*creaking sound as I jump on the bandwagon* 

    Now, it's been some time since I participated actively in the journalling community.  Lately I just write and post and leave it to the joiners to do that community thing.  I tired of my subscription to diary-l, one of a few mailing lists for online journallers.  It just got to be too much.  But all this fuss and bother over Cut While Shaving is penetrating even my thick membrane, so it winds up in my journal, too. 
    Heh, seems like I didn't step back far enough. 
    So, I'll be emailing this "I" who does not even dare to place a name to this bill of trash, asking to be put on the "Nazi" list, for I have indeed linked to the infamous Cut While Shaving and, hell, why not, to AltaVista and Yahoo, too.  Hehe.  It's just too damn funny. 
    For the record, I myself am Jewish.  I'm also a non-child-molester, a non-woman-threatener, and a nonpossessor of voices in my head.  I don't really like CWS all that much, but I don't take it seriously, either.  I really doubt its authenticity, but the important thing is this: while I might not like what this guy says, I will still stand up for his right to say it.  The infamous "I" over at the Don't Link to Cut While Shaving page has missed a vital point: the Nazis were very much against free speech.  It's a bit stupid to associate those who support it with Nazism. Well the whole page is stupid on several levels, but you see what I'm saying.  And yet, and yet while I find the DLTCWS page wholly ludicrous, I'll still defend their right to say whatever they are saying.  See, works for everybody. 
    Words only have as much power as you invest in them.  The people in an uproar are investing a helluva lotta power in this weirdo, the CWS guy, as his hit counter undoubtedly shows.  He must be laughing his ass off. 
    Y'know what?  Both the CWS author and the DLTCWS author are anonymous.  What if they are the same person?  Oh what a laugh! 
 
    I began the Krazy Glue portion of the art truck project today.  So far I'd just painted the Scud's hood, with Illustrated and Mello's help, as mentioned before.  Today, during a break in my overtime at the office, I stuck on some of the action figures, the ones with big enough feet to handle the wind factor.  They held well once cured, having withstood one trip to the Tiger Mart at 50 mph with the loss of only one figure, and that one came off in the parking lot at 5 mph so I was able to retrieve it.  I reinforced some of the glue tonight, but ran out.  Several tubes of the stuff are called for, apparently.  It'll feel good to get the rest of the Scud's base coat of paint on.  Then it will really feel like a canvas.  The detail work will be microscopic organisms.  The theme holds, really.  The title of the work is "Arena."  Heh, yes it's titled and not even done yet, but who am I to do anything The Right Way? 

 
 
Tales from the Field 

If you are sick of hearing about soda and the soda business, I suggest you ignore the sidebar.        
                
The website has been sorely neglected during our recent push to acquire new lines of beverages.  The order form is being JavaScripted, which means I have to actually learn to do that, hence the overtime.  So far I've gotten all the input fields mapped out.  It's getting the form to do to the data what I want done that's gonna be tricky.  But hey, my first Active Worlds model was a spiral staircase, so I know I'm up to it. 
    
Website notwithstanding, our internet and phone orders are stepping up so much that packing and shipping had to be hard scheduled into my routine, and El Presidente even built me a special table in a convenient area of the warehouse for me to accomplish this in.  Next week a phone line will be run out there so that no calls will be missed during process.  My goal of course is to be so successful in the beverage ordering groove that we have to hire people to do packing and shipping.  By that time I better have an actual receptionist, so I can do the marketing properly. 

The TV commercial is a huge success.  I continue to field calls about where Jones Soda can be found.  I finally had to stick notes all over the territory map to save hunting through invoices for the information.  A bigger map on cork board with push pins is in the works.