Phew, I am really disliking this summer.
The heat is getting to me. I drink too much (not alcohol), I sweat too much, the seabus stinks, the tourists! MY GAWD THE TOURISTS!
Theres been the Celebration of lights this week. for 2 weeks on Wednsday and Saturday there are LOUD fire works only a few short blocks and a nip out in the ocean from us. the swells of humans before and after the events could displace and ocean. Not to mention that fact that it sounds like canons going off right in our house.
Theres also parades. I had to go work on my day off because jeri was sick, and i had to wait a sailing on the boat and flipped off a mime just to get to the store. Pissed me off.
I'm also terribly shocked that poor michael Jackson has not been buried. He died a MONTH ago. Thats a long time. No peace in life, no peace in death. that poor man...
too hot to sit here.
Sunday 26 July 2009
Thursday 16 July 2009
Whee
Got to go home a bit early today, which was nice. I've been organizing my music files on my computer, getting album information and combining duplicate albums etc. Not too Exciting but its satisfying.
Works been... interesting. aside from the odd little situation coming up it's been the usual wonderful job, but some days just annoy me. Like...I am in there at 7am every morning, I'm the only one there for at least an hour and a half until the manager gets there. So i listen to my music. Lately Its been Michael Jackson. I go into phases where i will only listen to select things (artists, songs albums etc) and that's who its been lately (this started BEFORE he died. I've always loved MJ, its just a coincidence that he died while i was obsessing, or I killed him with my fandom, either way, I was listening before he died.) So ya, I had MJ playing (old disco songs) and the regional manager (who hangs around TOO much at our place) asked me to change the music when he came in because he was sick of MJ. Keep in mind, We dont have any TV here, and i dont listen to radio. any exposure I have to stuff is self inflicted, so I don't get sick of things that are flooding media (unless its the internet, but then I selectively browse etc).
It annoyed me HOW he asked me.
Anyways, I asked my manager if I could bring in mini speakers just for the time that I'm alone there (before the store opens) and she said it was okay. so thats what I'm going to be doing. If he comes in he can play whatever he wants over the store stereo, I'll have mine in the back.
Roar. I'm finding i regret very much not being MORE involved in my MJ fandom. I've always been a fan (sorta closetted but I never denied it) and so I had only a few songs actually on my mp3 players. I only owned one album before he died... now I regret not paying more attention while he was alive and seeing this stuff when it was new. Music videos I never had an interest in for most music, but his are just great and ... well.
Anyways.
Whats new?
I watched nightmare before christmas the other day. I missed it. I hadn't seen it in a while. I used to watch it every day. I must say, I'm not terribly impressed with the screenshots and promo images I've seen of 'Burtons Wonderland". I'm a big fan of Burton, but the CG just.... UG. It seems the Oposite of Burton really. I remember reading something about him saying that he believed that CG should be used as an assisting tool, and wasn't fond of CG, then he goes and makes one of those movies. Just... Ew. The part that struck me the most was the faces in the Roses in the screenshots. They seemed so generic and didnt have any burton charm. just faces on roses? c'mon he's more creative than that!
I'm dreading it to be honest.
I attempted painting last night and it was awful. I think I'll draw some tonight. I think we have 5 more discs of star trek to go through, HAHA.
Works been... interesting. aside from the odd little situation coming up it's been the usual wonderful job, but some days just annoy me. Like...I am in there at 7am every morning, I'm the only one there for at least an hour and a half until the manager gets there. So i listen to my music. Lately Its been Michael Jackson. I go into phases where i will only listen to select things (artists, songs albums etc) and that's who its been lately (this started BEFORE he died. I've always loved MJ, its just a coincidence that he died while i was obsessing, or I killed him with my fandom, either way, I was listening before he died.) So ya, I had MJ playing (old disco songs) and the regional manager (who hangs around TOO much at our place) asked me to change the music when he came in because he was sick of MJ. Keep in mind, We dont have any TV here, and i dont listen to radio. any exposure I have to stuff is self inflicted, so I don't get sick of things that are flooding media (unless its the internet, but then I selectively browse etc).
It annoyed me HOW he asked me.
Anyways, I asked my manager if I could bring in mini speakers just for the time that I'm alone there (before the store opens) and she said it was okay. so thats what I'm going to be doing. If he comes in he can play whatever he wants over the store stereo, I'll have mine in the back.
Roar. I'm finding i regret very much not being MORE involved in my MJ fandom. I've always been a fan (sorta closetted but I never denied it) and so I had only a few songs actually on my mp3 players. I only owned one album before he died... now I regret not paying more attention while he was alive and seeing this stuff when it was new. Music videos I never had an interest in for most music, but his are just great and ... well.
Anyways.
Whats new?
I watched nightmare before christmas the other day. I missed it. I hadn't seen it in a while. I used to watch it every day. I must say, I'm not terribly impressed with the screenshots and promo images I've seen of 'Burtons Wonderland". I'm a big fan of Burton, but the CG just.... UG. It seems the Oposite of Burton really. I remember reading something about him saying that he believed that CG should be used as an assisting tool, and wasn't fond of CG, then he goes and makes one of those movies. Just... Ew. The part that struck me the most was the faces in the Roses in the screenshots. They seemed so generic and didnt have any burton charm. just faces on roses? c'mon he's more creative than that!
I'm dreading it to be honest.
I attempted painting last night and it was awful. I think I'll draw some tonight. I think we have 5 more discs of star trek to go through, HAHA.
Thursday 9 July 2009
Annoying Day
Oof. The week hasn't been so bad overall, but today just annoyed the shit out of me. Monday I had to go to the warehouse for 'training' which is really a formality at this point since I've been doing the job for 6 months or more already. I just learned a little trick or two. It was definitely satisfying to see how happy the warehouse staff is with my work :) i got lost on the way because its in a fucking annoying place, but after phoning and waking Jeri up to google map it, I was fine. I was done by 1pm too which was nice.
This Week our New coordinator started. He's transferred from another Opus store so he's worked for Opus for many years and he's very good. He's a very nice guy, he really is but today he pissed me off. All week he asks "what are you working on?" so many times that you begin to feel scrutinized, and then today he had a customer asking about the status of an order. All pending orders are in the box labeled "waiting to Arrive" There is no information in the POS system for orders because I use a Purchase ordering system. All my orders are sent electronically through a different part of our computer system called "Silk". The staff fill out little forms for the stock requests, I fill them out in the Purchase order, send it and then the form the staff fill out gets filed in the "waiting to arrive" box. when the stock arrives then it gets put on hold in the POS.
Well our coordinator I guess did it differently in his other store and said some comment about the need to have something in silk to refer to. I was totally confused... Why when the box is right there? Why have 2 pieces of paper work? why go through all that extra work? it didnt make any sense to me at all. I questioned his statement but we left it as it was... I rang in a customer and the POS froze on me as I was accepting payment.
I fucked around with it for a bit then the coordinator fucked around a little too, and got it back up. Well the person paying, paid with a Mastercard with a chip on it, and since we dont handle the chip cards we dont get Expiry dates on the cards so we just put the expiry as 1111 for those ones since the visa terminal will record it digitally from the card anyways. So the coordinator goes to finish the transaction for the customer and asks me the expiry date and i told him about putting 1111 and he said "um, no you should never be doing that." then asked the customer for it... whatever... then he said "i'll have to make a list of everything you guys are doing wrong".
Well naturally that pissed me off. We work damn hard, and long to get the system set up how we have it after life with our Previous inventory was such a nightmare of fucked up paper work. Our system works, and we like it and we are sick of changing things around. So I went back to work doing my own thing, and later told Jeri about how pissed I was. She said I should talk to Ann, our manager about it because it was so innapropriate, but I didnt get an opportunity. Jeri told Ann that she should check on me because I was pissed about it and told Ann, so Ann said that Yes, Coordinator had mentioned it to her and she said we weren't changing anything at all, and told him that we were supposed to put the expiry date the way I said.
I was like " so I'm not doing everything wrong?! yay!" I've felt so scrutinized and watched this week and I really shouldnt be. I've never done anything to warrant being watched. I'm a very capable and "above and beyond" worker, and I've had my work cut out for me the last few weeks. The counts and the sale and all the ordering has been killer.
Now I have a months worth of Framing ordering to catch up on. If the Framing company sends the stoff on Tuesday like they're supposed to, then I'll be okay I think, but if they send it tomorrow, I'm hooped :B Fridays are too hard to get that much work done.
Maybe I should have split the order up over 2 Runs but I didnt want to. HA.
I keep staring at my humminbird painting for mum that I havent worked on in a while, knowing I have to work on it. I might just work on it now.... Right after I take mums animal crossing character to get a Bubble wand from Phineus, if he's stil in the City :p
Since my dA page isn't much good for posting art at all since most features ignore the film gallery, and I have maybe..... 2 people who actually comment on my work, I might take everything down and move it to a personal gallery on my domain. What do you think? I have a domain, I should use it right? No one comments, so I'll not have comments able and I wont miss anything! Or make it like a blog feed or something.. I dunno. Seems like a good plan to me. I'll just need a stellar website design to inspire me, and that might take a while.
ladydove7 is raising money to get a lighting kit to improve her stock photography. she is offering custom/exclusive stock to anyone who donates $15 or more. Read more here
fallenrox and allhopeislost have a Girl cat named jack, that had a pretty woundy wound that needs un-wounding. Please go look at the sad little pictures of their kitty and donate to the fund of healing. Read more here and here. (sorry it took me so long to pimp you guys! :love: )
This Week our New coordinator started. He's transferred from another Opus store so he's worked for Opus for many years and he's very good. He's a very nice guy, he really is but today he pissed me off. All week he asks "what are you working on?" so many times that you begin to feel scrutinized, and then today he had a customer asking about the status of an order. All pending orders are in the box labeled "waiting to Arrive" There is no information in the POS system for orders because I use a Purchase ordering system. All my orders are sent electronically through a different part of our computer system called "Silk". The staff fill out little forms for the stock requests, I fill them out in the Purchase order, send it and then the form the staff fill out gets filed in the "waiting to arrive" box. when the stock arrives then it gets put on hold in the POS.
Well our coordinator I guess did it differently in his other store and said some comment about the need to have something in silk to refer to. I was totally confused... Why when the box is right there? Why have 2 pieces of paper work? why go through all that extra work? it didnt make any sense to me at all. I questioned his statement but we left it as it was... I rang in a customer and the POS froze on me as I was accepting payment.
I fucked around with it for a bit then the coordinator fucked around a little too, and got it back up. Well the person paying, paid with a Mastercard with a chip on it, and since we dont handle the chip cards we dont get Expiry dates on the cards so we just put the expiry as 1111 for those ones since the visa terminal will record it digitally from the card anyways. So the coordinator goes to finish the transaction for the customer and asks me the expiry date and i told him about putting 1111 and he said "um, no you should never be doing that." then asked the customer for it... whatever... then he said "i'll have to make a list of everything you guys are doing wrong".
Well naturally that pissed me off. We work damn hard, and long to get the system set up how we have it after life with our Previous inventory was such a nightmare of fucked up paper work. Our system works, and we like it and we are sick of changing things around. So I went back to work doing my own thing, and later told Jeri about how pissed I was. She said I should talk to Ann, our manager about it because it was so innapropriate, but I didnt get an opportunity. Jeri told Ann that she should check on me because I was pissed about it and told Ann, so Ann said that Yes, Coordinator had mentioned it to her and she said we weren't changing anything at all, and told him that we were supposed to put the expiry date the way I said.
I was like " so I'm not doing everything wrong?! yay!" I've felt so scrutinized and watched this week and I really shouldnt be. I've never done anything to warrant being watched. I'm a very capable and "above and beyond" worker, and I've had my work cut out for me the last few weeks. The counts and the sale and all the ordering has been killer.
Now I have a months worth of Framing ordering to catch up on. If the Framing company sends the stoff on Tuesday like they're supposed to, then I'll be okay I think, but if they send it tomorrow, I'm hooped :B Fridays are too hard to get that much work done.
Maybe I should have split the order up over 2 Runs but I didnt want to. HA.
I keep staring at my humminbird painting for mum that I havent worked on in a while, knowing I have to work on it. I might just work on it now.... Right after I take mums animal crossing character to get a Bubble wand from Phineus, if he's stil in the City :p
Since my dA page isn't much good for posting art at all since most features ignore the film gallery, and I have maybe..... 2 people who actually comment on my work, I might take everything down and move it to a personal gallery on my domain. What do you think? I have a domain, I should use it right? No one comments, so I'll not have comments able and I wont miss anything! Or make it like a blog feed or something.. I dunno. Seems like a good plan to me. I'll just need a stellar website design to inspire me, and that might take a while.
ladydove7 is raising money to get a lighting kit to improve her stock photography. she is offering custom/exclusive stock to anyone who donates $15 or more. Read more here
fallenrox and allhopeislost have a Girl cat named jack, that had a pretty woundy wound that needs un-wounding. Please go look at the sad little pictures of their kitty and donate to the fund of healing. Read more here and here. (sorry it took me so long to pimp you guys! :love: )
Wednesday 1 July 2009
Animal Crossing Gallery
I bet you are sick of animal Crossing, but its all I got :p
I just posted an album of all the photos Kitty and I take during our game play. They're so cute :)
If you want to play with us, out town is: Walnut.
My name is Ingalls, and Kitty's Name is Kitty
my code is 0904.0451.1406
Kitty's Code: 1419.4411.9321
So ya, We had a long week at work. It's hard being completely chipper all the time though. especially since I've been surprisingly bummed about Michael Jacksons Death. Every now and then I wanted to be like "okay, someone else wave the pompoms and make ME laugh!". Oh well. We finished the inventory count pretty early, so we had a long afternoon too.
I've got a few things going on, that I'll blog about in Animated Guru :)
I just posted an album of all the photos Kitty and I take during our game play. They're so cute :)
If you want to play with us, out town is: Walnut.
My name is Ingalls, and Kitty's Name is Kitty
my code is 0904.0451.1406
Kitty's Code: 1419.4411.9321
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| animal crossing |
So ya, We had a long week at work. It's hard being completely chipper all the time though. especially since I've been surprisingly bummed about Michael Jacksons Death. Every now and then I wanted to be like "okay, someone else wave the pompoms and make ME laugh!". Oh well. We finished the inventory count pretty early, so we had a long afternoon too.
I've got a few things going on, that I'll blog about in Animated Guru :)
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