March 3
From my brain
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2011
Me 16:24, 3 March 2011 (EST)
- V: "Good morning."
- Me: Morning!
- V: "Here's your check!"
{pocketed}
- Me: Cool, thanks. Hey...do you have a minute?
- V: "Sure."
{insert a couple minor interruptions}
- Me: Well {scratching my head}, look, we both know that this situation is just not working out. I am not the level of baker you need right now with the direction you're taking this place. I need a full bread baker to help teach me the industry. Neither of us are getting what we need out of this. I think it's time to call it quits.
- V: "OK."
- Me: I mean, you've already worked the last few days without me baking any bread at all, so you've got that under control. There's no sense me wondering if I'm coming in tonight or tomorrow, so, we can just part ways today.
- V: "Yeah. OK."
- Me: No hard feelings?
{shake hands}
- V: "Nope. Not at all."
- Me: OK. Take it easy then.
And thus ended my first post-culinary culinary experience. OMG, am I thankful it's over!
2009
Me 07:26, 3 March 2009 (EST)
First of all, Facebook is the work of the devil. At the very least, not since WoW has something so impacted my ability to post here. The immediacy of those little status updates negates the need for the long-winded posts that I'm more apt to do here. The saving grace is that I can't write to it from ThePit as they have the site blocked (and now I know why). Still unsure if it should be "Facecrack" or "Crackbook".
Me 09:51, 3 March 2009 (EST)
Second (and yeah, I'm breaking up this post as I've been so horrible about completing them, it makes sense to get something down at least), here's the recap of recent events:
- Last week
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Started to feel better, but may have been due to taking Percocet at work. :)
- Canceled the den meeting as I wasn't quite up to doing the whole deal, and my assistant leader was sick as well.
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- After somehow to making it through Thursday's raid and only getting four hours sleep, I felt like crap.
- Told the group that I'm probably going to bow out of weekday raids after the next week.
- At least the pain was almost gone. Leaving the tunnel?
- Friday
- Had a bone scan because the CT from Monday looked odd regarding the bone density.
- The urologist said something about a "bone lesion" that was "probably benign".
- Of course, he says this while I'm on the phone with Wifey, and she proceeds to panic over the next few days.
- Don't say terms like "benign" around the wife of cancer survivor. Bad mojo.
- Was actually a rather relaxing day. Went in at 8:30am, got a shot of radioactive stuff, then went back to work. Went back to the hospital at noon and laid on a table for an hour in a dark room with a warm blanket.
- The urologist said something about a "bone lesion" that was "probably benign".
- Had a bone scan because the CT from Monday looked odd regarding the bone density.
- Saturday
- Felt like crap. No TKD for me.
- TheBoy at least went in.
- I on the other hand almost fell asleep in the chair as the Perc kicked in.
- After doing some stuff at MIL and FIL's house while they're on vacation, took Wifey out to [one of the best Greek restaurants in town] for a real anniversary "dinner".
- TGI Friday's (with coupon!) the night before didn't count IMO.
- Also, same price for the bill at both places...MUCH higher quality food at the Greek place by FAR. Go figure.
- Felt like crap. No TKD for me.
- This Week
- Sunday
- Felt like absolute crap. Could not roll out of bed with any degree of ease.
- Went to church, and sat down through most of it.
- Wifey had Sunday school, but rather than sitting out the rest of church, I left with her, and went and lay down in the car...and fell asleep.
- Went home, ate lunch, and decided to take a nap around 4:30.
- TheBoy tried to wake me at 6 and 6:30...but I wasn't having it.
- I slept until 9:30 when Wifey climbed into bed. Took another Perc...and slept again until 4:30am.
- Sunday
Yesterday I called the doc and said this just ain't cool. He and the nurse agreed. So, on Thursday I go in for a little outpatient procedure. They're sending a camera "up there" -- thank God for anesthesia! -- and check on what's going on around the right side where there shouldn't be pain, and also go up after the other stone in my kidney.
There are better reasons to not have to go into work on a Thursday.
Me 09:55, 3 March 2009 (EST)
Marzo pazzerello: se vedi il sole, prendi l'ombrello. March is a little crazy: if you see the sun shining, you'd better take an umbrella.
2008
Me 09:00, 3 March 2008 (EST)
I'm still sore from the weekend. Staying up last night didn't help. NOTE: I did apologize to Wifey this morning about being angry, and she agreed it was probably better that I went downstairs. She also said that Sunday night was lonely. :/
Between Tae Kwon Do in the morning, the maple sugaring festival in the afternoon (and walking around the camp for three hours), and following that up with painting all day yesterday...I'm being held together solely by Aleve.
2006
Me 15:44, 03, March 2006 (EDT)
A little self control...
I nearly just split in half a minute ago here at work. I mean like real coniption time. Project that I'm working on is the surpreme plate spinning exersize. Problem: When a plate falls before I get into work, no one really can fix it. Not for lack of ability of any member of my team, it's just that with no documentation, no one knows what the HELL this thing does.
So, a little while ago, when one more thing broke, I just went ape..."God-damn it! I can't FUCKING fix things when they break before I'm here!"
I went outside. Got some air. Got cold. Came in. Still wasn't calm. Fixed the issue. Contemplating going home early tonight.
Me 17:59, 03, March 2006 (EDT)
Ummm.....wow. And stuff.
Words can't express this game. Okay, at least not MY words.
I'll let the dev speak about it.
Oh, and here's the home page: spore.ea.com
2004
Me 19:55, 03, March 2004 (EDT)
[sigh]
As if you couldn't tell, yesterday was a bit stressful. I turned down this FANTASTIC opportunity all because I love my family too much. Honestly, I could have done the job, I could have excelled at it (barring the possibilty of the company being outright liars). However, it just doesn't fit in right now with (among other things) the baby on the way so soon from now...
So, what was it about this thing that has me so oddly bummed today? It's a combination of the interview yesterday, as well as the corporate overview Thursday and one-on-one interview on Monday. Both companies (although quite varied in their approach and customer base) strove for one thing: Helping people.
What I'm doing right now, isn't helping anyone other than the management above me. As the presenter last Thursday said:
- If you come in to work, having had 8 cups of coffee (or cans of Mountain Dew), and were just FLYINGLY energetic so that you accomplished monumental amounts of work that day...would you do any better than a day where you were out all last night and were dead tired? Probably not because you don't have any say in how much money you make in a day.
Yeah people, I'm talking about a sales job. So what if I'm a database developer. My qualifcations right now are SOLELY to be a database dev for THIS COMPANY. What we do isn't real database development. For the skill set I have, anyone can be hired in (on paper) for what I do. Yeah sure, I got mad skills for this place, but outside of here (and numerous job searche sites have attested to this), it don't mean dick.
Zej keeps saying I need to expand my skills. I don't have the brain capacity for it lately. The other problem is, I'm not sure I have the desire any more either. One tech job is gonna be the same as here: Working ass over fist for someone to take the credit.
I need to find a way to make My Own of things. This is job/career/whatever is pointing the direction being consitantly only Their Own.
Me 21:38, 03, March 2004 (EDT)
(And I forgot)
Sei sicuro? Are you sure?
Fuck you calendar. Fuck you very much.
