Weblog Quotes

Or somewhat.

Over the past five weeks I have been in full time employment at a hotel / restaurant / bar; where I am working as a Chef.

The time has been enjoyable; but it has impacted on my already lack of sleep. So much so the past three days have held very little hours of shut eye. This has caused me to stress out a little; with the added fact that on Fridays I have to peel and quarter three large bins of potatoes and one bin of carrots for Sundays. This is repetitive; tedious; and takes four hours.

For some un-known reason tonight; I have realised every single one of my issues relate to my on-line activities. I no longer have issues in my life, other than being single I suppose. Because I’ve already mentioned it three times to three separate people, I’ll just paste it:

I have a large number of projects that I will just never finish, yet I don’t want to ditch. I was happier giving support as a member, but if I leave the bl00s, I will leave for good. I only visit two sites frequently (support and hnz). Having to put up with the odd argument, or Nicola’s “oh, I have a job so I can’t do this” posts every three days is getting to me. There is little to no communication from the three reds I volunteer my time for; and have done for the past four years. It basically holds no significance anymore. I feel the internet is just not important.

Re-reading that, I’m tempted to correct the icky grammar. But I won’t. It’s authentic; un-edited; and what I said originally.

All of the issues I had with Zathyus Support shortly after the promotion still stand now. And I’m still disappointed.

Since I am now working, any projects I have started will be on hold, and I likely won’t finish them any time soon. Thank you to those of you who have emailed me, but I have to apologise again. The website and weblog won’t be up-dated either. And the community forums will just continue to die. My newest foodie board won’t be going anywhere I would like it to .. basically everything will stop. If it’s linked from here, or my profiles, don’t expect any changes.

2009 never started out too well for me, almost everything sucked. Until February rolled along…

On Friday the 6th of February 2009 I was promoted to Support Staff at Zathyus Support.

“What?” I hear some of you ask. For those of you who are un-familiar, Zathyus Support is the official support board for InvisionFree and ZetaBoards, both of which are free message boards that allow you to create an online community; from Guild Clans and RPG’s, to Animals and Sandwich Making.

I somehow have a small dedication to the Zathyus Network, even though our community forums are self hosted. I think it has something to do with the in-ability to break free. They lock the gates tight on a night; and have scary security peoples too.

During some random moment on IRC, I was approached by Stephen who told me the staff team wanted me and asked if I was interested. I was speechless; shocked; and surprised at the opportunity. It’s certainly a great honour to be apart of the community, let alone the staff behind it.

I can’t wait to see what the rest of the year brings, and look forward to many anniversaries as Support Staff.

Over at Zathyus Support, a user requested some support to edit the colour of their portal sidebar links.

Being a nice guy, I linked them to two topics that would give them all the help they would ever need when styling the portal. This is where it became worse.

The user either hadn’t read the topics, or just skimmed over them and then stated that nothing worked. OK, that’s fine, so I post up the method they would need to use, again hoping they would read it. They never read it, stating that what I posted changed the backgrounds according to the image from one of the earlier linked topics. Hmm, so now they have read the topics, but it seems apparent they haven’t tried what I posted.

This is where a nice little rant comes in to play. I growled a bit, then moaned a bit, and guess what. The previous post I made suddenly works!

I implore everyone to rant nicely every once in a while. People may start to learn, and not just take take take.