Silvanus' Blog

So when we went to Disneyland, they had Gay Days going.  Totally cool overall, i think it’s an excellent idea.  Unfortunately, as is the case with everything, some jackasses have to ruin everyone’s fun.  There were some tools wearing some offensive shirts at the park, and essentially got away with it.  I sent this letter off to Disneyland to see why this happened, and has apparently happened for several years now

My family and I traveled from Utah last week to give my kids their very first Disneyland experience.  I looked into it fairly thoroughly before-hand and was satisfied with the way the additional time was granted at California Adventure to compensate for the early closure of Disneyland for Miley Cyrus’ birthday party.
I did not however manage to compensate for Gay Days.  Although it was not a Disneyland sanctioned event, this was planned right on top of Miley Cyrus’ birthday, which caused a huge amount of issues for navigating the park, as the population was as dense as some of the most popular weekends. Then, sometime in the middle of the afternoon, we started encountering gay guests wearing offensive clothing.  The one that sticks out in my mind most was one that stated ‘Butt-Pirates of the Carribean’.  I do not understand why or how these men were allowed to wear clothing that inevitably causes questions from children that should not have to be answered within the realm of Disney.  At the very least, these guests should have been told to turn their shirt inside-out, if it continued they should have been asked to leave and return in appropriate attire.  There were also several gay men dressed in very ‘tight’ shorts, leaving nothing to the imagination.  I don’t really know if they came in the park this way, but they should not have been allowed to stay at the park while dressed this way.

I finally had to essentially tell my children to ignore anyone wearing red, to NOT read the sayings on their shirts.

I am highly supportive of the gay community, and had absolutely no issue ‘sharing’ the park with their event.  However, regardless of race, color, religion, or sexual orientation they should be required to follow the same rules as every guest.
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Clothing or tattoos with obscene, lewd or offensive language, graphics or designs
Clothing that could be construed as indecent, exposing excessive portions of skin that may be viewed as inappropriate for a family environment (e.g., string bikini tops and bottoms, G-strings, clothing that accentuates or draws attention to private areas)
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What I am wanting to know is, WHY and WHAT?  Why did your park do nothing about the offensive apparel.  Why did they not escort these extrememly rude individuals out of the park.  Why did I have to continually tell my children, ‘Don’t worry about it, you’ll understand it when you are older’?  Why are you giving group rated discounts to a group that is this offensive? What are you going to do to ensure that this does not continue happening, as this apparently is becoming a yearly thing with this ‘un-sanctioned’ event.  Finally, What are you going to do to compensate for your lack of rules enforcement, causing my children’s first visit to Disneyland to be ruined on many levels?

Sincerely,
Kyle Siemer

So, now it’s essentially their issue, to see how they want to deal with it.

So i’m all set on this semester of school.

I’m taking Film Essentials, History, and 3D Modeling and Animation Essentials.  Film is already driving me crazy, but best to get the stupid thing out of my way NOW.  History is same as ever, history, memorization of dates and facts and other crap.

3D Essentials, looks to be the fun class of the semester though.  Unlike my other instructors, this guy actually understands the software.  I will actually be learning something, instead of just being told, ‘this is your project, there’s the software, use it!’.  Learning to use 3DS Max is going to be a blast.

Got some more muddin done last night.  Finished the 2nd coat of the walk-in closet, and started the bay window.  Discovered for myself it seems to be a whole hell of a lot easier to just do ALL of the corners, then work on everything else.  So when i get to it tonight, I’ll be whipping through the corners of the entire room, then moving to do the seams.  Hopefully i can get the remainder done today, now that i’ve got a kind of system goin’.

Tomorrow unfortunately for this project, starts the first day of this semester of school.  This will slow me down a bit for getting this done,  I will hopefully have a 4 day weekend this weekend.  If so, even if i don’t get all the paint up, I should hopefully be done with all of the mudding, including the texture.

Finally got over my stupid sinus-infection enough to get some more done.  I managed to get most of the joints sanded down, ultimately not going to waste much time on the rest of it.  Ultimately everything i’m finding pretty much just says to sand right at the end, but only knock down big imperfections in the mud by ‘scraping’ it down.

Been looking into some information about how to do the spray-on texture.  So many conflicting ways, I have a hopper gun, i think i’m just going to thin down topping compound for it.  All these places suggest using texture compound, but that doesn’t sound ‘strong’ enough for walls from what i understand.  All sorts of differing ideas about putting primer down first, adding paint to it etc, LAME idea.  I know all of the stuff i’ve seen has not been done this way.

So inevitably I’m just gonna end up playing around with it a bit.  Gonna go home tonight and crank out a ton more of all-purpose joint compound, so hopefully by Wed/Thurs I can start doing some topping on the joints so that I can get the texture sprayed by Friday.  I swore I would get started on painting this weekend, and plan on keeping that promise to myself.