October 2003 Archives

Intel Deal makes me happy

La Di Da

Well, I ordered myself a new motherboard, along with a 3 Ghz P4 processor. Ohh, and aong with that a copy of windows XP Professional, full version. I paid for that.... $200 dollars. Yes, that low, and I am very happy about it.

Last year I missed the Inteal Deal, but this Year I was all up on the website everyday. The board is going to get to me in about 2 weeks, and my computer will kick a bit more arse. I like my computer, and it's kewl, but it does need some processor speed to crunch those numbers.

I will probably arange to get a new Video Card soon. That will seal the deal, and make it of steel. (forgive lame rhyme)

Me go night night now.

Bleah.

Work is fun, and it's not. I am not stressed about things, but things are getting to be annoying. We have been busier latelly, and I like that, but that makes things crazy.

It's getting near my "Go to Brazil during Christmas and New Years" time. I gotta turn in my resignation, since they won't allow me to have the vacation time. I turned my notice in like April, and everyone did the Mexican Hat Dance around it. They all knew they had to discuss it, but noone really got to it. Then, some weeks ago, it was confirmed that "It ain't gonna happen." Also my Manager approached me, and talked this and that, and tried to be polite about it. He said how smart I was, how thankful he was that he had me... He wish I didn't leave at that time, and hopes I come back.

Yeah, all nice and happy, but I already knew this was coming. I did the same thing last year. Well, aside from the part of going to Brazil, because things came up unexpectedly. In the world of retail, this is usually the norm, so I am not all miffed about it.

Besides that, there are other things that are annoying me. Lisa, the girl that works with me, and is theoretically above me, has been out for a bit over 2 weeks now, and is not coming back next week. She might come back the week after that I was told by the Ops Manager. Also, everyone is dancing around the reason why she is not there. She might be... a) dealing with family problems in Wisconsin b) Dealing with her Husband here in Georgia c) Violently Sick, and can't come in d) Something random, with cluelessness. Although, she did put in a formal Leave of Absence. I hope it's nothing serious.

The second one, is co-workers. They are all doing much better now. They still screw up on orders, but they are ok. I still dislike coworker G. He asks the same questions again and again, and manage to make the same errors even thought I explained it to him time and time again. My Trainee, Jonny, is slowly catching up to things, but he has this amazing ability to zone out very specific instructions on what to do for things to be correct. So, he just ignores, and acts on his own behalf. I think he is afraid to ask for help when he screws up.

Ohh, something fun... Frantz is now working on my division. According to management, there are too many people that already do his position. Which begs the question, why the heck did you hire them in the first place. Anywho, the whole reason he is being hired, is to theoretically replace me. He will be doing all my duties during the time I am out, and will keep working from then. He is so easy to train, because he actually pays attention, and understands things. He sees that some menus and things have a logical flow. I am happy to be teaching him. Although he doesn't respond well when I am sarcastic. Which is theoretically sometimes mean, but usually just me being frustrated. He doesn't frustrate me, so things go well.

Aside from that, and some salespeople being completelly mindless, the Sales Manager irks me. I didn't really like him from the beggining, but he is a nice guy, and drive sales. His attitude sometimes, and the ways he sees things can get irky. He is generally nice to me, but he has his buttons. Mainly a big red button of things from Retail crossing over to Corporate, and more importantly vice versa. I say that because me, along with 2 salespeople got voices raised at for something that was completelly innocent. He thought I handed a sale to their side, that wasn't good, but I was just trying to help people, and happen to ask a salesperson on the floor the specs for something. While I was finshing a credit app, the customer just walked to talk to the salesperson. The salesperson took the sale, and that is when the bull saw red, and came storming into us.

Fun Fact, I am getting to like my manager. It took some time to adjust, but I understand where he comes from better. My new Ops manager seems cool, but ehh, not quite to a in sync point yet. At times at work, we say we need a Bry (our old Ops Manager) *grins* Although the new one is still getting used to everything. She got tacked on a whole bunch of things she didn't use to do before, so it's understandable.

As it's said, Things move along, and people move on. I shall see how things move for me

Yeay, my employement finally got verified, and I can get the intel deal. I so happy.

On behalf of the fact that I like explaining things...

"Arghh" was stream of thought, and things just rolled out. I used the english language to mediate them into something that is probably plausible while using sentence structures of the english language. "Ehh, Sense make not weird cycle flow" was a stream of words, and visions of things. It did not use correct sentence structure, since that is not how things flowed. "Sargamachurama" was completelly nonsensical combination of leters that made words, that somehow fell into a scheme. I can't even figure that one out, but it came out from my thoughts, just as they came.

All is good, and yet all is not good. My life is going along and things are not entirelly right, but bearable. I feel myself slowly losing connection with things I should be entirely glad off. I don't really know how to react, or what is the proper reaction to some things, even thought I see those reactions daily. I am filled with emotion, passion, rage, anger, yet, I don't really display everything. I sit, and ponder, yet I don't ponder. Sometimes I just sit and go totally blank. I plan to do something, yet there is nothing that is worth doing. I would plan things at work, but there is no reason to plan them. They would just cause me to do more stuff that is random and does not serve a purpose.

Everyone wants to have a purpose in life, yet no one knows that there purpose is. The ones that envision purpose are often seen as slightly off the normal social scale. There aren't many that see, and the ones that see, no longer can acomplish the things. People are all about purpose, but sometimes a day, is a day, and there is nothing more to it. One lives, one ends the day, and counts the accomplishments. It's weird, things don't make sense in life, and we spend a big part of life trying to make sense of things that have no meaning.

Go figure...

I am indeed happy, and things are going great. I shall see what else gets turned around.

Wiriting enough crazy stop everything see all around. People see nothing see they want not. Wish do they if only possible reality reality is, becomes therefore. Wonder world moves, moves people see things not right. Right to make things, and wish not things wrong for thongs wrong not right. Make better, all ever, and see how things be. If not better, then the best that the better can afford. Although stop things see world, they see not what see. Disjunct things construct lies. Lies make things bad, bad really crazy bad. Crazy see, world like world sees all. World built basis human see things, perception unaware, let things pas. Passing things along no chances to just stop smell the roses. Roses pretty decent but spikes, thorns, protection, defensive people. People see things harm them not. Not see things pure. Pureness things entire, made whole, se things in world as things rose colored glass, vision world nice. Child vision see way be. See gent.

Mesto Carkinova tersocranka meshorana, vermostivu granshulu mestrovatroska, versondravistronsha. Onsfirsanovins. Sininnn Ninsni inn. Unuvoskarta. Handraskotcha, mesrtrovesknanaya. Orvotraskurgent, vergansgoranka. Ossnivinigenska.

Uvunirketrengonishivraitamosnirrva.

Onnoen.

Ahh, I went to my first concert ever...

It was friday, and Suraj and Allison were going to see Hoobastank and All American Rejects down at the Tabernacle. It was part of the Nokia Unwired Tour. Since nokia love shameless promotion.

At first I did not, would not go. I am all weary of new situations, and always expect something weird and unconfortable to happen. It usually turns out that I have fun, but I will still fight to the end. Nonetheless, I was interested. I was inquisitive, and pretty much got into the arena of what to expect. I looked online, and stuff, and was going to buy the ticket. Turns out the ticket was no longer avaliable online, since I took so freaking long to decide to go. So, since my car was all the way on the Doraville Marta station (which is like a 40 min train ride), I decided to ride with Suraj. Then again, Suraj was the only person that reasonably knew where the place was.

First we went to pick up Suraj Sister. I coun't remember her name, even thought I saw here like 4 times. Anywho, she goes to GA Tech, and I got to see their campus for the first time. It was interesting, people were all walking around, and their dorm rooms and stuff are all near the school. It's a closed campus, so it figures. The rooms were rather small, and I was a bit taken back by that. Although, I was told that most people spend time on class or studying.

Anywho, while the rooms were small, they were uber personal. Among all the rooms that I passed, they were all decorated wall to wall (mind you, there wasn't much wall) with posters and pictures and other memorabilia. I wish I had a room like that, even though I would have a roommate, it would have still been fun. Well, and there is the whole factoid that the majority of the student body is male, versus a female majority here at Georgia State. I should consider cross campus dating for sure.

Anywho, back to the whole concert thing...

We arrived there, I went to buy my ticket, and my stoopid bank card got denied. Good thing I had my backup credit card, and that worked. We ended up getting something to eat before we went in. We went to subway, but the guy was completelly not listening. I asked for half something, he gave me the whole thing. Then, I asked to put some extra mayo, and he just ignored me. I also asked for only two pickles, and he gave me three. Then, he looks at me, just like when he put a whole patty, and says, "Ohh, did you want two?" In my head I am thinking, "Yeah, of course I want two, or else I would not have asked for it." Good thing they didn't have a tip option on the receipt, because he deserved no tip.

Ok, the concert again...

We finally went in, after everyone got together. Suraj, Andi (his sister), Allison, Rose, Rose's BF, and Suraj's two good friends from not so close. They all pretty much went to the upper balcony, except for Rose and her BF. They went to the area in front of the stage, and I tagged along. Rose was telling me that we would try to get close. She had to pull me by my hand so I would not get stuck behind. She is used to concerts, and such. It was fun overall. First there was this group that did Spanish songs, and some other songs for some time. I thought they were pretty cool, but not everyone was feeling them.

Soon, they started getting ready for the main show. Hoobastank was the first group to play. I knew one of their songs, I think. I had heard a bit of the others, but never focused on them. People were jumping along with the harder beats, and there was a good amount of crowd surfing. There was this girl, who crowd surfed from the wrong section. She went along a section of teeny boppers. Since they were all girls, and small, they didn't really hold her weight, and the poor girl, went head first into the ground. She ended up being ok, because of the friction of bodies when she was falling, but she lost her phone. When she came up she was red, and dazed. She walked out, and some securuties checked if she was ok. They later came looking for her phone.

Anywho, I had fun, and I am glad I took my undershirt off earlier in the day. It got kinda warm, and I would have hated being unconfortable. Hoobstank was fun to watch, and we energetic overall.

Later came the All American Rejects (AAR). That is when the whole group of people I got there with, went down to where I was. Andi had bought herself a AAR hat. Allison, was all giddy about the whole thing, and was singing and rocking out the whole time AAR was on stage. For some strange reason the girls were all dreamy about the lead singer (bassist) and the other guitarrist. I don't get it that much, but oki. I was frankly interested in the drummer. *gwa ha ha*

AAR put on a fun energetic show. It was kewl to watch them, and they kinda plaid things down towards the end, and pulled out some chairs, and did a song purelly on guitars. It had a very homey feeling to it. They sat down, drank bear, and some people lighted a ciggy. The was this interesting guy, along with the band. He was shirtless, and had "Soy Bomb" written on this chest. He went all around stage acting like a foot, and rubbed over the drummers chest. *grins*

I had fun fun, and was glad to go. After I got out, the other people stayed in a bit. That is when I found out what loud loud loud music does to a person. For a bit, all the sounds were crackled. After that everything was almost mute on the right ear, and very echoey on my left. I bum aproached me, and gave me a newspaper, and since I could not hear him, I just got mumbles, and the foul smell of booze. I ended up giving him 3 bucks, which I still feel like a moron about. He then asked for more, and said he had change for a ten or a twenty. I just said that was all the money I had, and walked back towards the Tabernacle.

After a bit, everyone got out. I saw them talking to Hoobastank trough a window, that allowed me to see into the back area of the place. Surge got me a green cube, and he mentioned in how much pain he was because of it. I didn't pay heed to it when I first heard it. Then, he said he had to chug a huge bottle of 7up to get it. He did it on an empty stomach, which is just awful.

Ohh, *laughs*, I had called him once to see when they were coming out, and all I could heard was this squaky voice. I didn't think it was him, but when he came out, I heard the same voice. He lost it by being overly loud while singing along to Hoobastank. We tried talking on the way home, but he was mostly mute, and I was mostly deaf. That did not work very well.

Next day at work was intersting, since I was on charge of answering the phone.

My calculus class is no longer here. It has been dropped of my course load. I will be taking it again, but right now I am getting some things all straightened out.

Soo, Calculus is up in the air for now, and I have until Oct 17 to decided on it. I have to options, keep it or drop it. I still haven't decided on which one I should do. Hopefully after a talk with me teacher, I will know.

I weirdly got some time off to study. I already got a plan to study, and made copies of problems, and I am going to rewrite my notes to bring everything back to life. Then, I will do the homework problems on the book until I got them down flat. Then, Rinse, and repeat. Heh, and now I just gotta see if that will work.

I must study