must.play.all.night…
It’s a good thing today was a holiday and the LYS was closed… Josh and I were up until 4 a.m. last night playing on the stress test beta for World of Warcraft. I’d do it again tonight, ‘cept I have to work tomorrow.
Normally I probably wouldn’t spend so much time in front of the computer on a game, but being the “stress test” part of the beta, it’s only open for a week, and then it’s going back to a closed beta… so we’re getting in as much play time as we can.
‘Cause who knows how long it will be until Blizzard finally does the open beta and then the actual release of the game… We’re hoping before the end of the year…
pink is all fixed…
Yay!
Now I can work on other new skins.. Not that I have anything in mind yet. 😊
politics, shmolitics…
I’m not really into politics much. It probably has a lot to do with how a political discussion can become extremely heated, and how I am a terrible debator so I’d probably lose the discussion. Therefore I stay out of them if it can be helped.
But anyhow, at job#2 this week, since the RNC has been going on, it was brought up in discussion by the ladies there, co-workers included.
The full-time gal was off both Monday & Tuesday, so I don’t know which party she favors… but the owner, the manager, and pretty much all of the customers, just love ol’ Dubya. Just love him to death. It really kind of churned my stomach. I could picture them wanting to kiss his feet.
And they bashed Kerry, of course, being Dubya lovers.
I pretty much kept my mouth shut, didn’t nod or shake my head or anything. I pretended I didn’t exist. At job#1 I’d probably pipe in on the discussion, but at job#2, still being the newbie, and with how they just seemed to fawn over Dubya like he was the best thing since sliced bread, I kept quiet. Besides, I felt if I were to speak up, it would have been like throwing a raw steak out into the middle of a pack of starving wolves.
And while Mac’s assessment that it seems a majority of Dubya lovers tend to live in rural areas is probably at least partially true, there are also a good number of his fanatical followers that live in the cities. The people at the LYS I work at are proof of that. And not a single one of them is younger than 55 years old, so, at the risk of making a generalization, it seems like a large number of Dubya’s fans are also of the older generation(s). That’s just an observation I made as I sat taping needlepoint canvases while the ladies in the shop discussed Dubya.
Another observation I made while at work, specifically on Tuesday… the full moon this Sunday/Monday seemed to make the manager quite cranky. I’ll have to keep that in mind next month.. must be on my toes ‘round full moon time. It was like walking on eggshells. Eesh.
test
testing
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crap-tastic…
I just realized the registration on my car expires at the end of this month.
That’s what, two days from now?
Worse yet, this year they insist that I do emissions testing. Crap!
Guess where I’ll be waiting in line at at 8:00am tomorrow morning? Fortunately the test center is over by where job #2 is located, so if it takes a while then I won’t have far to go to get to work.
Dammit. I knew I had forgotten about something this month. Grrr.
upgraded, v1.1
I finished upgrading EE to v1.1
Let me know if you see anything wonky. It shouldn’t have broken anything, but you never know. 😊
Carry on.
wake-up call…
It’s just slightly unnerving to wake up to the sound of an air-raid siren…
New OT rules..
I started to write this as a comment to something that Mac posted on her blog, but it started getting long so I moved it here.
I think before modifications to the new OT rules were made, they would have affected me and Josh.. as they are now, however, I am fairly certain they won’t. Although I wouldn’t be at all surprised if my company tried to rework our job titles so that they could get away with eliminating our OT.
And as for the low wage workers, from what I understand, if you make $455 or less a week, you are eligble. Before, it was $155 or less per week, so anyone making more than that (i.e. anyone working minimum wage) was screwed. I don’t know how they came up with the $155 figure (unless those rules were made when minimum wage was $3/hr), but that means even back when I worked at Blockbuster in ‘93 making $4.25/hr I was inelible for OT. To be honest, I don’t even remember if I ever got any OT back then. I know I did once I was making $11.50/hr, but before that… it’s all a blur.
I could be misunderstanding the new rules (and the old ones), but I am fairly sure I am understanding them correctly, especially while at work today at job#2, the manager discussed it briefly with the owner, stating they’re pretty sure it was going to affect their one full-time, non-salaried employee… In other words, that employee will now get OT, when before, she didn’t. And that full-time employee makes less than the maximum $455/wk set forth in the new rules, which is why she is now eligble.
So anyway, the new rules would also mean, if I ever went full-time at the yarn shop, that I’d also be eligible for OT.
It’s kind of funny, I guess I always just assumed that anyone who worked was eligible for OT unless they were salaried. I have some of my old pay stubs around here somewhere, so I could technically go back and check them to see if I ever did get any OT before making more than $10/hr… but that would mean cleaning a space on the floor of my office and taking out stacks of boxes from my closet, and I’m not feeling up to doing that right now.
I’d rather knit, or see if I can install PhotoSlop on this here la Powerbook of mine. 😊 ‘cause really, the only purpose it would serve is to satisfy my curiosity, it’s not really all that important since it’s all in the past… As long as the employer for job#1 doesn’t try to twist & tweak things to make it so Josh & I are no longer eligible for OT at our current jobs, I’ll be ok with the rules as they are.
it tastes like burning…
Mmmm.. Popeye’s chicken is so good…
Unfortunately, I’ll probably be regretting eating the spicy chicken strips later on.
And I don’t mean indigestion or heartburn, either.
EEeeee!
That’s an excited exclamation, not one of fear.
I’m converting most of my stuff over to la Powerbook… e-mail, Quicken.. etc. Sometime this week I will see if my copy of PhotoSlop is a hybrid and can be installed on either PC or Mac… if it can, then about the only thing I may be using my desktop PC for is for an occassional game that isn’t on the Mac yet…
I’m not usually one to name inanimate objects, but I think la Powerbook needs a name… She’s just a sweet little thing… Any suggestions? 😊
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