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| Sunday, December 25th, 2011 | | 7:47 am |
Merry Christmas...
...to C & T!.
Still alive. Work killing me. Otherwise, nothing new to report.
Take care, everyone. | | Monday, October 17th, 2011 | | 12:13 am |
If memory serves me.... ...today a certain young lady of my virtual acquaintance is only a year away from turning a dreaded thirty years of age. How I will relish making fun of her a year from now. But for now, I shall have to make do with this. Happy birthday, tanithryudo! | | Saturday, July 16th, 2011 | | 11:27 pm |
In my good deed....
...for today, I returned an engagement ring lost by one of mu customers. Another honest soul had found it in the bathroom and handed in to me, It looked fairly valuable what with being made of silver and having a nice gemstone and all, so when a young lady came running into the store in tears, I knew who it must belong to. She was extremely grateful to get it back. I was happy to be of service since I can only imagine the pain she would have felt if it had gone missing forever. So much for the dolts who say I have no romance in me. :p | | Monday, July 11th, 2011 | | 11:42 am |
Just one more...
...day, and copy of A DANCE WITH DRAGONS shall be in my hands.
How slowly the hours are crawling by until that moment! | | Saturday, May 21st, 2011 | | 8:43 am |
I know I'm... ...a day late and a dollar short, but rest assured, I did not forget about yesterday. Happy birthday to my dear friend cashew! | | Friday, April 29th, 2011 | | 8:50 am |
Well, I'll be god-damned...
...George Martin managed to finish writing a Dance Of Dragons. With publication scheduled a mere two and a half months away, he sure as fuck cut it close to the wire. I never thought I'd see that book get finished. Six years it took him (actually nine because parts of it were started in 2002 or thereabouts) since his last book came out. This book had better be the best thing since the invention of sliced bread or I will not be a happy camper. | | Sunday, February 6th, 2011 | | 5:51 pm |
And in other news....
...even though the HEROES (a fantasy novel by British author Joe Abercrombie) won't be coming out in this country until April, and in fact was only released in the UK a few days ago, is already available for sale in the US thanks to Amazon Export Sales. I took advantage of that. My copy should arrive this week. Joe is a fantastic new talent, and I have been waiting for the book for nearly two years. I just couldn't pass up a chance to grab it two months ahead of schedule. | | 5:42 pm |
It looks like...
....my insurance settlement for the car accident will be coming through soon. I should be fully compensated for the income I lost back in Decemeber, plus getting a couple grand on top of that for my trouble. I probably could have gotten a better deal, but I really prefer to have the matter wrapped up as soon as possible. I wasn't badly hurt and the other guy was tagged as being totally at fault. I don't see any need to prolong the thing just to squeeze out a few extra bucks out of the insurance company. | | Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 | | 9:21 am |
It ain't bad enough that I got....
....hit by a car last month. This month (on Sunday), I slipped on some ice and managed to sprain my wrist. Fortunately, it wa a fairly minor sprain but it still hurt like a bastard. And to add insult to injury, yesterday, I got the bill for my ride in the ambulance after the car accident.
395 fucking dollars for a fifteen minute ride. What ever happened to that allegedly free Canadian health care I have heard so much about?
/grumpy/ | | Saturday, January 8th, 2011 | | 9:59 pm |
I'm like....
...drowning in white fluffy stuff in Edmonton's biggest snowstorm in years. It's been snowing nonstop since yesterday and it just keeps coming. I do not look forward to shoveling that shit. Regrettably, since I am now recovered from my recent accident, I can't get out of it by claiming medical disability. | | Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 | | 5:30 pm |
I'm off work...
...all this week on account of being hit by a car on Monday.
Yeah, you read that right.
I was walking to work on Monday morning. I had a green light at an intersection. I had a green walk sign. I was in the total right of way. This did not stop a guy from failing to yield. He wasn't traveling very fast, so I was only knocked off my feet. He promptly stopped so he and his passenger could render assistance. Three bystanders also leaped to the rescue. I could barely stand up and was sure I'd hit my head on the ground, so they called in the police and an ambulance. A police car, two ambulances and two fire trucks were there in less than five minutes.
Anyhow, to make a long story short, they dragged me away to a local hospital. Of course, it wasn't remotely near my house. I spent three hours in emergency. That's lightning fast for an Edmonton city ER these days. I broke nothing, apparently didn't suffer a head injury, but my knee is all bruised to hell. I'm off work for at least a week. Since I'm on crutches, I feel trapped in my own home since it's agony to navigate the stairs so I stay in my bedroom (and my roomies give me hell if I don't stay put). Thank god the guy was insured. I might actually be reimbursed for the income I'm currently losing by my enforced vacation.
/sigh/ | | Saturday, November 27th, 2010 | | 1:29 pm |
Just to note....
...all is relatively well with me. My situation at work stabilized. My boss was smart enough to realize he'd heaped too much on me. He brought in a highly experienced and capable assistant manager from another store to help out. I knew her slightly from before and had a favorable impression of her. Thus far she has been a sweetheart to work with, so my job stress has been hugely reduced. I'm still putting in long hours. I will have had three pay cycles in a row with over a hundred hours on each. Hopefully, that will change soon. Other than that, not much else to report. | | Sunday, October 24th, 2010 | | 1:58 pm |
This is irritating....
.....as hell. Yesterday, I learned of a book which should contain some historical information of use to me. The price was reasonable, but it's on ebay where I can't seem to register an account for some odd reason, and what's worse, the owner won't ship outside the United States. What the hell is up with that? | | Monday, October 11th, 2010 | | 8:51 pm |
Maybe I amuse too easily.... ...but this LOTR fanfic had me laughing my guts out. Go Elrond! | | Monday, October 4th, 2010 | | 4:26 pm |
This, needless to say.... ...was totally fucking unexpected. I can't say I saw THAT one coming. | | Friday, October 1st, 2010 | | 7:04 pm |
Everything seemed so normal....
,,,when I went to work this morning.
Today was the transition day for a new manager taking over the store where I currently work. I am currently scheduled to stay there for a week helping to train new staff. Then I was supposed to return to the car wash site. That was this morning.
This evening? No so normal any more.
My old manager (who had just given up this store to concentrate on running the car wash site) informed me she was giving notice and quitting in two weeks. We couldn't exactly talk freely under the circumstances with a half dozen other staffers hovering in the vicinity, so I was left wondering what the fuck was going on. I left work still clueless as to the reason for this sudden resignation.
I go home, goof off a bit. I go back out to grab dinner at the mall. I come home and told my soon to be ex-manager had called. I return her call. She's obviously upset. All I can get out of her is that she quit this afternoon and walked off the job. Not only that, she took her sister the assistant manager with her. And two others staff member left with her. So now the car wash site staff is um...pretty well fucked to hell and back as far as I can see. There's basically no one there anymore. Whatever happened must have been ugly.
Now I don't know what the hell is going on, or what the fuck is going to happen. I have no real relationship with the owner of the business (she knows my name, but not much else), no chits to call in from her, no nothing. My old employer would have went to the wall for me, but this one, not so much.
Christ, I haven't felt this vulnerable about work in over a decade. | | Monday, August 2nd, 2010 | | 11:28 am |
Today, I learned
...that my sister Brenda died of cancer. She'd been ill for months but of course no one made an effort to tell me. She was 49. Brain-damaged from birth, she required supervised care throughout her life. My oldest sister was her legal guardian. We never had much of a relationship but I had hoped she'd enjoy a peaceful old age. I guess that was just too much to ask for. | | Thursday, July 29th, 2010 | | 3:03 pm |
And in other news....
...been extremely busy at work. had like only three days off this month. I'm just getting over a nasty cold as well. I am somewhat anxiously awaiting the return of my manager from her vacation. Beyond that, not much to report. | | Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 | | 8:58 pm |
I've been following.... ...the crash & burning of Mel Gibson with some interest. I was an unabashed fan of his years ago, but suffice it to say, that's long since done with. I thought this bit I found linked to on CBR summed up my feelings quite nicely. | | Saturday, June 19th, 2010 | | 7:35 pm |
I have beem a fan...
...of a Western comic called Jonah Hex since like forever-nearly three decades now. And for all those years, I waited patiently for Hollywood to turn it into a movie. Which they did, releasing it this week. And of course, the thing was a complete horrible bomb. The reviews are terrible. Every single person I know of who is aware of the movie is ignoring it. Plot summaries reveal that any similarity to the original source material was purely accidental. Movie-going audiences at wide are ignoring it. It's dead in the water, projected to clear less than nine million dollars on its opening weekend. Three decades I wait for a movie to come out and it's an utter fucking disaster. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to see it on Youtube or something because I sure as hell am not going to waste my money on it at the theater. |
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