| How the mighty have fallen |
[Feb. 16th, 2007|09:19 am] |
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Today(okay, last night to be technical) before I went to work, I started working out agan. Its been a while, maybe 2 years since I last did this... Maybe even more. Work has made my body a bit better in the arms and shoulders, but it isn't making me stronger fast enough for my liking. There was a time I did 400 push ups a day and that was just the tip of the iceberg. Not that I'm... well I'm not out of shape really, just not as strong as I was, I find I can only do way less before I get tired. My arms ARE bigger thanks to the work on the rigs but the supporting muscles in my arms, chest, back, abs, etc aren't getting a workout. So time to do the whole shebang over again. 2 workouts a day, one when I get up and one before I go to bed. Plus work. I just hope this doesn't kill me before it makes me stronger. I still have to workout before I go to bed this morning, and there is will there to do it, but ambition is rather hard to find at the moment. |
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| Been a long time |
[Jan. 16th, 2007|03:20 pm] |
I haven't posted for a long time, and a lot has happened. Back at the start of December, I got on the drilling rigs. I worked for 3 days, then we shut down for the christmas break cause we had no where to move the rig and there was no trucking company still working. So I was off from Dec 9 to Jan 3. Longest time I've had off since I was 15, so I enjoyed it.
Then I went back but the day before I got a bad cold. It made work really shitty, and its hard to do your best when you're knocked down to about 60% of your full potential. Then after 8 days, I found out they had offered a guy his old job back if he ever came back, they never thought he would. But he did. So, I got bumped to a new crew, and I start with them tonight. I could have worked 5 weeks straight, and been switched to the new crew tonight, without a break, or I could have taken the last 6 days off, which I did. I was sick, and needed the time to recover. I WISH I could have done the 5 weeks straight, but I'm just learning the job, and I was sick. It would have been a death scentance. Plus my cold could have gotten worse and gotten me fired for not being able to hack it. Even though I can, being sick just screws ya over that way.
Plus, I go to see Evanescence on Saturday. Awesome show, Stone Sour opened up and they were great. Really in touch with the crowd, he even got screwed up a couple times singing Bother cause the crowd was so intense. You could tell he was having fun, and after a while, Evanescence came out. It was a blast, Amy Lee's voice is just as amazing live as it is on CD. Its nice to know that there are still bands out there that aren't all studio magic, theres still talent in the world. I got an Evanescence hoodie and a tshirt, and I got a t-shirt for Lisa cause I said I would. *grin*
But now, I have to get ready for work, and make a few phone calls. *sigh* Life is so unpredicatable for me right now, I kinda hate this. |
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| Wii! |
[Nov. 20th, 2006|09:15 am] |
Yesterday, I got my new Nintendo Wii. I admit, a while back I was skeptical about the controller. Having to move it around to do things, wondering how games would work with it... Well, those feelings have been put to rest.
It really IS intuitive to move it around. You swing it like a tennis raquette, or a golf club, with the nunchuck attachment on the remote, you swing both the remote and the other controller as boxing gloves and punch like you would in a match. The motion sensors in the controllers also track MY movement, not just thiers, so when I hold the controllers in front of my face to block, if I lean left or right, my character on the screen ducks to the left or right. The truck racing game I got, you steer by tilting the remote control like a steering wheel. Took a bit to get used to, about 5 minutes, but once we did, we had a ball. A couple other friends of ours dropped by, so Brett(Katies boyfriend) and I played them at the sports and truck racing game. They picked it up right away, and all the games we're pretty closely matched.
I haven't played it yet(I know, this will be a shock) but I also bought the new Zelda game. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. I DID watch the intro. GORGEOUS. I didn't play only because I was so tired yesterday, and was gamed out playing with everyone else. I'll be playing in a little bit. I get to swing the sword with the remote, and block with the shield with the remote as well.
I can save information on the Wii itself, and I can also use my old Gamecube memory card in it as well. Which is good, because I can play my old Gamecube games on it as well. I just have to plug the controllers in to it on top of the unit, and its good to go.
Definitly a good purchase. And at only $280, how can I go wrong? Comes with a remote, the nunchuck attachment, and Wii sports. Wii sports has Baseball, Bowling, Boxing, Golf, and Tennis. I also picked up 2 more remotes and 1 more nunchuck, plus Zelda and Excite truck. Should keep my busy for a while.
Right now, I'm just killing time till I can phone and get a WORKING username and password for the rig training site so I can do the test and get on the damn rig site. They're waiting for me, but I have to do the corperate office bullshit dance to get there. Oh well. Couple more hours, and I get the info, the the course, and go from there.
But the coolest thing right now, is I can play video games while laying in bed. And I can download classic games and play them on the Wii. I need to pick of the classic controller for some of them, but no rush yet. I can always get one for Christmas. |
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[Nov. 15th, 2006|08:25 am] |
Well, I haven't made a post in a long time. Not dead yet. Not for lack of trying, just been up to the usual.
I did a urine test and physical for the rigs last friday. Passed em both perfectly. The information was faxed to the main office, and there is only one thing left for me to do. There is an online saftey course, 10 modules, with a quiz at the end of each one. I need to do that before I can get hired. Downside, the server has been down since at least last monday. Its up now, I just checked, but I can't log in yet. So I'll try later today before work, and if not, I'll phone the nice girl at the head office. With any luck, I'll be on the rigs soon. Damn, I sound like a broken record, the amount I've been saying that... And that does kind of date me. I actually know what a record is. Soon, kids will have no idea what that means.
Sunday can't come soon enough. 4 more days. Then I get my Wii. And the new Zelda came. And ExciteTruck. I don't now why, but for some reason, the idea of driving a truck on the screen by tilting the remote like a steering wheel just sounds like awesome fun.
Well, I'll post more when something exciting happens. Or on Sunday after I get my Wii and play a lot. |
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| Stolen from Printemps |
[Oct. 19th, 2006|05:13 am] |
IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie.
Opening Credits: You're My Inspiration by Chicago
Waking Up: TIE My Shoe - Freestyle Chinese Rapper(dunno name)
First Day At School: Brocket 99 Side 1
Playtime/Childhood: Not Ready to Go by the Trews
Falling in Love: Mad Season by Matchbox 20
Fight Song: Perfect by Maren Ord
Breaking Up: Holiday by Green Day
Prom: Pretty Fly for a Jedi by Weird Al
Life's OK: The Counter-Strike Song by Mister Stick
Mental Breakdown: Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson
Driving: I can't get no satisfaction by the Rolling Stones
Flashback: Mystic Forest(Orchestrated) from Final Fantasy 6
Getting Back Together: Everything you want by Vertical Horizon
Wedding: Bohemian Raphsody by Queen
Birth of Child: Bad 4 you by Alannah Myles
Final Battle: Hotel California by The Eagles
Death Scene: Adam Song by Blink 182
Funeral Song: Degeneration X ring entrance theme
End Credits: Photograph by Nickleback
All in all, not bad. I like a few of those random chances. A couple I wish other tunes on my playlist would have come up, ecspecially for the fight music. The flashback music was a great pick. Adam Song for the death scene could work out nice I guess. But oh hell yeah on the DX funeral song. :D |
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| Stolen from Squeak and Printemps |
[Oct. 8th, 2006|07:06 am] |
Looked interesting, had to try it.
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Malbolgia took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! "Needs release from stress. Longs for peace, tranqu..."
Click here to read the rest of the results.
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Okay, that was too damn accurate for how simple it was... Cept I disagree a bit on the ego part... But I guess I can only disagree a bit after thinking of a few talks I've had with lisa.... |
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| Woo! |
[Oct. 8th, 2006|07:05 am] |
YAY! I got the new Evanescence cd for my birthday, early present. Bday is the 19th, but who wants to wait that long for sweet Amy Lee goodness? :D
Also picked up a few movies today... had a bit of dissapointment when I couldn't buy one of the tools I needed to get a project started but oh well. Overall a decent day. |
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| Skool? Edge you kation? |
[Sep. 29th, 2006|02:47 am] |
So today before I went to work... Actually, before I dragged my sorry ass out of bed to get DRESSED for work, I got a phone call. It was a recruiter from IADT, the International Acadamy of Design and Technology. A college in Toronto. I put in a request for more information the night before. I had selected afternoon on Saturdays as the best day to contact me, but oh well. Thursday works.
I talked to the recruiter. Let her know I graduated in 2000, that I took math and physics and I really enjoyed physics. I let her know I was working, and mentioned that I have 3 and a half years of perfect attendance, which she liked and was impressed by. She said that showed dedication, and we talked about how I got screwed over on the promotion. We talked about how Toronto is an expensive city, and that the course was $16000 per year, and its a 2 year course. I told her I'm looking into going around 2008, cause I want to have some money saved up first for living expenses. She doesn't have any registrations for that far away, so I'll be keeping in contact and aplying later on when the dates come due. IF I can afford it at that point. Theres more to go into, but I want to wait until I get the information package from them before I say any more... Still gotta decide a few things.
And no, its not CERTAIN that I'm going yet, so no celebrations Lisa. |
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| Fuck it. |
[Sep. 26th, 2006|04:24 am] |
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I found out tonight that I didn't get the promotion. The only reason for it was the concern that I want to switch jobs to the oil fields, and that they'd have to do these interviews over again in 3 months, or even 6 months down the line. I understand this line of thinking and in fact I prepared for it ever since I knew who was interviewing me. But it still pisses me off and dissapoints me. Instead of seeing it as something that could keep me around, it was the thing that disqualified me.
I was honest and professional in my conduct, letting my supervisior know that I was trying to get on the rigs back in April. I've made it clear that I want to be on the rigs. But I have yet to get on. I was honest, I let them know so I wouldn't screw them over with a one day notice, or just phone in and say I quit. I worked hard, I show up every day. I'm dependable, reliable and trustworthy. For that I get shoved in a room against my will to clean the fucking inedible room. Even though its a higher pay that I make normally, I hate the fucking room. I feel like I'm loosing all my dignity just being in there. The smell permeates everything I wear and makes me stink horribly. Yet I do the fucking job. I bust my ass at my current job. I do the paperwork right now and I'm NOT getting paid for it. I could justify it if I was getting the promotion, and just calling it paying my dues or hard knocks or whatever. But now, what the FUCK is the point.
PLUS, there is expectations that I will help train the new leadhand some in my area. Oh, okay. So I'm not good enough to be the leadhand, but I'm good enough to train the person who is? Yes, fuck you too so very much. I didn't say that during the meeting where I found out I wasn't getting it. I said thats pretty harsh. Steve agreed with me, and said it is shitty, but thats the way things go sometimes.
I've learned my lesson. Honestly and hard work get you no where in Maple Leaf Foods. I will NOT forget that.
Now I'm even more determined to get a new job and get the fuck out of that hellhole. Even going to univeristy is poking away at my mind, but a few things keep me from going. First is money. Even with a student loan, I still owe my line of credit $5500. After thats paid off, I'm debt free. But till it is, well, its $187 a month I have to pay for the next 3 years to get it paid. I want it done before that. I want it done in under a year. 14 months tops. The second thing is my grades back in high school when I was too depressed and tired of being picked on every fucking day to care about grades anymore. I went from an A student to C's, D's, and yes, even F's. Yes people, the guy you call smart FAILED in high school. Grade 11 Math, and grade 11 History. I had to make them up during my final year. It was 3 days before graduation before I knew if I was graduating or not. Now, I know I can do better in school cause now I'll actually GIVE a shit, but those grades on my final transcript WILL haunt me if I try to get into university.
Sure, I graduated, but colleges and universities really have no need to enroll someone like me. I'm not as althletic as I used to be, and playing college basketball is not something I want to do, nor would I be able to play in that league anyways. I was never that good. So in short, my grades sucked, I can't offer athletics to help propel them to win, and I'm short the cash. Kind of a rock and a hard place right now.
On a positive note, I just found my cheque book. I was looking for that damn thing all weekend, I need to send a void cheque to get the line of credit payments started. Damn thing WAS in the drawer. I checked that fucking thing 3 times! It was hiding, I swear. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 23rd, 2006|04:09 pm] |
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Well I'll be damned.... I came home tonight, was a pretty good day today... Went by fast, I'm pretty satisfied. Damn near ready to say I'm happy. My distributor came in yesterday and should be going in my car this weekend so I'll have my boat back on the road. I checked my email after work, and one of them was titled "PCTV survey winners". I didn't noticed the subject until after I read it. I thought it was a bit wierd of them to send me the results of the survey, but it was cool and I liked it. Then they mentioned the list of winners. Figured theres no harm in hoping, so I look through the list, seeing what people won.
And there, very bottom name on the list....
Verbatim, 4GB Store'n go USB HD Drive (4 units), Christopher, Aussant, Souris, MB, Canada
I won.... A free USB hard drive. I never really expected to GET anything out of these online surveys, I just like doing them. Pretty cool. Yeah, I'd go so far as to say I'm happy today. Tomorrow I'll post about my interview for the lead hand job I did on Thursday. |
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| 6 facts |
[Sep. 17th, 2006|12:38 am] |
Other people have done the 6 random facts about themselves, so I will too. Horray for sheep mentality!
1) My beard grows really fast. Like, really really fast. I shave in the morning, by noon, I already have a face that resembles sandpaper. My usual position at the computer to contemplate and think has my chin on one knee. Which is bad when I haven't shaved, and I'm in boxers. One little move, and my knee gets rubbed raw.
2) My ears don't match. My right ear has an extra little notch, really small, but its there. The left ear doesn't have it, its smooth right down. Just the right.
3) Unless you use some wierd sized middle chain, I can get my arms in front of me if you handcuff my hands behind my back. Theres one advantage of having no ass.
4) For as technical as I am, for as much as I know about computers and code, I have no website. I've been MEANING to make one since 1996.... Just never got around to it yet. I mean a real website, not some throw together with a form Yahoo! or MySpace page, I mean a real site.
5) I only eat crackers with one kind of soup: Tomato. Not just any tomato, Alymer's brand. And the crackers are buttered. I dip the cracker in the soup, bite down, and repeat until all my crackers are gone. And I eat a whole package of crackers per pot of soup. When the crackers are gone, theres not much soup left, so one slurp or 2 has it done.
6) I am pretty much immune to sugar and caffine. I can drink a pot of coffee, no shaking hand. I can consume over $20 worth of chocolate bars/junk food(and I do on a semi-regular basis it seems), without getting a sugar high.
There we have it. 6 useless facts about me. Use them wisely. |
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[Sep. 15th, 2006|12:58 pm] |
http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash2.php
Check it out, and click the link on the left "Imagining the 10 dimensions"
Its a really cool explanation, with sound and pictures to help illustrate... Wierd part is, up to the 7th dimension, I knew all this already.... And they never taught this in school. Now I'm wondering how I knew all that. :D |
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[Sep. 14th, 2006|04:15 am] |
Work. Sucks. My shift is supposed to have 14 guys. We have 4. One of them is me. I'm the only one with a forklift lisence, let alone the 2 forklift lisences that I have. Okay. Thats bad.... Offals take 4 guys to do properly, 2 throwing on, 2 throwing off... I can make do with 3, just me driving the forklift and throwing on, 2 guys throwing off... Okay, 4 guys, I have to drive, that leaves 3, 1 to run Line 1, 1 to run Line 5, one to assit with Line 5. Now to pick 2 more workers from the remaining 0... Reset brain due to failure....
We've had to borrow guys from other departments(most of the time, its guys who LEFT our department to go to other ones) to come and help get this done. I'll leave out some details so I don't rant, but what used to take 3-4 minutes per pallet of 64 boxes, is now taking 7-12 minutes, to do essentially the same fucking job. We're TRYING to get it changed back, but in big business, smart decisions happen slowly, and incompetance moves at the speed of light.
Plus yesterday one of the guys phoned in sick. I had 2 workers, plus me. Oh happy day. Shoot me now.
And today, my Ipod fucked up. Got in the car, plugged it in, went to hit the tunes, no playlists on it. I installed ITunes 7.0 the night before, it was working fine so I thought, I added a new playlist.... Fine, run back inside the house, sync up the songs.... Can't do it, wont work. Wont recongize the ipod.... Grr... Okay, factory reset.... Wont work..... GRRRRRR. Okay, try this.. No.... Try that... No. 2:10, no more time to fuck with it, had to leave the house and drive 30 miles with the damn radio, and the stations around her SUCK. Got to work, had a shitty day, had not tunes to keep me sane, then drove home 30 miles with same shitty radio.... Got home, fixed the ipod, it works again. YAY! Go me. Sanity somewhat restored.
I was GOING to have a cigar, since it was a rough day... I had my zippo right in front of me. The pack of cigars, unopened, but in front of me, under the edge of my computer. I had the asstray to my right... All ready to go... And I didn't have one. Didn't feel like it. Guess I'm not really a smoker. A smokers a smoker when the chips are down. My chips are down.... And I'm not smoking. Rather nice knowing they don't have control over me. I control them. HA HA! You burn when -I- tell you to! I am master of your flame! Bow down to me, dead leaves!
Oh. And I have a cold. Making work suck much much more.
But Tuesday I bought Animaniacs before I went to work. Volume 1, 5 discs. Sweeeeet!
I'm Yako! I'm Wako! And I'm cuuuute!
Okay, I'm strange, but I like that show. So I'm somewhat happy. :P
Now if I could just stop sneezing and breath again... |
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| Well now. |
[Sep. 9th, 2006|06:47 pm] |
Well, I didn't get the new distributor for my car on friday, so it wont be up and running till sometime next week. Kinda sucks, but what can ya do.
Turns out the oil pan doesn't have a hole, so it didn't get changed. The plastic washer on the oil change bolt had broken, and the bolt had come loose. Hence the oil leak. Somewhat of a relife. Although now I have a spare oil pan that I have nothing to do with yet.
I was just told today that appparently they're going to be looking for about 300 guys to work on the rigs in this area in the next short while, so I've got my fingers crossed.
On Friday, I got a phone call from one of my credit car companies. I got offered a line of credit, $6500, to pay off my credit cards. My 2 cards combined are only about $5500, so theres an extra grand on the credit line. The line of credit is only 10.5% interest, compared to the 18.9% on one card and 19.9% on the other, so its a hell of a lot better. Its set up so I pay $187 a month for the next 3 years and have the principals paid in full, rather that working on the credit cards as I have been. I can pay more on it, and I will, I'll try and go for about $300 a month, so I'll be looking at oweing nothing within a year. Sweeet. Having great credit for the last 6 years has actually paid off. Although it does amaze me that I now have $17500 in credit. $2000 on one mastercard, $4000 on another, $5000 through the Co-Op, and now a $6500 line of credit. Damn. Lifes getting more and more interesting... |
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[Aug. 30th, 2006|02:07 pm] |
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Our youngest(and for the next little while, unfixxed) cat Spazz had kittens this morning. 4 of them. 2 pure black, one black and white and one orange. Cute little buggers. I'll have pictures of them as soon as I can, so leave a comment if you want me to send ya some. |
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| Shaving Day ...... Meh? |
[Aug. 25th, 2006|04:06 am] |
Not sure what day it is for the shaving bit, but I haven't been shaving every day so it doesn't really matter. Turns out my skin doesn't really toughen up, I just learn what the hell I'm doing so I don't have to shave everyday. :P
Shaved a little while ago, had a couple knicks but not too bad. One was cause of a zit, and I expected it. The others were circumstantial... The ones on my right side of my upper lip I knew would happen, I was pushing a bit before I realized it, and I made too many passes. One small cut on my right side of my chin caught me offgaurd. Must have had a zit forming there cause I have no other reason for that to have happened. Other than that, things are going great. I've got the cheeks down(had that down for a while), got the jawline down, got the chin 99% down, and the upper lip is almost down. ALMOST perfect at this. Well, practice makes perfect. And not like I have to wait a long time to do it again. Damn fast growing beard. But thats why I prefer the straight razor. Gets a closer shave, so I don't HAVE to shave as often to stay somewhat smooth. |
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[Aug. 23rd, 2006|02:07 am] |
Well, I'll sum up the last couple days real fast. Shaving going is great, I've all but mastered that damn straight razor. Bit more practicing is needed, but slowly these little cuts are going away.
Work, they're trying to screw my shift over, but my supervisor isn't about to let that happen without one HELL of a fight. Expect more details if things don't change.
After work Monday, I stopped off to buy a couple packs of smokes for my dad. The guy ID'd me. Fucking AWESOME. I haven't felt this young for a long time. :P
With people guessing my age at 27-31 at work anytime they guess, its nice to be seen as under 30. 23 looking 31 sucks.
Right now, I'm munching down a steak I just BBQ'd thats been marinading since saturday night and DAMN is it good. I lack in many things in life, but steak is not one of them. :P |
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| Shaving day 6 |
[Aug. 17th, 2006|02:01 pm] |
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Well, tried the straight razor on the whole face today. Little bit of bleeding, not too bad. Just gotta learn to get the right angle in a few places, but the advice I got online helped a bunch. The not pressing thing worked really well... |
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| Shaving, day 5 |
[Aug. 16th, 2006|03:22 am] |
Another bad day at work, but I refuse to acknowledge it. Its over.
So since my face was like sandpaper when I got home, I just shaved. I last shaved 10 hours or so ago, and it was already bad. Stupid mach 3 turbo. 3 blades do FUCK ALL. This 5 blade fusion shit can go throw itself in the back of the closet, I refuse to even try one. I just did a bit of searching and found some really great advice so I'm ready to go back and work on the whole face with the straight razor. Advice like:
Don't press(hard to supress that instict, you think you'll get a closer shave by pressing)
Keep the face lathered. I usually lather up, then do a pass, and then do an against the grain pass without relathering. Now I can see where the irritation comes from.
Tomorrow, or later today I should say, I'll try with the straight razor and do light strokes and see how I do. I wanna ditch that useless "safety" razor. |
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