One Thousand Word Challenge 18: The Thing I Need to do

It’s a somewhat-miserable day outside. Somewhat. The upside of today is that I don’t have to water my plants. The downside is that I will have to trudge through the crappy weather sooner or later, although it will mostly be later as when I finish work I will need to head home so I can do the thing that I’m required to do when I get home.

I’m not sure as to what the thing that I need to do is and I’m not sure as to whether I will ever find out what it is that needs to be done by my hands, but I’m sure that one day I will find out that the thing I need to do is the thing that I need to do and it needs to be done as soon as I can do it, due to the necessity of needing to do whatever it is that I need to do, and how!

If I were to somehow find out what it is that I need to do, then I would know what I need to do and what I need to do would suddenly become something that I could do much faster, knowing what it is that I needed to do which would lead to knowing the correct way of doing whatever it just so happened to be, unless there was a faster and more correct way of doing it in which I would probably find out what that was in hindsight, but as the thing that I needed to do would be done, then it wouldn’t matter so much unless there was another time that came along where what I needed to do would need to be done again, therefore leading to my utilising said faster method and saving more time, having the necessary thing done so I could do other things that were not as necessary to being done, such as some sort of action and motion.

However, as that is still unlikely ever going to be the case, the pace at which I work will be as fast as I possibly can complete what it is that I need to do without knowing what it is that I need to do, so in other words I have absolutely know idea as to how long it would take for me to complete what it is that I need to do as I have no idea as to what it is that I need to do.

It’s fair to say that there’s probably nothing that I need to do when I get home.
Perhaps that means that I’d need to look for something to do using methods that could be considered as dangerous as they are exciting.

If I somehow get together a few explosives and then proceed to explode my house, then perhaps I’ll be able to find something that I would need to do. Hopefully that would not involve running from the authorities, although if it did, I’m sure that my escape from the cruel hands of justice would involve some sort of sexy chase scene where I get away on a manatee that is somehow swimming on land.

Despite the sheer sexiness of the scene, it will be quite intense as a manatee can only move so fast and the police would be right on its tail. However, with quick evasive maneuvers, I’m sure that in the end, despite a few road bumps, close calls, intense moments and a sheer cluster of catastrophic happenings, I would get away somehow and ride off into the sunset, a free man once more as justice shall be found my favour, leaving me to wander off in search of other adventures and places where things would need to be resolved.
It would be as adventurous as it would be amazing and dangerous.

Not as sexy as the chase scene.

Perhaps it would be a better idea if I don’t blow up my house in order to find something to do.

Then again, there are people out there that need saving. Despite the vigilante status that I would now have, I would still feel as though it would be my duty to ride my trusty steed to where I was needed, help the villagers, stop the bad guys and thwart many an unexpected threat, with of course the eventual need to face down some of the people whom I could have called my friends as alignments shifted and the lines between good and evil slowly blurred, whilst loyalties would still remain in place despite being on different edges.

It would make for a great series of adventures, but there would be grave tragedies and pain. Sacrifices would have to be made in order to restore balance to the would be likely that I would come out on the other side a different person to the one that I am now.

I would wander the earth on my manatee a changed person; one who would be much wiser, but possibly less likely to interact, preferring to watch the world unfold and progress in an age that would at least be temporarily free from large-scale danger that would dare threaten the way of living life.

Eventually I would have to find myself stopping and choosing to rest. However, it would only be temporary as there would still need to be someone who would need to make sure that the peace remained in place and who better to do such a task than me?

Of course, this would all be reliant on assuming that any of this would unfold and despite the high chance of this happening, there’s a good chance that I wouldn’t know whilst it was happening as I sincerely doubt that I wouldn’t know what it was that I needed to do at that particular point in time.

I could make an attempt to try and find out but there’s nothing to say that I would know, despite having a need to know.

The time it took to write one thousand words: 15:36:60

So it had been more than a few weeks since I had done one of these so I’m happy with the time.

Perhaps the next one will be a bit more serious.

Written at work.

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Sea and Land

Here’s a photo that I took on Wednesday during my first bush walk of the year, of which due to being an idiot and over-exerting myself, left me feeling ill which lead to me having a sick day yesterday.

Huzzah!

I think this is a great view of some of the landscape around me, as well as the ocean / sea.

Everything’s a bit muted in colour, which leaves me feeling as though the image is nicely balanced and a bit more relaxing to view.

I think that the shadow stretching out over the land adds a bit more depth to the view.

I think that the sea and the land make for “A Good Match” when it comes to how the world is shaped, as well as when it comes to photography.

This is my submission into The Daily Post‘s photo challenge for this week.

I hope you enjoy.

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xXx: The Return of Xander Cage Review

Welcome to Vin Diesel’s ego, where it’s the late 90’s / early 2000’s all the time!

There’s action, explosions, dialogue that is as cringe-worthy as it is tolerable…

There’s a lot of praise thrown at Vin Diesel Xander Cage throughout the film due to how legendary he is. People can’t seem to not want to respect him, which is how you know who the bad person will end up being.

Some people are baddies, then not baddies and people who seem to be the main baddies are not the real main baddies.

This is a film that doesn’t take itself seriously and it’s good to see that. It’s good to see the actors having as much fun as they have with this film.

However, a lot of it seems to be a little too much as though it’s going through the motions.

Whilst his action chops are utilised well, once again 甄子丹 is under-utilised as an actor.
The guy is able to be a convincing actor and yet no one seems to notice.

Action scenes, whilst fun are mostly flat outside of a few standout moments. Those moments are wonderfully over the top, but otherwise it’s pretty standard.

Dialogue is mostly underwritten and a little too eager to to remain poor, although the delivery from the actors does improve it somewhat. As this is an action film that doesn’t take itself seriously, this doesn’t need to be close to outstanding in any way, but the problem is that the words aren’t close enough to decent most of the time. They do what they need to do, but they don’t strive for anything other than so-so and cringe-worthy.

The film is shot well for the most part, although sometimes it appears to be a little too obvious when a stunt double is being used, although that somehow adds a little charm to the film.

Overall, I wouldn’t necessarily say don’t see it. I would say that it might not be worth your time. There seems to be a little too much ego stroking and not enough development of everything that should be seen as important.

It’s fun at parts, but otherwise a flat experience.

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Rope

Late last year, whilst I was walking to my regular café (I think), I walked past some coils of rope piled upon each other. Liking the pattern, I took the photo that you see below.

This is the photo that I’ve submitted for Leanne Cole‘s Monochrome Madness this week.

If you enjoy monochrome photography on any level, then I suggest you check it out.
If you enjoy photography

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

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Another Customer Service Rant

I like working in customer service. There are other things I’d rather do for a job, but as far as working as a customer service rep goes, I think it’s something good in which to work.

It’s not the best job, but it’s a good challenge that can really help develop discipline and patience.

However, what I really like about the job is when I get called a piece of shit for doing my job by providing customer service.

The thing that I find interesting about customer service is that many customers don’t want service because it doesn’t fit with what they think they’re entitled to. They want someone to agree with them and give them what they want as that’s much more preferable to getting a solution.

Well, my job (as well as the job of many others) is to provide a solution or an answer and that is not always going to be what  a customer wants. My job isn’t there to kiss a customer’s entitled ass and bow down to them because they can’t pull their head out of the sand and understand that they’re arrogant little pricks.

Again, this doesn’t apply to all customers. I have the joy of speaking to a lot of wonderful people most of the time and it can sometimes be a bit saddening to not be able to give them everything they want because they’re lovely people, but they understand and accept that they won’t get everything, or sometimes anything. They accept it and move on. They don’t resort to being an asshole to someone because the solution to their issue involves them doing a slight bit of legwork to ensure that they are taken care of as completely as a business can take care of them.

I’ve been on both sides plenty of times. I’ve been a bad customer before which is something I work toward not being anymore as it’s really unfair toward whichever person I’m speaking to when I require service. It’s not a representative’s fault if they’ve given me the best possible information (or solution) that they can.

I also have to consider myself lucky because I don’t have to deal with entitled customers face to face. As often as I have to deal with shitty behaviour, I have to be thankful that it’s only over the phone. Anyone in a store is likely to get it a lot worse than me and they really don’t need to deal with that crap.

Yes, there’s plenty of bad customer service out there, but that doesn’t justify being a prick for no reason. Customers who think they can behave in this way need to rethink their attitudes because all they’re doing is shitting on someone else as they think they should get what they want.

Show a bit more respect because a lot of the people who work in customer service want to help. Making our job more stressful doesn’t make us want to help more.

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An Ox Sculpture

Here’s a sculpture of an ox.

I took this a few weeks ago when I was taking a few long exposures around Circular Quay.

I believe this was set up for the Chinese new year.

I like how it’s illuminated as well as how it’s designed.

I think that it looks pretty interesting in that it has no curves but (to me) it doesn’t look like anything other than an animal.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

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Town Hall Clock

Here’s a shot that I took earlier in the week whilst hanging out with Ewe.

I didn’t expect the photo to turn out the way it did, colour-wise. I think that it helps give a strong idea that it’s getting darker and makes the scene feel like rain will fall soon.

It probably is due to rain beginning to fall soon after the photo was taken.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

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Newtown Tracks

Whilst I was at Newtown Station waiting for a train, I decided to take a few photos.

This was the best one of the lot.

I think that there’s a strong contrast caused by the sun which is mostly out of the shot.

I like how there’s a few tracks heading off into the distance.

I also like the geometry and the lines in the photo.

I hope you enjoy.

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“Mkgnao”

On Valentine’s Day I was walking along when I saw this cat.

It was so lazy and relaxed, so I took a bunch of pictures, such as the one below.

Not much else to say. It’s a cat.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

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Reaching for the Sky

I was going to title this “Even More Tall Buildings”, but I wanted to come up with something a bit better.

I really like the shape of the sky against the buildings in this photo, as well as how the buildings all look a little different from each other.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

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