The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Work

Thoughts at lunchtime.

Currently on lunch (almost ready to go back) and so far it’s even worse than yesterday. Tonight there will only be two of us working together and we’re still swamped throughout the store. The tourists and back to school shoppers have been very pissy and it hasn’t been helping. I almost stayed home today because I’ve been feeling sick, but I’m too much of a badass to give up like that.

Oh, and a correction to last nights post: Five dollars above minimum wage. Not five cents. Still, I could do better. At least give me the pay of the five people I have to listen for…

Work1

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

I should be in bed, but I haven’t written anything lately and need to vent a little. So button up for this one.

It was a brutal Friday. We were short on people (deliberately) and we were swamped with tourists. It was storming again which brought more people into the store. People were being called downstairs to check because there were six entire sick calls and no one to replace them. I worked some freight but didn’t get anything done in my area because once again I had to listen to the entire upstairs. It made things fun when multiple calls went off and I was needed by two or three people at the same time. I had one customer ask “This is a big store, how come they won’t bring in extra people?” They have to ask? If shit gets any worse I may have to walk. I’m only making 5 cents above minimum wage right now after 6 years of hard work. It feels like a waste of my time.

And here is the cherry on top of the fucking cake. I had an old guy ride his cart up an escalator, his excuse was “There wasn’t a sign telling me not to!” Really… I wanted to tell him “Well, there’s a balcony over there, and there isn’t a sign telling you NOT to jump…” But I don’t want to get fired… yet. So I told him to use the elevator. It’s there for that reason. No, he went down the escalator a few minutes later with his cart. I hope karma comes to bite him in the ass with a glass covered dildo.

All in an Overlord's day / Work

Holy Shit Batman! A 40 hour work week!

Damn, I FINALLY get to make some moneys. I haven’t had a 40 hour or anywhere near that in a couple years. I think when I get home tonight my first priority will be syncing my game data so that I can play whatever I want. I have like, 6 downloads going on right now. Oh well, in the meantime I can spy on the servers and see if anyone is being good.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming

An open thread of openess

Alright, sorry for not posting much. My webhost had some serious issues yesterday morning that were related to some upgrades and migrations. It was so terrible inf act that their phones were down. They lost everything.

And if that wasn’t enough there has also been a fire inland that may be causing us some serious internet issues. The ping on our servers has been terrible these last few days though stabilized tonight. Hopefully everything will be better now.

I tested the Left 4 Dead 2 server by spawning as many tanks, witches, gnomes, explosions etc and the server ran perfectly. Our clients however did not… I’ve also been running an Elevator Source server but had to take it offline. Out of all 8 servers that I’m running Elevator seems to take up more resources than the other 7 servers combined. I find myself having to restart it constantly after people have had their fun in it. Originally I wasn’t even going to make this a full time server, but then I saw people on there and decided to leave it up. It amazes me how people will connect up just to stand around and do nothing but chat with each other… Then I remember that Uru still exists. Maybe I should send these people over to the Myst Online forums and see how fun it is to sit in a neighborhood or a city doing nothing.

On a brighter note all of my matcha items arrived! I haven’t made any traditional matcha yet, but I have had the matcha/sencha teabags. They have a very nice grassy flavor to them. If you like green tea I recommend giving it a try.

For those of you who don’t know what matcha is, click here and be enlightened.

All in an Overlord's day

Blukake mascara.

Today I saw something cool. Colored mascara. I don’t wear regular mascara very often, but I do love the idea of colored eyelashes.

It’s a new item I found at work, decided to buy a few of them (they were cheaper than the amazon price). So now I have red, blue and purple. I might even get green tomorrow. But I know one thing, I look damn good with blukake eyelashes.