So my wife wrote a little commentary on a piece written by a professional photographer (with a whole three years under her belt). A couple of people and I commented, and then this got left by someone too cowardly to even leave contact info (Michelle removed it):
You people are stupid! Just because you bought a digital camera at Walmart doesnt mean that you know how to make a picture or process it correctly in you PC of shit computer. Photographers are not SNOBS, they are working professionals who are trained to capture moments in time.
And one cannot help but wonder why this troll even bothered. Photographers are not “trained to capture moments in time” but rather trained how to take pictures and work a camera. Someone with natural talent can go far taking pictures without any “professional” training. The thought process that people can be trained, in any shape, form, or fashion, to “capture moments in time” could only be the deluded fantasy of one who watched too many Kodak commercials while young. Aside from the rest of the faulty logic it is obvious that the person who left the comment has precious little education based on the lack of punctuation and the horrendous grammar contained in the brief venomous spew they felt compelled to bang out on their keyboard.
Nevermind that none of us who commented referred to all professional photographers as snobs but rather a specific set of them. This set of “professionals” (note the use of quotes) believes things such as they should be served the same food as the guests at a wedding and the bride and groom should forgo tradition to make the photographer’s life easier. It is to these people that we give the internet version of the middle finger. Had anyone with any spark of intelligence read the comments they would have realized that the comments were based on the type of attitude presented in the article and not at professional photographers as a whole. There are always people who give their industry a bad name and the author of the article in question is, in my not so humble opinion, one of them.
I couldn’t help but point out the idiocy. My wife is much more civilized than I and simply removed the comment because it’s her blog and she’ll do what she wants with it. Me, well I prefer to bring this sort of thing to light and make snide remarks about it. Does that make me better than the person who wrote the comment? Probably not. Nonetheless it amuses me…
And to be honest I hate doing it now. My family needs help. We are nearly broke and the job search is not panning out. The one job I found I couldn’t keep because of pornography. I have some consulting work but precious little. I am stuck. I am trying to have faith but that’s hard right now. I am praying that this post won’t come across as trying to play on people’s heartstrings because it is anything but that. I am swallowing what pride I have left to admit the trouble in which I find my family. I know it’s a long-shot to ask for help here because I have so few readers but if anyone wants to help I will share everything we have outstanding and what consulting money I have coming in. I am not going to post the extent of things here for obvious reasons. We have food in the house and more money coming for that tomorrow. I don’t know how much I have coming in consulting fees right now but I will share the complete facts with anyone who ask. You can email me at flesh99 [AT] gmail [DOT] com and I will respond.
If anyone knows any assistance ministries in the Houston or Harris county areas please let me know. I have emailed a few today but can find very few through my google searches.
It occurs to me that someone might offer me consulting work if I post my resume so here it is.
For a number of years, as evidenced in my wife’s gallery, I shaved the boy’s heads. This made for cooler summers for them and easy hair care for us, “Go scrub your head” , and less need for hair care products (which I think men should shun anyway). Last summer I took them for real hair cuts. It was to be the last summer of the boys’ baldness. Well Aoghdan just asked me to shave his head. He originally wanted a mohawk but once it was cut in he decided to go bald. He is now in the tub scrubbing his head. I won’t do the other boys unless they ask but it looks like another bald summer with the Potter clan.
Now Aoghdan is so skinny that he looks like a cancer patient or a refugee with his head shaved. If I wasn’t married I’d tie a bandanna on his head, go to the store, and pick up women using him as bait. Yeah I am evil but women can’t resist a little boy who looks like he’s doing chemo! I am so wrong. I can’t even believe I admitted to that. It’s a good thing I am a Christian and God tells me that certain things are wrong. I would be so screwed if that were not the case.
So I am quitting my job. I can’t do it. It’s not the pay, I can handle low pay - hell I worked at Spec’s as a cashier. It’s not the people, I like everyone I work with for a change. It’s not the hours, they are fine. It’s the pornography. I know some of you will be shocked to to hear me have morals. That is a shame honestly. I don’t oft speak of them and I should. I leave a lot of my beliefs in the background when I post here. But I am morally opposed to pr0n. I have had to deal with it every day for three weeks and I can’t take any more of it. I walked away today and have to rely on faith to provide for my family. I have work right now and enough to pay the bills most likely but next month is up in the air. I should be able to get enough work to get by and we will see from there how it goes.
I can’t take credit for the title. It comes by way of Autopsy IV over at 9b, who got it from songs:illinois. It still fits so I am using it.
I’ve been hittin’ the bar a little hard lately. You see I get out of work at midnight. My kids have been asleep for four hours and wife for two. I could come straight home and hang out with Harley (the new dog who’s not Spot but is pretty OK for a dog that’s not) or I can hit the bar for Power Hour(tm) and have a few. I have been choosing option two a bit too frequently. It’s a bad thing to go drinking when you are broke and worse when your barkeep lets you run a tab and forgets to make you pay for over half of what you order. All in all it’s not the best scene.
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So most of you who still read this site know what all is going on. Academy fired me for total bullshit reasons which I won’t go into. I have no hard feelings towards anyone there. I might think it was crap but being upset at someone for doing what they thought was their job would accomplish nothing. I am upset about losing the monthly poker game even though I knew it was likely. It is held at my now ex-boss’s hacienda, thrown by her husband, and I guess it would be weird for her. For me work is work and social is social is social. I really liked that game even though I didn’t always win. It’s not easy to find a good home game and that was one for me.
Anyway I am back in webhosting doing sysadmin work for a lot less money. There are some perks to the job and some drawbacks. The perks include: no dress code, free lunch (if you accomplish certain goals), some cool people with which to work, and a schedule that allows me to consult. The drawbacks are: Low pay, a schedule that doesn’t let me off until midnight, dealing with customers, some people with stereotypical sysadmin hygiene, and having to deal with porn on a daily basis. It’s a gig and it’s paying the bills. I also have two consulting clients at this point and am open for server management consulting. I have a non-compete so I can’t do hosting but I never really did anyway.
So that’s the long and short of the last three weeks.
Seamus also turned six last Wednesday and we will have a party for him and Michelle next weekend which will apparently involve painting on Saturday. I am working Sunday through Thursday so Friday is the day I relax and since I get home long after the family goes to sleep I am giving Michelle Saturdays as her day to choose what we do. Today we are going to a park that has Bluebonnets and taking pictures with the kids. It sounds alright and gets me out of the house which is good for me. Next Saturday, as I mentioned, is painting day. We have to borrow a ladder but we are beginning to fix the house up a bit since we will be here a while. On my current salary we can’t afford to buy a house.
Well I am trying not to whine and ramble on about how much things suck as I want to have a good attitude about all of this but, quite frankly, it is a struggle. I upgraded to WP 2.5 and have to get some of the plugins working again but everything is looking good so far.
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