What I don't remember is Corn Crackos. Must have been before my time.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
more craziness
I remember these from way back when. But, Mom never let us have Cookie Crisp, and I look back now and am thankful. Those just seems gross.
What I don't remember is Corn Crackos. Must have been before my time.
What I don't remember is Corn Crackos. Must have been before my time.
Sunday, November 26, 2006
for fun
Those were some tasty candy bars. I wish I had a girlfriend who could go to the store for me today to get me some groceries. After working so much, I just don't want to. Period. But, I am sure she'd dump me lickity-split since I really don't have any time for one right now. That's twisted, just like that candy bar...
repetitiveness is my job
I was supposed to go celebrate a very close friend of mine's 35th bday (her husband rented a limo for everyone). I think she turns 35. Anyway, I stayed late Friday working 6:30am-9pm to help make me getting to her celebration a possibility. Coupled with the fact that I had decided to go in Sunday, I had it all planned out. Well, as it turned out the VHS tape had a flaw in it, so all my hard work went for naught and I might as well have not worked late Friday.
About 1hr and 41mins into said tape, I noticed a huge glitch in the playback. Great. Now, I had to redo that entire tape since I could not confirm that there was not any other glitches in it. I had just happened to have that catch my eye while I was running the other part of this 5,555 foot project for someone out of state. Being the honest person I try to be, I just could not turn a blind eye to it. I knew it existed. I saw it happen. I could not, in good conscience, give that back to our customer. It would have eaten me alive and I would have felt like crap. So, I called her up immediately and gave her the bad news. I felt awful. But, she was very understanding & knows what my job demands of me.
I worked yesterday from 9:30am-9:30pm getting that order fixed and completed so I would not be behind when I go in today immediately after church. If it were not for being closed Thursday, I would be working from Monday (11/20) through Friday (12/1)- at least 12 straight days. I may have to also end up working Sat (12/2). My office is now my home-away-from-home.
Please do not get me wrong. I am not complaining in the least. I know working all this overtime comes at a cost, but the paychecks are nice to receive. I hate that I become difficult to spend time with, but that is the nature of my business and everyone who knows me knows that this time of year, and the beginning of the new year, are when I am at my busiest and work takes up the majority of my life. It wasn't as bad last year, but this time around I am going solo. It is just me running things as I have no assistant. I was about to, but plans fell through on that. All I ask is everyone be patient with me and understand that this is the way things are, and will be for the next 10 weeks or so. I will have Christmas Day off and that is all I can guarantee. I cannot even guarantee I will not be in the office come New Year's Day. It's all gonna depend on how things go and how many days a week I work. I can already tell you this- this week and next week, I may have Sunday, Dec 3rd off.
About 1hr and 41mins into said tape, I noticed a huge glitch in the playback. Great. Now, I had to redo that entire tape since I could not confirm that there was not any other glitches in it. I had just happened to have that catch my eye while I was running the other part of this 5,555 foot project for someone out of state. Being the honest person I try to be, I just could not turn a blind eye to it. I knew it existed. I saw it happen. I could not, in good conscience, give that back to our customer. It would have eaten me alive and I would have felt like crap. So, I called her up immediately and gave her the bad news. I felt awful. But, she was very understanding & knows what my job demands of me.
I worked yesterday from 9:30am-9:30pm getting that order fixed and completed so I would not be behind when I go in today immediately after church. If it were not for being closed Thursday, I would be working from Monday (11/20) through Friday (12/1)- at least 12 straight days. I may have to also end up working Sat (12/2). My office is now my home-away-from-home.
Please do not get me wrong. I am not complaining in the least. I know working all this overtime comes at a cost, but the paychecks are nice to receive. I hate that I become difficult to spend time with, but that is the nature of my business and everyone who knows me knows that this time of year, and the beginning of the new year, are when I am at my busiest and work takes up the majority of my life. It wasn't as bad last year, but this time around I am going solo. It is just me running things as I have no assistant. I was about to, but plans fell through on that. All I ask is everyone be patient with me and understand that this is the way things are, and will be for the next 10 weeks or so. I will have Christmas Day off and that is all I can guarantee. I cannot even guarantee I will not be in the office come New Year's Day. It's all gonna depend on how things go and how many days a week I work. I can already tell you this- this week and next week, I may have Sunday, Dec 3rd off.
last-minute decision
I have just whipped this up. I will celebrate my birthday when November 31st exists. Until then, I will not acknowledge any existance of my birthday. In fact, I am not even going to say when it is. I can tell you this, it is not the 30th. Let's just clear that up right now. It is towards the end of the month and that's all I am saying about that.
It seems I will be 35 for quite some time to come... seeing as how I will not turn 36 this year, or any year for that matter.
It seems I will be 35 for quite some time to come... seeing as how I will not turn 36 this year, or any year for that matter.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
i'm trying
I hope everyone enjoyed celebrating Thanksgiving. I know I did. It was nice & relaxing.
But, then Friday came. For those of you who had a 4-day weekend- kudos to you. Mmm... Kudos...
I worked 6:30am-9pm. Luckily, I do not work in retail, so it was a fine day for me. I am going back to work in a couple of hours and depending on how much I get done today will dictate how many hours I work tomorrow.
This coming week is going to be c-r-a-z-y overtime once again. Yes, I am talking the 30-variety overtime hours like I did last week. This week I won't have that many hours since Thursday was holiday pay, but I will have some overtime. If I calculated correctly, I broke into overtime last night by maybe 1/2 an hour. So, today will all be overtime and tomorrow will count towards next week's hours which probably means by Wednesday I will be into overtime. That will make Thursday & Friday that much sweeter.
It looks like I will not be stepping foot back into the fitness center until late-Jan or early-Feb. Gym? What's a gym? Oooh, a gym. Bye-bye 150 lbs :(
Remember back in grade school? This holds true for us in the late-1970's. I remember how important it was to get the Crayons with the built-in sharpener. One always felt so out of place if you got the one that had only 48 Crayons. Heaven help the child that got the 16-count box. Shunned to the circle of children who had that amount, or less. See? It all started with the box of Crayons and then went downhill from there. Way back in 1st Grade- if you didn't have the 64 Crayons, then you were the scum of the 1st Grade. "Bah! We don't want your kind here!" I mean, it's not like those children dressed poor or anything like that. It was weird. But damn if you had to have that massive amount of colors that you never ended up using all of anyway. And with that I give you...
I don't know how it has been since, but this was the beginning of the end for many children's social life. Once it was public knowledge (was that after recess?) that you did not have the big box, then it was near impossible to recover until you hit a higher grade, like say around 4th. But, bringing cool lunches in those metal Star Wars lunchboxes sure did help, especially when you brought enough to share some cool Little Debbie's. Mmm... Swiss Cake Rolls... and Zebra Cakes... aaaahhhhhhh....
But, then Friday came. For those of you who had a 4-day weekend- kudos to you. Mmm... Kudos...
I worked 6:30am-9pm. Luckily, I do not work in retail, so it was a fine day for me. I am going back to work in a couple of hours and depending on how much I get done today will dictate how many hours I work tomorrow.
This coming week is going to be c-r-a-z-y overtime once again. Yes, I am talking the 30-variety overtime hours like I did last week. This week I won't have that many hours since Thursday was holiday pay, but I will have some overtime. If I calculated correctly, I broke into overtime last night by maybe 1/2 an hour. So, today will all be overtime and tomorrow will count towards next week's hours which probably means by Wednesday I will be into overtime. That will make Thursday & Friday that much sweeter.
It looks like I will not be stepping foot back into the fitness center until late-Jan or early-Feb. Gym? What's a gym? Oooh, a gym. Bye-bye 150 lbs :(
Remember back in grade school? This holds true for us in the late-1970's. I remember how important it was to get the Crayons with the built-in sharpener. One always felt so out of place if you got the one that had only 48 Crayons. Heaven help the child that got the 16-count box. Shunned to the circle of children who had that amount, or less. See? It all started with the box of Crayons and then went downhill from there. Way back in 1st Grade- if you didn't have the 64 Crayons, then you were the scum of the 1st Grade. "Bah! We don't want your kind here!" I mean, it's not like those children dressed poor or anything like that. It was weird. But damn if you had to have that massive amount of colors that you never ended up using all of anyway. And with that I give you...
I don't know how it has been since, but this was the beginning of the end for many children's social life. Once it was public knowledge (was that after recess?) that you did not have the big box, then it was near impossible to recover until you hit a higher grade, like say around 4th. But, bringing cool lunches in those metal Star Wars lunchboxes sure did help, especially when you brought enough to share some cool Little Debbie's. Mmm... Swiss Cake Rolls... and Zebra Cakes... aaaahhhhhhh....
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
few & far between
is what my posts will be from here on out. It is indeed crunchtime for your author. I am in the mix of my busy season. I just cranked out 61 hours last week with 9 of those hours coming by way of me working Saturday. Yep, I had just one day "off" and that was Sunday in which I tried to do all my things I needed/wanted to do, but that didn't happen.
I worked 8am-8:15pm yesterday and today I will be at work from 8am-10pm due to a company mandatory meeting from 7pm-10pm. I have a presentation I have to prepare for as well and have I had time to prepare for that? Nope. Half of it is something that "would be nice to have for this fall", but was later decided upon (without giving me prior notice) in a mass email sent out that I would be doing this for this meeting. Yes, this was when I learned of the change of plans without having consulted me first. So, now I have to spend probably close to 2 hours getting my information together and get it ready to distribute to all the other stores. No, I am not thrilled about having this sprung on me without having asked me first, but I will try to find time to do it.
I am hoping that after working another 12 hour day on Wednesday that I will be able to cut back to 10 hours on Thursday and Friday, but we'll see. I should be able to, but I am not going to promise anything at this point.
The huge orders just keep coming in, too. Got another one that is estimated at being over 7,000'. If the last part of October & this first part of November are indicative of what is to come for the rest of the year and January, then I should be dead first quarter of '07.
Cheers!
At my funeral service, this will be the portrait for all to see. Monkeys have been know to be dressed like this for entertainment purposes. There's no tears at my funeral, except from laughing...
*disclaimer: the above pic was PS'd by a girl named Ashley. Here's the original. I don't want people thinking I actually dressed up like that...
but, I don't mind them knowing this is how I acted on vacation earlier this year after scoring a point in ping-pong with other strangers in the same room playing pool. Whoopidy-dooo!
I worked 8am-8:15pm yesterday and today I will be at work from 8am-10pm due to a company mandatory meeting from 7pm-10pm. I have a presentation I have to prepare for as well and have I had time to prepare for that? Nope. Half of it is something that "would be nice to have for this fall", but was later decided upon (without giving me prior notice) in a mass email sent out that I would be doing this for this meeting. Yes, this was when I learned of the change of plans without having consulted me first. So, now I have to spend probably close to 2 hours getting my information together and get it ready to distribute to all the other stores. No, I am not thrilled about having this sprung on me without having asked me first, but I will try to find time to do it.
I am hoping that after working another 12 hour day on Wednesday that I will be able to cut back to 10 hours on Thursday and Friday, but we'll see. I should be able to, but I am not going to promise anything at this point.
The huge orders just keep coming in, too. Got another one that is estimated at being over 7,000'. If the last part of October & this first part of November are indicative of what is to come for the rest of the year and January, then I should be dead first quarter of '07.
Cheers!
At my funeral service, this will be the portrait for all to see. Monkeys have been know to be dressed like this for entertainment purposes. There's no tears at my funeral, except from laughing...
*disclaimer: the above pic was PS'd by a girl named Ashley. Here's the original. I don't want people thinking I actually dressed up like that...
but, I don't mind them knowing this is how I acted on vacation earlier this year after scoring a point in ping-pong with other strangers in the same room playing pool. Whoopidy-dooo!
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
lack of posts
Is primarily due to work. I have been abnormally swamped these past 3 weeks. I guess more people know about the turnaround on projects I work on and I have had much larger orders to complete than usual. Of those 3 weeks, two I have worked overtime and there will be plenty of more weeks ahead that I will be working overtime & I will gladly take it eventhough I will have to sacrifice sleep & working out. And, I worked 8am-7:15pm last night, then had to get some groceries. Read: not what I normally would have gotten. By the time I got home it was 8:30. I am getting ready to go in early this morning- going to try & be there by 7. Hopefully I won't work too much past 4, but the verdict is still out. I have one job that is 17,900' of 16mm and 1,250 of 8mm. Yes, one job. This is the largest one I have had to tackle. Prior to this, the largest I have ever done is 14,000+ feet. It will roughly be somewhere in the neighborhood of 9 hours of viewing time for the 16mm and a little over an hour for the 8mm. This will probably take me a solid 2 days to complete the transfer to MiniDV. After that, the store it is going to will transfer it to VHS for the client to view for editing purposes. I got so much done yesterday that I am hoping to have left me in a great position to have everything done Friday so that it can be taken out to the store that day.
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