I shall call it...  Web design and photographs for people who should not reproduce.

Think it will catch on?

Oh!  And if you're wondering just where I dug up all these websites...

Fugly Horse of the Day

They say "Oh My God look at that horse!"

I say "Oh dear lord... Look at that website!  And those pictures!  Dang!"

So anyway, stop by there if you love horses.  It's always good to keep up with it.

Mostly Testing

I'm testing something out here, though I did want to comment on
something to if it actually goes through. The dates on this blog are
a little... Well off... I don't know what kind of date system
blogger is on... Though Let me point out that mainly the reason they
seem a little off anyway (Blogger's odd dates excluded) I work the
night shift. Therefore it's nothing to me to blog while I'm at work.
(Since nights are generally the slower shift) Also on an off note...
Polo. A common equine sport I suppose... I had never paid much
attention to it. All of a sudden this month it seems to be absolutely
everywhere. Tried to go to a match to take some pictures but it was
over by the time I got there. So sad... Use to think badly of it.
You know everyone hears horror stories... Actually though it doesn't
look so bad. Would still like to see a game played. Hmmm.... Anyway
mostly random thoughts and testing.

Maji

Between the lines

First one of these...

Let's face it.  Sometimes there's just something I really wanna say.  So therefore on that note a little something pulled from Graig's List...

Very pretty, white, gelding.  Part Arabian.  8 yrs. old.  Exp. rider only.  $300.00 OBO 

That ad = Horse crazy as hell and he will kill you because I just wanted a pretty white arabian and didn't work with it until it was way to late and now I don't know what the hell do with him.  Just come get him.  Better yet...  Forget the $300.  I'll pay you to take him.

Some days...

Horses do not work themselves folks!

Wednesday Movie And Song of the week

Alright my start out for this blog is going to be my absolute favorite movie of all time.  Some of you might think you know of what movie I speak...  However, you would all be wrong.

Stealth is an absolutely fantastic and action packed movie that follows Edi.  An AI Jet.  Truly does this not sound like my kind of movie?  It has jets...  It has explosives.  It even has an AI.  Watch this movie.  So what if it didn't get good reviews?  Sometimes you just gotta watch an action movie for the explosions.

This week's song of the week is a song form that particular movie by a band called Institute.  Again, with a band name like that what's not to love?  It's called Bullet proof skin and personally I think it entirely rocks.  Pun not intended since I think the genre is actually considered rock...  Though folks might find it odd simply for the fact that I consider myself more of a country person.  It's a little...  Rockin' for me so to speak.  Anyway, go watch that movie and listen to that song.  Absorb the messages you might gain and put your two cents in.

Maji

Tuesday short of the Week

First short!  It's gonna test my writing skills before it's all over with...  So here ya go.  A bit of fanfic for the first time out that some might know from other posts elsewhere.  Hope you enjoy!  Promise something original and new next week!  I just didn't give myself much time to prepare this week.

Read it

Monday shot of the week

The first official post probably should have been Friday but we're going to ignore that and call it starting off on a good foot for the week.  Mostly because while I found plenty of stupid people, I found very few people I would consider entirely awesome.  Might have to cut out the awesome person of the week and just stick to the stupid awards.  Anyway onto the Monday topic.

For those of you who ever wanted to know about the rural south.  The calm and soothing dirt roads of the backwoods.  Those red dirt roads that are so common in Georgia.  I got some really amazing trips on this little trip just around my home county.  I also got hopelessly lost.  I didn't realize just how much of a spider web of dirt roads we have out here.  Still though it was a very nice drive.  So any comments?  Any thoughts?  Have you ever taken a trip like that?  I mean you never seem to go see the sights in your own back yard until someone comes to visit.  How many people live in New York City yet have never seen the Statue of Liberty up close but for maybe that field trip you took in the 5th grade.  How many people live in Washington D.C. but have never seen the Washington Monument or been to one of the museums or taken a tour through the White House?  How many people live just a mile from the Grand Canyon yet have never been to it?  Next time you find yourself bored and with nothing to do, hop in your car or hop on your bike or hop on your horse for all anyone cares and just take a ride, and look around.  Till next time.

Maji

Welcome

Welcome to Plotless.  An idea that's wanted to get out since The Traveling Karr.  For now the general schedule is...

Monday - Shot of the week:  Photographs by Maji

Tuesday - Short of the week:  Written work by Maji

Wednesday - Movie and Song of the week:  Song and movie picks by, you guessed it...  Maji!

Thursday - Rambling of the week:  Lets face it.  Maji will talk about anything when she wants to talk about it.  But this post will be a bit more random and rant heavy.

Friday - Stupid person of the week / Awesome person of the week:  Maji's weekly pick for two separate things.  The stupid person of the week in the news...  Also the most awesome person of the week that Maji can find.  As is everything, this is always open to suggestions.

So that's it.  The blog schedule of Majiness.  

Also note that sometimes I do in fact go on vacation...  It's a sad thing but it happens.  If this is the case...  Upon return (Or sometimes during)  I will try to make up for being gone...  How is that?

The Traveling Karr

Karr and his partner in crime travel.  Everywhere.  They also bring back pictures.  Of everything.  Therefore you will get a whole week upon my return of Karr's quips, Cody's tips and pictures of absolutely everything they happen to see along the way.  Enjoy!  Hope to see many followers in the days to come!

Maji