Whats I"m Up To

6.10.2004

Working, Working

Hello people, sorry its been so long, turns out when you work 9 hours a day the last thing you want to do is sit down and type, usually what I want to do involves my bed and fluffy pillows. Like I said in the last post I'm working at Wal-Mart working on cars oil changes and things. I work 5 days in a row and then I get 2 days off, and let me say by the 5th day working, you really just want to die. This week I'm kind of working the ass shift, which is 10am-7pm, which is kind of nice because it means I don't have to get up very early and rush out the door, and it also means I don't have to close and stay there till 9. But its a living, we'll see how long I can take it, it gets me all angry and stressed out cause like you don't want to screw up and do something wrong, cause you don't want to totally fuck someones car, and since no one wants to give me specifics half the time and make fun of you when your doing something wrong, and since I've never done stuff like this before, it can be frusterating. Its a pretty physical job to, I really beat the shit out of my hands, when i have to slam my hand, as hard as I can into a metal wrench to get something to move. Maybe in a while I'll be used to it, but its just right now it takes all my time and energy, when i get home I just want to stop moving.

Oooh, here's something, ok last Friday I'm having a shitty day at work, had to get up at 6, cars are being a pain in the ass, everyone is buggin meand just as I'm goin on lunch they say they have too many people, not enough work, so they allow me to go home early if I wanted. I took the oportunity, and then I went overthe money I had left over from my paycheck, and decided to buy the $60 transformer I've been wanting for a while, just something I wanted, cheer myself up a bit. I'm then on my way to Cat's house and not a mile down the road, the cops are stoppin people, and they end up stoppin me. I'm obviously annoyed, but I just keep sayin to myself "whats goin on?", "what the heck did I do?" then they give a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt. Arrrrg, it made me so mad, because 1) I always wear my seatbelt when I'm driving, its the first thing I do 2) I even remember saying to myself "its the cops, I better put my belt on." I blame work, simply because I always wear my seatbelt, but when I'm working and we move cars we never wear belts cause we're going a short distance, and I had to fight my urge to seatbelt practically everytime. But its just especially annoying because of course I get a ticket for something right after I spend like $60. As if my debt itsn't enough, I owe $300 to my dad plus continue playing the $70 a month for insurence now. Just this week I payed my $70 to HVCC, and I got a credit card bill comin. Man not having money for 5 months makes some nice debt.

Is anyone else really annoyed how you can't use movie passes on any of the good movies the first week they come out. You think that the studios are worried that a Harry Potter movie won't make money, just makes me angry cause me and Catherine have passes but we never get to use them right away. Its really annoying, me and Cat went to the mall to see the Potter movie on Sunday at like 7pm, we get there and of course can't use passes for it, or any other movie we wanted to see, we were forced to find something else in the area to entertain us, thank god for good ice cream.

5.20.2004

This Was Only a Test

If you look to the right of this area of the site I'm sure you'll notice something new, recent posts, and the monthly archive. Don't I wish I coded that well, :-P. Blogger just gave themselves a huge update/makeover and the new features are really slick. They finally do commenting on their own, sadly this means I lost the old comments from the previous system. I finally have a way to do the monthly archiving pages automatically which is very nice. But yeah blogging has never been better and totally outclasses LiveJournal in my opinion in look and features. The testing took a while, I essentially took the most basic of the new blogger templates that had all the new sidebar stuff, and got it down to thew core code and shoved it in my index, moved a few things around and BAM new features...took me very many hours to get it just right.

I was going to make a big post about E3 but I never got around to it, got swept up in everything else going on. I never got to say how awesome the trailer was for the new Zelda game, or how promising the Nintendo DS actually looked. And you know how much Nintendo was badass this year, and of course, a new Metal Gear Solid Trailer, only 15mins long this year, for MGS3. I digress.

I have a job now, I'm an auto technician at a local Wal-Mart changing oil, replacing tires and such. Not bad so far just have to get used to things...since I've never worked on carts before. I've been working non-stop since Wednesday, money's good and for right now anyway lots and lots of hours, and I'd keep going but I have to sleep now actually, work at 7am tomorrow, or today, so I have to get up at 6 to go, oh well more later folks. G'night

5.10.2004

Huh?

I am so bored, and I shouldn't be because I have too much to do. Keep forgetting to make my schedule, gotta go online and get myself a better Economics grade, finish getting this job at Wal-Mart which is causing me to skip classes in the last week of school. I don't feel like doing anything, cause nothing sounds fun and everything feels like work. Part of it is because I finally have absolutely no money,nothing to fall back on. Gas is up, the year anniversary with Catherine is this weekend. Looks like I'll be working at Walmart in the auto department doing oil changes and tire stuff, but I have to take this drug test before i can start work or get trained or anything, and only one person has the key to get whatever it is I need for it. And that person keeps leaving before I get there, the department mamger brought me back there twice, and this person is never fucking there. Now I have to go on Wednesday and skip classes to get there before she freakin leaves. Did I mention I hate being the last person to finish school. I dunno I'm just in a wierd funk right now, or maybe I'm just feeling extra wierd today, oooh I remember now. Its the sleep deprivation!!! Seriously I just remembered I only got like little more than 3 hours sleep. I was writing my final journalism atricle worth 30% of our grade. and i quit halfway through because i was gonna pass-out. then I was gonna wake up at 7 and finish it, and I woke up at 7 ...then woke up again at 8, then I freaked out, got out of bed and ended up rewriting the whole thing skipping all my morning classes,and then went over to Walmart to try to do the drug test and you heard that part of the story. Oh yeah and i hate this time of year, fucking graduations, my weekends have been filled with BS. Two Sundays ago I had the 6 hour Defensive Driving Course, then this last weekend was all familt shit, that made me want to die. And then Saturday we celebrate my grandpa's 70th B-day, Sunday is my cousin John's Confirmation, and then the weekend after that, is my cousin Aimee's New Paltz Graduation....

Oh yeah Zara welcome back to USA, hope to see you soon.

I don't know if any of that has made any sense, but whatever. As I said I just remembered I was tired, And I only ate one meal today, and I excersiced which prolly worked against me...and I don't know why I'm still talking

Oh yeah I got word that Comcast the company that owns the Gaming Channel G4, just gave just about all of Tech TV their pink slips, they bought Tech TV a while ago and they had a feeling this was going to happen. Which is sad...because Tech TV is so much better than G4, and G4 sucks. Hopefully they at least keep the hosts and things and keep the good Tech TV shows. cause wow. I can't stress enough how bad G4 is.