Work

It ain’t easy being queasy

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I thought I was over the queasiness during my day last day off (got some kind of stomach bug that made me feel like a squeeze bottle. Then today when I went to work I had dizzy spells and spent a good portion of the evening walking from my section to the bathroom. Luckily it was a quiet work night so I still managed to get everything done. But when I came home I fell asleep after catching up on teh interwebz.

I was going to work on some TF2 video footage. I plan to get off my arse and make some reviews for my youtube channel again. I enjoyed taking a little break from it by playing some other games in my library. But I think it’s time to sit down, collect some fun footage, and make sweet review pr0nz.

It’s moments like these that make me happy to come home to a not drama queen infested hell hole.

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Yesterday I witnessed quite an interesting performance. I was summoned to help someone put together a shoe table since well, the materials are rather heavy but pretty simple to put together once you have a basic understanding of insert figure a into slot b. For reasons unknown the person I was helping felt it was necessary to use a rubber mallet to knock the parts into place.

There were three pieces. I had a poll with two wheels, she did as well, and there was a metal dowel to connect the two together. Seems simple, right? I held up my side and she slid in the dowel, then she tried to shove hers in, and while holding the dowel and the mallet she kinda forgot to hold her side up and well… banged her head. She looked like she was going to cry, kept rubbing her head and kept going owowowowowowow all the way to the break room to grab an ice pack.

Injuries are a serious thing, don’t get me wrong on that. But methinks the lady came off as a tad Shakespearean. I’ve hit my head before, and I usually rub my head until the pain subsides. Of course that is her personality. She’s quite the drama queen in every definition of the word. She’s what you would call the stereotypical female. She’s a gossip, always has to spread BS in her wake, if she doesn’t like you she’ll start spreading petty rumors around, believes others cause drama and doesn’t understand why it follows her everywhere and it just goes on and on to the point that I could write a god damned biography. You can try reporting her, but our boss is a total flake and just believes every word she says. So you either have to put up or shut up.

Oh well. It made for good joke fodder last night. After all I have to keep up my “Class Clown” personality.

Stop sniffing the “chemtrails”

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Tonight as I was coming back from my lunchbreak I caught up with an old friend of the family who happens to work at the store. He’s a nice guy, although over the last few years I think he has been showing signs of dementia. He rambles outloud from time to time about certain things but I never really paid it any mind. Then tonight he was telling me about how the “chemtrails” are getting worse because this morning the sky was a “wrong color of orange”. He also tried relating it to people getting sick.

There is a flu going around as well as a few colds. But that’s primarily because the weather has been rather balmy in the evening, not to mention a lot of people around here don’t make enough to afford calling in sick. So we have people with runny noses all coughing and wheezing while working in places that deal with food, the public, etc. I explained that to him and he said “that was only one part of it” and continued on how chemtrails are being used to control the population in the United States.

I normally hear this talk when I pass people I hardly even know. But this is someone I’ve known for a long chunk of my life.

Saaaaaaaaaad.

I always hate this time of the year

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Normally January is a terrible month for work since most of the spending was done between Black Friday and Christmas Eve. Ever since the start of the new year though it’s been absolutely terrible. Next week I only get 13.5 hours of work. I’ve never had my hours cut that low before. 19 or 18 at the lowest… but 13? Why even have me on the schedule at all?

Of course this isn’t much of a surprise. On Sundays we’re pretty busy due to the after church crowd but they didn’t stick around nearly as long. Hopefully they’ll try to call me in (and not at the last minute), but if not at least I’ll have plenty to keep me busy.

I ordered a couple 2 TB Hard Drives (two brand new ones for $89 each which is pretty cheap) to replace a couple of 1 TB’s that are starting to show their age. One of them is a video scratch drive that I use and the other is my Steam drive. Seeing as I only have 98 GB left on it I guess it’s time to move Steam to a 2 TB for more real estate. 😛 I’m thinking I’ll turn the old Steam drive into another drive for storing FRAPS footage along side my other scratch drives. That will put me at 4 TB that I can hotswap, and one scratch drive that I already have inside the the system… so 5 TB for FRAPS footage? That is a lot of pr0nz. 8) Speaking of pr0nz I got bored and made this in SFM.

Homeland Security hates witches….?

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I think someone escaped from a mental institution today, and it wasn’t me this time! I guess I had this coming since I’ve been having nice work days since the start of the new year. Anyways on with the shtory!

There was this old lady in the store today wearing a black TShirt with a fake tuxedo on it, black skirt and black pippy long stockings. Her hair was colored like a faded rainbow (you could see the gray through it), and she was complaining to me that the US gov could find her in Europe but not in the US, and because of this she couldn’t get any job. Then she told me her life story about how she was in Europe ready to become a University Professor (you have no idea how hard it was for me to keep a straight face, but luckily I watched enough Stephen Colbert to know how to keep a good poker face) and that Homeland Security ruined it for her. Thankfully I had a phone call save me from her blather, however… I would soon discover she had victimized a few other co-workers. She told one that she was a witch banned from the US for two years, and when she returned she was added to the “no fly list”, and to another she said she talked to the company founder back in the 90’s (which is funny considering he died in the 80’s) and he said we all needed to all stop being white trash Oregonians. Which is funny considering the only real white trash people are people who migrated here from the south with some exceptions of a few locals.

I’m glad it’s all over now at least. I can spend three days in my own little world where my friends are a slenderman with a mullet, a dalek from New Jersey, a blockdude, a spy, and an eyeball with a tophat. Oh god… I think I’m crazy too. O_o

I’m gonna sleep goooooood tonight.

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I knocked off at about 1 am this morning, sadly my brain didn’t shut off until about 6am. Then my alarm went off at 8am. I pretty much ran on auto-pilot for the entire day.

Sure enough it was crazy busy, hell it felt like it could have been Black Friday minus the injuries and deaths. 😛 Just about everyone had a good tone, and understood that if they couldn’t find it then that was that. Also Doctor Who was on in our breakroom all day which always puts me in a good mood. 😛 We did have one person get extremely pissed that we closed early today. Didn’t even know what day it was. My what a special snowflake…

Now I can focus on having a nice Christmas eve/Christmas day. As soon as I get some food into me I’ll be collapsing like a mofo.

It’s almost over…

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In less than ten hours I can finally put an end to this shit-tastic holiday. The majority of the last minute Christmas shoppers have been just insufferable pricks in large numbers. So large in fact that we can’t get anything done. This could be dealt with if they had more than four cashiers scheduled downstairs and not calling other departments to fill in the gaps. This lead to me running literally the entire upstairs alone again. I kept my cool though and probably made some of the cashiers rage a bit though, everytime they needed help over the phone I was already helping a customer, then another customer, then another. Sometimes I had them waiting on the phone for up to 20 minutes. One finally said “Is there anyone else you can direct me to since you’re busy?” and I said “Yeah! They’re all checking!”. Oh that was such a small but excellent pleasure.

I should be going to bed right now, but there’s no way in hell I can instantly go from getting home to going straight to bed. I need to unwind first.

Open Thread

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Survived day one. It wasn’t too bad. Would have been better if we weren’t deliberately understaffed, but whatever. I came home and made a bread salad with some pancheta and turkey with a matcha latte. Turned out nom. Sadly I didn’t have any leftover. It was too good. Now I have to contemplate what to bring for lunch tomorrow. Probably another turkey sandvich and salad.

Should probably update stuff on my laptop too. I logged into Steam today during my lunch break and so much stuff wanted to download. I did manage to play some Shadow Warrior. I hope they make a Linux port of it. It’s hella fun to play.

Happy Thanksgiving! Thank god it’s not Black Friday

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Worked a small shift today. It wasn’t crazy busy though I did get quite a few surges from time to time. It was mostly people window shopping for Black Friday. Thank god I won’t be participating in that. Not working, not shopping. I refuse to partake in anything Black Friday unless it’s online. You can’t get trampled on the internet, though you might bring websites down in large surges. 😛

Speaking of Black Friday I was catching up on my RSS feeds and came across this video. Made me thankful that I live in a small town. Seriously this looks like something out of Left 4 Dead 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xL8rE9DT4g

I loved the comments for that video. I agree that this sort of thing makes us look horrible. We act like a bunch of fucking savages fighting for so called “good deals”. Trampling and shoving each other because the device/appliance/scarf/whatever has much more value than the person you knocked over for it. We shouldn’t be allowed to encourage this kind of behavior. Seriously if you’re the kind of person to behave like that I hope someone’s stiletto pierces your lung. It’s the fucking hunger games.

Oh well… Enough ranting. We all know that most corporations over here are too busy rubbing money on their tender nipples to give a flying fuck. I might as well enjoy this Thanksgiving special. I feel old for watching it. I remember when it was brand new. 🙂 Good ol MST3K: