So my boss calls my work cell and wants to know if I’m willing to come in tomorrow to work. I agree to it and that’s it. My other boss informs me that changes were just made and I didn’t need to come in after all. THEN a few minutes later I get yet another call (this time from my old dept) wondering if I can cover a sick call. I decline because I have plans tomorrow afternoon. Then my boss calls back wanting to confirm that I AM coming in tomorrow. So since he really wants me to I volunteered to do so.
My god… A drunken sailor is more organized.
All in an Overlord’s day
>What I’ve been occupied with.
I’ve upgraded my video card. Now I’ll be able to release L4D videos once again. Fraps works even better now. But the best part? When a Charger attacks I won’t lag! Everytime a Charger started to charge I would freeze for 4 seconds, then awaken to a friend or me being beaten to death. After getting tired of this I mostly played on my notebook since performance was flawless. But with this ATi Saphire HD 3850 it clears up that problem quite nicely!
I did run into some other problems though. 3 capacitors on my motherboard are about to pop. The good news is I found another motherboard for dirt cheap. It also looks like the latest drivers randomly cause the system to die. Not in game either mind you, only when I’m surfing the net. At first I thought maybe it was either the drivers or the new .NET framework. But uninstalling that caused the next lockup to generate a BSOD rather than just a black screen followed by a restart. I’ve rolled back 2 versions and so far everything is smooth.
I’d better get some sleep. I have gifts to mail to Princess Barbie before the post office closes this afternoon. Then I can finally email her about it. The weather plus work has done a good job of preventing me from getting much done…
>The Dating Game….?
So, in less than a weeks time I have 5 guys who are either from out of town, new to town, or spend most of their day shopping where I work (daily) who have asked to hang out sometime. I haven’t made any actual plans at this time (mostly because I’m trying to get more hours still) but I figure maybe I’ll give this a shot. It’s not like they’re 60 years old with oxygen tanks…
I guess they find corporate uniforms sexy…
>Sure enough.
Got a call today to come in and work tomorrow. Actually looking forward to it, even though I have to be there at 11am. Oh well at least I didn’t have to be there on old people tueday.
Today FedEx brought my L4D 1 and 2 shirts! Now I can style myself like a leet pro while working on my next video. I’m currently taking a break from it. I’ll try to post a log of what I’ve accomplished on it tonight before going to bed. Hopefully the zombies won’t distract me. I should get quite a bit accomplished though considering the weather sucks ass outside.
>Early Morning Open Thread
Ok ok so tonight I finally was in the mood for some turkey. But there was a catch… I had it with rice noodles, peanut sauce and spicy peppers. Even my noodly appendage has to have rice!!!
Work was busy, but not busy enough for me to get extra hours. Maybe if I’m lucky I’ll get a phone call on one of my days off.
Tonight I decided to start working on my next short machinima. I won’t give details as to what it’s going to be. But so far I have the lip sync down, map location and 2 recordings so far. It’s not going to be anything spectacular, I just wanted to do something short and funny. You have to work on these things while you have the creative juices flowing through you.
>In other news I still like rice…
Wow… Work was real slow tonight. People must have blown all their money on Black Friday… To make matters worse my hours (as well as everyone else I work with) are being cut back worse than ever. I’m not even getting 20 hours. I need 25 per week to keep my medical, hopefully I can get some extra hours in.
Tonight I continued my rice addiction, only with bell pepper. Followed by a strawberry smoothie shower for what it’s worth.
Ok, back to video card shopping…
>Open Thread
Last night I actually had a good evening at work. Came home and tried a new soap made of natural oils and sandalwood. Made a sweet rolled Japanese omelet and finished off the rest of my imitation crab with some sushi rice.
Last night Ivan_Fookinov and I were trying to play a serious round of Left 4 Dead 2 when a couple of n00bs came in. We were nice to them, hell everyone has to start somewhere. But I knew it was going to be a long campaign when the first question was “How do i pick up things?”. Things went rather well, at least until the finale came. Everyone got raped. This is why you either train in singleplayer before a match or with a friend. Oh well, Yutram came in and it turned into a total admin match. Between him and I gnomes were everywhere, tanks and witches ran rampant, Francis chargers were there to rape, the Nick Hunters were bouncing in the special gravity. It was all good fun.
>I live another day.
I was greeted by Turkey tonight. It’s a tradition to have Turkey and the trimmings the day before thanksgiving. It always tastes better the 2nd day anyway.
That said, I’m currently resisting the urge to nap.
>Open Thread to the 3rd power.
Barely survived today. Thanksgiving grows near and the last minute shoppers are attacking in hordes. Emotions run high in the work place when things don’t get done.
There was a sugar spill that I couldn’t get to right away. Mostly because the work cell I was holding kept hounding to get this or that for customers. One of the checkers had the nerve to tell me that I should have made cleaning the sugar up a priority. Technically cleaning up sugar at a check stand isn’t my job, so… Getting eggs and butter for a bunch of waiting customers is less important I guess. I told my boss that and he had a wtf look on his face. Oh, I’ll have to do it again tomorrow too… I was going to have the day off but I volunteered for extra hours.
That bullshit aside, my Logitech G15 came today and it actually works!!! Plugged it in and the display lights up. This one’s even better, the backlight on it is a nice blue color and the LCD display is not only larger but can be folded up and down like a laptop. Real nice investment if I do say so myself…
>Open Thread
I’ve said this many times in the past. I hate going to bed early. It doesn’t matter how tired I am. I’m just not a day person. I ended up lying in bed for hours on end with my eyes closed. The temperature was fine so I’m unsure what would have kept me up.
That aside I survived another day, being horded by zombie customers in search of butter, eggs and turkeys.
It’s been raining non stop the last few days. Staying in the early 50’s mid 40’s and possibly getting into the 30’s later in the week. It feels like summer!
Now onto my mission to eliminate the many bath products I have. I managed to use the last of my organic Christmas soap. Tonight I’ll move onto lemongrass.