lots of people are going to die, explode, etc
So yeah, Mercenaries 2 is pretty fun. I like blowing stuff up. Sucks I have to work tonight though. At least I don’t have school tomorrow. More time to blow shit up. YAY!
Archive for August, 2008
So yeah, Mercenaries 2 is pretty fun. I like blowing stuff up. Sucks I have to work tonight though. At least I don’t have school tomorrow. More time to blow shit up. YAY!
Nothing interesting to speak of. Really, there isn’t.
I really haven’t done much in the way of productivity this weekend. Just hanging out with people mainly and going in to the store yesterday to say goodbye to one of the assistant managers who’s leaving for another store closer to her house. I haven’t even done any homework yet (I hope it is just reading and something we won’t be quizzed on). I’ll probably see what crap I need to do after work tonight and try to wake my ass up early to skim if I need to. Sounds like a plan.
This week is taking the life from me. It’s been long as hell making me tired on my days off school before work. Hopefully my body and mind get used to it because it sucks. Haven’t done much at all today aside from CNN. Yeah, that bad.
In other news, I am fucking broke. Really fucking broke. I need to stop with my impulse buying. I owe my mom about $250 but she agreed for it to be paid off over a few paychecks so I can rebuild my checking and savings. The coming holidays should help but it will take a while. Luckily I don’t go to the store much now and I am not really needing anything for now. I already got the new Magic expansion taken care of with a complete set and fat pack preordered for Shards of Alara. Sadly it doesn’t come out until October. Too long. The good news is that my planeswalkers come in Monday. Will be adding the Red and Black ones to my current main deck.
No more buying.
Today, yesterday, whatever it was, has been too long for it’s own good.
My day started with the first day of the Fall ’08 semester. Traffic sucked and parking sucked worse. Stupid first day. My first class of the day was Web Design. As I walked in the hall I noticed that one of the other teachers was telling everyone that some classes got swtiched around. I come to find out that my computer teacher from last year is now my Web Design teacher. Fuck me. Although this is somewhat good since I know how he is. Shouldn’t be too hard. Also it is good that I know someone in the class. This also goes with English 2. Same teacher was my first semester in college. Although this one is looking like it might be a challenge but my bullshit skills are ready. After English was my history class. I got there a bit late but in time (had to drop some books off at my car parked in nowhere land). Anyway, the teacher seems decent and it sounds like an interesting class. The sad part is there is no one I know in it. Political science also doesn’t have anyone I know but it will be a challenge like English. It has an epic research paper and the teacher is awkward in a funny “wtf” way. Should be interesting.
Work on the other hand was crazy. Lots of stuff to do and I ended up having to stay 45 minutes over to finish everything in the photo lab. At least I get some overtime pay.
I need sleep…
It seems as though the influence of Magic is spreading. I went over to Andrew’s last night and introduced him to my new crack. He caught on pretty quick and is now interested in the game. I told him I would find out a low cost way to get him in the game with his own cards. My hope is to get a decent sized group going so we can have weekly meets and play until the wee hours of the morning. With my work schedule unconfirmed for now I have to wait and see but it gives me time to convert more people. Even if we do have a set date and I work I hope to have enough people to have them play and then I would play the next week or something. It’s a work in progress.
Staying on the topic of Magic, I did some more shopping and got the Elves vs. Goblins duel deck pack. Andrew tried out the Goblin deck last night versus my main deck. Did fairly well too. I also went online and ordered one of each Planeswalkers. One of them was $20 which was crazy but at least I’ll have them all now. Supposedly there are going to be multicolored Planeswalkers in the next expansion. I’ll have to keep my eye on those.
In other news, school starts tomorrow and I am not looking forward to it at all. Later today I need to get gas and then empty out the binders from last semester (the math one is my Magic binder). Hopefully tomorrow goes smooth so I am not out of it at work. It’s going to feel weird getting back in the groove and even more with work right after. Hopefully the rooms in the catalog are right since the stupid school seems to not want to send out official schedules this year. All my classes from glancing over are in the same general area which is nice. I just hope I’ll have enough time to switch out books at my car or my shoulder is going to kill me after each day. I can also only hope that I get decent teachers. I already have had one of them before but the other three are mysteries to me. Got to hope for the best I guess.
It seems as though my last day of work before school had to be a fucking crazy one.
I came in thinking I was going to get slammed for the lady last night but I was surprised to hear nothing. I clocked in and chatted with other co-workers and headed to the lab. As soon as I was about to start an order the EXA walked in and told me not to print because the leak we have been having has gotten worse so the lab was shut down. I stopped and then talked to the closing assistant manager to find out what to do. My first task was refacing a section and then restocking a side panel. After I was done with that I put up another side panel for vairous stuff. A few hours in to work I get a call for customer service in photo. I head over and find two women on the photo kiosk. I head over to my computer to see if any new orders came through so I could prepare them for when the lab opens back up and then one of the them asks for help. It seems that one of them shoved a memory card in the wrong slot and got it stuck. I got some paperclips to try and wrangle it out. The two women seemed to just stand over me as I try to get it out. After about ten minutes of trying I get told to go to lunch and I ask one of my co-workers to help. After lunch I get back and he tells me that they blamed me for getting it stuck worse and that they want a new card because I apparently damaged it. I told the EXA about this and he talked to the women before I got back so he knew what was up and agreed that it wasn’t my fault. So in the end we had to shut down the kiosk until a tech can get the piece of shit out.
The other strange thing to happen ironically happened right after I got back from a lunch. A guy who looked beat up came in with a black chick and wanted to talke with a manager. The EXA went over as I whispered to a co-worker “what the fuck is up with this guy?” He started to laugh and then tried to hold it back. The EXA and the guy spoke and went outside to see something. They came back in and the EXA took pictures of the injuries. I broke the downtime and printed the pictures for him and he told us what happened. It seems that earlier in the day he was walking out where the cars come in to the parking lot. He tripped and his face smacked the sidewalk and a bystander called the paramedics. From what I heard he sprained his arm and was bruised and bloody. I reminded the EXA that he fell on public property so it isn’t our fault. Another co-worker shared the same thought and added that the guy was an idiot for walking where he was. I guess we’ll see how that turns out.
With yesterday out of the way I just get to sit around and wait for school and another work week. It’s a shame these four days are going to go by fast.
Yesterday was pretty good. The main photo tech congratulated me for getting a massive amount of work done from the other night, I had my photo orders done early, totes were almost done, having a good time, then it happened. The customer from hell.
She came in wanted to get some photos scanned to be printed and put on a disk. I told her she could do that with the kiosk but she thought we did it ourselves. I told her that that wasn’t true and that she had to do it. She told me that she wasn’t sure how to used the kiosk (it is simple as hell and tells you what to do). I was nice and got her started. A quick moment later the EXA (second in command at the store) came over and told me to go to break, so I did. I went in to the office which is behind the photo lab and chatted with the EXA and another employee. After the break I started to walk back and the lady was standing by the door. She told me that she was ready and so I confirmed the order and sent it to the printer. After it was printed I walked back to show her. This is where my day turned to shit. She complained that some pictures weren’t cropped correctly and the biggest kicker of all, some of the pictures didn’t print. I ask her if she set them to 4x6s on the kiosk so the machine knows to print them. She said no and that I should have been there to tell her. This is where I got a bit annoyed because she should have known that it won’t print if not told what to do and the damn kiosk tells you this. So I go back to the kiosk and show her what she didn’t do. We get the rest printed and some of them came out wrong because she again fucked up with the crop settings. After a while of this bullshit I finally fixed it all and got her out the door. I was stressed as fuck.
There is a risk for me in this. One of her photos was one we are not allowed to print but in my frustration and stressed mood I just passed it through. I may or may not hear about it from the main tech which will strain our semi-good standing as of late. I have missed a few before so they know it happens when I work. I don’t know what may come of it so I am afraid of just walking in today but I’ll do it anyway. It’s my last day until my four days off leading to the school week. I am stressed enough as it is. Hopefully she will understand and help me work around it. Unlikely but we can try, I hope.
Well the new school semester is approaching. I was originally supposed to get books today but looks like that is stalled until tomorrow. As for it only being a week away kind of makes me wary. Work and school. Bad combo. I just hope the scheduling for classes works out with it being back to back. They are fifty minute classes but usually the times they give you are off. If they aren’t I risk being late to the next. I also need to work out the books for each class and if I can drop them off at the car. The school hasn’t sent me a “final” schedule in the mail so I only am able to go off what I got from the catalog. Gets me a little worried even though it is all fine probably. Who knows. After school next week I work so I get to rush home and get changed. I am going to be fucking tired.
All I can do is cross my fingers.
With me going over to my co-worker’s house every few nighs and playing Magic: The Gathering I have been getting more and more hooked. Since I got my paycheck yesterday I went to the store and bought about $120 worth of cards which came in boosters, decks, and a fat pack. I made my first deck last night. It’s a Red/Black which leans towards Red more but has some nice Blacks. I plan to see what I can do to make either a Red/White or Red/Green. All I know is that I have tons of land to use.