Description: "Trashy" Irvin Rupport Has a Match with The Bounty Hunter Max Thrasher. Just as the Match Ends an Unexpected visitor comes to the ring. Category: Sports

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Ok so there has been something I wanted to write about for some time but couldn't find the time to do it till now.

The day job had this little contest.  The goal was to suggest a money savings tip that could help the company cut costs.  For example, last year the winner suggested using foam soap over liquid.  Ok that makes some sense and will save some money although I wouldn't think it would save enough to make a difference.

This year I decided to make my suggestion.  I looked around the office and decided that there was one area that needed updated to current technology that would also help save money.  We have an industrial Fax machine.  Its big, bulky and breaks all the time.  We never seem to have enough toner for it and it jams a lot.  We have a service contract on it too, which I would imagine is costly.  I can't even begin to count up the multitude of times that my faxes didn't make it to me or I couldn't read them because of lack of supplies or paper jams.  So in the grand scheme of things would make sense to find a way to store faxes and only print what is important to print.  Why not put a computer online to capture faxes and then either assign someone to monitor the faxes and then email to the appropriate rep, or make it so we can view the faxes from our desk or email them to ourselves? 

Cost savings:

No Costly service Contract

No More Expensive Toner

No More Lost Faxes

Readable Faxes

Savings on Paper because it is electronic

I am sure there would be more.  The service Contract is probably a couple of hundred dollars.  The Toner is probably a couple hundred dollars a quarter.  This sounds like a winner right?

Ok here is the winner.  The person who won the prize (Which I think was a couple of hundred dollars) was the rocket scientist who decided that we needed "Motion Sensor" paper towel dispensers.  Yes that is right.  I can now go into the bathroom.  Wash my hands, and never actually touch the paper towel dispenser.  So now we are spending money on these new dispensers so that we may never touch the germ filled paper towel machines.  I cant imagine this really saving much money on the actual paper towels.  It must be so that we do not spread the germs associated with sharing a paper towel machine with others.  Of course the side note is that in one of the men's rooms they put this dispenser in a location so that the minute you walk past it the thing activates.  It also will tell you that, since the paper towels were all the way touching the floor, you can tell that many people were saving money for the company by not washing their hands or at least drying their hands using this new machine.

I think next year I will suggest maybe a "Motion Sensor" Activated Toilet paper roll dispenser.

I thought about posting this when it happened but things got crazy so I will share it now.

I have a sales territory that includes Ohio.  One of my very close dealers sent me an email asking If I could get him on the "White list".  For those who do not know what the White list is, it is a list of email addresses cleared to come thru.  IF you are an accused spammer you are more than likely on a "Black List".

Anyway, to his email requesting to be put on the "White List"   I sent a response saying "I didnt know you were part of the KKK.

Ok I found it amusing and so did he.  Later that day I get an email reprimanding me from our Human resouces department chastising me saying that was inappropriate, also including the chastizing to my Manager, but not including the original email.

They must have a filter on the server looking for key phrases. 

My manager asked what it was about and I told him.  He thought it was amusing too but to be politically correct couldnt say anything.  My response to him was, Its not like I was recruiting or anything.  I wasnt supplying the sheets or anything either.

Oh well its funny how in socienty we get so sensitive to things and can not relax for fear of insulting someone.

I have battled with whether or not to post this or not and decided as mentally, emotionally and physically exhausted as I am that I could do it and blame insanity if others dont like it and I can assure you  others will not like it.

If anyone pays any attention to my life then they know of my wifes ongoing health issues.  Some people after hearing it will say that they will keep Pam in their prayers or some people when they check up on her say they will pray for her and I know of some churches show have put her on their prayer list.

So I got to thinking about this.  Does Prayer work?

Well we have a ton of people praying, but Pam continues each year to get worse.  One of 2 things come to mind.  Either prayer doesnt work or we need more people to pray.

I am thinking it is more the former in that, if you believe in the bible, and believe in the Beginning and ther End, then you would have to think that God knows, much like Santa Claus, who has been bad or good.  He also knows if you will or will not accept him into your life as your saviour.  He also knows what the end will be and all the steps in between.

So I guess my thougts are several. If you believe in God and he chooses to save you or fix your issues or whatever, what is the prayer supposed to do?  It is not a popularity contest.  If you get 4.5 million prayers you will be spared.  It doesnt work that way, as far as I have been taught.

Why would it take someone in a church who doesnt know Pam from anyone else, praying for her to get better?  Why would God want to fix her over someone else?  If the would is pre-determined, then why would we pray?  If God wants Someone to live, they will live whether or not that person is prayed for.

This is not an anti-religion post, but rather some thoughts that have come to mind from all of those who have Prayed for Pam.

I thank each of you that have prayed, but that maybe the only ones who benefit from it and the actual prayers, for piece of mind that they did all they can do.

Anyway,

Back to exhaustion

Its funny how when you burn bridges, they can sometimes never be rebuilt.

In Wrestling you never say never.  Some of the "Hell Freezes Over moments" of things I never thought I would see…

When Eric Bischoff walked onto Raw

When Rick flair joined WWE

When Lawler Joined WWE

When Hogan joined WCW

When Hogan rejoined WWE

If only real life storylines would mimic Wrestling, in Many ways our lives could be better.  How about all the countries who hate us so much after we saved their "Proverbial Asses".

On a more personal level, I find myself dumbfounded at the place of my day job.  I have spent 19+ years here and have never had any issues except for maybe 2 with management  (Ok 3).  My customer base loves me and actually when I was forced out of my position in the New England Territory, caused major turmoil for that territory because there was no real reason to move me except Management who wanted to punish me and tech me a lesson for being good at what I do and for an argument I had with a wannabe manager and a manager.  The supervisor was trying to get Pam & myself fired.  They accomplished getting her fired, but because of the situation, only demoted me.  That was probably 5 years ago. 

Now the company has re-organized several times and they have given some guy who has 1/3 the experience I have, a supervisors job, and created a new position for my current supervisor who I get along with, and are giving me a supervisor his position who I hear bad things about.  This looks to be a bad situation for me.

Once again overlooked.  Am I bitter?  Of course.

I think part of my frustration is that outside of this place, I am fairly respected in what I do.  I get accolades regularly from people who get it.  There are many shows who pattern their format after mine.  However, the company who I give my life and blood constantly overlooks me and disrespects me.  I even went the roadblock and spoke one on one with him. He made it sound like there was no issues but yet here I am 5 years later still in the same place.

Here is the letter I wrote my supervisor upon hearing he was moving up and that the west coast super was taking his place and some kid was getting the other position:

I have to say I am very happy that you are advancing within the company.

My disappointments are many, as I feel once again I was overlooked for a position that I should have had an opportunity to at least be interviewed for.  I have 19+ years experience and wasn't even aware of any changes till after they are gone.

I have more seniority that ALL if the supervisors and can't seem to get a break.  How valuable can I be for a company who overlooks me constantly?  If not given the Midwest opportunity, maybe even the West coast?  My Obligations to this company come before my own, but yet this company has yet to give me a fair shot at things.  I play by the rules here.    Why is it the only message I get is that I need to find something outside of this department to get ahead?

How can I get ahead here?  What do I have to prove and to who? 

Once again I feel like I am in a dead end and very frustrated.  I work very hard for this company and feel unappreciated.

I mean why Josh ?  No Disrespect meant but what does he have that I don't?  Certainly not experience.

(End of email)

If I didn't need insurance because of Pam's health I would have left a long time ago.

Anyway, Anyone see Wrestlemania?

It was another Saturday and we were meeting Kage in King Of Prussia to go to DWF.  Plan was to leave about an hour after Kage and we would arrive at around the same time.  Funny how things don't go quite according to plan.

 After I get the text from Kage saying he left I get a panic call from Trish.  "Help, I locked my keys in my house.  Do you still have the spare?"  I said "Sure, drop on over and I will get it for you."  She responded with, "You don't understand.  It wasn't just my house keys.  It was the Van keys too."

 Ok, no big deal.  I grabbed the key and drove the mile to Trish's place and then picked her up and brought her to my place to await the Diva Pam.  We are still on schedule, or so I thought.

 About 15 minutes before we are scheduled to leave Pam says she has a script to pick up at CVS.  Can we pick up on the way?  Doing some quick calculations I figured it would maybe put us behind 10 minutes.  Again, funny how things don't quite work out according to plan.

 We get on the road to CVS and, of course, the traffic on I81N become one lane and we crawl at about 10 MPH, and less at times.  Once we get to CVS, to save time, I drop Pam off and CVS and go to the gas station to fill up.  I get back and Pam is still not out waiting so I rush in to hurry her up.  What I find is that there are a ton people at the checkout.  Ok this explains why our society is so messed. Look at all the drugs we dispense, but back onto topic.  I go back to the Pharmacy area to see Pam just now getting in line with a bunch of stuff.  She told me the script was called in and she would be in and out.  I see her finally get up to the counter so I go back out to the car.

Well we just blew a good Half hour so now we are behind schedule.  We cruise down the turnpike at lightening speed.  I hear Kage in my mind busting on us for being late when he started an hour before us.  As we get closer to the exit I get a Text asking where exactly where are we meeting.  I think to myself, "Great, he got there and we are still a half hour away.  Guess I will wait till I am closer and then respond."  As I  pull out of the turnpike we respond with "Where are you?",  to which he answers that he got caught in traffic in Scranton and was about 30 minutes away.

 Hmm, well looks like I can bust on him. Ha!  So we await the mighty time deficit Kage. Amused and annoyed by how fast I drove to make time when I didn't need to and how annoyed I was by all the things that made me late I sat. 

 Mother nature calls.  I say to Pam & Trish that since the Time Lord Kage isn't here I was going to go over to the Lord & Taylor store and use their restrooms.  Pam said she needed to go as well.

 I never envisioned myself at a Lord & Taylor.  In fact, I thought they would charge admission just for me to walk in the door.  We get inside and this huge store which caters to the class a couple above me, was nice enough to let me use the restroom.  While in the restroom I am thinking about tonight's card.  I had this strange feeling that upon rushing out the door that I forgot something.  As I zip up my shorts and start to walk out of the restroom I am running things thru my head.  Show Shirt - Check, Vest - Check, Chain - Check, Blinding Powder - Check, Clipboards – Check, Sash – Check, Studded Customized Mike Trash Pants – BUZZ.  "Uh-Oh", I thought to myself.  Ok so I forgot the camera 2 times, but never my clothes.  I'm standing in the worlds most expensive store (Or at least the most expensive in this Mall) and I need pants.  I panicked.  So I am running scenarios in my head.  I come to a realization I am going to have to buy something here and now.  I figure I would be out $50ish right.  We make our way to the men's area.  And I look around.  Ack!  $78.00 for a pair of pants?  That was the cheapest ones?  I start hyperventilating.  Where is the local Goodwill Store ofrSalvation Army Store when you need them?

 Just as I was ready to saw off one of my limbs to buy the pants I decided to try them on. That particular cut didn't fit.  I was very discouraged when I heard Pam say, "Try these".  I looked at them and they were a higher end Workout Pants.  One with a Puma and one by Addidas.  Desperately I looked at the prices.  One was marked $48 and one $25.  I tried them both on and they fit.  I liked the $48 better and decided to make the $35 buy. 

I get to the counter and the lady rings it up and says "Thant will be $8.21".  I looked at her, then the cash register and then her again.  I say, "Excuse me?"  she repeated herself.  I have Pam bring me the pair I liked that was too expensive.  She checked it. It was the same price.  I said I will take them both.

Looks like I was wrong.  I got my limb back and walked out with 2 pairs of pants in Lord & Taylor and all for under $20 and didn't pay admission to get in or out.  We were back in business.

We went outside and Kage was there.  Went to the show.  Had a horrible Match.  Got stuck on the Sure-Kill Expressway and made it home by 4.  All-in-all a good day!

Oh by the way, my Show Pants are still in the dryer.  At least they are ready for next week.

Many of you may or may not know this but by day I sell technology.  Yes I am a Computer Geek and not afraid of using the technologies I sell.  Of course if you think about it, loo0k at some of my toys.  I own a Hybrid Car.  I have a fairly advanced Wireless network in my house.  I was doing Computerized Rock back the 80's (Before it was common).

Fast Forward to the TTRS on 2/12/08.  We had a fairly bad storm and I was late getting to the studio.  The Show started about 15 minutes late.  Trish wasn't able to get there due to the snow.  Oh boy, flying solo.

Everything seemed to be going fairly smoothly.  First interview with Jaden went off without a hitch.  Massive Mike is on and the connection wasn't the greatest, but it was usable.  The Show usually goes till around 10PM – 10:30 depending on the guest.

Its now about 9:45 and I start hearing this beep, beep noise.  As annoying as it seemed, I kept going.  About 10 minutes later, Pam comes into the studio with a flashlight and says, "You realize we have no Power, right?"  I look at the main Computers for the show and they are running.  The cable Modem is up.  The router is up and now the Beep, beep is louder.  Aha!!

You see, any good network should always be prepared.  In case of a Blackout, you should have a UPS in place.  That is short for "Uninterruptable Power Supply.  This will keep your network up so you can safely shut your computers down in the case of no power.  Guess what the beep, beep was.  You see the TTRS is so intense we don't have just one UPS, we run off of 3.  So while the rest of the place was Pitch Dark we continued to broadcast our show for about 20 minutes without any notice of lack of power.

Knowing that time was running out, I decided that I was smart to kill the show now.  I tell our guest that due to a power outage, I was going to have to wrap things up.  We went till 10:05.  I saved all the work.  Edited the show and was ready to upload the files to the website when our time ran out and it was all black in the studio,.

Fortunately, we were able to save everything and lost no data. 

Lesson to be learned.  You should have your systems on a UPS.  The UPS is really for shutting down safely so as to not lose data or corrupt your hard drive from sudden outages. 

For those playing at home, I have a 1500VA Cyberpower Rack mount, an APC 1500VA Tower and a Cyberpower 1200VA running my studio.  We went about 30 or so minutes until complete blackout.

Until next time.

Vitally yours

MT