Thursday saw an eight hour migraine. It was the first one of those I've had in a few years, and I'm not to fond of them. Light, sound, and movement all caused pain. Hopefully it won't be for another few years till I get my next one.
Don't know if I've mentioned this yet, but Will's back in the states. He arrived saftely about a week or two ago, which makes me feel a little better. He somehow got my cell phone number, and called me up a few days ago for tech support on his PC. Considering I had no idea how is PC was set up... kind of weird.
I'm almost finished with one of my papers. I have most of the research done, so all I need to do is organize it, then write it. The writing is the easiest part, and the research tends to be the harder. After I get this one finished, then it'll be on to the next two.
Sorry, I've been writing this entry in bits and pieces. I started it a few days ago (thursday), and have basically written one paragraph each day. Don't know why I'm taking so long on this one, but I am...
Anyway, can't think of too much else to post, so I'm going to call it quits right now. Night!
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Friday, November 24, 2006
More Gas Station fun
I ended up working on Thanksgiving, from 2 to 10 (pm). I know I could use the extra hours, and I did volunteer for it, so it wasn't that bad. And I knew what my family plans were for that day. They weren't going to have a tradtional thanksgiving dinner, instead they hit up a place in Tampa (about 40 miles north)and spent the day up there, and I really didn't wish to do that. On the other hand, I really did want to spend the day with them, and I was kind of saddened that I spent my first thanksgiving totaly uninvolved with my family (until around 11 pm). Besides, work was very slow yesterday, so it wasn't too enjoyable.
The gas station fun isn't about what happened on Thanksgiving though (well, kind of anyways). Apparently the people in Dairy Queen don't know that the emergency silent alarm button they have, shouldn't be accidently pressed (they pressed it yesterday and today), and the station gets charged a large sum everytime it is accidently pressed. And this is the third time it's been accidently pressed, and all three times were in Dairy Queen. Now, they claim they've been leaning against the counter, and that's how it is getting pressed. The person who pressed it today, and the one who pressed it yesterday, will get billed for the pressing. Hopefully that will stop it, though I think if you were to give either myself or my sisters a few minutes with them, my daggers I got at the Medieval fair last Saturday, and turn the cammeras off, there would be a lot less bad things happening in our Dairy Queen, and a lot more employee satisfaction. Plus, head count would trend down. OK, maybe that's a little too far, but still, I'm unhappy at their actions. Espically since I had to do the paper work for the last two incidents.
Picked up Small Arms from the 360's arcade. It's cheap, and it's fun. It's like Smash Brothers for the Game Cube/64, except the characters have some what messed up bios. And that it has live support.
I'm going to have to take my truck in to have it looked at. Apparntly either the battery is faulty, or there is some bad wiring, since I needed to get it jumped when I left the station tonight. The vehicle has a total of 4580 miles on it, so it should be under warranty. Still...
Two good things happened today. The first (and most important good thing) is that I found out there are still people (or maybe just singular) who read this. That, for some unfathumable reason made me happy. The other is that my copy of Ben Franklin's The Poor Richard's Almanac finally arrived, so I got to wear my fox tail at a crowed mall on Black Friday to pick it up at the book store (I might like a little attention now and then.) I've already read through it twice, and I hope to take heart at least some of the wisdom in it. The book itself contains about 5 years of his wisdom, and if you don't know what I'm babling about, you can find out here.
Anyway, it's night time, so I'm off to sleep.
The gas station fun isn't about what happened on Thanksgiving though (well, kind of anyways). Apparently the people in Dairy Queen don't know that the emergency silent alarm button they have, shouldn't be accidently pressed (they pressed it yesterday and today), and the station gets charged a large sum everytime it is accidently pressed. And this is the third time it's been accidently pressed, and all three times were in Dairy Queen. Now, they claim they've been leaning against the counter, and that's how it is getting pressed. The person who pressed it today, and the one who pressed it yesterday, will get billed for the pressing. Hopefully that will stop it, though I think if you were to give either myself or my sisters a few minutes with them, my daggers I got at the Medieval fair last Saturday, and turn the cammeras off, there would be a lot less bad things happening in our Dairy Queen, and a lot more employee satisfaction. Plus, head count would trend down. OK, maybe that's a little too far, but still, I'm unhappy at their actions. Espically since I had to do the paper work for the last two incidents.
Picked up Small Arms from the 360's arcade. It's cheap, and it's fun. It's like Smash Brothers for the Game Cube/64, except the characters have some what messed up bios. And that it has live support.
I'm going to have to take my truck in to have it looked at. Apparntly either the battery is faulty, or there is some bad wiring, since I needed to get it jumped when I left the station tonight. The vehicle has a total of 4580 miles on it, so it should be under warranty. Still...
Two good things happened today. The first (and most important good thing) is that I found out there are still people (or maybe just singular) who read this. That, for some unfathumable reason made me happy. The other is that my copy of Ben Franklin's The Poor Richard's Almanac finally arrived, so I got to wear my fox tail at a crowed mall on Black Friday to pick it up at the book store (I might like a little attention now and then.) I've already read through it twice, and I hope to take heart at least some of the wisdom in it. The book itself contains about 5 years of his wisdom, and if you don't know what I'm babling about, you can find out here.
Anyway, it's night time, so I'm off to sleep.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Back in Color
Well, that was an eventfull week, espicially for one not having internet access =(. I dislike that it took a week (Saturday) for them to send a person out to our home. And the major problem was that the ourside box, a box I didn't even know existed, got resetted in one of our common power outages. If I knew that box existed, I probably could have resetted it on my own.
My last day at Wyman, Green, & Blalock was Thursday, and it was one of those days that fit the mood. The sky was downcast and the wind was chilled as it bit into your bones. Everyone there was sorry to see me go. I guess in my time there, they kind of grew attached to me. As any reader of this blog knows, it's not that I partically enjoyed the work there, though I enjoyed it far more than I enjoy the stuff at my current job, it was more the office enviorment that I kind of liked. I had my own, semi-private space (yay! Cubicle) which I could decorate as long as it was work apporiate. My job title also sounded important, and every few months I got to work on a different, exciting project. Despite how repetitive I make IT sound (some of it is), there are a lot of misc, once a year, kind of jobs in that department that keep it somewhat interesting, and it will be not only the private, decorative space I'll miss, but those misc projects and the awe that holding the IT title holds. Well, maybe not too much the awe part. Since everyone ends up asking you to look at their computers if you're in IT, it might be better I no longer hold the title.
As to my current job, well, there's still a lot of just... useless crap in it. Employees who we thought were trustworthy steeling money, others huffing the aresole out of the wip cream cans, and still other things occuring. On top of all that, I get to hear it when I'm at home with family, since it is a family buisness. I don't like being there, and I like it even less when I have to discuss all the crap in it during my off hours. Hope I can get into UCF in Orlando so I can leave this job behind.
There are two major reasons why I want to go to UCF. The first is to get away from home and the family buisness, and the second is for the engineering degree I kind of want. I don't really know if I want to write code for the rest of my life, but it is something I'm good at, so I might as well try to study it, and hopefully get a job in it. As to the leaving home thing, I know I have it pretty nice at home right now, I know that. But still, the urge to leave, the urge to get my own place, the urge to do all that is strong, and has been since Highschool. Though I will desperatly miss having family to talk to when I'm alone at home, at least, non work related conversations.
School is going ok, though in about 3 weeks I have three 10 page research papers due. One is on the evolution of government from the dawn of time to 1000AD, one is on the works of Johhen Van Gothe, and the last one is on Illuminated Manuscripts of the Medieval ages. Right now, all I can feel towards school is apathy, probably due to me switching jobs and deeling with some of the stuff at the other job. Still, I need to get to work on those papers, definatly during the holiday weekend. But isn't that what college teaches you, though? How to write an excellent paper in one night?
While backing up my truck on Saturday night, I kind of backed into another vehicle. It's just a dent in the person's side rear panel, but it's probably going to be expensive to fix. I'm probably going to borrow money from my parents to pay that off =(, since I doubt it even meets the minimum on the insurance deductable. As to why I didn't see the vehicle behind me when I was backing out, well, remember how I complained about how high and big the truck was? Ya... the car was about a foot shorter than my tailgate, and about as long as my vehicle was wide. Hard to see it when your vehicle blocks it.
Also, one of my friends has decided to stop working at Win-Dixie. He's been working there for about a year and a half (about as long as I worked at my insurance company), and has decided that it might be better to take a lower paying job if there's a lower level of stress to it. I've been trying to tell him to do that for the last 4 months, but he doesn't choose to listen to me. Yet when he finally comes to that conclusion... He needs a job change though, though hopefully it'll be one with a low level of customer interaction. He's a good, nice person but he just not too customer oriented. Any place that hires him should consider themselves lucky to get him.
Will's back in the states!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's not in Florida =(, but at least he's safe home again. I actually talked to him on his cell phone today. We had a nice, long conversation about, well, geek culture and how his trip home went, and how he's liking everything. I'm just happy that he's safe.
Gears of War is now playing on my 360. The single player game is decent, but the multiplayer player game is pretty well made. The gameplay itself on multiplayer is better than Halo 2's, but the way they do matchmaking, and that it logs you out to the main screen after each match (they normally last about 30 minutes) really gets on my nerves. Still, it's a fun game.
Anyway, I need sleep because of work tomorrow. Night!
My last day at Wyman, Green, & Blalock was Thursday, and it was one of those days that fit the mood. The sky was downcast and the wind was chilled as it bit into your bones. Everyone there was sorry to see me go. I guess in my time there, they kind of grew attached to me. As any reader of this blog knows, it's not that I partically enjoyed the work there, though I enjoyed it far more than I enjoy the stuff at my current job, it was more the office enviorment that I kind of liked. I had my own, semi-private space (yay! Cubicle) which I could decorate as long as it was work apporiate. My job title also sounded important, and every few months I got to work on a different, exciting project. Despite how repetitive I make IT sound (some of it is), there are a lot of misc, once a year, kind of jobs in that department that keep it somewhat interesting, and it will be not only the private, decorative space I'll miss, but those misc projects and the awe that holding the IT title holds. Well, maybe not too much the awe part. Since everyone ends up asking you to look at their computers if you're in IT, it might be better I no longer hold the title.
As to my current job, well, there's still a lot of just... useless crap in it. Employees who we thought were trustworthy steeling money, others huffing the aresole out of the wip cream cans, and still other things occuring. On top of all that, I get to hear it when I'm at home with family, since it is a family buisness. I don't like being there, and I like it even less when I have to discuss all the crap in it during my off hours. Hope I can get into UCF in Orlando so I can leave this job behind.
There are two major reasons why I want to go to UCF. The first is to get away from home and the family buisness, and the second is for the engineering degree I kind of want. I don't really know if I want to write code for the rest of my life, but it is something I'm good at, so I might as well try to study it, and hopefully get a job in it. As to the leaving home thing, I know I have it pretty nice at home right now, I know that. But still, the urge to leave, the urge to get my own place, the urge to do all that is strong, and has been since Highschool. Though I will desperatly miss having family to talk to when I'm alone at home, at least, non work related conversations.
School is going ok, though in about 3 weeks I have three 10 page research papers due. One is on the evolution of government from the dawn of time to 1000AD, one is on the works of Johhen Van Gothe, and the last one is on Illuminated Manuscripts of the Medieval ages. Right now, all I can feel towards school is apathy, probably due to me switching jobs and deeling with some of the stuff at the other job. Still, I need to get to work on those papers, definatly during the holiday weekend. But isn't that what college teaches you, though? How to write an excellent paper in one night?
While backing up my truck on Saturday night, I kind of backed into another vehicle. It's just a dent in the person's side rear panel, but it's probably going to be expensive to fix. I'm probably going to borrow money from my parents to pay that off =(, since I doubt it even meets the minimum on the insurance deductable. As to why I didn't see the vehicle behind me when I was backing out, well, remember how I complained about how high and big the truck was? Ya... the car was about a foot shorter than my tailgate, and about as long as my vehicle was wide. Hard to see it when your vehicle blocks it.
Also, one of my friends has decided to stop working at Win-Dixie. He's been working there for about a year and a half (about as long as I worked at my insurance company), and has decided that it might be better to take a lower paying job if there's a lower level of stress to it. I've been trying to tell him to do that for the last 4 months, but he doesn't choose to listen to me. Yet when he finally comes to that conclusion... He needs a job change though, though hopefully it'll be one with a low level of customer interaction. He's a good, nice person but he just not too customer oriented. Any place that hires him should consider themselves lucky to get him.
Will's back in the states!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's not in Florida =(, but at least he's safe home again. I actually talked to him on his cell phone today. We had a nice, long conversation about, well, geek culture and how his trip home went, and how he's liking everything. I'm just happy that he's safe.
Gears of War is now playing on my 360. The single player game is decent, but the multiplayer player game is pretty well made. The gameplay itself on multiplayer is better than Halo 2's, but the way they do matchmaking, and that it logs you out to the main screen after each match (they normally last about 30 minutes) really gets on my nerves. Still, it's a fun game.
Anyway, I need sleep because of work tomorrow. Night!
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Verizon is evil
OK, sorry for the late, and short post. I'm typing this up in my work's office (Gas station, not Wyman Green), to write that my home internet connection will not be able to be restored until at least Saturday, which will mean that I won't have internet connection at home for at least a full week (lost conection four days ago.) Gah! And there was so much time wasting that I need to do online. At least i have this office computer on some of the days I work.
I'm addicted to the net, so expect withdraw symptoms to start anytime.
I'm addicted to the net, so expect withdraw symptoms to start anytime.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Ghosts of Onyx
Well, as the name of this post and color implies, I've picked up and read the new halo book Ghosts of Onyx. The guy who writes it is decent, not as good as the people who wrote the books in the Horus Heresy, but still decent. He'll go down for writing the Halo Novels, but I don't know if his works will otherwise be able to stand by themselves. Still, it entertained for an afternoon.
As you can probably guess, I've finished reading the three books in the Horus Heresy. The next one is coming in March, so I have to find something to do till then. Too bad authors can't write at the speed a reader reads. Still, the books are better than the standard dime store novels most authors produce (me included, though even I don't remember what I've written.)
It's kind of odd, but come Monday I'll be putting in my Two Weeks notice at Wyman, Green, & Blalock. There's a lot of reasons for this, the primary one is because my parents need me to fill a shift hole they can not fix =(. But that's not the only thing, there's the decline of hours, and the fact that Wyman, Green & Blalock will be merging with BB&T banking/insurance (err make that bought by BB&T). A part of me doesn't want to leave the place. Despite the fact that I enjoy whining and complaining about my job there, it is one of the more enjoyable jobs I've had. And I was a specialist, which means people respected my profession. Saying you worked in IT made people think you knew something, and that image of me is going to go now. Sure, I can say I'm studying to be an engineer, but there is a difference between being a student and being employed in that profession. Furthermore, I'm going to miss the people there. There are a lot of good people who work in that company, a lot of good coworkers, and I can't say that about the gas station.
And now, a new point for me to whine about, the station. First off, I don't like working there, and that dislike is compounded by the fact that I'm basicly forced to work there. Though I would feel guilt if I didn't work there when the rest of my family does. One of the things that really annoys me about it, though, is that the station is now the only thing my family talks about. I already work there, and I'm quiting my higher paying and more enjoyable job to work there more. I spend way too much time working there, I don't want to spend even more time discussing something that just.... irks me. Ya, it's bitchy time for me. The coworkers are decent, not the best people in the world, but decent people. Still, there's a reason why they're working in fast food or a convience store at their ages. I just hope it's that life has delt them a bad hand.
Getting off the topic of work =(, I got to go to a halloween party on, well, Halloween. It was pretty enjoyable, got to meet some intresting people, maybe even one or two cute people. My costume was Catholic guise, though, and since everyone there were wiccans, well, I recieved some rather colorfull jokes about the costume. Still, I had a good time and I'll probably start hanging out with those people more often now that I've actually met them.
Anyway, although it's been forever and a day since I last posted, I think I'll call it quits for tonight. ~night!
As you can probably guess, I've finished reading the three books in the Horus Heresy. The next one is coming in March, so I have to find something to do till then. Too bad authors can't write at the speed a reader reads. Still, the books are better than the standard dime store novels most authors produce (me included, though even I don't remember what I've written.)
It's kind of odd, but come Monday I'll be putting in my Two Weeks notice at Wyman, Green, & Blalock. There's a lot of reasons for this, the primary one is because my parents need me to fill a shift hole they can not fix =(. But that's not the only thing, there's the decline of hours, and the fact that Wyman, Green & Blalock will be merging with BB&T banking/insurance (err make that bought by BB&T). A part of me doesn't want to leave the place. Despite the fact that I enjoy whining and complaining about my job there, it is one of the more enjoyable jobs I've had. And I was a specialist, which means people respected my profession. Saying you worked in IT made people think you knew something, and that image of me is going to go now. Sure, I can say I'm studying to be an engineer, but there is a difference between being a student and being employed in that profession. Furthermore, I'm going to miss the people there. There are a lot of good people who work in that company, a lot of good coworkers, and I can't say that about the gas station.
And now, a new point for me to whine about, the station. First off, I don't like working there, and that dislike is compounded by the fact that I'm basicly forced to work there. Though I would feel guilt if I didn't work there when the rest of my family does. One of the things that really annoys me about it, though, is that the station is now the only thing my family talks about. I already work there, and I'm quiting my higher paying and more enjoyable job to work there more. I spend way too much time working there, I don't want to spend even more time discussing something that just.... irks me. Ya, it's bitchy time for me. The coworkers are decent, not the best people in the world, but decent people. Still, there's a reason why they're working in fast food or a convience store at their ages. I just hope it's that life has delt them a bad hand.
Getting off the topic of work =(, I got to go to a halloween party on, well, Halloween. It was pretty enjoyable, got to meet some intresting people, maybe even one or two cute people. My costume was Catholic guise, though, and since everyone there were wiccans, well, I recieved some rather colorfull jokes about the costume. Still, I had a good time and I'll probably start hanging out with those people more often now that I've actually met them.
Anyway, although it's been forever and a day since I last posted, I think I'll call it quits for tonight. ~night!
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