Happy Birthday

to
beldar!

Rosetta Stone

If I ever get rich enough, I'm buying the Rosetta Stone courses for Russian, Czech, Polish, Scots-Gaelic, Cymru, Cantonese, Japanese, Spanish, and Swahili. Or, as Barry would put it, I'd want to learn "Hindi and Sinhalese, Spanish and Japanese, Afrikaans, Nepali, Faroese, Romany, Yiddish and English, Kurdish and Thai," plus the aforementioned and maybe even a few more. I want to learn them all. I want to be the "I" to all the Reptiles, at least in terms of language.

I used to know a good bit of German and French. And I taught myself a hell of a lot of Russian. Now, I can't even read the Cyrillic alphabet, which shames me deeply. I'm a prime example of the adage "if you don't use it, you lose it." But I can still sing "Give My Regards to Broadway" in Polish, although I doubt that'll ever come in handy, and I can even sing a few choice Mouth Music tunes in Scots-Gaelic. I have no interest in Spanish, but knowing at least a modicum of it in America has fast become a requirement in this day in age.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm far from Reptile status. Woe is I.

Al-a-Day Day 7

My favourite Weird Al polka.

Non-breeders have no rights

Teresa, the bakery manager, has already hired someone to take up the slack I've created by finding the computer control room job. The problem with this is that this new person will be getting the majority of my hours, not just the hours I won't be able work in order to take on this new job. Teresa's reason for this is that the woman has kids and can't very well work just evenings because she'd never have any time with her children. Well, I have a disabled family member at home, but I'm still having to work whatever hours tossed in my direction simply because I'm not a breeder. It's not fair.

And right after I found out this bullshit, I was instructed to properly train that moron girl child who's made everyone's life in the bakery miserable because of her slack ass. The sooner I get away from the Ingles bakery, the happier I'll be.