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first full shift on the new system. Survey says…dumb! The system has a thousand issues and most of them the people who built the system weren’t even aware of until we raised our damned little red flags, not the white ones though, those are for normal support not tech support. Because Tech did oh so much. I shouldn’t rag on them though, the tech support was great, the one that was lacking was the rep from PC, I’m just far too invested in going forward rather than going back to fix such things as “factual inaccuracies”. Thinking about it now, all the tech support was awesome, I felt bad for the one little blonde lady, it seemed that every time she came to help me I some super retardo question that she had never seen before, it got to the point where every time she saw my hand go up she would laugh, shake her head and come ask “what I had for her this time”.
I’m apparently starting at 9AM tomorrow to have a “huddle” with some other folk, apparently going over what we can and can’t do on the system at the moment as well as what our thoughts are on it and what our comfort level is. I could definitely think of some choice phrasing to describe my thoughts on your new system of the future, but considering the meeting is with the head of the program and not Troy or Steph, I’ll keep my thoughts to myself…for the most part. If she asks, I’ll tell just so long as the PCG isn’t in the room, if you wanna know what it means, just ask. What is it? oh, it stands for PC Goober.
good night folks, and remember, A dream forsaken, is a slumber awakened.
First day on the new system at work today, started off incredibly slow since I really had no idea how to log into the system and had to wait for Jim to come around and lend a hand. Normally I could do a change of address in about 3-5 minutes, on the new system it took 11. I will put money on the fact that it’s because I have to read the procedure on every god forsaken call now that we have this cussed new program. I’m sure I’ll get used to it once I’ve had some time on it but for now its frustrating as hell. My call time came down leading up to my first break but something I ate last night was not agreeing with me so at the break I packed up and went home. I basically spent the day curled up on the couch, had a conversation about Justified via Twitter and shot the breeze with Kristi for a bit. I will forewarn anyone who tries to conversate over Twitter…find another medium, trying to have a conversation in 140 characters a pop is a bit difficult at times.
Patiently waiting for the double shot of Leverage to go up online so I can watch it since I’ve yet to get TNT, but not to worry, I’ve got the first two seasons on DVD and plan on getting the third when it comes out. Such a great show, I’ve been biding my time before the new episodes by watching old ones and clips on Youtube.
Fellow Bloggers, it is time for me to hit the proverbial hay, try to get a jump on what ails this bag o’ bones.
Until tomorrow.
The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable
Went to work for 2 and by about 7:30 I had answered roughly 34 calls. We averaged about 5-6 minutes in between each one, which means that as great as it was to sit around and socialize, it made for a long shift. I got out of there at 10pm and am due back again at 10:30 tomorrow morning. Since tomorrow marks the launch of our new system that we’ll be running everything through it should be interesting, I’ve been chosen as one of the 17 guinea pigs who are working to take it for its first spin. Co-workers keep saying things like “best of luck” and “I don’t envy you one bit” but its just another program, we were trained on it. Granted I won’t know have of what I do on the old program but that’s why I go in every day, to get better at it…well that and to get paid, but either way we have a crapload of support staff and apparently all of the supervisors are going to be in to help as well. Which is great but at the same time, they were in the same training classes we were, asking the same questions we were so it would be the exact same as if I were to ask the person next to me what the hell I was doing. Mind you they still know more on an information basis, but not on the actual tech of the program itself.
I’m starting to go ink crazy again, starting to look back into my tattoos that I want and pick out the one thats most plausible as my next endeavor. I’m leaning towards one that I need some help with, I’ve asked Chelle but I have yet to hear back from her. I can only assume it will be a yes but once I hear either way we can start plotting it out. My guess is that when I go visit her in the city (soon I promise!) that we can put some sort of plan into action. Not only that but then I’ll actually have pictures to use at the start of these blogs apart from going back through Facebook albums from yesteryear trying to find ones I haven’t used.
Well kiddies, its getting to be that part of the evening again, the part where I lie in bed and play Plants vs. Zombies on my Iphone until I get tired and go to sleep. The plan is to go to work and then watch some Rifftrax with Justin tomorrow night so we’ll see if those plans play out.
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
The above photo is proof that you should never challenge me to a “coy-off”, had it not been for Mandy’s formidable talent in that area I would have mopped the floor with her.
Today was a day for nostalgia, which I believe started rather early this morning while talking to a friend from back in Vancouver, about acting and life back that way and such things. I’ve realized that as much as I loved it out there, I loved it for the people. The bonds I made while I lived there were built to withstand the test of time, friends with more in common than we go to the same school or “wow, you like the colour orange too?” Granted the colour orange is awesome and will give you a bit of a head start in my books but I understand that some people aren’t as wordly and have opted for more basic colours. That’s fine, they’re still great people, they just need some work =P.
I miss the nights of getting off work and heading to Mandy and Shawna’s to watch horror movies, or finding a really eclectic one in a bargain bin and think to myself “we HAVE to watch this one!” I still do it but I have to text them afterwards to let them know I found it even though we can’t really watch it together anytime soon. Same with coming home from work at midnight and having Pete still be up drinking tea and poncing about the flat, waiting to watch a movie or two before we turn in. Or arriving home to find a party already in progress that Courtney initiated…ok, so maybe its nice to have a bit of a break from that one, but it was a good way to get to see people I haven’t in awhile.
Not to say I haven’t been enjoying my time spent in Bridgewater, its just different is all. In my 22 years I’ve lived two completely different lives and this is the start of my third, same locale as my first but different time and people. There are some who carried over but we’ve all grown up since last time around. My Vancouver life and Bridgewater life don’t really cross over. They are two separate entities, and as hard as it was to come to terms with I think I like it better this way. Granted there will be some spillover eventually, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon.
There seems to be a logical end somewhere in the distance for this post, but its a long way off and I don’t want to write until it gets here so I’ll simply say that I’ve got hooked on Bruce Campbell yet again and am somewhat patiently waiting for next week’s Burn Notice
“For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a ‘B’ movie actor, … But now that I see what Hollywood’s putting out, I realized ‘B’ actually means ‘better.’”
Another day off, another battle to find something productive to do. I woke up with a sharp pain in my eye, turns out I have yet another eye infection and I’m starting to think that a list of things that aren’t wrong with me would be shorter than the list of what is, its getting kind of ridiculous. Frankly, I’m tired of it, I’ve honestly given up on being bothered by my ailments because then they would just constantly keep me down and that is so far from who I am that I just would not be able to deal with myself and would be rather frequently telling myself to stop being a Debbie Downer. Chances are I wouldn’t respond well to such a comment and then wouldn’t talk to myself for a few days, I mean, I’d eventually get over it but the damage would be done.
I am finding that I really don’t like having two days off in a row, and I know people will say “what about the weekend?”, well, what about it? I don’t have one anymore, I have a job. I have two days off a week and usually they aren’t together and I seem to be more productive. This was my second day off in a row and thus far I have done jack shit. With one day you have a deadline because you know you have to work the next day, but when you have two the first day is always “I’ll do it tomorrow” and the second is “I don’t have time, I’ll do it on my next day off.” Its a great feeling knowing that I don’t get them often, I mean if you’re going to school its one thing, but with work its a completely different mentality somehow.
The latter part of my evening was spent watching BBC’s Life series, well the first few episodes at least, and now only was it insanely interesting and well shot but I also discovered that my wealth of random information spans into the animal kingdom too. The mother unit came in while I was watching it and they were talking about something and I said what was going on before it happened and then knew what the next animal was before they announced it and she thought that I had seen it all before. Nope, turns out I just know a Mudskipper when I sees one.
Getting woken up by the alarm on your phone is one thing, getting woken up by a phone CALL is altogether different. Especially when that call is for someone who’s at work, and is NEVER home at that point in the day. Then its just a tiny bit annoying. The upside to getting woken up 3 times by the phone is you decide you don’t want to go back to bed at an earlier moment in the day than usual. When I went to check the mail the first time around I found my order from Amazon, yay, and when I checked it again later, Amazon orders come different from regular mail, I got a replacement shirt from Threadless and my Entertainment Weekly, so all in all it was a productive trip to the mailbox.
I got caught up on Persons Unknown, I was two episodes behind, and watched the two new episodes of Futurama, followed by a trip downstairs to frig around on a horse in the wild west for a few hours. Took a break from that in the evening and watched The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus and I must say I quite enjoyed it. Many people have said it was sub par and did nothing for them, which if you are not a Terry Gilliam fan, I can totally understand. But I am, so I enjoyed it immensely. It was a good movie for Heath Ledger to go out on and instead of the typical “A Film by Terry Gilliam” at the end it read “A Film by Heath Ledger and His Friends” which I thought was a nice touch.
Tonight also gave me the opportunity to talk to Morgan for a little bit which was nice because our very different work schedule’s don’t really give us the time to hang out that we used to. Texting bridged the gap this eve and we’re trying to find time we both have off to actually hang out for an evening and watch a movie. Last time we did that we watched 500 Days of Summer and that was when it first came out.
Today at work I felt like a blind rat trying to escape from a one eyed cat with no depth perception, I survived, but its not an experience I look back on fondly. I got to work to be informed that Evolve, our main system, was currently down and we could only do basic inquiries and that was to be done on the old system, the system I wasn’t fully trained on for such things. So we did that from 3 till 5, telling customers to call back in a few hours and hopefully it would be up and running then. Well it was, but the downside being that I was still there when it came back up so we had a crapload of calls coming in and were in queue for pretty much the rest of my shift. I got off at 11 and at around 10:15 we got out of queue. Now I’m at home relaxing, eating some crunchy corn (organic corn pops) and about to watch the premiere of Leverage yet again, because yes folk, it IS that good.
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”
I was forced to take a sick day, it was not my plan but my gut gave me no other choice. I got up around eleven and had little to no energy, I drug myself from my room to the dining room table and didn’t make it much further than that for about an hour. Dad and I took a run over to Superstore so I could find some of the items Candice was telling me about yesterday at work. Its a company that specialize in products that have no traces of the 10 most common food allergens such as dairy, gluten, and nuts. I picked up some snack bars and then took a bit of a closer look around that section and found some wheat free waffles and the intestinally challenged version of corn pops. The pops only have like three or four ingredients and they taste pretty awesome with my vanilla almond milk. I’m stoked that I’m finally starting to get a handle on the basics of what I can and can’t eat, now granted I still have a long, long, way to go, but I’m on my way. I’ve accepted the fact that IBS is the closest diagnosis I have right now and I just have to live with that until I either get something more concrete or I get a definite “yes, you have IBS”. Either way it is what it is, and trying to either convince myself or force my body to believe otherwise will just cause me grief.
After five separate attempts I finally found a version of the Leverage premiere that worked and it downloaded this afternoon so I took my laptop downstairs and plugged it into the big screen. It was so epic, everything I wanted it to be and then some. It was basically two episodes put together picking right up where the second season ended. The characters were all in fine form as was the acting, directing, wardrobe, everything you can think of came together flawlessly. Only one thing I can possibly think of that makes it less than perfect is…that I have to wait a whole week for the next episode.
went to work for two…my shift started at three. Good start to my work day, thought I was off at ten so made plans with a friend who’s in town for the weekend…scheduled until 12:30 the hits just kept on coming today. Work was fairly slack, Beth and I sat together and she was there my entire shift save for the last hour. I talked to Candice and Dawn as well so overall as far as the people I worked with it was a good day. I’ve almost gotten rid of this god forsaken cold but it seems to be holding strong in my left nostril, its still totally clogged and causing me to sound stuffed up on the phone. There’s a spider bombing across the ceiling over my head while I type. Anyway, throughout our shift, Beth and I were throwing a tack back and forth and I was breaking Ricolas with it. As I was doing that whenever she’d be doing work I’d sit there and drop halves of Ricolas into her water bottle, she responded by poking a hole in the cap for my water bottle with the aforementioned tack. Seeing as I only had one alternative I just kept messing with the levers on her chair for the rest of our shift. She wants me to come in at 2 tomorrow when her shift starts and then we’ll both work until 12, I’m still trying to figure out whether I will go in for the early part or not, I’m fine with working till 12 I just don’t know if I want to spend the extra hour at the start of my shift there.
Other than that I didn’t really do much today, I’m just sitting here impatiently waiting for Leverage to download so I can watch it and listening to Christian Kane’s Acoustic in London CD.
Is it weird that I just listened to a Hanson song in order to see Weird Al in the video? At first my answer was no, because its Weird Al which means all bets are off, but then I realized I wasn’t totally disliking the song, it had a decent beat to it. Long story short, I didn’t hate the song, and I loved to Weird Al.
He’s one of those dudes that you either love him or hate him… and I love him. He has a talent of making songs awesome that either were not to begin with or making other versions of songs that are equally as awesome as the original.
Speaking of things as awesome as the original, I went to see Toy Story 3 today with Kristi and Kim as well as Kim’s husband and son and I must say that it has now become my favorite of the trilogy. I watched the spill.com review for it last night and became more and more excited about it but when I actually went to see it today it kind of blew my expectations out of the water. Since the first two were such an integral part of my childhood and Hollywood has done such a stellar job of messing up things from that era with a near flawless track record I went in stoked but apprehensive. I can honestly say that Toy Story 3 is the first movie that has made an attempt on something from my childhood that they haven’t fucked up. They had every opportunity to but they just defied expectations. The plot was solid, the characters were just as I remembered them, even if I just watched one and two on Thursday. As well as the new characters were awesome and the references were subtle enough to enjoy the hell out of instead of being crammed down my throat. I will agree with Kristi that it did in fact “borrow” some elements of cartoons from the 90’s but as a whole it was a very solid film. Nothing that I would not want to watch several times. Not only that but they had the first movie’s theme song in Spanish in this one, which bumps it up just a smidge in my book.
After the movie we bombed around for a bit and then called it a day, I had to go get a card for that for Father’s Day and she needed to drop off some movies at Blockbuster. When I got home I had time to cook a meatless chicken burger and wolf it down before I was told I was going to the fireman’s garden party with a few friends that I haven’t hung out with in a few months. Once we got there we realized that the garden party was only cool when we were little and stupid and it was now really, really, boring. So Manda went to grab something to eat and everyone else did their thing for an hour or so and then came back here to watch Dinosaurs which Tara bought on DVD. Now from what I recall I didn’t like the show and it creeped me out but after having watched it tonight I wouldn’t mind picking it up on DVD because it was actually really funny and the way they made it was awesome. they used the same animatronics as they did in the TMNT movies, which as most people know I am a huge fan of, so it was really interesting to watch as well as freakin’ hilarious.
About 15 minutes after they all left I got a text from Justin asking if I was doing anything because he just got off work, I said no so he came down and we had a few beers, shot the shit and watched some of the new Star Trek movie with Rifftrax commentary.
So now you’re up to date, because after Justin left I picked up where I left off in updating my blog, which is about here, which means we’re done for this eve, therefore…
The Inner Musings Of An Outer Fool 