Well, last Thursday I turned 21. Yup, 21 years old. I can’t say it was too terribly exciting. It was just like any other day, except when I was picked up from work I was greeted by my ride (my mother … yes she drives me to work) and a pair of cheesy balloons hanging out the side of the car. But, however embarrassed I was it could not have been that bad. I just really hate things like. I guess I like attention, like many do, but not like that. But, the next day we went to downtown Minneapolis and had a great dinner at Morton’s of Chicago. The food was great and it was good times to sit and eat dinner for 2 hours. Speaking of dinner…
Earlier in the week, I can’t remember the day; I was having dinner at Pickled Parrot with my dad, my brother and one of his friends. Things were fine… until the server showed up. She began to pour water, like they usually do when they 1st come to the table, when she got to filling my glass (the last one) the caught the bottom of the glass in another glass. This lead to a chain reaction of water being poured all over the table and funneling right into my lap. Yup, and entire large glass of water (at least 20oz) was all in my lap. I had shorts on, so it wasn’t too bad. However, I was completely soaked and the waitress asked if everything was ok. I responded with… “It could be better.. I’m a little wet here.” I had a hat on backwards and I must have looked like Satan himself, cuz I was not happy at all at this point. We stayed for dinner and I sat on my napkin to try to soak out the massive amounts of water that had soaked into my shorts. Anyways, the poor waitress tried to make a joke of it the entire time we were there and no one laughed or thought it was funny. I would have thought that since she kinda discomforted a guest that she would comp something, a drink, an appetizer, something… she did none of this. I guess I am picky about service and I can’t really say that I was impressed with her level of service. So, I guess as a consumer I will be moving on to other places to eat. Meh, the best part was when I had to get up. Imagine pissing yourself down one leg and having it all over your pants. That is pretty much what it was like when I left… I had one half dark green shorts and one half light green shorts… It was like sitting in a wet swimsuit for an hour but without the mesh. Oh well, it’s over…
Anyways, this is my last week of work until I take my week of vacation for the summer. I will be working the Eden Prairie Band Camp again this summer. The best part is that I get paid more for the week here then I do while working at SV (however, it’s not much more, hehe). I’ll be running the Olympics again this year, just like last year. But I will not be doing Dorm Assistant. So, my responsibilities are for around 3hours a day… a 1 hour staff meeting and the 2 hours for Olympics. Ah, it will be nice. Hopefully the weather is nice.
That’s pretty much all I can think of for now… back to doing whatever it was that I was doing.
Well, after a freak outage of our internet I am back. We had our router act up and it took a little TLC to convince it to come back online. But, going without the internet taught me how much my life is affected by the net… which is sad… but at the same time not so sad. I just felt disconnected from everything… the news, friends, everything. But, now it is all good, or at least lets hope so.
Oh man, it’s been a while since I posted. This is what happens when I get busy, I forget to do things like this.
Anyways, work keeps me busy but I have noticed that the internet is the devil at work and so much time is lost by surfing the net. I do not have net access for myself at work, which is a good thing, but I see people who do and they never do their work. It’s frustrating when you are waiting on them for something to get done, but it takes them forever because they spend their time doing things that should be done at home. But, ya know, it’s their loss. I work for them, and I am not going to make them do what they are supposed to do. They are adults and should know what comes 1st.
Last night I saw Bad Boys II and that movie is sweet. If you like action then you will probably like this movie. There are plenty of great action sequences that keep you hooked on the movie until the very end. It’s also nice since Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are in it. They keep the comedy going throughout the whole movie.
But, ya… my summer is the same old thing every day, so really it’s not that exciting to read about. But, nonetheless I still post here for the 2 of you that read this. So, until next time…
Well this past week at work taught me things at work that just frustrates me. If you do not know I am currently working on a project that is working on revamping the way that in-store signs and labels are printed. This is great and all, but the idea behind it and how the project came to be is quite the use of a power trip.
There is the guy, whom I do not know, that for his chain of grocery stores used this software package to print all of their signs and labels. Somehow he has some serious power and he said “well, we should do this in all of our stores.” This is where I come in. I am currently testing these signs for difference and just basic visual appeal. However, the signs look like complete ass and we have a pilot launch on Labor Day. So, pretty much we have a lot of work to do.
Now, that is just a part of the problem. With these signs we need to create standards so that the signs look very much like the old signs and are also very easy to read and follow. Well, we’re having problems with both of these things. They look terrible and are hard to read from a normal viewing distance in a store. This is because of software restrictions’ Which we do not why they were not caught when the genius above used them in all his stores. So, now we are not breathing down the neck of the software developers to try to fix this problem. But, like developers, it is not the software’s problem it’s the users. That is complete bullshit. Their software sucks ass. Bah, enough of this!
Anyways, my work comes in waves. It is like feast or famine. I either have it or I don’t. But, when I don’t my bosses get all over me and that I should have something to do. But, they have nothing for me to do. So, it sucks quite badly. This week I will spend hours in a lab looking over signs and trying to see what is wrong with them. I will need to compare them to something… but I don’t have anything to compare them to except what is in my mind. So, this brings up another frustrating point…
The standards are really not standard at all. They are changing almost every week and it is hard to know why. One day an intern is saying that they should look this way and the next day someone else is saying that it should be something different. You really don’t need to know anymore about this because it just sucks.
Well, my incoherent ranting is now over. Hopefully it doesn’t stay like this all summer. If it does, I think I’ll go insane.
Another day, another dollar. Work is work and that is all you really need to know. It’s not that I am hiding something… it’s just not that exciting. Oh, yeah I’m tired and tomorrow I think I am going running. I need the exercise and well yeah.. I need the exercise.
Yup, another day gone by, some more money has been made. I actually had work to do today… which is a change and it occupied my whole day. So, tomorrow I will pickup where I had left off today and then continue on. But, really, I am dead tired. The long weekend was nice but I got used to sleeping in and when I had to get up today for work it was not pretty. I was tired all day and probably worked really slow but, it’s worked out because my 2 bosses were gone. However, even if they were there I got done what I needed to anyways. I just plug in my iPOD and do my work. It makes the day go faster. Now, I must sleep early tonight or my week will really be screwed up.
Ah, today is the 4th of July… 20 days till I’m 21. :) Well, it’s the weekend so, that means that I will be playing golf for a part of it. But, that is fine because when I go back to work on mondy I’ll have plenty to do for the week. Which is good because last week was really slow with one of the team members being on vacation. Anyways, just keep it clean in the chat box on the right ;) Lates.
