Sunday, December 24, 2006

what i worked in december

12/4- 6:45am-6:45pm = 12hrs

12/5- 7am-6pm= 11hrs

12/6 7:30am-4pm= 8.5hrs

12/7- 7:30am-8pm= 12.5hrs

12/8- 8:15am- 4:15pm= 8hrs

12/9- 10am-3:45pm= 5.75hrs

End of week = 57.75hrs

12/10- 9am-8pm= 11hrs

12/11- 6:30am- 7pm= 12.5hrs

12/12- 8:15am-12:30am= 16.25hrs

12/13 8am-8pm= 12hrs

12/14- 8am-12:30am= 16.5hrs

12/15- 8am-8pm= 12hrs

12/16- 7am-7pm= 12hrs

End of week = 92.25hrs

12/17- 9am-4:45am= 19.75hrs

12/18- 9:30am-12am= 14.5hrs

12/19- 9:30am-7:45am= 22.25hrs

12/20- 8:45am-4pm= 7.25hrs (took a nap in my chair from 7:45-8:45 which is why you see a break of only 1 hour)

12/21- 9:15am-4pm= 6.75hrs

12/22- 7:15am-7pm= 12.25hrs

End of week = 82.75hrs

For my check that covered Dec 1-15, I had over 71 hours of overtime. Crazy, huh?

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

two things up for discussion

One is the amount of hours I have put in at work.
Sunday I was in at 9am. I planned on going in at 7am, but I just could not crawl out of bed. I stayed until 4:45am on Monday. I only had time for one 30-min break in which I only ate a few pieces of a $20 pizza from Campisi's. I am so sad it was wasted. So, I put in almost 20 hrs in my first day of this week.
After I finally left at Monday at 5am since I got to fight our email server for 15 minutes and got home at 5:20am. I know I was asleep by 5:30, but I was up at 8am and back into work at 9:15 and stayed until midnight.
I have put in just about 35 hours in only two days. My poor body.

I will be in around 9am again today and looks like I will stay until midnight once again. Hopefully, come Wednesday (and everyday thereafter), I will be there less than 12 hours each day.

In other more funny news, I earned a new nickname. Monkey Knuckles! What do you think? I just don't know if it is two words, hyphenated (did I spell that right?), or just one word. All I know is my back hurts, I am starving, I've lost 10 lbs, my apt is a mess, I have no food, I am almost out of clean clothes, I am exhausted, and my brain is MIA.
Pray for Mojo.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

uneventful 100th post, and here's why

I had to figure out my hours yesterday at work.
This week alone I will have worked 92+ hours, but today goes towards the next payperiod. With that in mind, since Dec 1, I have earned over 71 hours in just overtime while having only Sunday, Dec 3, off. I have worked a total of 152 hours since Dec 1 through yesterday. The majority of my days are of the 12-hour variety with a couple of 16-hour ones thrown in for good measure.
It's 5:40am right now, so I must start getting ready for even more work as I will put in a minimum of 12 hours again today. I am not sure how many I will work tomorrow, but it will once again be a minimum of 12 hours.
Oh yeah, and if I survive through the end of December, there is a huge chance I will have transferred over one-quarter of a million feet of film for just November & December alone. That'd be quite a feat- if I live to tell about it.

I still have not finished my wrapping. There is a gift that still sits on my floor 1/2-way wrapped. I think there is dust on my presents I have bought others, which will probably not make it to their destination for Christmas Day. My apt still looks like Sanford & Son live here. My fridge is empty. I've lost 10 pounds, maybe more. Of course, my back hurts. I have missed church the past two weeks and I will miss it once again tomorrow. I need to get groceries and do laundry tonight. I really don't remember much of anything this month. I can't tell you when the last time was I turned on my TV to watch anything. My poor fish tank needs cleaning. I discovered my fish had another bunch of babies only cos I have seen one that is only 2 or 3 weeks old. My shrimp still haven't hatched their eggs, but the eggs have changed color from sorta clear to orange-ish. As much as no one wants it, I need another me around here. Oh yeah, and I may have to end up working Christmas Eve. At least I will have Christmas Day off, right?
Catch y'all later...

Thursday, December 07, 2006

my 99th post...

I am going to try & do something for my 100th post, if I don't forget.

In other news, my shrimp are going to have babies. I had two different brood of fish in October. The first batch, I saved at least 11 of them. The second batch, I let nature take it's course, and 3 survived.
Now, I have a shrimp that has eggs all under her tail and I am sure they will hatch anyday now. What's so cool is I read it is very difficult to get shrimp to reproduce in a home aquarium like mine, but apparently I am doing something right or else things wouldn't be going the way they are going. I am excited, but at the same time I know that 99% of them probably won't survive since it will take forever for them to grow large enough to not be eaten by my swordtails.
Crush is doing fine. Her shell is now bigger than the palm of my hand. I will try & take a pic of her as I have now had her for almost two years.

Work is going great. I am still working crazy hours, with the exception of yesterday. I left around 4:15 yesterday. It was weird seeing the sun outside of my office. I did not quite know what to do yesterday, so I went to the pet store, got some water conditioner for Crush and changed out her water.

I guess that's really about it. I cannot think of anything else of importance, even though what I just wrote is of no real importance to anyone but myself.


I was thinking, I guess I don't remember the Corn Crackos cos maybe they just weren't in this market, or any market I live in? I know some parts of the country has stuff we don't have and vice-versa.



























I hope everyone has a great rest of the week and weekend.
Take care,
Captain Cool (me)

Only a very few select people will get the "Captain Cool (me)" reference...