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VR Admin - My Two Cents04:42 Sep 27 2008
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I have a ton of respect for the admin on this site. These people devote their time to helping maintain the quality of this website, and most of the time they don't get anything but crap from the other members for it. Not from me. From me, they get a big THANK YOU. I can only imagine the kind of BS they deal with on a daily basis.
Why do they do it? Good question. Maybe they enjoy the punishment! :P Seriously, I'm sure they do it for the same reason that I became an Acolyte - they enjoy the site and want to help out in whatever way they can.
I'm not aiming this at anyone in particular, nor am I trying to say that all the admins are right all the time no matter what they do. I'm sure some of them make mistakes when dealing with people. They are, after all, only human. What I am saying is that, when all they're doing is their assigned job (such as deleting BS forum posts), they don't deserve the crap they get.
Think about it, for the close to 10,000 members on the site, there are only 13 Dominars to deal with all the crap in the forum and VampBox, only 8 Sentorans to monitor all of the profiles, portfolios and journals, and only 6 Procurators to deal with probably hundreds of database submissions, most of which I imagine are crap or are already in the database, but the submitter didn't bother taking the time to check. That's 27 people to deal with the BS of thousands. That is a ton of work for a job they aren't getting paid to do. We need more admin!
Let me just say that I am not trying to kiss ass with this entry. My friends are my friends through thick and thin (no, none of them are admin), and I don't give a damn what anyone else thinks about me. I just think that people on this site need to realize that the admins are only making sure that the rest of the members adhere to the rules set forth by Cancer. Rules that EVERYONE agreed to when they created their accounts. Don't want to play by the rules? Delete your account. It's that simple.
In regards to my last entry.....02:39 Sep 27 2008
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Now that I know what happened, I'm even more ticked off.
I didn't realize that I was dealing with someone that had hacked someone else's account. If I had known, I never would have put the offer out there to make the graphics.
I really hate hackers. Are you so pathetic that you have to go and steal someone else's VR account? Wow, what a wonderful life you must have. I mean, why steal a VR account? If you're going to hack into someone's account, make it something worthwhile. A bank account for example. But a VR account? Seriously??? Get a life loser!
00:55 Sep 27 2008
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I was working on graphics for Vasilia for her coven, but her account no longer exists. I don't know if she changed her name or if she deleted her account. I can't contact her on Yahoo IM because my IM isn't working for some reason.
I really hate having put so much time into these graphics for nothing, when I could have been working on things I'm making for other people. :(
The current state of things....23:20 Sep 21 2008
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I don't know what I caught, but I feel like crap. My chest is killing me. It hurts to breathe. I can't stop coughing. My head is so congested that it hurts. And I'm tired. I shouldn't be tired, but I am. I spent the day on the couch, curled up in a ball, covered up with 2 blankets.
I was really looking forward to my weekend without the kids, but honestly I've felt horrible since before they left Friday morning. Now, they'll be home in a couple of hours, and my weekend was a waste. Other than a quick run to the store yesterday, I didn't do anything or go anywhere. I just didn't feel up to it.
Now I'm even more glad that I decided not to make the trip to Syracuse this weekend for my cousin's wedding. Sure, it would have been nice to go home and see everyone, but being sick here in my house is much better than being sick while I'm a guest at someone else's house.
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As far as the graphics that I'm working on for people, I've got a good start on them all. I should have them ready in a couple of days, or at least a first draft of them anyway.
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I won't be around tonight. I know I told some people that I would be, but I'm going to crash as soon as the boys are home and in bed. Hopefully I'll wake up feeling better in the morning.
21:43 Sep 20 2008
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I'm finally getting the hang of Photoshop. I took this.....
and turned it into this....
Damn thing had almost 600 layers by the time I was done. :P
05:03 Sep 18 2008
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I finally had a chance to sit down and look through some Photoshop tutorials online. I just finished this one....
I think it came out fairly decent, given that it's my first attempt at working with layers and that it started out as a picture of dirt.
22:05 Sep 17 2008
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I just installed Photoshop CS2 on my computer. If anyone knows of any sites with good tutorials, let me know. I'd greatly appreciate it. :)
03:35 Sep 14 2008
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And now I know. I'm shocked, and deeply saddened.
03:24 Sep 14 2008
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Before I logged in, I checked the Journal page, and I kept coming across entries pertaining to Vampirewitch39 (aka the rat.) Though she's in my coven under a different name (WitchHaven3), she is still a close friend here and I'm really starting to worry.
My first thought was that something happened to her mom. I know she's been sick. Then I started thinking that maybe something happened to VW herself, and not her mom.
My thoughts are with you Kay, even though I don't know what's going on. If you need anything, and I do mean anything, I'm here for you.
9/11 Remembered15:39 Sep 11 2008
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It's hard to believe that it's been 7 years. I remember it as if was only yesterday. I was home with my older son, who was 3 at the time, and I was 5 months pregnant with my younger son.
I got up that morning to a phone call from my mother asking me to turn on the news and let her know what was happening because she was at work and couldn't find out. I flipped on the TV, sat on the couch and immediately broke into tears.
I spent the day glued to the television, trying to make sense of it all. I was worried for all of the people in NYC, both the ones I knew and the ones I didn't.
I left the house for work that afternoon in shock. Along the way, I took the time to notice every single American flag that I came across. I took pause at each one. Some of them, I saluted. Some, I stared at. For others, I closed my eyes to pray.
At the time, I worked for a telephone relay service that made phone calls between deaf and hearing people possible. On an average day, 95% of our calls came out of NYC. That night, because most of the phone lines were down there, it was eerily silent. The few calls we did relay were heartbreaking.
The calls in the days that followed were no better. I heard the tales first hand of people that had lived through it, people that had lost loved ones. I was coping with my own 9/11 loss, a very dear friend, but as a relay operator I couldn't offer my condolences to these people. I couldn't let them know that I too felt their pain.
I left that job a week after 9/11. It was just too much for me to deal with at the time. Being pregnant made me even more emotional in an already overly emotional time for everyone.
So today, 7 years later, I spent the morning reliving the event, as I do every year. I watched videos on YouTube, and spoke with friends about it. This weekend, I will make a trip to lay flowers upon the grave of the person I lost. I will also make a trip to the field here in PA to place flowers in honor of the brave people aboard Flight 93.
I'd like to hear your stories. Where were you? How did the 9/11 attack change your life?
02:12 Sep 09 2008
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My younger son has a bully at his school. Today he threatened my son, called him names, and kicked him. Luckily, I've taught my son that it's okay to defend yourself. Cole spun the other boy around and pushed him to the ground, then went and told a teacher about what happened. I told him he did the right thing.
I know, I know. I'm sure many parents out there are going to give me flack about that, but that's just how I feel about it. I told him it's never okay to make the first aggressive move, but if someone is hurting you physically, you don't just stand there and take it.
My son has had problems with this boy before. They went to the same summer day camp this summer, and the problems started there. This child was absolutely rotten to my son for no reason. He started picking on him right from the very first day of the summer program, and it got to the point that I pulled my son out of the summer program because of it.
So, I sat down tonight and wrote an email to his teacher to let her know about my concerns, and I made sure to CC in the principal on the email. I will follow up with a phone call to the school tomorrow. If my concerns aren't taken seriously, and it happens again, I will be at that school first thing the next morning, and I will not leave until I have an appropriate resolution to the problem. If that fails, I will take legal action.
I know kids are mean, and I know they pick on other kids. If it was just words, I would take a different approach with it. But since the boy kicked my son, I'm being aggresive about it. My son shouldn't have to live in fear of going to school. He enjoys school. I don't want that to change because of a bully. Besides, we've already seen too many instances where bullying turns into something deadly. These boys are only in first grade. If we can stop the pattern of bad behavior now, hopefully it won't progress into something more serious.
02:23 Sep 05 2008
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Last month a woman my mother worked with bought a $25 scratch off lotto ticket and she won a million dollars. She walked into work the next day, cleared out her desk and quit.
Yesterday, the woman was at home and not feeling well, so she went to lay down. A while later, her husband went to see if she was feeling any better and found her dead in their bed. The woman was only 44. They don't have a cause of death yet.
To win a million dollars in the lottery and then die within a month.....isn't it just crappy the way life works out?
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imagesinwords
04:50 Sep 27 2008
It's members like you that make it easy (when it's easy) :)
mtsoul77
05:23 Sep 27 2008
Thank you. :)
Don't ask me how, but I forgot to include the Regents, Consuls and Master Vamps. Up the number of admin to 41. That's still not enough admin for 10,000 members.
pandorasbx65
05:27 Sep 27 2008
Very well said :)
borked
07:01 Sep 27 2008
That is 41 far too many