So I’ve been @ my new job now for just under 8 months. It was hectic and stressful when I first started, as I was trying to get the hang of what I was supposed to be doing, and I didn’t even know what that was.

Well, I knew in an overreaching sort of way what it was, but with every place there’s different methods and requirements, and the small details that add up to the big picture are quite different. Getting those details down? Not always easy.

Well recently, shortly after Christmas actually, I started to feel more confident in the whole process. I knew what was coming, I had an idea of how “they” might tackle the issue, and I felt like I could take it from there. Because, I didn’t necessarily want to handle to like they handle it, but if I know how others would do it, I have a good grasp of the process, and I love to work with processes to make them more efficient.

So work’s been going good. I recently put in for my vacation – which I don’t have yet, not until my 1 year mark – and got approved. Means nothing, right? Well, to me it means that they plan on keeping me around beyond that time, they plan on me making my one year mark, then continuing on. And that is quite a relief for me.

When I took the job here, it was only on a part-time basis, I was told she’d love to have me, but that she didn’t have room for me on the schedule in all actuality. Wanting to get the hell out of So Cal, I took the offer, figuring I could find part-time employment elsewhere as well. However, as it turned out, as soon as I started I was put to full-time, and have been ever since.

Last night as I closed shop, one girl I work with was talking to a lady in the checkout line. After she left, the lady I work with told me that the woman in line had applied for a job there before, moved on account of the job, then a few days before she got there, was told the position had been filled. Now that’s the story as I heard it of course, not necessarily the story as it was. However, it made me feel a little lucky in side, because after all, that was potentially me a year ago. But they decided to keep me.

I still don’t know why. I may be part of a bigger experiment or something. I’ll continue to look for clues.



Internet? What internet?
For about 4 hours or so this afternoon, I had no internet. It was there, I was on it, I walked away, The Girl went to use it, it was down. Maybe she scared it away or something.

No, that’s not it. I called at&t and they traced it to a server on their side they couldn’t communicate with. Said they needed to send a tech out, but that they wouldn’t be able to do so until Tuesday. No today, Tuesday. That’s like, 4 days from now. This is not acceptable, but it’s not like I can fix it myself; I can barely find free porn on the interwebs anymore, how the heck am I going to fix their server?

The lady on the phone asked me if I wanted them to schedule an appointment to take care of it. No, I like paying for service I don’t have; just leave it!. What the hell? Yes, send someone dammit! Today, preferably!

Well I got lucky, apparently someone else (or many others?) were afflicted as well. About 2 hours later I got an automated phone call saying that they had tested their lines and discovered a problem. I called in to check if it was more descriptive now than when I had called, and sure enough it was. They said a lot of my town was out, probably some businesses too (that’s my assumption).

2 hours later, I got mail. Success.

Don’t realize how central to our lives interconnectivity – and specifically the internet – have become, until you’re suddenly without it. Man, technology rocks, so long as it’s rockin’ along. Once it stops it sorta sucks.



So when does air-wide internet happen?
I mean, we all have these nifty wireless computers, when do those hard-lines become air lines? Seems we’re not that far from it to me. I’m just waiting. Free worldwide internet. And no outages, of course, unless you drop your computer.

Don’t drop your computer, folks. Bad things; bad things.



This just in: random bob sick
Man, f*ck. I thought I might actually make it through the Winter without catching something.

Guess I have to start the counter over at zero now. I was going for 3 years in a row.

It might be worse than I fear, too. I mean, I felt a dry throat sensation when I awoke from a nap around 2pm. I started feeling light-headed around 4pm. Now it’s 7pm and my throat is starting to swell and hurt.

I really like to talk. I actually talk while I type up my blogs. Just speak all the words as I’m typing them. I type slow, so the people around me when I’m in public think I’m a retard, which is sort of amusing I suppose. So this really sucks for me.

Man! I know what did it, too. I bragged about it to someone at work recently, that I hadn’t fallen ill while everyone else had. Too bad for me, I didn’t pay attention to my surroundings, and wouldn’t you know? Not one board of wood around to knock on.

Sh!t.

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