Just had a nice 12.5 hour shift and now I'm in the 10 hour window between that shift and my 11.5 hour shift. And then it gets worse after that. Yay for overworking your employees and encouraging the already high burnout rate to shoot upwards.

If you don't have enough people to cover the calls you expect to get no matter what you do, isn't it better to not overload your employees driving down productivity and moral as well as driving the turnover rate up? Seems logical to me but I guess I'm not an excutive. Ah business logic.

Quote of the YesterDay: "What's your encore? Do you, like, anally rape my mother while pouring sugar in my gas tank?"
- Dante

Quote of the Day: "My name is _______,I have metal joints. Beat me up and earn 15 Silver points!"

Just fill in the blank.

Turns out my shiny new computer is all mostly delivered and waiting for me to come get it at a depot in Dieppe (just outside of Moncton). Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond my control I won't be getting back to Moncton until AFTER the depot closes. So that means I'll have to wait until tomorrow to get my computer. Which means there probably won't be a regular blog post tonight. If I'm feeling REALLY ambitious I might hook up my mom's old laptop and do the dial-up thing but I'll probably just find non computer ways to amuse myself for the evening and go pick the computer up around midday tomorrow.

Sure I could just do a regular update right now while I'm still in PC but meh.

So I'm all home and stuff. Taking advantage of said homeness I messaged Fergi tonight to see if he was up for doing something. He was. So then we had to find something to do. As any of you who've spent a lot of time in PC undoubtedly know, it's not the most happening place, esp in the middle of the week. So we decided to go see a movie followed by some gaming and subwaying.

We went to see Hero and when we went gave the usher type person our tickets he, after telling us where the movie was, asked if we knew it was subtitled. The way he said it was hilarious. You'd expect someone to ask 'Do you know this movie is funded by Neo-Nazi's?' in much the same way. Apparently the idea of *gasp* having to read the dialogue is quite horrific.

In later in the evening news it turns out Pikmin 2 (which I recently acquired) has a very fun 2 player versus mode. There's a co-op mode as well but that has to be unlocked.

Quote of the 'YesterDay': "I hereby appoint you my Executive Officer in charge of... um... radishes."
- Picard

Yume gets the credit for guessing this one.

Quote of the Day: "What's your encore? Do you, like, anally rape my mother while pouring sugar in my gas tank?"
-?

Sign #1 you aren't having a good day: You get woken up about an hour and a half earlier than you normally would get up to find that an expected delivery has come. But then you find that it's only the printer portion of said delivery and that you'll have to wait till at least tomorrow for the rest.

Sign #2 you aren't having a good day: When you go to sit in your chair you somehow manage to get the chair arm into your shorts pocket, thus causing a not on the seams tear when you finish sitting down. (ripping through both sides of the pocket, no less)

Sign #3 you aren't having a good day: About 5 seconds after that when you go to put your headset on you manage to jab yourself in the eye with the microphone part, thus giving you a sore eye and a headache for the rest of the day.


So yeah, not that great of a day. And to add to the fun my left upper arm up to and including the start of my neck has been sore all day as well.

There may or may not be a post tomorrow. If there is one it'll probably be in the AM as I am planning on driving to PC after work tomorrow night as my dad's b-day is on the 1st. As normal that means I'll have to get to bed as soon as I get home as there'll be a dog in my room that has had several hours to rest already and if she gets to run around for even a few minutes she'll get all hyper and then I'll have to stay up for a few more hours after I get home.

Quote of the YesterDay: "Ahh, my eye! I'm not supposed to get pudding in it."
- Lenny

Hbaka scores the point this time around.

Quote of the Day: "I hereby appoint you my Executive Officer in charge of... um... radishes."
-?

So the olympics ended today. That of course is important for one and only one reason. It means that CBC will be back to showing Simpsons when they normally do. We get many different feeds of CBC on the dish in the break room at work so when at work someone or other almost always puts the Simpsons on so I usually get to see at least part of an episode on any given day. During the olympics this was not always the case due to A) there being less Simpsons being shown and B) the fact that most people find the olympics to be actually interesting.

Personally I don't care about summer sports the other 3 years and 50 weeks, I'm not about to start caring about them now out of some pathetic sense of patriotism. I mean does it really matter if the guy who threw the stick farthest happened to be born within several thousand miles of where I was born? Do I somehow get to share in his accomplishment because we both were raised in a quasi similar enviroment?

Quote of the YesterDay: "Oh, who doesn't own an interositer these days?"
- Dr. Forrester
This one was taken from MST 3K: The Movie which is basically the same as the TV show except it had a bit more elaborate skits and it was actually a bit shorter than a normal episode.

Quote of the Day: "Ahh, my eye! I'm not supposed to get pudding in it."
- ?

I watched A LOT of stuff today. I got up fairly early (around 10 AM), Granger left around 11:45 AM and then between now and then I've had not a whole lot to do. I picked up a few groceries, finished Doll House, had a couple meals, showered and did some writing but outside of that it's been nothing but lying around watching stuff. I know that seems like a fairly packed list but it really isn't. There's been a lot of time with little to do. I watched 6 eps of Futurama, two eps of Farscape and an ep of MST3K.

The problem is basically that while there's a lot to do in Moncton, I don't really have anyone to do things with (unless someone's visiting from NS (which is pretty rare)). So on my days off, things can get a bit monotonous. I'll be getting another game this coming week and that'll help add to the variety of things but until I make some friends around here things are going to stay fairly dull, I imagine.

I didn't really notice the dullness/loneliness at first with the adjusting to having a new job, living in a new city, having my own room, being almost completely independent, but I do notice it now. It was bugging me in a subconcious way for the last month or so but I didn't realize it consciously until after the weekend gathernig in Pictou County.

Sitting around and hanging out with my friends while watching a crappy movie, playing a game or having a few drinks is something that was standard at Acadia but something that has been greatly lacking from my life in Moncton. The weekend was a blast but afterwards it made me realize how much I missed those simple things.

When I first got to Moncton I kind of expected I'd make friends with people at work sooner or later. I have done so to an extent. There are people who I hang out with at lunch and talk to quite a bit at work but from what I can tell there's not a whole lot of carry over with people hanging out at work and hanging out outside of work (just based on conversations people have about things they are doing on the weekend and things like that). The vast majority of people at work already have their circle of friends from school and so there's no need for them to add to that circle. I'm sure there are still additions and stuff but as I'm sure most of you know I'm not exactly the most outgoing person. I make friends rather slowly so if I'm to form a good friendship I need a good enviroment in which to do so. Said enviroment isn't really present at work.

Right now I'm just kinda hoping that sooner or later I'll end up getting a roommate or roommates who share a lot of interests with me. My previous fellow roommates have all been a fair bit older than me and into things like cars and sports which really don't interest me a whole hell of a lot. I liked them as people well enough but we never really talked all that much.

One of my roommates actually moved out this week and the other is supposed to do so sometime next week so at some point in the not too distant future I will be getting new roommates. Whether they'll be good roommates or not though remains to be seen.

On the computer front, my new computer is now in Moncton (and has been since 4 AM Saturday morning). I kind of expected Purolator would show up with at some point today but they did not do so. I'm not sure if they deliver from wherever it is in Moncton right now on the weekend or not. If they don't do delivery but they are open tomorrow I'll probably go pick my computer up I'll be working on Monday and Tuesday.

Quote of the YesterDay: "People said I was dumb, but I proved them."
- Fry

I thought this was an easy one but I guess not.

Quote of the Day: "Oh, who doesn't own an interositer these days?"
-?