Wednesday, September 06, 2006
-Hey Yo! I have been hella busy working nonstop lately. Tonight will be my 11th straight night of work because of my voluntary efforts I mentioned in my last entry where I went out of town to help set up a new store (more on that in a bit). I haven't felt as drained as I thought I would be at this point, and I am definitely looking forwards to my paycheck, which is the first one I saw that broke four figures by quite a bit (thanks in large part due to 25, yes 25 hours of overtime). But two more nights to go and I will be smooth sailing into a stellar....two day weekend after 12 straight days of work. The only real non-work thing I did was a family and friends BBQ yesterday on Labor Day with Ann, Jane, Joey, Dad, a few of their friends and Chris. Pretty fun times, and good eating. Summer sure as hell flew by fast.
-Yeah the trip down to Bismarck didn't go all that bad. It was about a four hour drive. Fellow coworker Steve picked me up Thursday evening and we met up with another coworker Paul, who did the four hour drive (we got paid for the drive by the way, so the roundtrip drive made up 8 hours of my OT). I made it fly by catching up on some history text and Paul had a couple good stand-up cds that made the trip not drag so much. The hotel the store provided was nice, only nitpicky thing about it was a bit on the short side at just under 7 feet tall. I could literally touch the ceiling with ease by barely lifting up my arm.
Our team was in charge of getting H&B and cosmetics (the main head honcho who convinced us to go said he'd try his bestest to not get us in cosmetics, what a liar) good to go. The first day was a big drag, mostly in part because since this was a new store everyone came in to work a day shift and the night before I worked an overnight shift which left no extra time to change my sleep pattern. I guess I barely made it through the shift, and since cosmetics is such a pain to set we ended up staying extra to knock as much of it out as possible in the first day and put in 10 hours that first day.
Our team lead, Shaun came in the middle of that day, and afterwards he treated us to dinner at this BBQ restaurant he was bragging up a bit called the Texas Roadhouse. Damn was it good. I had some killer steak, and even their sides of Baked Potatoe and Baked Beans I had were quite superb. After that hearty meal I was done for and barely managed to stay awake for an hour once I got back to the hotel. Both nights I got waken up by Steve's awfully loud snoring. I considered putting a sock in his mouth, but didn't want to see the consequences in the likely event it woke him up.
The next day went much better, we wrapped up cosmetics right away, and helped other teams with other runs for the last half of the shift and got the hell out of there once we hit our 8 hours. Paul, Steve, and I went to the hotel bar and had a couple brews to celebrate no more Bismarck work, and then hit up Famous Dave's right across the block (another awesome BBQ restaurant I must say) where we got the fastest service for a sit-down restaurant in quite some time. I literally had my meal in 3 or 4 minutes after ordering it. After that Shaun met up with us and we spent the rest of the night hitting up a few more bars and drinking the night away in what wasn't even a day off for us. We headed back to town the next morning on Sunday at 9am and back by 1pm, I stayed up for a few hours watchin tv and somehow managed to get a nap in before going to work just a few hours later that night.
-I finished the Tucker Max book last week. It only took me two and a half weeks for near 300 pages. I was very into that book as it provided non-stop laughs at Tucker's hilarious drunken stories. Steve demanded me to borrow it to him since he always saw me laughing while reading it at break. Now I get to enjoy seeing him crack up out loud on break the past few days. If you want some good laughs, you cannot go wrong with this guys book. He has many of his tales on his site at tuckermax.com which would be a great sampler to see if you want the book.
-I saw the last episode of Who Wants to Be a Superhero last week. It was just so obvious that Feedback was going to win it didn't make it seem that special, and the stunts segment was neat, but definitely all that exciting for the series finale. A big disappointment. I also saw the season 2 finale of 30 Days last week. If you haven't heard of it, it's hosted by Morgan Spurlock (same guy who did the "Supersize Me" documentary a couple years back) who puts random people in situations for 30 days, and documents the results. Previous episodes had a pro-choice woman living in a pro-life aid home for 30 days and someone trying to live off minimum wage for 30 days. The season finale had Morgan himself locked up in jail for 30 days (actually 25 due to state law). It was very entertaining, and even though I don't 100% agree on all of Morgan's views (he is quite the liberal), I was interested throughout the whole thing. If you dug Supersize Me (the documentary where Morgan only ate McDonalds for 30 days), then you have to check out this series. I see season 1 is already out on amazon, so I might have to pick it up.
Speaking of tv DVD sets I just picked up Lost season 2. I purposely avoided it on tv since I finished watching the season 1 DVD set in the middle of tv season 2 and didn't want to get into it in the middle of the season. I also picked up United 93 yesterday which I have not saw but am eagerly anticipating to see how they portray how everything went down on 9/11. I will probably watch as much as both as I can this weekend.
-Lastly, there is still no word on when or even if I'll get my 360 back. It's been exactly four weeks now since UPS misdelivered it to someone else. I gave my weekly call to Microsoft yesterday and I got the same "We are still investigating with UPS, you should be receiving a call soon message" from customer support. Grrrrrrr.
Damn I gotta stop doing these insanely long entries. If you managed to read this all, thankee for sticking to the end. Latez!
-Yeah the trip down to Bismarck didn't go all that bad. It was about a four hour drive. Fellow coworker Steve picked me up Thursday evening and we met up with another coworker Paul, who did the four hour drive (we got paid for the drive by the way, so the roundtrip drive made up 8 hours of my OT). I made it fly by catching up on some history text and Paul had a couple good stand-up cds that made the trip not drag so much. The hotel the store provided was nice, only nitpicky thing about it was a bit on the short side at just under 7 feet tall. I could literally touch the ceiling with ease by barely lifting up my arm.
Our team was in charge of getting H&B and cosmetics (the main head honcho who convinced us to go said he'd try his bestest to not get us in cosmetics, what a liar) good to go. The first day was a big drag, mostly in part because since this was a new store everyone came in to work a day shift and the night before I worked an overnight shift which left no extra time to change my sleep pattern. I guess I barely made it through the shift, and since cosmetics is such a pain to set we ended up staying extra to knock as much of it out as possible in the first day and put in 10 hours that first day.
Our team lead, Shaun came in the middle of that day, and afterwards he treated us to dinner at this BBQ restaurant he was bragging up a bit called the Texas Roadhouse. Damn was it good. I had some killer steak, and even their sides of Baked Potatoe and Baked Beans I had were quite superb. After that hearty meal I was done for and barely managed to stay awake for an hour once I got back to the hotel. Both nights I got waken up by Steve's awfully loud snoring. I considered putting a sock in his mouth, but didn't want to see the consequences in the likely event it woke him up.
The next day went much better, we wrapped up cosmetics right away, and helped other teams with other runs for the last half of the shift and got the hell out of there once we hit our 8 hours. Paul, Steve, and I went to the hotel bar and had a couple brews to celebrate no more Bismarck work, and then hit up Famous Dave's right across the block (another awesome BBQ restaurant I must say) where we got the fastest service for a sit-down restaurant in quite some time. I literally had my meal in 3 or 4 minutes after ordering it. After that Shaun met up with us and we spent the rest of the night hitting up a few more bars and drinking the night away in what wasn't even a day off for us. We headed back to town the next morning on Sunday at 9am and back by 1pm, I stayed up for a few hours watchin tv and somehow managed to get a nap in before going to work just a few hours later that night.
-I finished the Tucker Max book last week. It only took me two and a half weeks for near 300 pages. I was very into that book as it provided non-stop laughs at Tucker's hilarious drunken stories. Steve demanded me to borrow it to him since he always saw me laughing while reading it at break. Now I get to enjoy seeing him crack up out loud on break the past few days. If you want some good laughs, you cannot go wrong with this guys book. He has many of his tales on his site at tuckermax.com which would be a great sampler to see if you want the book.
-I saw the last episode of Who Wants to Be a Superhero last week. It was just so obvious that Feedback was going to win it didn't make it seem that special, and the stunts segment was neat, but definitely all that exciting for the series finale. A big disappointment. I also saw the season 2 finale of 30 Days last week. If you haven't heard of it, it's hosted by Morgan Spurlock (same guy who did the "Supersize Me" documentary a couple years back) who puts random people in situations for 30 days, and documents the results. Previous episodes had a pro-choice woman living in a pro-life aid home for 30 days and someone trying to live off minimum wage for 30 days. The season finale had Morgan himself locked up in jail for 30 days (actually 25 due to state law). It was very entertaining, and even though I don't 100% agree on all of Morgan's views (he is quite the liberal), I was interested throughout the whole thing. If you dug Supersize Me (the documentary where Morgan only ate McDonalds for 30 days), then you have to check out this series. I see season 1 is already out on amazon, so I might have to pick it up.
Speaking of tv DVD sets I just picked up Lost season 2. I purposely avoided it on tv since I finished watching the season 1 DVD set in the middle of tv season 2 and didn't want to get into it in the middle of the season. I also picked up United 93 yesterday which I have not saw but am eagerly anticipating to see how they portray how everything went down on 9/11. I will probably watch as much as both as I can this weekend.
-Lastly, there is still no word on when or even if I'll get my 360 back. It's been exactly four weeks now since UPS misdelivered it to someone else. I gave my weekly call to Microsoft yesterday and I got the same "We are still investigating with UPS, you should be receiving a call soon message" from customer support. Grrrrrrr.
Damn I gotta stop doing these insanely long entries. If you managed to read this all, thankee for sticking to the end. Latez!
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