Site Moved!
Hey all. This was a first attempt at a blog, and I found I liked it, so I got myself some hosting and a domain name. The site’s name has changed to Darkened Eyes, and it can be found at http://www.darkenedeyes.com so anyone who actually reads this should go there instead for my latest updates. This will probably be the last post I put on this site, but I will leave it up in case I need anything from here or someone stumbles across this while trying to get to the other site.
Peace all, and I’ll see you at Darkened Eyes!
Days off
Another Tuesday, another day off. I’m currently sitting over at Stacy’s Mom’s house with Emmie because she’s sick and couldn’t go to daycare today.
Last night at work was hellish. It was busy beyond belief until about 9 pm, but even though it tapered off then I still didn’t get out of work till almost 10:30 because of how much stuff needed to be downstocked and cleaned up. The department was a wreck until Dan and I got done with it.
I finally picked up a new DVD burner for the tower last night, because the one I had was having ‘issues’ insofar as it, for some strange reason, stopped reading CDs altogether. The drive read DVDs fine, but no CD I put in the stupid thing would read. I picked up a Samsung SATA burner last night and it works like a dream. Reads everything fine, and no issues with it being recognized.
I’m thinking it’s time to finally wipe out the OS on the laptop and either reload Vista clean (I had installed it originally over the top of a very heavily skinned and tweaked XP install, and some of the tweaks/programs wouldn’t uninstall once I got Vista on the unit), or run a dual-boot config with either OSX86 or some flavor of Linux. Linux would run great on this machine, being only 2(ish) years old.
Anyway, I’ll post another blog later on, might include some random pictures of something if I can find something that’s camera-worthy.
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To an end we all shall return…
I’m seriously considering throwing in the towel on finding myself another girlfriend. A few of the reasons are completely practical, though some of them are slightly strange. First, I have very little time to myself the way it is, and having someone else to fawn over is something that would seriously eat into my internet/gaming time. Second, I can’t stand vapid girls. Sure, they may look good, but when you are having a conversation with something that has the IQ of a can of compressed air it gets real old, real quick.
Third, all the girls I seem to be attracted to are already with someone. It’s a curse I can’t get over anymore, apparently. In the last 3 months I’ve met at least 3 girls that I would kill to be with, who already have boyfriends, and I can’t afford to bury the bodies and pay for therapy. Fourth, I’m nearing that point where I just don’t care anymore. I’m alone, I get it, I’m so used to it that having someone there for me/with me would be so different from my normal routine that I don’t know what I’d do, honestly.
But enough about that, on to the good stuff!
A friend of mine and his friends have set up a new podcast (I’m thinking that they did so just because they could), you can check it out here: http://www.growingupgeek.net
I’ve been playing Lost Odyssey on the Xbox 360, and my gods above is this game beautiful. Incredible scenery, amazing characters, exquisite detailing, and terrific voice acting. I haven’t found one bad thing about this game yet. I seriously recommend it to any Xbox owning RPG fan.
I’m trying to figure out what to do with my life. I’m not really content sitting at “home” in my parents’ house, working a retail job selling computers to stupid and/or ignorant people, and not going anywhere. I really can’t afford to change any of that though. I don’t have a degree or any certifications yet, and I can’t afford (nor do I have any inclination towards) going back to school, paying for said certifications, or really even just living on my own again. I’d have to find someone to have live with me, and that is just something that I really don’t feel like being dicked over on again.
Although, if I could end up living with a hot single geek girl who had no problem with a ‘no pants when noone else is here’ rule, I would snap that up in an instant….
I’m signing off before my mind wanders into places it shouldn’t go this late at night.
Stayin home again.
Ended up takin a personal day today. Really didn’t feel like goin into work, combined with the fact that the car wouldn’t start till 2 hours after my shift would have started (ah, the wonders a good swift kick does for mechanicals) basically kept me home. I am sorely tempted to go up there to pick up Lost Odyssey though, but I don’t want to either get suckered into working the rest of the night (seeing as how I’m opening tomorrow) or getting yelled at for not coming in, which is more likely. Our store management isn’t real big on the whole “being understanding about stuff” thing. With them it’s like “Your car’s broken, your leg’s bleeding, and your house is on fire? You better find a way to make it here in 20 minutes when your shift starts.”
I don’t entirely understand it. Yes, I know we’re short-staffed. We always are because of this CA program. They take labor away from each department, throw it together, and create a group of employees that wander around the store trying to help every department at once. More often than not, however, there’s only one or two on, and both of them get busy in the Home Theater department. So…that screws the rest of the store. Whose idea was this again? Oh, right…Corporate.
What does it say about our department when they can only schedule 3 people on all day? One in the morning, one as a mid-day cover/transition cover, and one closer? It means that when it’s dead, we’re bored off our asses and getting yelled at because everything’s dusty/disorganized. When it’s busy, we’re getting yelled at for not helping all the customers because there’s only so many of us and people are impatient twits.
Anyway, I’m off to pick up pizza for me, Stacy, and Emmie. I’ll post another rant about something else later on tonight.
