7251 - Only Tuesday? Im-pasta-bowl!

[scottobear]

Oh, I remembered something else about my talk with Serena. In Brazil the Basques drink a concoction of red wine and coke (50/50) with a slice of lemon called a "Cuba Libre", (or a Calimocho) Bleah. It's acceptable for teens to drink it. I prefer a sangria and sprite, if I must have a soda/wine mix. Also, Fanta tastes different over here, especially from the can.

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I got to escort a colorful character off the premises yesterday afternoon. He was pounding on the door to where the girls were, demanding to be let in but CB saw him coming and locked up. VS called me and asked if I could come boot the guy. I showed up, and he turned to me, obviously off his rocker. He started yelling "OH NO! IT'S HULK HOGAN!" and then stated that he wished to challenge me to a cage match. I told him no thank you, but that I'd like for him to leave. He refused, and I asked if he'd prefer me to call the police and have him escorted away.. he said that'd be fine, so I called. I did manage to bull him out of the hallway and into the parking lot. While we waited, be prattled on about how he was Darth Vader, and how that if the police shot him the bullets would not hurt him because his whole body is made of steel. While I was describing the guy to the 911 operator, he undressed... I explained he was wearing a green pullover, off it came. I mentioned he had a blue and white striped shirt underneath, and he mentioned that it was a nice day for the beach, and took that off. Well, at that point I'm not going to tell the operator what sort of pants he's wearing. It bears mentioning that the guy was amazingly filthy and reeked to high heaven. I felt sorry for him, because he was shoeless, and one of his feet looked badly infected. My pity was tempered by worry I felt for the girls inside the office.

randomly grabbed clips with the sound recorder I wish I'd remembered sooner that the ol' handy-dandy PDA can do sound. For whatever reason, he stopped calling me Hulk Hogan, and started calling me Ozzy.

Heaven and Hell

Cops Ain't Comin', Ozzy

Slice of the Pie

Round and Round, rock on, violent, crazy hobo.

Yelling and threats to fight eventually gave way to singing rock songs, and then an incoherent babble about missiles and Castro. He eventually got bored with me just standing there, not talking to him and wandered away right as two police cars came over. I pointed him out, but they didn't make any effort to hold him, even though he was yelling and screaming earlier. No report to file, so such is life. The Main office doors are going to have to be locked from now on, in case of a repeat performance.

I hope he gets picked up more so that he can get some help than anything else. I usually get along ok with the vagrants, but this guy is in need of some serious assistance.

I preferred the random conversation on Sunday, Thanks. More cute girls, less stinky-scented types, please.

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Moment of Lyric:

Here on fibber island
Our house is made of pie
Our dog is two miles wide
And all he talks about is pie

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I keep forgetting to put my netflix dvds back in the mail.

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LEACH Investigators Arrest Man On Computer Child Exploitation Charges

Florida Department of Law Enforcement special agents and Law Enforcement Against Child Harm (LEACH) investigators have arrested a Polk County man on charges he tried to use the Internet to solicit an undercover detective who was posing as a 14-year-old girl.

Edward Frank Mercer, 40, of Haines City, was arrested Saturday and charged with one count of attempted lewd battery, and Broward County warrants for one count of computer child exploitation and one count of lewd/lascivious exhibition. Following his arrest, Mercer was transported to the Orange County Jail.

LEACH investigators said Mercer contacted the undercover Broward Sheriff’s Office detective, who was posing as a teenage girl, through the Internet. The officer was acting in an undercover capacity online using an AOL chat room.

During several chat sessions, which began in January 2005, Mercer is accused of making several sexual solicitations and encouraging the “girl” to travel to the Orlando area so that they could engage in sexual acts, which he described during the online conversations. Agents said Mercer also used his web camera and exposed his genitals.

On Saturday, Mercer went to an Orlando area hotel to meet the “girl” and to reportedly engage in sexual acts. When he arrived, Mercer was arrested without incident. Authorities also executed a search warrant at Mercer’s Haines City residence and seized two computers and electronic equipment.

Investigators said Mercer has used the screen names of “Flrebel26,” “MercuryMan64” and “swtfloridaguy.” Anyone who has had Internet contact with Mercer is asked to call FDLE Special Agent Lissa Udell at (954) 958-5400.

The investigation, which is continuing, was conducted by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, FDLE agents in the Broward, Lakeland and Orlando field offices, and the Internet Crimes Against Children/LEACH Task Force.

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1 year ago - morning has broken, weak Spanish knowledge, Wondering about JTD, winged sandals, Kenya, free movies legit, robo-predators, word count, 2! 2! undead movies nearby

2 years ago - Bro pissing me off, haiku, bro meets porn stars.

3 years ago - pen refill dream, baby llamas

4 years ago - cool weather, my 1376^th post, talked to ckirk, ornj, and Devil-troll ticks me off

Comments

Put your DVDs in the mail

[mootpoint.livejournal.com]

Glad you are OK. The adrenalin in situations like that can leave my knees wobbly for a week. Tough work. But you kept your cool and that’s a commendable thing.

Awww heck. ogg no work on macs. I think. Or maybe it's just this mac?

I've tried to piece it together lately, but it's proving too difficult, trying to figure out what you do and for whom. I thought you were a tech support fellow. But what company has a specific door to where the girls are? Unless it was the girls bathroom of course... I’m none too bright on this one I fear.

If it's personal and none of my business, I apologize.

Again though, good to hear you’re safe and sound. Too bad about that man. I feel bad for him. It has been my experience that men like that have a lot of pain and fear stored up. I hope he does find peace somewhere.

[greenelvish.livejournal.com]

OH NO, IT'S HULK HOGAN! ahahahahaha... All the nuts roll down to Florida.

Kenya believe it?

Re: Put your DVDs in the mail

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

d'oh! I'm already at work. thanks for the reminder!

http://www.ogghelp.com/ogg/downloads.cfm?platform=2

looks like there are a couple of alternatives!

I'm the head of the computer department (Networking, programming, teckh supervisor, that sort of hubbub) of a non-profit that helps to locate missing children; sort of along the lines of amber alert. (Our website is at - http://achildismissing.org )

The other side of the building is where our accounting, graphic artist and PR girls are... the fairer side of the org, to be sure.

I feel bad for him, too, though I sort of viewed him as a wounded creature, likely to lash out and hurt others, too.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

forget norway!

Re: Put your DVDs in the mail

[mootpoint.livejournal.com]

This speaks directly to what has been really pulling at me in my heart. You do something you are good at for a good company right? A company that makes a positive difference and does good work.

This isn't the place for this, but suffice it to say, I'm having a hard time synching up karmicly (sp?) with my current professional position in life. I love design. But this...

Eh. Another time on another machine…



Ohh! Ogg work good now! Thank you! I was just too lazy, I’m sorry. I'm so use to nothing working on macs and lately that is changing...

Sounded like he was convinced of his deathbed destination. I don't think anyone, if they have come to such a conclusion, is actually comfortable with going to hell, even with that kind of bravado. Assuming serious thought was giving it. He brought that up out of the blue it seems. It may have been something that was welling up in his heart. Maybe he knows he is broken and rather than apologize for it he wears it like it was intentional.

I agree with you, he is wounded and is probably dangerous.

[eryx-uk.livejournal.com]

I've thought of you as Hulk Hogan, but the more I think about it...

Seriously, you did good. I don't handle confrontation all that well and that situation might not have ended as well as it did for you.

Its a shame that the police didn't pick him up. He might have got some help then. At least police around the world seem consistant...

Re: Put your DVDs in the mail

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

It's hard to find a job that is livable and still a positive contribution to the world around us. All the big money seems to be in waste, if not outright evil. How does that tent-making story go? Paul never stopped making them to support his spirituality elsewhere? I look forward to seeing you expand on your thoughts on it.

I had to seek out ogg for another mac pal when I got phone post-crazy a while back, when the ability was first brought on.

I took his heaven/hell comment to be some sort of "you're too good to touch me" statement... when my actual concern was getting close enough for an attack.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Eek! well, I guess it's better than one of the dooley brothers. :)

Thanks... It can be tricky to be the only guy on duty sometimes.

I suspect the cops didn't want to bother with paperwork, since he was no longer an issue. If the guy comes back, I'll do my best to demand that he be baker acted (taken in for treatment, for his own good)

[myid8myego.livejournal.com]

Rats, I should have listened to these at home. Oh well, I will after work. Have you had to bounce anybody today?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Not yet! Man, if this keeps up, I should go back to work at the club... at least the tip-outs were good!

Re: Put your DVDs in the mail

[mootpoint.livejournal.com]

When I was with my father and he drank to excess he would say similar things. "You think you are so perfect." "You think your father is scum." This represented a battle I had nothing to do with. At some point he broke and let the feeling of brokenness consume and define him. He wore his brokenness and could taunt me with it. It was the saddest place he had ever been. The most lonely. Giving up is like dying with every breath.

But he wasn't dead.


My decisions affect not only me, but my family as well and while I love this, it certainly does complicate things. The only thing that should really change is my commitment level, not my direction. Consideration of vegetarianism is not only on the horizon, it has been following me for some time. I have always been a little slow though, but I get there eventually. :)

Re: Put your DVDs in the mail

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that you recognise that you were only a bystander in that situation. I've had a lot of difficulties with people who preferred to wear a problem as a point of strength, and as an excuse to behave badly... from drugs to booze to ADD. I'm not sure what that says about people, or if it says anything at all.

It's true that your decisions affect your family, and to a lesser extent, everyone in your immediate environment. What is bringing vegetarianism into focus, now?

Re: Put your DVDs in the mail

[mootpoint.livejournal.com]

Concern for animals in general and in particular their relation to my diet has been tickling the back of my brain for some time. It ebbed and flowed and I put off the deeper thinking for tomorrow... I am concerned about whether or not I should be concerned that I take so much in life for granted. How much of what I have is ill gotten before it came to me? How comfortable am I in my ignorance? Is this complacency a healthy thing to pass on to my children?

The recent rush of consideration maybe started when I read that article from DFW somewhat recently and it opened up that old door again. I also noticed a lot of my family in CA had converted. I noticed a few things in your journal and I give credence to the decisions of those I respect. Going to the store (we are/were a walmart family, feh) I began to notice and explore a bit in the "health food" section (walmart does not have this section, hi-vee does, we are slowly converting).

Whether or not I have been spontaneously searching out more references for consideration and noticing the winds more or the opportunities for observation were increasing, I don't know. Probably both.

I am concerned about my health. I have treated my body poorly in the past and I am paying for that now. I believe there is a connection between your physical and spiritual self. I get grumpy when I am tired. My concentration goes and my tolerance goes. I can fight this better when I have sleep. So I think it's important to keep an eye on your body.

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Regarding my father. I held a lot of anger and resentment over his head. I felt abused. But people are complicated. I understand how easy it is and how completely a person can get lost. And I believe that no one *wants* to be lost. My father was angry and lost to a great degree; this was his decision. But succumbing to our weakness is something that can happen anytime to anyone. It's a tough thing to fight. I don't resent him for giving up this fight for a time, no matter how much damage it did. Partly because I believe in God and the lesson he gave me was that everyone is tempted and it's our nature to fall (why does God allow for this temptation and indeed code it into our design is perhaps a bigger question for a different rant, but I, personally have come to an answer that comforts me). God is there to help us get back up (if we ask—another tough apologetics cookie I have delved into before). And partly because I know how easy it is to give up, and how sometimes what a person needs isn't judgment, it's help (actually, God teaches this as well, although I figured that before I ever read it). If my perspective was bad, it could be that it was the perspective of those who loved me that saved me.

I wasn't expecting my point to be so long. For my personal growth I have explored all this before, but it's important for me to remember occasionally, the details, not just the overview.

:)

Re: Put your DVDs in the mail

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, you did get your writing practice in today... and it increased my already considerable respect for you, too! Your openness with yourself and the desire to build on your exisiting framework of ideas and actions is a noble one.


I'm in total agreement with you on the phrase sometimes what a person needs isn't judgment, it's help, too.

I'm glad that you clued me in on your reflections.