Still Alive
Sorry for the complete failure here.
I just cant get my head around writing something.
Sorry for the complete failure here.
I just cant get my head around writing something.
Still Alive
Ok. So its only been a few months since I last wrote here. Sorry about that. It hasn't really been anything specific that kept me from writing here, just hadn't been doing it.
Since the last post at the beginning of June a little bit has happened, nothing earth shattering but here it is.
June saw a lot of prep on Shauna's part for her trip to Australia with her dad. Because of how the last plans fell through I was holding my breath for most of the time. She said that she would believe she was going once she saw the plane tickets, but I think she was already gone mentally the moment she knew she might be going. She planned and packed and planned some more and unpacked and repacked and planned again over the days leading up to her leaving in July. She left on July 20th for her first stop in Hong Kong and it sounds like she was in awe of everything that happened from the moment she got on the plane in Winnipeg (who wouldnt be).
From Hong Kong she went to Malaysia (langkawi to be exact) and stayed there with her uncle for a few days and on to Australia. She called while in Australia and for the first time I think the stress of traveling and her dad had gotten to her. She called about midnight our time and was almost crying the moment I picked up the phone. She broke down and sobbed for a few moments and told me about a fight she was having with her father. She was very upset and talked about coming home. I talked her into staying for a little while longer and seeing if things got better once she got to her grandmothers place in Melbourne (she was calling from Sydney). We talked for a little longer after that and she seemed sad but not broken and then we said good bye.She phoned back two nights later and said that things were much better and that she was now staying at her uncles place. As of writing this she is staying with family and enjoying her time in Australia immensely. I think she begins her homeward treck on the 15th or 16th and gets home on the 20th in the evening. I cannot express how much I miss her.
The big thing in July (for me) was of course the Winnipeg Internation Fringe Festival. This year was the festival's 20th year and my 9th with the fest. A fair number of the people were back from last year (both techs and actors) and there were new faces as well. This year I had a new partner (only my 5th partner in 9 years), a female tech/actor/dancer/personality, named Ntara. It was her first fringe (as a tech) and was super eager to see and do as much as possible. We had to split the shows in the venue by time (her in the mornings and me in the evenings) and because of that, I had more interaction with all of the groups in my venue then ever before.
Note: For those who dont know, The Winnipeg Fringe Festival has two technicians per venue (there are currently 11) and it has been the norm for the two techs to split the shows in the venue in half. One will do 5 and the other will do 5. What this can do is cause one person to be there more often then the other.
This year, for the first time ever, I think I can say with all honesty that I enjoyed working with everyone on the venue. There wasnt a single show that I dreaded doing and there were several shows that I looked forward to doing. I made the usual number of friends and fringe friends (people who you like but only see once a year) and I look forward to staying in touch with most of them if not all of them.
After the Fringe this year I had only a couple days off before coming back to the help desk and getting back into the grind. I can honestly say that every year that I do this, the mental change over I need to do when I switch back to my regular job gets harder and this year wasnt any different. While Shauna is away I am trying to clean the apartment and get rid of some of the junk sitting around. So far, it isnt going so good. In fact the apartment appears to be actually less clean then when Shauna was home. I had said to her that while she was away I would spend most of my time at the gym trying to get into shape, yea, that hasnt happened either. In fact, it appears that shes the only reason I do anything. Who knew?
I will try and write more but I can promise anything.
Work:
It looks like I will be getting the time I need to work the Fringe Festival. After speaking with my boss and getting it arranged I got a lot less tense and was able to work a little easier. I completed a bunch of training yesterday and today is a lot more calm then it has been in the past. I really do like working for this place and would like to stay around here for a while longer yet. But not forever.
I will stay here for a year and then move back into Theatre after next years Fringe. For the next 365 days I will try and work as much as possible and when I am not working, I will try and spend as much time hanging out at MTYP as possible. I can only hope that if I spend enough time hanging out there, that Wayne will hire me when one of the other guys leave.
When I do get back into theatre I want to do anything. I dont think that there are too many people like me. I want to write and direct and do tech work. I dont care if I load a truck or take tickets. I honestly enjoy it all.
General:
Weather is wet. It's been raining on and off for weeks now.
I am trying to get into the Wheel of Time Series again. I know that the last book is coming out late this year or some time next year and I cant remember anything about the story.
Watched Lady in the Water last night. Very good movie.
Game is going well.
Family is ok. The inlaws suck.
Work: The new computer job company is nice but my team lead is dragging his heels in what I can only call an attempt to keep me from working the Fringe. I have been bothering him for more then a month trying to get a few days off and some static shifts to be able to work the Fringe. He hasnt been doing anything from what I can tell and its fairly upsetting. I dont want to leave this place on a bad note and it looks like thats going to happen. Right now I cant seem to think of too much other then this current job and Theatre work. The thought of the changes I will have to make are very daunting.
Getting back into theatre makes me kind of happy. I could look forward to lighting calls and stage managemen gigs and all of the other things I could do. In fact I would want to do it all. I enjoy working in all forms of the theatre from front of house to on stage.
Sigh. I dont feel like writing anything more.
Its raining today, lots. It stormed lots last night, but I fell asleep and missed most of it.
Tatum our cat was so stupid this morning.
This is ain't no Holiday, but it always turns out ths way. Here I am with my hands...
Met up with Chris Hadley at the Toad last night for drinks. Chris is one of those people who you knew when you were younger and then left the radar of your life only to reappear in a very small world ish way. Chris and I went to school together for a large number of years before we lost track of each other. Then out of the blue about 4 years ago, Chris came in and joined the Fringe Festival staff. Last night was his birthday party for his 32nd birthday (which is actually today). It was a small but nice gathering and lots of beer was had.
I am still killing myself trying to figure out what the hell I am going to be doing this summer. If EDS says no to letting me work the Fringe am I going to quit?
I put down all the books im reading now. Cant help it, I'm book jumping again.
Right now I cant think of anything other then whether or not I should derail my computer career and get back to what really seems to matter to me. Cash and security on one hand and friends and my heart on the other.
Sigh
Less sleepy today. Went to bed at about 11ish and was asleep almost instantly. Slept through 90% of the night and woke up around 4ish when the cats got stupid and tried to wake us up. Which I dont really understand. The cats know that they shouldn't be trying to wake us up that early. They run away the moment you get out of the bed. We have tried spraying them with water, smacking them and throwing items at them (with no luck yet) and yet they still meow or scratch. I know it has to be that they just want us up.
Weather this week has been getting nicer and nicer and tomorrow the temperature should go up to 31. I plan to sit on our balcony as much as possible and enjoy the sun. I have reading to catch up on (jumped back to Gods War by Christopher Tyerman) and there are some nice cold Keith's in the fridge.
Work has been kinda busy for the last few days.
Work is busy now. Sigh
It's too early in the morning to write anything interesting.
I'll come back later.
Don't go anywhere.
Well, it may be your Monday, but today is my Friday. I worked the weekend again (not really such a big deal) and it was crazy. Saturday night wasnt too bad (and at the end it was kind of slow to be honest), but Sunday was STUPID!
I started reading Les Miserables this weekend and while its a little slow going, I am enjoying it. I suspect that because if its size and weight, I will be working on the thing for a while now. Long Way Round is half way done and proving to be a very good read and Michael Palin's autobiography is turning out to be a good read as well.
The weather has been absolutely fantastic in the last couple of days and I wish I had been out there enjoying it. However, I do have two days coming to me and I will make sure that I spend as much time outside in the sun reading as I possibly can.
Game is going well, but I am getting tired of it right now. I am looking forward to the end of the huge plot we are running so that I can take a bit of a break.
No new movies in the last couple of days.
I think the final episode of Heroes is on tonight. Should be very exciting.
Well, here it is, another day off (only one, I had the other on Tuesday) and I'm fairly relaxed now. The sun was out and it was super warm out today. Well, 23 any way, far warmer then it has been in the last few months. With the increase in the sun and the weather, I got to spend some time out on the balcony again wih my summer chair.
The fight with Shauna ended well enough and I think we managed to get some more stuff understood. I'm not too comfortable talking about them here so this is all your going to get.
Stopped off at the end of Wednesday and talked with my boss from the Fringe festival. If EDS will give me static shifts for the length of the Fringe (possibly a 7am to 3:30pm), I can come in and do the rest of the shows I need to after that. It shouldnt be too much trouble. I think I'll be as tired as I have been in the past. Nothing I cant handle.
I just hope that I get the chance to prove to EDS over the coming months that it isnt a waste of the their time and effort to keep me around. Things are going to get very busy around EDS in the coming months and year as two larger contracts are being shifted to the Winnipeg location for a while as well as the contracts they are bidding on. I want to keep working for EDS and I really want they to want me around. I know given time I can prove myself to be worthwhile, but this Fringe thing is getting me off on the wrong foot.
Watched Deja vu last night. Its a good enough movie.
Reading "Long Way Round" By Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. Shauna and I watched the show and it was really good, I bet the book will be just as good.
Also reading Michael Palin's autobiography. VERY good read. I am enjoying it immensely.
Enough for now.
Fighting with Shauna right now.
Things don't look good.
What you wish for.
I wished it would be busy and man o man it was. Dang it!
Wow, the 500th entry for my journal\web page\thing.
I dont know if when I started this I was thinking about how long I would be writing here or whether or not I would write consistently. 500 entries later, here I am and while not going strong just yet, I am still going.
At work today (days off are Monday and Tuesday) and I am about to start work (6:30am). Its not too bad to work weekends and even early weekends, although I didnt sleep to well and I am pretty tired this morning.
Hopefully today will be a nice busy day to keep me entertained.
I know its been a long time since I last posted and I think I kind of regret it.
Since I last posted I have been working hard at the new job.
The setting for the new job is a lot different from Mind and I have to admit that I like it a lot. The work environment is a lot of professional and a lot more "organized". The mentality is the same (one of common business sense) but its actually being implemented here. I get training time for new software that they want us to use, I get time to talk to my bosses at regular intervals and I get time to make sure that I am getting the work I have assigned to me done.
The people are nice and so far there dont appear to be any personality conflicts yet. I've managed to head out and socialize once with people since I started and it was a lot of fun so I hope that I can do it again soon.
Sigh.
I wish that I could make this all sound more exciting or interesting but I really cant. Work is work and life is life. I am still running the vampire game on alternate weekends and watching lots of movies when I'm not at either.
To be honest work is great and I really like doing the work but I think I may leave here to go work the Fringe in the summer. When I brought up the idea of taking some time off to work the Fringe this summer, my team lead ( a very nice guy all around ) said that he didnt think it would happen but he would talk to his boss and see what they could do. When he said that, I immediately felt very unhappy at the thought that I might not work the Fringe. I know that by doing the Fringe I can continue to pretend to be part of the community and talk with my friends when I see them about some of the work I've done. I wonder now what I miss the most, the work or the people.
I've thought about trying to do more writing lately and I think I will, but it will take a lot of effort. I have been pocrastinating about this entry for weeks now and even as I started it, I wasnt too keen on it and wanted to stop.
I cant promise I will write more, but I can assure you I want to.
Another last day. No more Tuesdays here! Yay!
I'm still thinking about coming in with some vodka tomorrow morning.
The best way to be looking at all this is to say that this is the chance for change.
I can use this time to better myself physically and mentally. I can use this time to make my apartment cleaner and neater and I can use this time to get closer to my love.
I think things will be ok.
So.
No new job lined up. Another planned unemployment period and very little cash.
I had to leave though, the stress was making me sick.
Andrew
I just want to put something here so that I can get a post in for 2007.
I promise I will write something more today.
Christmas has come and gone and things went a bit better then I thought they might. My brother and I had a big fight a few months ago and we have been trying to get together to hang out for at least two months now and things werent working out too well. We finally got together on Boxing Day at a local eatery for some lunch. My sister-inlaw joined us and it was a very nice time. We sat and talked about non-small talk type things for a good hour, which is a first for us and things seem ok. I think we just need to do it again.
For Christmas I got a nice large bed (king sized futon), Smallville Season 4, a duvet for the bed, and a lot of chocolate. Shauna got a Frog calander from me, Return Of The King (special edition with toy) and a Pirates of the Carribean dice game. Shauna had to work for the weekend and on Christmas eve and day so dinner was later in the evening at my dad's place.
You ever wish you would win the lottery? I do. All the time.
If I won the lottery this morning. I would pay all my fellow coworkers to quit with me. I think that the 300 or 400 thousand I would give to them would be worth it.
Spent the weekend studying for some possible upcoming exams.
I should get back to work.
Memo
To: Universe
From: Me
Re: Things In General
CC: God
Dear Universe,
In regards to recent events I am left with only one thing to say.
Blow me.
Kindest Regards,
Me.
Sorry for the lack of anything here lately.
I am alive and somewhat well.
I may be back eventually. Sorry for the nothingness.
No rain today, but some yesterday.
It looks like it should be sunny today.
We have had some nice sunny days here and I am enjoying it.
Unfortunately they are talking about a fair bit of rain for the next couple of days.
First thunderstorm of the year (as far as I can tell) happened this morning. Lots of rain, thunder and some serious lightning. I was able to see at least ground to sky bolts.
I think I got some real sleep last night, but I am still completely tired. Worse then yesterday. I am falling asleep at my desk.
I think I'll put this on hold until I am more awake. I am feeling the desire to write something, but the sleepiness is getting worse.
This is Matthew. He is one of the most important people in the world to me.
I knew this was going to happen. How did I know? I was getting excited about Vista thats how. It neve fails. Just when I start to look forward to something new Microsoft is about to put out, they move it back. On the upside, this means that the product is getting more development time and more work, which is always a good thing in my mind.
Sunny outside today. But cold.
I hate this weather.
Work is fine.
Welcome to the short posts.
I hate talking about how I feel.
I was about to write a post here about how I feel about shit and I found that I didnt want to. I didnt want to talk about whats really bugging me and what I wish I could change.
I just dont.
They are like Mondays, but a day late.
Getting warmer here finally and it appears that it may actually rain here for a bit this week. Wednesday is supposed to be sunny and a possible above freezing high.
Pop is back in the hospital. Dad called Sunday night to say that my Grandfather had to be rushed to the hospital for dizziness and blacking out. My dad says that the doctors want to put a pacemaker in.
I will put more here when I know more.
The oscars are over and there were a few upsets and a few surprises. I watched for about and hour and then changed the channel and watched Mythbusters. Crash won best picture beating out Brokeback Mountain.
It looks like the below normal temperatures are done with now and we are beginning to see the shift toward spring temperatures, and there is even a chance of rain this week.
I hope that this summer is better then all the others.
It snowed a fair bit yesterday afternoon and last night. The streets were pretty messy and appartently there were more then a few accidents. Smartly, I stayed in last night and watched TV.
I was watching TV last night and was kinda worried about how much i channel surf. Last night, I dont think I sat on one channel for more then one minute. I couldnt stop. Normally I'm not so bad, but it was just terrible.
Then last night I only got 4 hours of sleep because the cat thought it would be nice to get me up at 3:30 am.
I am very tired.
Sigh.
Nothing much new under the sun here. Working harder then I should and being more stressed out then I should. The weather has warmed up slightly and they are saying that we are going to get a whole lot of snow today.
Shauna, my Dad and I went to MTC last night and caught "The Innocent Eye Test". A very nice comedy about a art deal gone crazy and a plutonium brief case no one wants.
I should be writing more here, I know. But I just cant seem to find the serious motivation. Perhaps when the weather gets a little better and I feel less winterish.
Take off eh? Man its cold again.
Feburary is almost over, which means that it has to begin to get warmer soon right?
Any spelling errors are due to my cold hands.
The usual applies. Work Sucks. Its cold. I'd rather be somewhere else.
Thank you. Come again.
Remember yesterday when I said that it was really cold and that fleshy bits frozen solid in no time at all?
Well today is COLDER THEN THAT!!!!
I so hate this weather. There is a windchill warning in effect and there will no doubt be fewer people out today because of it.
I wish it would snow.
Today is even colder then yesterday and its supposed to get colder still. There is a windchill warning in effect for the city today and it's going to be dangerously colder out there soon.
Again.
Why do I live here?
Its currently, with the windchill, -38 celcius. Which is cold enough to freeze exposed skin in less then 5 minutes.
I love this city.
Cold. Windy. Tired!
Nothing new.
Despite being the only one in the service department for a good chunk of the day, the day went went by ok. There were a handful of things that on most days is normal and so I didnt have to kill any one.
Today might not be too bad, everyone who was away sick is now back and sharing it with everyone.
I will write something super mushy later.
Saturday was the wedding of a very good friend of mine. Adam and Brenna were married this Saturday at 11am (ish) at a very nice golf and country club here in the city. I was asked to be a groomsman and to sign the wedding liscence. There were three groomsman and no one was really a "best man" but I stood next to the groom, signed the legal documents and sat next to him at the head table.
I cant say how much it ment to me. I never really thought that Adam thought as much of me as he did to play such an important part on the most important day of his life. The day went by fairly quickly but I have to admit that I will remember it clearly for a long time. Much to my significant others chagrin, I am now very seriously thinking about getting married in as close to "traditional" as possible. Shauna is wanting something low-key and quiet, perhaps on a beach somewhere. I am thinking the same thing, but I wouldnt mind something closer to what my grandparents had. However, I know that what ever we have, it will be closer to what our families want. All I really want is for us to dress up as nice as possible.
Its frozen here today and I hate it. I am getting so tired of being cold and of there being no green around for me to look at. The longer this winter lasts, the more I want to move out to the west coast.
Work sucks.
More later.
I am damn tired today. Damn. Tired.
Dont really know why, just seem to be pooped.
Work is crazy and I am by myself today.
It sucks.
More complaining later.
:)
Cold this morning, but thankfully no wind which has kept the windchill down. The CBC weather web page says today is supposed to be sunny, which means that it will be cold too.
Excercised this morning.
I am going to try today to be productive at work. I dont think I have been that much lately and it seems that I should actually get my ass in gear.
Anyway, time to do Monday Morning stuff.
Rented Shaolin Soccer and Hotel Rawanda. Two very good movies.
Started reading a book with Shauna called Lost, by an author whose name I can not recall right now.
Ill write more about the book later.
Been forever since I last wrote anything of any sort of importance. Not too sure if I care or not about it. Even as I sit here and try and think about what I want to write about, the urge to just close the web browser down and give up is almost overwhelming.
I find that a lot of the time, when I sit down to write anything, the phrase "Whats the point?" comes to the front of my brain and I begin to think about why should I write anything here. I know that there are one or two people who come here faithfully (and I love you guys for it) and there are a couple people who drift through here on occasion and then there are the one stop visits I see happening. I dont think that I generate enough interest to write every day. I guess I also dont write that often because its hard and I have to admit that I am pretty lazy.
I guess what I would like to be able to do is write every day and be super witty and have lots of readers. And a pony. I want a pony.
Sigh.
I wish I could write more.
Warning: This entry will ramble, but I am trying to make up for no posts in the last month, so be fore warned (and there is a good chance they wont be in chronological order either so HA!).
Went and saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with Shauna yesterday. The movie was decent, nothing to claim and oscar for, but still enjoyable. This trip to the mall however, confirmed that I hate people. Almost all people in general suck. There were too many kids who didnt know how to shut up at the movie. There were FAR too many adults at the movie who didnt know how to shut up. Some bastard kid kicked the back of my seat almost all the way through the movie and it took a lot of self control not to tell the father that his son was a peice of shit. Going through the mall to get to the movie theatre proved again that children between the ages of 8 and 17 shouldnt be allowed out in groups of more then two and should be leashed like dogs. Do some parents have a clue as to how their kids act when out in public with their friends? I doubt it!
The past month has seen me at work a lot. I wish I could say that the stress is letting up, but it looks like its only abating for a moment. Service hired a new guy around the end of October now and so far he's still here. Which is longer then the last guy. The new guy seems to be fitting in. Myself and the other techs seem to like him and for the most part he seems to like us. He doesnt have a lot of experience, but he learns fast and for the most part listens to what we have to say when we tell him stuff.
Time to work, more in a month.
It is VERY cold in the service department this morning.
Wait (you say) isnt it Saturday Andrew?
Yup it sure is and at the time of writing this, I have been here for almost two hours. Things have begun to pile up and while the new hireling is working out ok, he is still new and is still learning (absolutely nothing wrong with that). So, to make sure that Monday doesnt suck complete ass, I thought I would come into work and get ahead a little bit. It looks like it was a good choice. I have already made a lot of progress and it looks like that when I leave, I will have gotten a good amount of work done.
Outside of work has been ok, but not the best. Last weekend I kind of began to feel a little under the weather. By Monday morning "a little under the weather" had turned into a stuffed nose and a REALLY messy throat. I had a hard time breathing and swallowing and it I did not want to go to work. Unfortunately, the idiot was due to be fired any day at that point and the machines were piling up to be worked on. So I had to come in. As of today, the cold has slightly receeded and the sniffles are only bad when I am cold (like right now). So, because of the cold, I have been spending my evenings in bed resting in front of the tv and doing as little as possible. I hope that this cold thing passes sooner then later as it would be nice to spend more time in the evening with Shauna rather than alone in the bedroom with the tv (although Smallville, E-ring and Commander in Chief were all very good this week).
So. Now on to the most exciting thing for this week. On Friday myself, several managers, multiple employees and a customer chased down and captured a shoplifter who tried to steal a laptop from the store where I work. Towards the end of the day (3ish) a call went over the PA system using our store code for shoplifters in the retail area. I went up to the front as quickly as I could with the new service kid in tow. We went up front and it seemed like at that point more then half of the building had heard the page and had come up to the front. I wandered around for a little bit with the new employee, telling him what the page ment and what we should be doing. Almost right away I spoted the two guys who were the reason for the shoplifting page. They were OBVIOUSLY there to steal something and it was almost stupidly painful to watch them. They wandered about looking at things, waiting for one of about twenty staff to look away before they touched something. Almost all the staff in the building asked them if they needed help at least once.
After about ten minutes, one of the two guys went to the laptop isle and didnt move from a single spot, all the while looking around him and fiddle with something in his coat pocket (later we found a set of wire cutters on him). I asked him twice if he needed help (said no both times) and then, while I was looking right at him, dislodged a metal security rod holding down a laptop. When he saw me looking, he attempted to look like nothing was wrong. At this point two other people began to watch him directly and one manager walked up to him, made eye contact and asked him if he needed help. He said no. He turned away from the manager, and in one motion, he tucked the laptop into his coat and began to make his way to the door. Once he got to the door and it was very obvious that theft was in the works, we tried to stop him. It was at this point the thieves friend got in on it. Guy #2 tried to strong arm our staff back into the store while his buddy got out. At that point a customer got involved and things got exciting. Guy #2 ran away to a car and made his escape. Guy#1 with the laptop, dropped the laptop and attempted to run away. Big mistake.
15 people ran after the thief and caught him across our parking lot. The guy got thrown to the ground by a customer and one of our employees and as soon as he was down, three other people jumped on him to keep him down. The cops were called right away and almost from the beginning, the guy was screaming that he didnt do anything and that he wanted to sit up and that this was wrong and a bunch of other innapropriate words. Before the cops arrived, the guy made a mess of himself trying to struggle and get away screaming all the while. When the cops finally showed up, the guy shut up pretty fast and that was the end of that. The cops took statements from myself, a manager and the customer and names of a couple other people there. If he pleads not guilty I will have to go down to the courthouse and testify. I highly doubt this guy will plead not guilty.
All and all it was very exciting and a great way to end the day and the week.
Very cold in the service department this morning. Very cold. This summer the heating unit for the part of the building that I am in got busted (although we didnt know it until recently) and my company is in the process of trying to figure out what might be the solution to the problem. It is appearing likely that we will be moving in 9 months or so and it will be very expensive to have the heating unit replaced. What might happen (and i'm willing to bet it will) is that my company will not get the unit fixed and just tough out the winter without it. Which is fine for some folks in the building, they will have heat. Where I work will be an ice box. My direct boss has said that if his bosses choose not to get the heating unit fixed, he will move my department to another part of the building where its warm.
As of this morning, the cold seems to be getting better, not by much, but getting better. I have been sleeping ok, but its getting through the days that have been tough. Its mostly a thick cough with some minor sniffles.
Shauna has been studying like mad the past few days and will continue for the next week or so for her first biology exam. Its very obvious that she is nervous about it and that she wants to do well (which she will for sure). Since this cold has come on, shes been hanging out on the couch in the evenings before bed with her notes and my laptop and i've been sleeping/dozing/watching tv in the bedroom trying to take it easy.
The idiot got let go yesterday at the end of the day. It happened pretty quick and was a pretty quiet event. My boss took him into the boardroom and talked to him for about 5 minutes with a secondary witness. After the meeting my boss led the idiot back to his desk where personal items were collected and then he was shown out the door. We had all wondered if there might be more drama, but it was a pretty quiet affair. Partly due to the cold meds I had been taking all day and the caffine i had had, I feld bad for him. Don't get me wrong, he had to go, but he didnt see it coming and it couldnt have been easy to take. It had to happen though.
The next long while is going to be super hard.
Until next time.
Got a cold coming on.
Woke up this morning and had that tell-tale goop in the back of my nose and throat and I knew that it wasnt good. I've been down this road every year for as long as I can remember and so it shouldnt surprise me that this has come along now. The weather is changing and getting colder and it is raining now, but I suspect if it doesnt warm up we might see some snow today as well.
I think I slept ok last night, Shauna and I went to bed at 10ish, I dozed off while we watched a show on much music and at 11 we turned out the lights and i passed out.
The service area is cold this morning, big surprise and it doesnt bode well for the winter. I know that the high mucky mucks are talking about moving us and so I am doubtful that a new heating unit will be going in. If I have to put on mittens to work in the coming months, I will not be a happy camper.
Hopefully the idiot will go away tomorrow.
Hopefully.
More writers block.
I will try and put something here later today if I can.
Whats on the plate for the weekend:
Tonight: Head over to a friends place for a BBQ and a visit. Shauna and I have been hermits lately and these friends deserve some face time from us.
Saturday: Email has gone off to a friend for a bit of patio time. It's supposed to be sunny and warm on Saturday, so more then likely it will be nice to meet and hang out for a bit. That may happen AFTER I head into work. This place is a disaster area and I think if I want to make it through the next week sane, I should come in for a bit. I think perhaps I will come in really early and then ask Shauna to meet me down here later.
Sunday: Clean the apartment. I've been lazy for the last few weeks and the apartment is showing it. With the chance of warm sunny weather all weekend, it would be cool to get the windows open and some sunshine in. Sunday night will probably find me watching the Simpsons and Family Guy.
Desperately trying to get myself motivated to excercise again. I start and stop so often that starting up again has gotten harder. I believe I will quit again because I did so in the past. I can see when I look at myself in the mirror that I am not treating my body as I should and I am sure that something will come on later to prove it right, but for the moment all the plumbing works and I am just unhappy with how it looks. Shauna says she loves me and how I look, but I dont love how I look. I wish I could take my own advice, when she asks me if she is pretty (which she is, beyond a doubt) I say yes, she says she doesnt think so and I ask her if she thinks I am a liar. She says no and I say then believe me! How I wish I could do the same for myself. Or perhaps she doesnt believe me, like I dont believe her when she says im fine the way I am.
Thank god its Friday. Work has not been pleasent this week and it may get worse before it gets better. The idiot is very possibly on his way out the door without any sort of warning. Boot to the ass and say your goodbyes. So far the day hasn't been progressing very well. I cant seem to fix a couple of supposedly easy problems and its really pissing me off. Thank god lunch is in 30 minutes or I would have to fucking kill someone.
Damn I hate that idiot.
Ok. Today I am going to get a real update done.
The last two months have been a lot of work, a lot of studying and a lot of stress.
At the end of June a long term employee of the company I work for, left for another, better paying job. The grass is greener kind of thing. Things were ok for a short while but not for very long. The employee who left was replaced from inside by a idiot of the highest caliber. At the beginning of July a huge rush of computers came in and it seemed like there wouldnt be an end to the computers that needed looking at. Things were ok for me then because I knew that I would be heading off to the Fringe and that whatever happened while I was on vacation wasnt my concern. But I was so wrong.
The Fringe came and went in a haze of booze and food and before I could say a thing, I was back in the shop fixing computers. Some of which had been there BEFORE I went on holidays almost three weeks earlier.
August began to roll on and things went from bad to worse with alarming speed. Computers that needed to be worked on were being set aside for all sorts of stupid reasons and customers were getting bloodthirsty. During all this time the idiot was proving his worth by either messing up every machine he returned to a customer or spending so much time out on service calls that it was almost pointless to have him around. As August was coming to a close, I began to study for my Windows XP Professional certification in ernest and it paid off in September with a resounding successful pass. Unfortunately that was the only good thing about September. The stress levels at work were off the chart and almost brought people to blows, or perhaps just recieving them.
Now that October is moving along, the idiot is still here but his days are vastly numbered. Unfortunately we cant seem to get rid of him just yet. That fact is driving me mad. I cant listen to him talk anymore without wanting to punch the idiot in the face. Hopefully he will be let go soon.
The next few months will see me getting a couple more certifications and eventually become an onsite technician. It looks like my boss would like to see me out fixing machines and networks at customers locations.
More later, the idiot has struck again.
Sorry for not writing much.
I am very busy, but I can not seem to get anything out and written down here.
Things are ok, but busy.
When I can sit down and force myself to write something, I will.
So.
It snowed yesterday. It rained yesterday. It was windy and very cold yesterday. I hated it. But it wasnt a terrible day, in fact it was an ok day.
I was working out of the service department for the whole day helping the network technician deploy a new network. Now, the question that needs to be asked is; "Why were you out there?", well. The person who should have been out th