There are various ways to piss me off. Actually, there are many, many, many ways to piss me off. Here are just a few that I experienced, why, just this past weekend.

• Take credit for my work
  
• Don't do the work you're paid to do
• Get mad at me because I can't solve a problem of your creation
• When you're part of a group, don't pull your own weight
• Don't give me enough information to help me help you solve your problem
• Sit around on your ass while your boss is running around like a chicken with her head cut off
• Tell people my idea was yours
• Stick your nose in where it doesn't belong
• Start a job, do a crappy job, then leave it 95% unfinished
• Lie^H^H^H Exagerate to people about what you do
• Fail to give credit to all the people who support you
• Hire someone to do your job because you're too lazy to do it (or maybe can't do it? not sure there), thereby doubling the cost of your job to your employer
• Do a shitty job
• In a panic, ask me to solve your problems because you were too clueless to plan ahead
• Don't plan ahead
• Waste people's time, thereby burning big favors from said people
• Dress poorly when it reflects poorly on your employer
• Show extreme disrespect to your coworkers

I'm not 100% convinced that any one of these things would piss me off by itself. But when the same person does all of them, well, I admit I'm pissed.

One of the problems I have, however, with getting pissed, is that the person I become is not a person I like. I don't like getting angry. I don't like the downward spiral that happens when I start complaining. I don't like that sometimes I need to rant, and that Kris takes the brunt of that ranting. Poor Kris. He's so good to me. But this is an entry about being pissed off...

Personally, I can't stand being angry without a way to solve the problem. I don't want to complain, I want to solve the problem. What's wrong? Fix it.

But how do you fix clueless, egotistical, immature, disrespectful people? With patience? With understanding? With maturity, respect, gentle persuasion and, well, not a little manipulation?

*shrug*

I guess I can give it a try.

More random thoughts of later rounds.

• Quickest game to half in the secound was Riot vs Electric Mayhem, in 19 minutes.
• Quickest division to half was womens, by far.
• Quickest game to end was Riot vs Electric Mayhem, 15-2, finishing in less than 40 minutes

I lasted until 1:20 before I had to take my jacket off.

Heh. Once again, my name has spoofed another person. I introduced myself to Joe Seidler, who stopped by to talk to Shiella. We chatted a bit, and he admitted that he thought I was a guy until someone told him, "She". Heh. We chuckled.

Many close games (DoG vs GOAT ended 16-15 well over the time cap), and a couple upsets (Pike beat the number one seed Sockeye 15-12), and many, many games holding seed. Some games were blow outs, soe appeared to be close the whole way. I managed to watch only the first few points of a couple interesting games, dashing back to the nest to enter half time scores.

A few notes of interest:

• The quickest game was Riot vs Nemesis (15-3), over at 10:42
• The quickest injury was in the B+ vs Chad Larson (17-16) game. The UPA's lawyer had a "I can't look at this injury it's so gross" broken ankle injury on the fourth point of the game. He ended up leaving the tournament in an ambulance.
• SubZero took half 8-4 on Johnny Bravo, but still lost to Bravo 15-12, for the biggest come-back of the first round.
• The last game to end was the DoG vs GOAT game, ending at 11:54, with DoG winning 16-15
• White shorts are big this year, with at least five Open teams wearing white or whitish shorts
• Most common scores were 15-{3-5} in womens games, 15-{8-10} in mixed games, 15-12 in open games and 15-{5-6} in masters games.

Good lord, stop the fucking harmonica.

Some random guy is up in the crow's nest playing the harmonica while we're trying to get the games going. Elizabeth turns to the guy and says, "I love it, but please stop it."

Yeah, Elizabeth!

Next time, I'm going to kick the guy out. No badge, no crow's nest. Out! Out!

Update. Oops. The guy with the harmonica was the anthem player. He was up here to start the tournament. I truly need to be more compassionate and understanding. Sigh.

When the tournaments were created, they were saved with the scores locked. The feature is to prevent people from editing scores before/after the tournament. Having not actually used score reporter before, I didn't know how to unlock the tournament so that I could enter scores. Michael didn't recall the process either. Whoops.

Fortunately the documentation did have instructions, and we're finally good to go. Now we need some scores.