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Not another Monday

Ok, I hope today is not another Monday like yesterday. Monday is known as the worst day of the week. Usually this is not the case for my work, as we are open 7 days a week and there is not really a traditional Monday. Well, yesterday, while not a Monday for me(it was a Thursday or Friday by my work week), it was definitely a Monday by the way things went and the calendar as well. Ok, to chronicle my Monday: It started at 12:15 or so, when I realized I had left my keys in the locked laundry room, which required me to leave a note under the door there, and waiting for someone to bring me back my keys at like 9 AM, then rushing to get the clothes dried in time. Then, while at work, my wrist quickly went south, going from fine to unusable in about 3 minutes. Ouch!

Then, to top things off, due to the civic(not statutory) holiday, Winnipeg Transit was on a Sunday/Holiday schedule, which sucks for night travel. Sadly, Dizz was spinning out at the The Colosseum for Neon Nights, and I decided to go out there, missing most of his set due to bad schedules. Then, after having checked the Transit site to make sure I could catch a bus after his 11 PM show was done around midnight, I left secure in the knowledge I could catch the 1 AM bus. That was actually a :17 or 12:17AM bus. Yup. I missed it. Sadly, there was no ride to snag, so I began around 1 AM my walk home. The bar is a long way from downtown. About 3:30 or so I got home, only to find a script that got into mIRC somehow caused me to be banned from #lockergnome. I decided I should sleep. Now that I am awake, I can only hope that I will be better today.

Time to get back to it

Ok, this is it. I am tired of being blog lazy. I am tired of posting little, and having so many in draft. So, as of now I plan to do my best, be a good blogger, and only start what I finish. Of course, it is not a good thing that I am moving down the page right away to make this a draft post, but I do need to get caught up before I make such strong dedications. Right? Good good. Ok, as I was saying, I will do my best to get all things here posted in a day, but there are always unavoidable things, the reason fro draft in the first place, but instead of spending 10 or 20 minutes in Battlefield 1942, I will spend 10-20 minutes in blog, catching up. How does that sound? I thought so.

A time of reflection

I really don't know. I try to avoid these kinds of posts,t he highly personal but still utterly useless variety that seem to common on newer blogs before people find out that others rarely wish to just read about them and their cats latest furball. I have found, as you might have noticed, myself a little... off. I usually blog quite often, but I cannot bring myself to catch up on the many draft posts, and it is surprising when I can actually keep up in a day. I have always blogged in spurts, this is one of them as I type this, but I find those getting shorter, and less focused as of late. I do not know if it writer's block, or just an utter abandonment of creativity and/or energy, but I really need to pick this up. I am more than a week behind, and almost 20 posts overdue. *sigh*

Week ahead

Ok, now that the weekend is behind my, I plan to look forward. Dizz is back from his vacation with pictures of fish and fillets that could make the most discriminating of pallets water in anticipation. I have Wednesday off, which means the early part of that day will be spent trying again to catch up on blogging, and then I hope, if it goes on, to catch Dizz's radio show live. I especially look forward to the food part of Dinner and a Mix, the show's title. I go into this week with many memories of the weekend, and the unforgettable sunburn on my legs and arms, as well as the back of my neck. I did, though, have a lot of fun on Saturday with Cody and the friend from work, and on Sunday helping Cody learn the game he was playing. Here's to a new week.

Future geek

It is said the one true sign of a geek is how much he spends in front of his favourite game. If this is the case, at least in my humble abode, there were two geeks present this weekend. You see, my nephew was over this weekend, and if his game playing desires are anything, there is no doubt in my mind that he is a future geek for sure. The kid is great, I love having him here, but it seemed he always wanted to be inside, on my nice 2100, not outside enjoying everything. He wanted to cut the Fringe trip short, and tried to use my suspected heat stroke as an excuse to leave early. I know I am partly to blame, I tried to get him into computer big time, but I want him to use computers, not play computers. I want more tool use, not just gaming. Ya know?

Day out and about

Ok, so I am informed my nephew, Cody, is in town this weekend, and I am told I am going to have him for part of Saturday and most of Sunday. I also won the payday pool on Friday, totalling $107, so I plan to buy an SD card for my camera, and a few books from McNally Robinson. MLH has a 64 MB card for $54($63 w/tax) and McNally has several of the Harry Potter books for $12 each. I also have plans to get together with a friend from work at the Fringe around 2 PM, and then Cody and I are going to the Goldeyes game against the Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks, who it is not hard to say is their most hated rival. I expect to be leaving around noon, and hope to be back by ten PM, but expect it to be closer to 11 after the Pepsi points fun. I hope it's cloudy but not rainy.

The hilarity!

I am going to do something uncharacteristic of myself. I am going to literally rant about work. I left the phone, due to it's slowness, at 9 PM tonight. I was in charge, and being the first person off, it was the proper thing to do. I then, out of interest in the views of someone else, sat and talked to them for about an hour about different stuff. The three people left on the phones then asked me why I didn't just stay until 10 and let one of them go at 9. Ok, let's see. I, a rep who has tried his best to be nice to no avail, is being lectured by one rep who can't follow a rule, or be on time, but never gets lectured about it, another who held a grudge towards me for 6 months without once telling me what was wrong, and another who seems to pride herself and telling me I am wrong, interrupting me, and disrespecting me as often as possible. Yeah, uh huh. Whatever.

This sucks!

Ok, well, it is a little after 6 PM, and I am home. I started at 1:30, and was told to go home at 5:30 when the second night closer(works until 11) arrived. It was totally dead on the phones, with one account having 2 people on the phones, and one call all day by the time I left at 5:30. I had a feeling I was going to be asked to go home, and when my GL(whose party I was at Friday) walked over with the schedule in her hand to sit down, I knew the news. So, I was not planning on a daylight trip to the Fringe until Tuesday, but I see now I have little to do with no TV and no video's downloaded other than go there. The people from MBNA are nice, and I have fairly fresh batteries int he camera, so I am off and running. I will be sure to have pics on the Photo site, and the Fotolog soon.

I am off!

I am just in for a second to drop my stuff off from work and grab my camera. My Group lead is having a birthday party at the Toad on Main, right next to our building, and after seeing how inebriated everyone is so far, I definitely want to get more pictures of this all. I saw Trandis, Angela, Dave(her husband), ?Michele(the boss) and her boyfriend Rod, Chris from another account, and other people, whose names I do not know. There is also some awesome clouds out there, with dark bottom and lighted tops, and some beautiful images to be had, so I plan to take some of those. The Goldeyes are playing tonight, and they have planned fireworks as well so I hope I can make it back to that area in time to get some good pics. I will post as many of the pics tonight as I can without getting fired, as soon as I can.

Weekend plans

Ok, so I hope, beyond all hope, to get some cleaning done in my home, get to at least one of the 2 ball games this weekend, and also catch up on posting here and on GB. Beginning today, all posts made on GB will also be posted here. I won't waste space by importing all of my blog posts from there to here, but I will happily blog the new ones here. Sadly, this weekend will not be spent taking pictures with a new HP 320, as it was only ordered about an hour ago, and it won't be delivered until around Wednesday. Therefore it is a D-Link weekend. Good thing, though, is that I have Wednesday off, so I will be here to get the camera, assuming it does not arrive earlier.