The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Work2

One more day.

One more shift and this 7 day hell week can come to a close, then I can rest with two days off from the damn sweat shop. And yes, the AC is STILL being worked on. The customers are pissed, and we’re even more pissed. Some people are getting really sick with heat exhaustion and dizzy spells. Hell I’ve been out of energy these last few days. I’ve been getting home at night and haven’t been wanting to really do anything other than veg out.

Oh well, as long as the corporate overlords have working AC in their luxury offices nothing else matters, right?

All in an Overlord's day / Are you fucking serious? / Work

If he only knew.

I was working last night when a regular customer came in looking for one of my bosses (she ordered some special socks for him) and then out of the blue he opens up to me about how he’s going through a divorce all of a sudden (she sprung the decision on him that same day I guess) and how she’s leaving him and his children for some guy from Georgia she has only been dating for two weeks. So I had to play sympathetic ear to the whole thing, while he went on about how his pastor is helping him and how his wifes sister is trying to talk her out of it. This went on for about 30 minutes before he heard we were closing for the night and ended up leaving. That was the end of it.

Until tonight when he made a beeline for me (again near closing time). The first thing he asked was when the whole divorce thing blows over in a month would I like to be taken out to lunch… Wow, only 24 hours after talking about how he was crying about his wife leaving him he suddenly wants to start some form of relationship? Who only knows my name via a nametag? I was polite of course and told him I tend to keep relations between employees and customers as professional as possible, so I tend to keep to myself (which is true). He nodded and understood then wanted to know if I went to Church, or to be more accurate “What Church do you go to?”. Intrusive much? I explained to him that I work every Sunday so that’s not possible. Then I explained that I’m a busy person between work and working out of the home on computers, which he questioned. Then he wanted to know if I used wordpress and wanted to know if I could work on their churches website because their current developer is in and out of hospitals on oxygen all the time. Being that I was way behind on my work tonight due to being understaffed (as usual) I finally had to tell him that I needed to get back to my work… Oh! Not that this matters or anything, but he looked to be in his 50’s. ANOTHER one of those I can add to my list.

Dodged the holy water on that one. 😛

All in an Overlord's day

Now playing automod

I’ve been obsessed with modding and trashing the hell out of my phpBB test forum. Tonight I decided to install a social network mod just for lulz. I’m not adding it to my current board, but the modifications I’ve done to it recently are rather snazzy. I might add it one day since it’s not nearly as evasive as spacebook. Then we can once again partake in the antisocial network. 😛 As it is currently it doesn’t jive well with the template I use.

I added a calendar mod, but it doesn’t show up properly for the main template either. Hopefully it can get sorted because I would love to post events and holidays on it similar to other boards.

I also added a safe gamertag that allows you to add your favorite gamer ID (Steam, XFire, Origin TROLOLOL) to your profile. On mouseover it shows your stats. Pretty cool.

One more mod I’m waiting to get help on is the RSS bot mod. You can set it to gather RSS feeds and post them (with the choice of using a cronjob or not), then I can syndicate various things. Like my Blog to it’s own area, plus maybe some news feeds.

Damn… No wonder my Steam rating is dropping. XD

Are you fucking serious?

Heh… Lightweights.

I drink and internet constantly. These guys just suck at it.

“I’m pretty good with electronics when I’m drunk,” Deadspin’s Greg Howard says, “But my best friend went to Brazil with me a few years ago. It was our whole soccer team. We got fucked up the last night—we were all browned out essentially—and he said he had to take a shit. He just up and disappeared. We went looking for him the next day, and the whole team found him passed out on the toilet with his laptop out. He’d shat in the toilet, and he had a porn site up with four RedTube videos loaded—for seamless switching I guess—passed out with his dick in his hand. It was pretty sickening, really.”And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why drunk internet is bad internet. Be safe out there.

All in an Overlord's day2

Mentally preparing for my 7 day work week.

Well, 6 now since I worked today. 6 more before I can get two days off. Oh well, one of my coworkers is working a 10 day work week. I haven’t had one of those in awhile but those suck royally. Worst of all since these 7 day work weeks aren’t within the same calendar work week it means no extra pay for slaving your ass off. I would kill to have Monday thru Friday and the weekend to myself.

All in an Overlord's day

Early Morning Open Thread

Well, didn’t go out as much as I had wanted to. The sun was out but there was too much damn wind. So I just chillax’d like a bawler and made some sushi for tomorrows bento box. Then I decided to play with some forum software called SMF. Experimentation with that has been going well so far. Don’t get me wrong, I was raised on phpBB but sometimes I need to look at other stuff and see if I’m missing out or not. SMF has some nice features with it (especially in mod form). I even imported my forum database with hardly any issues. Of course everything is a mere test right now. Nothing will be concrete until I play around with it enough to decide if I’ll keep it or not.

One of the features I like so far is an RSS bot poster. It lets you select an RSS feed and whoever you want on the forum to post it. That’s one thing I’ve been dying to get my hands on for phpBB3, but sadly every time I look for that one I find that it’s several versions old. Along with a shoutbox that my friends have been mawing at me about for years to the point of forgetting about it. Still, I want to be as thorough as possible before doing yet another jump. Although this time if I do no one will have to register another account. 😀

Are you fucking serious?

On the subject of smartphones.

You miiight want to keep an eye on yours.

Incidents of cellphone theft have been rising for several years and are fast becoming an epidemic. IDG News Service collected data on serious crimes in San Francisco from November to April and recorded 579 thefts of cellphones or tablets, accounting for 41 percent of all serious crime. On several days, like Feb. 27, the only serious crimes reported in the daily police log were cellphone thefts.

In just over half the incidents, victims were punched, kicked or otherwise physically intimidated for their phones, and in a quarter of robberies, users were threatened with guns or knives.

The most common demand among criminals is the iPhone. :P

Rants

Driving and texting surpasses drinking and driving deaths.

I’m sorry, but what the hell is with people who value texting over their own well being? Seriously, look at this study.

Texting while driving has now replaced drunk driving as the number one cause of teenage deaths on the road in the U.S., new research has found.

The study, performed by the Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New York, found that more than 300,000 teens are injured and more than 3,000 die each year as a result of sending SMS messages while behind the wheel.

My state has outlawed using a phone while driving, but it’s rarely ever enforced (around town anyway). I just don’t see what the big deal is about needing to text at all times. Day in and day out I see people texting while driving, walking, grocery shopping while pushing a cart (if I could count the amount of times I’ve been bruised because of these fuckwads), pushing baby strollers, hell even riding on a bike. Today I saw a little 5 year old girl in the neighborhood. She was trying to ride her bike and talk on a smartphone at the same time. I see teenagers around town doing the same thing. :roll:

I have to ask, are these called smartphones because they’re more intelligent than the majority using them? They might want to relabel.