It's been a Good Season

I have to admit, I have been impressed with the entertainment world in the past few months. A lot of really great movies and video games have come out. There's some decent music on the radio, but it seems like the overall album product is less than great. As a matter of fact, I find myself buying more and more songs on iTunes than bothering with albums anymore. Even the holiday season was really pretty good. Bunny and I got some good gifts... Work hasn't really been trying to kill me.

The worst part of work lately is that this season is usually one of our less busy seasons. They tried to take a day off of our work week to bank the payroll money, and they plan on taking TWO days off of the work week when we get back in January. They say we can file for partial unemployment, getting a minor cut in pay but overall keeping the same salary. Problem is, though, any kind of unemployment can take forever to clear. Gotta love little companies, though, right? Nice and cheap.

Bunny and I have been going to the movies a bit more. We saw Avatar [not in 3-D] and Sherlock Holmes most recently, both of which were great. They are definitely going to be added to our DVD collection in time. I also borrowed District 9 from my parents, who rented it and it was okay. I had no idea that the movie was documentary-ish and that really killed it for me a bit. Overall, though, great movie with some cool alien technology.

Then, of course with video games, I am always happy. Darksiders comes out in January, Batman Arkham Asylum 2 and The Force Unleashed 2 were announced. I'm curious about the Avatar game, but I get the feeling the movie was so graphically amazing, no game can really live up to it. I hear there's talk about another Pokemon game and the other day I found myself wondering if this new edition will be the first version to hit the Wii, as well as the DS. Then, there's a new Zelda out that has the same graphic quality as the last one, Phantom Hourglass.

Currently, I'm working on getting farther through Puzzle Quest for the DS. I played the game when I first bought it, but a friend of mine had been borrowing it since then. I didn't even realize how litte I had made it through until the past few days where I continue to play and I continue to discover more and more content. After this, I'm going to try to make my way through all of PH because I never beat it. Then probably finish off Chinatown Wars, as I was pretty far into that game, too.

Where the 360 is concerned, I've been jumping around from game to game with. The other day, I started another game of Arkham Asylum, intent on going through the motions again. I've already beaten Bane and decided I had had enough by the time you have to find the Arkham Batcave. Still a great idea, by the way. Then last month, I started playing Saints Row 2 over again because when I had beaten the game, it had been with cheats [really only cheats to get planes and whatnot] and I've already defeated one 2 of the gangs. Now, working on the Sons of Samedi, then the Ultor Corporation and I'll have beaten the game twice! Then, of course, there's masses of SD vs R 2010 in between everything, getting ready to do another season of Road 2 Glory, once Wrestlemania comes around in April.

That's something I'm looking forward to again. I had a lot of fun with it, I just didn't like the direction I had put myself in. Trial and error are my keys at this point, so I'm planning on running with the project much closer this time around. Plus, 2010 is a great game. Gotta love it.

Even Bunny's been more in touch with her inner gamer. She's been playing NEW Super Mario Bros. Wii with me, and the other day last week we played some of Mario Party 8 with a friend who stopped over late one night.

Speaking of Bunny, though, she's gotten me sick! That rotten little rabbit has been coughing up a storm for 2 weeks and last night, I started feeling the same kind of scratchy throat she had. This morning, I felt like total crap. Lovely, sick on my week off. I don't work again til the 5th and it looks like I'll be coughing most of the time. Of course, it's not Bunny's fault, but that's no reason not to pick on the darling!

~Class Dismissed~

It's a Bold New Year

Wow. It's been quite a year... I can barely believe it's almost over, especially after everything I've gone through. I mean... A promotion at work... I've outlived like... Half a dozen people at work. A raise. Moving into a new apartment. The work I've done with Corruption, the realizations I've come to about it and my former writing ability...

It's crazy. Some crazy other stuff that I don't want to get into.

AAAND, this reflection of the past year will have to end riiight about here. Happy new year!

~Class Dismissed~

Why did I bother?

So... Normally, I rarely admit to doing something stupid. I tend to think I'm a pretty smart guy, and for the most part, I'm right.

But today, I did something pretty stupid. I started remembering things. I let myself think back to high school where I had a few friends and remember people that I wish I had known better. There were people I tried to become friends with and things never worked out. I was one of "those" kids... The ones you didn't talk to because they were either creepy or dangerous looking. When people got close to me, their other friends would warn them away from me with some pretty nasty rumors.

Apparently, though I don't remember it very well, I was a "stalker" and very "violent"... Well, okay. I remember some of the violence. But that was all in good natured fun. Nothing dangerous.

Then I started remembering the friends I used to have... I had a good set a friends, though they had their faults. Of course, I had my flaws to them, too. But we were good friends. I've gone through... Probably a dozen "families"... I miss them, now. It's sad, it's stupid and it's childish... We all grew up, we all willingly went our separate ways...

Now maybe we're too far gone to come back.

See? Bad idea.

Waiting

I find it amazing how much time one spends waiting around for things.
Some people spend their entire lives waiting for a certain something
to come their way. Other people don't even know what they're actually
waiting foe, but they're waiting all the same. Some people are stuck
in an uncomfortable chair on their lunch break in a cold warehouse,
waiting for some terminal manager to get their rear ends from one
building to the next to let them in their companys storage facility,
just so they can drop a co-worker off and then drive another 20
minutes back to their job to eat canned food!

In case you missed it, the really descriptive, detailed variation was
about me. I'm actually writing the rough draft to what will be a blog
post by the time you read it, stuck in this cold place on thus
uncomfortable thing. I say thing because I feel it may be an insult to
chairs around the world to call whatever this is a chair. And let's
face it, you don't want something that's as close a companion to your
ass as a chair revolting against you. Such a revolution can only end
in pain.

In times like these (times of waiting that is. Because I am still
waiting...) I find something else amazing. The level of which my short
attention span is reliant upon technology to keep it constantly
entertained. I mean, when you think about it, I'm never bored because
I'm always surrounded by technical marvels of this modern age. Even
here in a warehouse, my trusty phone is helping me get a heads start
on todays blog while also giving me something to do other than pacing
and losing my temper (which, by the way, I'm very good at)

You know, on a pissy side note, I was told to wait maybe 7 minutes for
this guy approximately 20 minutes ago. I do not do well with extended
patience.

Getting back to the technology topic, not only does my phone help keep
me from slaying the innocent with my Wrath of Wrathiness(tm) but it's
great in the work place. I recently discovered that I could set up my
work e-mail on my phone, so now I can be bothered 24/7, 365 days a
year, any place! I'm looking forward to customizing my iPhone
signature on e-mails to "Sent from my iPhone while I sit on the
crapper".

I can practically smell the back of the unemployment line already!
Squee!

~Class Dismissed~

A footnote: is it sad that I even included my signature on my phone
draft?

A new definition of "Crossology"?

So, I've said in the past that I wish I could do more with this blog, something to make it more popular, or at least more interesting to the people who read it [all... 5? of you] Well, it's recently occurred to me that for the most part, no one gives a flying fuck what I talk about, so long as I rant like a lunatic while I write it and either a) make a great point that the entire world would do well to listen to [99% of my posts consist of these, naturally] or b) make myself look like an idiot/nutcase in the process of said ranting.

So I sat down and thought about the term "Crossology" and what it meant to me. Crossology is, in a nutshell, whatever I want it to be. The term "Crossology" doesn't even actually exist in the English language. Yes, I was a big enough loser to spend 3 minutes looking up the possibility. "Crossology" is, quite frankly, anything and everything about me, Seth CROSS. [I can see it now, everyone just read the word "Crossology" like fifteen times in the post already, then saw my last name and everyone collectively went "OOOH, NOW I GET IT!!!" like a bunch of nitwits. God, I love you people. The very idea of you makes me giggle like a school girl on crack.]

Anyway, to stop the Rant of Silliness [which is quite different from a "Rant of Anger" or "Rant of Insanity". Believe me, I know.] let's get down to BUSINESS! [Always wanted to say that!]

Turkey Day was good for all, I hope? Mine was pretty good... I got a new TV out of it, which is always fun for all. I now have a bigger TV in my living room and unlike the old TV, this one has enough inputs for the 360 and the Wii, along with the cable box... No more constant switching around of cables and then getting annoyed when I have to get up to switch them back.

Only downfall of the new TV? It isn't programed into the new universal remote yet, so I need to use both the TV remote and the cable remote to watch TV. It's kind of funny because the volume works off of the TV remote, but the channels work off of the cable remote. It's probably loads of fun to watch me wake up from a nap half-asleep and start yelling at the "piece of shit TV" because I'm using the wrong remote to change the channel.

Ha ha, my friends. Ha ha.

Bunny and I got that new "New Super Mario Bros. Wii" game for... C'mon, guess... Guess which system... HOW DID YOU KNOW IT WAS FOR THE WII?! You crafty devils! But yeah, it's for the Wii and it's a lot of fun. It brings back memories, as the original game for what... The NES? Super NES? was one of my first favorite games, despite the fact that [according to my father, anyway] I initially sucked at it.

GASP! Yes, all you devout Crossologists... I actually used to suck at one of the most famous first video games! According to my father, I had trouble combining "run" and "jump"... I'd run to a hole, stop, jump up and down, then run off the edge and into the "dark pit of doom" [tm].

You see, it's stories like this that make me want kids. I would have loved to been my father, watching this mini-me version of myself do something incredibly stupid like that, and just crack up laughing. Of course, with my luck, Bunny will see me laughing at our child and I'll get the patented "Gibbs Smack"[tm], which, well... That's never fun.

But in the end... It might be worth it! After all, she can't hit that ha-OW!

~Class Dismissed~

Back from the Dead

It's been awhile since I released in a blog... And not the kind of messy release that comes with fun with a girl! But let me get right to it...

I am a ball of stress. I don't have blood running in my system, I have liquid stress. Work, home... It doesn't matter anymore. I'm constantly on the edge of a very VERY deep pit. Sometimes, I'm actually falling down that pit... Don't ask how I get back up... Like Nathan Petrelli, maybe I can bloody fly. I wish. Then I could fly me and Bunny far far FAR away from here.

"Here", by the way, would be our new apartment. It's actually really great. Having a home that's a normal temperature where I'm not suffering, space all to ourselves and not constantly sharing it with drunken morons. It was expensive as Hell to get here, but I definitely feel better living here than the old house. I love the way it's set up and we finally got the last piece of the puzzle; Cable and internet. Of course, we're still going to be buying little things here and there, so the home isn't complete, but we have everything we need to keep going for now.

Of course, the stressful side of things is the money. Like I said, it was expensive as Hell to get here and as such, I'm becoming a worrying sod over money. I know it's kind of annoying or worrying Bunny, but I can't help it. It's how I am... When I have money saved up and I'm only ever saving more, I tend to spend it a lot more for fun and other people. When I see my money going down, I can't help be freak out and want to stop spending money entirely and watching every little transaction.

Eh. I was going to post this huuuge update. But now I'm not into it. I guess there's something to always leaving them wanting more after all, eh?

~Class Dismissed~

Evolution Revolution

Just think. Once upon a time, this mature, handsome, modest catch of a man was a child, a teenager. And back in the day, though it's hard to believe, he was a lot more close-minded about a lot of different things. Music, movies, people... [No, I was never racist. It had nothing to do with race, more about how a person acted] pretty much anything you can think of. I only listened to a certain kind of a music, dressed a certain way and did pretty much everything this way, never that way or those ways because they were the ways of "losers" or "normal" people. I didn't like entire genres of music because the friends I kept didn't seem to like them and I admit, I wanted to be cool.

Of course, I also actually DO like the things I was into. Don't get me wrong, I'm not an utter sell-out where I put myself through misery just to be liked. I was never that bad.

But now that I'm "older" [21 is "older"?! For this little bit, I guess it has to be to make the sentence work. But that's neither here nor there] I can see signs all around me that I'm evolving as a person without limitations or restricting mindsets.

I can openly admit there's music out there that some people scoff at... Britney Spears' "Radar" song. That immensely popular "Fire Burning" song from Sean Kingston... Having grown up listening to almost only KoRn, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Seether, Disturbed and other "heavy metal" bands, these kinds of things are a major turn around for me.

Same thing with movies, but I guess you can blame my sister for that. Her sense of what's cool is very different than mine, as she's into rap, likes what most people would call "stupid funny" movies and tends to dress a lot more "jock" than I ever did. She and I would watch movies that we both liked, but I don't think I ever let anyone else realize or know that I did. "How High" is a great reference, as we always used to watch it when my sister came home to do laundry.

Then there are things that I simply opened up about without caring about opinions from other people. I openly admit that I am very strict with what I believe is right and not right, that I'm opinionated to a fault and that I have no problem being the asshole in any situation. Sometimes, I even feel that assholishness is necessary... Sometimes, someone has to say the things no one wants to hear to realize that things have to change or be realized. That someone is usually me. Sometimes, someone has to do things that people may not want to do but know they're the right things to BE done. That someone is usually me.

Of course, I also have to be more open minded that I'm occasionally [sometimes REALLY oftenly] egotistical. This may be one of those times... You've been warned.

I've lost friendships because of the way I am, but I'm actually happy with my personality. I remember being a kid and I would sort of... Assimilate other traits from other people into myself. It helped me relate to other people because we had this one thing in common, but it wasn't a common thing between us until we met and I adopted whatever the trait was. I think I still do it to a degree, but I also believe that my own personality has become strong enough to be itself without anyone's help.

Did that make sense? I re-read it about three times and wasn't sure. Maybe all of this rambling is really... Me talking myself up. My ego getting the better of me.

After all... What else could talking about myself be, aside from ego? Except maybe... TRUTH?!

~Class Dismissed~

Civil War

So, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 came out on the 15th this past week and I reserved it the day before [for the Juggernaut character I still haven't gotten the chance to play because my xBox 360 Live subscription is up... More on this later] and paid it in full, assuming it'd be as entertaining and amazing as the first one. And I've been playing it little by little throughout the week and yesterday and today, I spent most of the two days beating it. And, well...

I'm disappointed.

For starters, I think there were more characters to play in the first one. Not counting Juggernaut, who's available only with a reserve, there's only 24 characters in the game [that are playable, anyway] There's the obvious favorites... Captain American, Ironman, Wolverine, Spiderman, Hulk, etc. etc. But still, there's only 24 and a lot of them were in the last game. People like Iceman, Deadpool, Ms. Marvel, Luke Cage [more on this later]... Who cares about these guys? Yeah, they're great heroes, but they were in the first game and it's not like they're invaluable heroes.

They did give us some new guys to mess with... And some guys who weren't on the regular version of the first one, but were downloadable, or included in the "Gold" version of the last game... Like Venom. But then there were losers like Songbird, Penance, Iron Fist... Who CARES? I know they're decent heroes, I know they've had decent hero careers, but these aren't the guys I want to play as.

Havok. Bishop. Cable. It'd be kinda cool to see or get to play as X-23, the clone of Logan that spawned her own mini-series... But guys who are well known, but rarely seen in these games. Let me play THEM!

As for the whole "Fusion" thing, I've heard a lot of people complaining that there aren't enough "unique" fusions, and I have to say; Duh? They have 24 people that all have to fuse with one another. Obviously they're going to run out of steam. Besides, some of these guys only have so much they can do. Take Wolverine. He can either team up with buff/explosive guys and they do the whole "run/double hit" attack or he teams with someone who shoots stuff from somewhere and they shoot him and he deflects it with his claws. Beyond that, what can Logan really do?! Except get thrown at people by, say, the Hulk or Thing. But those are really his three options. I can't think of anything else he could do with anyone else's power because his power is limited as close-combat. So get over the "lack of uniqueness" and enjoy what they gave you; A decent super hero game.

I was disappointed in the ending. So disappointed that I stopped caring about how to unlock Thor and Hulk, really. I mean, the end saw the Alliance back together for a few quick missions to determine that the Tinkerer was behind everything?! THE FREAKING TINKERER?! Didn't we kick his ass in Act 1?! Yeah, yeah we did. And he's the boss. Nice. I kinda saw it coming, since Von Bardas came back as a cyborg in Act 2. I figured with the big threat being nanities, that it'd be either her or someone else really smart/technical, but more evil than Tinkerer... He's not really... Very threatening. Why not Mr. Sinister? Stryfe, Cable's alternative self? Someone... MORE!

I did love one thing; Gambit was in this one! And his alternative costume was Death from his days as a Horseman of the Apocalypse, which was awesome. I loved tossing explosive crap at people. A cool ability would have been that if he threw anything like debris, it was charged with the same kinetic energy and exploded. But hey, you can't have it all. I did like some of the banter between certain characters, though. It was fun to watch them go back and forth.

Oh, yeah. My "Luke Cage [more on this later]" rant. WHY IS THIS GUY SO FREAKING POPULAR NOW?! He was in Marvel 1, a major player in Marvel 2 and in Spiderman Web of Shadows, he was the head of Act 1. For the love of Stan Lee, I never considered Luke Cage that big of a deal. But somehow, he's being made into one.

Someone stop this crap!

~Class Dimissed~

3/4

For starters, I'm 3/4 [hence the title] of the way to 100 posts here... Kinda cool, eh? It's been a good 75 posts, getting to share some nutty ideas and vent some frustrations and whatnot. Here's to 3/4 more?

I find myself constantly finding people doing insane, stupid things. My manager at work tends grumble and rant and rave to himself. Except that some times, it's just half-sentence of swearing and anger and when I listen to him, I can't help but think "... You're an idiot."

Of course, I don't think my manager is really an idiot. He runs all of Production and helps us in the Warehouse on the side. He does all this intelligently and for the most part, as fairly as possible. I think he can be kind of harsh with our new kid, but Manager's older and he was kind of strict with me until I started doing things I didn't need to do to help out... And once I started staying for overtime, that's when Manager really warmed up to me; I think I proved myself to him for the company's best interest.

But hearing people do that... "Shit, fuck, God dammit, why can't anyone fucking, Jesus Christ!" cracks me up. When I rant, when I go on and on and on and on [and on!] about stupid shit, at least I'm saying something. [Whether or not anyone gives a damn]

Ahh, technology. Gotta love things like my iPhone. I've been doing something I never saw myself doing; buying music on iTunes. So far, I've bought like 15 songs, which is strange. As a child, I admit I downloaded a few songs in my time [Thank you, Kazaa] but having invested so much money in my CD's, I guess I eventually started to dislike it. It kills the music industry, little by little, and music is too precious to me for me to want to kill it, even if I'm a small percentage in the grand scheme of things.

Thus, money = songs. I only spend a few bucks a week, so it's all good.

Under 2 months until I move! As a matter of fact, I think Bunny and I have a month and a half soon... Which is great, because we can't wait! On the other hand, we haven't packed a damn thing and need to clean the house, so it's that age-old double-edged sword.

Not to mention, we're both working stupidly long hours... I'm working 12 hour days this entire week to attempt to catch up to our goals [which, so far, we're not doing] We're actually re-hiring a guy we let go last year just to try to get more orders done. It's insane. We're shipping 60 orders a day for the NFL and we're still falling further and further behind. Meaning they're entering more than 60 orders a day! Jesus...

Ah well. Being busy means you've got work. I just hope that next year, we do things a little differently and can prepare better than this year.

I don't know if I've said this in the blog lately, but I've said it out loud; My company has one "big bang" season; Back to school. Our contracted work picks up for back to school... We ship orders for colleges for back to school... And NFL Flag starts... Guess when? BACK TO SCHOOL SEASON!

Fuck. My. Life.

~Class Dismissed~

Personal Confusion

For starters... I'm 21 now. I went out on my birthday and got wasted [and inevitably wound up puking in a friend's toilet] and it was fun. I'm enjoying the idea that I can go to a bar after work for a beer, or take Bunny out on her day off to a club/bar if she's in the mood for that without having to worry about being carded or just not let in. It's a good feeling to finally be considered an "adult", I guess.

When I turned 21, I was contacted by an uncle I rarely ever spoke to and years ago... Well, my family and him/his wife, stopped talking, eventually. I haven't gotten a phone call or a birthday card from this man in... Years. But I got one this year because my grandmother on his/my father's side left me money in savings bonds for when I turned 21. I'm... Really not sure how I feel right now.

I can describe certain feelings going through my head. But all together, I couldn't tell you in one word or even 20 words how I am. I'm... Angry. Frustrated. Hurt. Depressed. Confused. Bitter. And a lot more. There are some feelings that are up to a level that I don't think they have words to define them anymore.

And in the end, I guess I shouldn't care, right? I walked away with over... Well, I walked away with a lot of money. Let's leave it at that. But still, the visit seemed tainted. The entire time I was there, I was asked about my life, my writing, my work... Etc. etc., but it wasn't about me. I wasn't there for him to get to know me or ask about all of the stuff I was asked about... I was there to get money from the director of my grandmother's estate. He was more of a lawyer than my uncle for those... Well, close to 2 hours.

People who know me know I have issues with the little family I am in contact with, including my immediate family. We don't get along and there's a lot of bad memories in my past that I don't typically talk about anymore. Today was kind of a reminder that for as broad as my family is, so little of it is there for me and the little bit that is there, well. They kinda suck. Or they did suck at some point, anyway. Even if they do try to make up for it these days.

I don't know, right now. It wasn't a great Labor Day. It really wasn't a great week and it hasn't been a great month. I guess for now, the best I can do is keep trying harder to work toward a brighter tomorrow.

If that's what I'm even working toward.

~Class Dismissed~

Plotting evil... Plots

Yeeeah, I'm a scheming little bastard... I think 3 or 4 blogs ago, I mentioned wanting to make the blog more interesting to me... More of a project to occupy my time with. And I think I'm beginning to create a little plan of stuff to add. I definitely want to re-skin the thing, but with someone's help. I don't know enough programing to begin to try that...

Overall, my mood was like yesterday's; Sucked ass. However, I just took 30 minutes to clean up [shave, shower, etc. etc.] and I feel a lot better. I'm also pretty happy with...

BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM! Yeeeah, I got it. Unfortunately, I didn't get the Collector's Edition with the Batarang, but I did see the thing as someone in line before me had their's reserved. It was cool looking, but realizing how huge the damn thing was, I decided I didn't need it. Plus, I think the price shot from $60 to $100. That I definitely didn't need to worry about. Overall, like I said, I'm happy with what I got.

Tomorrow is officially "two months til we move!" day... Sadly, I will not be drunk for this, but I do plan on being drunk for a day or two after we move... Depending on how quickly we get in there and when the first weekend appears that doesn't require tons of unpacking.

A cool thing that happened with that I think the month of/month before is a 5-pay-week... Meaning instead of getting 4 checks that month, Bunny and I both get 5... Which, if you add our checks together, is like an extra $1k for the month. That's money for all kinds of "new home" stuff! Awesome.

I believe I'm going to start playing D2 again... After D3 had some more unveiling, I looked for my LoD disc and found it... I can't help but say I AM EXCITED FOR D3 TO COME OUT! When? God only knows, but when it does, oooh, baby... I will have it. It will be mine. And I will shut EVERYTHING ELSE IN MY LIFE OUT!

Okay, so I'm not that nutty. But seriously, it will be awesome. I'm definitely going to have to try out the new classes and even wait for the expansion classes. "What expansion?!" you ask? No, I'm not starting rumors, there is no news that D3 will have ANY expansion, but what Blizzard game DOESN'T have an expansion? WoW has THREE [or rather, it will] so D3 has to have at least one. We'll have to see, either way.

~Class Dismissed~

Down, but still In

It's been a long time since I blogged anything out... I don't know what inspired the huge hiatus, but regardless, it happened and I think it depressed me a little. Most of you that read will remember our little troll of a guest on the shoutbox claiming my blogs are "selfish" or "narcissistic" and I guess taking a step back, I couldn't help but realize they were. That isn't originally what I wanted to do with this blog and that was definitely never where I intended it to go. I think I originally started a blog because people seemed to enjoy reading the things I wrote, even when it WAS stupid stories just about my day. I've actually done just that; written stories about my day on forums and had huge responses. But I may have overestimated myself.

I know, I know. You're sitting there, reading this and wondering "What the Hell? This doesn't sound like Seth... It isn't cocky and egotistical enough to be Seth!" Well, that's probably because I simply am not a happy evil little bastard today. I don't know what it is, but I'm not myself the past couple of days...

The "secret project" I had been considering was going to be a new webcomic. Done in black and white and a quicker "anime" style... It wound up not looking very good. I was unsatisfied and I think I dumped the idea. Would have been kinda fun, and definitely excited me to think about getting into webcomics again.

The long and short of the problem is that I don't possess the necessary drawing ability. I know people that know me will also cite my poor attention span as another reason, and they'd be right. However, one of the things that kills my attention span early is that, well... I'm never satisfied with some projects. The webcomic's art sucking ass doesn't make me WANT to continue the project. Just like how some of the issues with writing Corruption and trying to write Re-Birth didn't make me WANT to continue.

WHICH BRINGS ME TO ANOTHER LITTLE THING! I am going to start working on re-writing Corruption to a) work on the flow of the plot and hopefully fill in some of the bigger plot holes I've noticed and b) re-write some of the more childish not-thought-out dialog... I've mapped out chapter one like I've done in the past and I'm much happier with some of the ideas I have in mind. We're going to see a lot "more" to the story, including scenes, backstory, those lovely flashbacks everyone used and even more characters. Fun fun! That's exciting.

We're [Bunny and I] moving at the end of October and we're already talking about things we need to get, how to get packed up, by when... I'm excited about that, too. Very, actually... It's going to be the first thing that's "mine" away from my mother, father and even my sister and I'm sharing it with someone very special. It's a great time on the horizon, even though I am slightly worried about money... Still, as of so far, Bunny and I have always found ways to get the money we need, and I believe in our ability to continue doing that.

See? Two huge, very exciting things... And I'm depressed... Work isn't bad, but it isn't good. I'm starting to feel like I'm constantly being told I should be doing "more" at work, but I don't know what "more" to do. We're told by the Bossman to evolve our departments and have it run more effeciently, but it's hard enough to get it to run smoothly enough to CONCENTRATE on that evolution. I just don't know what to do with it at this point... Or even if I'm the one they should be asking. Maybe I'm not.

I have virtually no friends lately. I'm either not friends with previous friends, barely speaking to them or they're barely speaking to me for whatever reasons, but here I am, turning 21 in September [really, what? A week?] and I can't think of who might actually be there to celebrate with me, except people who are really more Bunny's friends than mine... I call that pathetic.

Well, it felt good to blog some stuff out. Maybe this will help my depression. Or maybe it won't.

~Class Dismissed~

Approved!

Bunny and I are officially approved for the apartment! We get the keys and sign the lease sometime around the 26th of October! First month's free! Get to start moving in from there! Pool access! Quiet, beautiful place to live... Nice apartments. CAN. NOT. WAIT!

New guy started today. Little rough around the edges, but I think he can do it. Needs to be a bit more motivated, but not everyone's going to be gung-ho like I am.

First day on my raise!!! Course, this week's check won't have it. Next week. Start getting my new cleaning payment, too! Course, I was late for that this morning. Damn gas station!!!

Ah well. I'm happy. And thus, you should be HAPPY that I'm happy!

Upgrade?

Hmm. I've been trying to think of things to make the blog more... Interesting. Right now, aside from any crazy ideas that appear in my random ramblings of my daily crap... There's news and a shoutbox. That's it. Guess I'm getting bored with it. Maybe if I made it more interesting, it'd be more interesting to me. Who knows, maybe a more interesting site would make it more interesting to people. Thus, I'd get more readers, and thus, I'd have more fun with it in general.

I've considered only blogging when I had something to talk about that matters... Abortion, politics, stuff like that. But then, I don't think I'd blog very much. Maybe only once or twice a week and while sometimes that's all I do, I don't like the idea of limiting myself.

Maybe I should consider screwing around with a few things. Seeing what I can do with the site before making up big ideas.

Either way, some mildly big news;

New partner at work!
Dollar raise!
New York tomorrow!

Mucho wootage.

Oh Well

So. Apparently the cleaning at work is STILL not good enough and I now have a partner and instead of $600 a month, it's $100 a week. Whatever. I actually think it's better that the stress is slightly lessened by a lighter burden. Not as much money, but every little bit helps and it's still more than what I was getting before Supervisor was laid off. Ah well. Whatever.

Think I might work on my "secret project" a little bit this weekend. Test it out. And then not show you! HAHA!

Either way, my week was hell. Just craziness and next week isn't going to be any better. But it's not as big a burden now! So that's good.

AND IT'S FRIIIDAY!

~Class Dismissed~

Tengo el Gato Grande en los Pantalones

Yeeeah. I said it. Big cat. In my pants.

Work blew today, too. I'm starting to realize that as we get busier in the office, my boss because more of an asshole to those of us in the warehouse. I'm not liking being a stress-relieving landfill. Ah well. Looking forward to Thursday [not] when I have to take the deliveries in through the side-door because they're paving the back parking lot. Thaaat'll be fun.

Haven't been sleeping well. Recent events tells me it makes sense, that it's understandable, but I don't find it acceptable, especially when I'm late for work. Granted it's late for the cleaning part, but even still. I do not like being late.

Speaking of cleaning. Next Friday... $600 + $308 = $908!!! I'm excited for the huge pay-off... I can pay my rent and car payment from one week. ONE WEEK! Jesus, I think I might even be able to pay my damn phone bill from it. You know what that means? Out of 4 weeks, one week pays my bills. Meaning three weeks of $308 is banked. $924 a month in my account, minus some food for the month, gas money... I'm still going to be banking like $400-$500 a month. That's awesome. I've never had money like that in my life [which is sad, because it's not that much]

Oh, yeah. September 8th marks another hugely pathetic day in my life. I'll have kept a job for a year. WOW! Amazing, never happened before. Sad, isn't it?

I'm already thinking of things to do for Bunny next April for our anniversary. I think I have a great idea, I just need some help, which I'll get... One way or the other.

Huge project being built up in my head... Gonna have to try it out soon and see how it goes... Probably won't go public for awhile. We'll see.

That's all. Longer one tonight...

~Class Dismissed~

R.I.P. Gizmo 2000-2009

Haven't been in the mood for blogging. Still not.

Gizmo was put down today. I made sure to mention it to everyone who knew him yesterday. That's really all I have to say. Work sucked today but it could be because I wasn't very positive minded. Not sure what else to tell ya.

~Class Dismissed~

Fuck

Worst. Week. Ever.

Tuesday - Shipping's being done wrong.
Wednesday - Fight with my father.
Thursday - Cleaning's done wrong.
Sunday - Dog's being put to sleep in two weeks.

Fuck. My. Life.

~Class Dismissed~

Rawr

Today is my father's birthday. I not only REMEMBERED it was today, but specifically set a reminder for today so I couldn't forget to call him. Thus, when it went off right before my lunch break, I called my parent's house to wish him a happy birthday as early as possible. I assumed he had taken the week off because it was his birthday in the middle of it. Unfortunately, no such luck. As a matter of fact, he might even have had to stay overtime because there was someone at his job out on vacation or sickness, or whatever.

I get out of work at 4:30. I go to Bunny's workplace to see her on her break, which I believe she took around 5. 5:30 her break was over and I went to a bookstore before going home, and I don't think I actually LEFT the bookstore til almost 7. Half an hour drive home and I finally got home around 7:30. Somewhere along the line I must have fallen asleep because I was woken up right before 9 by my mother who was apparently pissed I "hadn't tried to call my father".

Excuse me? Did I not speak TO HER on my lunch break and did she not tell me he might have even had to work overtime, getting out at 7PM anyway? Did I not remember and make that call ON MY OWN without her reminding me or helping me? When she called 3 days beforehand to try to remind me, had I not TOLD HER that I had KNOWN it was coming up and had planned on speaking to him on the day?

Screw. That.

She eventually hangs up on me and I try to call my parent's house twice, getting the answering machine both times. So I call my father's cell phone which isn't picked up before calling my parent's house again, intent on at least trying to leave a message to explain what had REALLY happened to my father when he picks up. Five minutes later, I'm sitting on the phone enraged with him as he proceeds to tell ME that I had forgotten his birthday. He proceeds to tell ME that I obviously did NOT work hard enough to be tired after work and fall asleep. He proceeds to tell ME that I started an argument with my mother when she called me, trying to excuse myself for "not calling" him.

Excuse me?!

No. I do not think so. I do not work my ASS off at my job where I'm SUPPOSED to have a partner and I DON'T and I STILL get everything everyone needs done ON TIME so someone who doesn't know JACK SHIT about my job to tell me I do not work hard enough. I do NOT struggle with a short-term memory problem that typically leaves me not realizing WHAT'S GOING ON without immense attempts to concentrate on whatever needs to be remembered SPECIFICALLY TO REMEMBER HIS BLOODY BIRTHDAY to be told I did not remember.

Screw. This. Shit.

I am one of two of their children. They have an older daughter. Yet somehow, despite everything, I have always been considered the "bad kid". I didn't do well in school, I was known to talk back and when I was very young, I admit I had a tendency to lie. However, as time went on, I did not go out without telling them and stay out forever so they would be worried all night long. I did not break their rules and let them find out about it. I did not ask for money, nor did I steal it from them. I did not total any of the cars they gave me, as a matter of fact, I am still using the first one they ever gave me. I did not do drugs or have friends who did drugs and then screw me over for money which my parents then had to cover. I have never not paid my parents back for a money loan.

My sister cannot make any of these claims. Yet I am the "bad kid".

Screw. This. Shit.

I am furious. I am beyond furious. I am enraged like someone like me should never become enraged. My blood is boiling, raising, and anything else that can be described as a symptom of extreme uncontrollable anger. Which is sad, considering that despite having a temper, I am actually very laid back most times.

I anger, therefore I am.

So think on THAT philosophy, you bunch of bastards.

~Class Bloody Dismissed~

Silence is Golden...

But duct tape is silver!

What's that got to do with anything? I HAVE NO IDEA! But I am DAMN hyper!

I've been working on Road to Glory the past few hours and I am MUCHO excited about this Sunday, where I'll be posting Extreme Rules, our first PPV. Someone mentioned trying to do videos to accompany the PPVs, but I don't know how possible that is. Currently I'm using a lot of wrestlers NOT in the game, so I would either have to make THOSE wrestlers or simply not put those matches in the video... Except Extreme Rules would only have 3 or 4 out of 7 matches in the video! Is that really worth it? I don't think so...

I don't know. We'll see as things keep going...

Work was good. I finally caught up the receiving and even better; I got to talk to my boss and manager about the new guy! They're going to be offering him a job the first week in August. And we have tons of stuff to move over to the other warehouse within the next four weeks... Grrreat. That's always tons of work. And four weeks isn't a lot of time for the amount of stuff we have to actually move. Again... Grrreat. But the boss seems to be pretty understanding. And... That's a good thing.

Ugh, though. I bloody found out that apparently, we were not shipping things correctly for our BIG customer. Of course, they made it seem like 10+ orders we screwed up... Know how many we really screwed up? REALLY?! 2. Not 10. Not more. Not half. 2. And they made a huge deal about it to the BOSS and naturally, it came back down to me that I wasn't doing things right. Of course, afterwards, he was apologetic and a lot more understanding... 1 or 2 mistakes are bound to happen, even though we aim to have 0.

In the end, no biggie. No harm. No foul. Wootles.

~Class Dismissed~

Mondays!

I'm one of the few people in the world who can LOVE Mondays. How could I not? I almost caught up receiving at work, I only got in 12 boxes today and that's all I have left! It's so quiet because Production isn't there Mondays and Fridays and even the office seems to leave me alone... Maybe I don't need a part-timer after all!

I think we'll wait until I say that either way, though. Maybe I just had a quiet day of receiving. If they dump extra stuff on me tomorrow, I'm kinda back to square one.

R2G is two days completed! Well, after today it'll only be one, but it feels good to be ahead of the schedule. I think I'm going to start trying to get a few done ahead of schedule and then I can just start doing the future shows on the days I'm posting shows that are already done. But at least if I don't feel like it one day, I can sorta shrug it off.

Today's title was going to be something completely different... Except I can't remember what it was...

Dammit.

~Class Dismissed~

Short but Sweet

Ugh. This is going to be REALLY short.

Work wasn't too bad. Part-time Production means quiet Fridays! Woot!

Push is good so far. Nice movie.

This weekend = sleep. World = Piss off.

Me = Done.

~Class Dismissed~

Maybe... Just Maybe

Today, I had 100 boxes on my dock to start. I gained more than 30 throughout the day. I ended with somewhere around 60. You know what that means? That maybe... Just maybe I am good enough to do my own bloody job.

Gotta admit, Manager taking over planning the Warehouse? Not the high point of my career. I'm starting to feel as though the company has resigned to the idea of "Seth can't hack it yet so we'll basically let him do the little stuff he's been doing and we'll do the big boy stuff for now"... Not a great feeling.

I was driving TO work this morning when something clicked and I threw both my arms up [and my hands off the wheel] and said in obvious shock and dismay "IT'S THURSDAY! ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT!" Yes, my week has felt that long.

I'm starting to want to smack people who keep talking about my haircut. Die, vermin. Die.

I used my iPhone to jot down some notes about Bones Begone, the first book in a series of fantasy/crime novels I plan on writing called the Graveyard Crew. They center around Gregory Hellson, a detective who finds out he's got magic in his family tree when he dead grandfather, David, reveals their past to him and he takes in a fugitive Vampire/cyber criminal named Michael and meets a number of other freaks and weirdos as the story progresses. Eventually Gregory must embrace this part of his life and become a detective of the supernatural, leading his team of allies, which get nicknamed the Graveyard Crew [because they begin to work "graveyard hours", late night shifts. Get it?!]

I have chapter one starting to form in my mind, which is exciting. That means after I begin to map out the scenes, writing comes next. I won't know when or how or why until that time comes, though... FUN FUN! Mucho exciting.

I've been re-reading bits and peices of Corruption and all I can think is "Oh my God, did I really think this shitty dialog wasn't going to suck raw eggs when OTHER people read it?!" I mean, really. The talking just sucks to me. Everyone loves it, but I think it blows chunks like a $1 prostitute who doesn't swallow.

Yeeeah. Enjoy that little mental image. Bitch!

~Class Dismissed~

Backed Up

I have 100 boxes on my dock and I still don't think my Manager has spoken to our Boss about possibly bringing in a part-time receiver. I'm starting to wonder if Manager is going to talk to him at all until the time they originally designated to hire a new guy... Which means I'll have a few hundred boxes on my dock.

I like the fact that Manager was talking about helping me do receiving on Friday and Monday, though. Again, it's kind of a "He'll help me when I need it and that's good"/"I shouldn't need anyone's help to begin with" situation that I spoke about yesterday.

I came home exhausted. I've been going in an extra hour to do the cleaning because I'm only supposed to take an hour to do it. If you factor it out with the idea that they're paying me $600 a month for it, it comes out to like $25 an hour. Nice! I almost wish it wasn't done on payroll, though, because I'm sure I'll lose about $100 to taxes... However, I won't pay more at the end year for taxes... Again... Good news/Bad news.

Overall, I'm still pretty happy. I'm still REALLY excited about moving... When when when?! I just can't wait. I call them in less than a month!

YO ME GUSTA! WOO!

~Class Dismissed~

Not Enough

Ugh. I had a crap day. My Manager had to help us out with putting stuff away today and it's kinda good news, bad news.

I enjoy the fact that if I'm in a tight spot, I can actually trust in my Manager to help me get things done. It's reassuring to know he's willing to do whatever it takes not just for Production, where he typically stays, but the Warehouse, where I'm in charge. My old Supervisor painted a very different picture of him. I'm beginning to realize that without my old Supervisor, I have to completely wipe the slate clean on my opinion's of everyone in the company and restart with my own opinions, completely unhindered. Not that I meant to have them influenced, but I guess when you work with someone for 40 hours a week, that's what happens... I hope I don't do that to anyone else.

Anyway, the bad news is that I needed help. I know, I know. Someone's going to say "But aren't you short-staffed? Doesn't that mean you're GOING to need help?" [mainly because Bunny and others have been saying that] but that doesn't matter to me. They expect me to get things done and if I need to turn to Managers just to get those things done, then the Manager should be running things. Not me. I can't say I'm worried about the situation, but I'm not happy either...

Woot. I got a haircut. Finally, the long hair has become annoying and it was getting really unhealthy with the split ends... It feels good to shed a little.

Overall, I'm bloody tired. But in order to fill this blog a bit, I'll end it with a poem. GASP!

Not Enough

Sometimes it feels like there's nothing I can say
And nothing I can do
To make it all better
To make it up to you

I try to escape this hell
Try to climb this hill
I try not to fall
But I know I will

I can't do it
It's just not in me
Don't you understand?
Can't you see?

Everything in front of me
It's all too tough
What I've got
It's not enough

I try to soar
Spread my wings to fly
But I crash and burn
Looks like I can't touch the sky

I tried to be on your side
Stood by you on your place
But I just can't
Put a smile on your face

But it's not enough
It's not enough
It's just not enough!
I'm sorry...

And you say
I'm not that strong
I'm too weak
You're wrong

I've got it all
I've got enough
I can beat
Whatever you call tough

But I won't accept your words
I don't need the pain
So I wash it all off
Just like water in the rain...

Now the tables are turned
Now you're struggling with what's tough
You can't keep up
You're not enough.

~Class Dismissed~

Silver Lining?

I finally stopped being such a lazy bastard and went to my old retail job and spoke with a former co-worker I had worked with a noticed a good work ethic of about maybe jumping ship to work at the Warehouse with me. Overall, he seemed pretty excited about it, but there are some kinks to work out. Since it's not about me, I guess I won't be divulging too much information, shall I?

We emptied 1 and 1/2 of the containers that we need emptied by Wednesday. So there's 1 and 1/2 left and the 1 whole container is already on pallets... That one may take 30 minutes to unload and the other one, well... We unloaded the first half in about 2 hours. Since it'll be the morning and I noticed my guys worked a bit quicker in the morning [less tired, hadn't sat down for 30 minutes on a break to kinda let the tiredness catch up to them... Understandable] so I'm pretty confident we'll be done with MORE than enough time to do other things.

UPS killed me today, though. I have 26 boxes from Thursday. They dumped 40 more on me and claimed there was supposed to be another 7. A customer came by and dropped off almost another 10. I've got over 75 boxes on my dock, completely untouched because I was putting boxes away all morning and unloading half that second container and then doing the shipping... I am so screwed. I'm hoping the Boss and my Manager "ok" my friend to start NEXT WEEK, part-time. If he can just do receiving and nothing BUT receiving for 4 hours everyday... Damn. I would love that.

I got to speak to an old friend of mine today and she was really down. It makes me realize that most of my good friends that I enjoy the company of almost never speak to me. It kinda depresses me... Either I'm hard to approach or my friends that I love spending time with are all inconsiderate assholes. Ugh. Bastards. All of you.

Did I mention that Wednesday we have ANOTHER container coming IN with 517 boxes? LOVELY!

I posted this Monday's R2G and overall, I was happy with it. The main event was hard because THE two main eventers were used early in the show, but not in a match. I can't use the same people too many times without people getting tired of seeing the same bloody people over and over again. You'd think with such a huge roster... I wouldn't have to do that. I do have a lot of main eventers, so it should have been easy... But I guess I'm old fashioned. The title picture should be THE main event. And when it isn't, I guess it's just funny to me.

So I was driving to work and I had so many ideas of how to start another book, I think I would have if I wasn't so tired when I got home. That's a really lame excuse, but it's the truth. I actually just forgot about it until now. Speaking of writing, though, I have to remember to get those summaries out of my phone and onto either the internet or my computer. Either way, we'll see!

~Class Dismissed~

Here's Sethy!

For those of you who missed it, I wrote this awhile ago;

http://crossology.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-would-caeser-do.html

That's the blog where I was on a forum as an administrator and a lot of crap happened and I basically went inactive. I've recently been told I shouldn't call this "leaving" as that implies I was actually somewhere and "it's the internet and I don't live there", yadda yadda. [Really, who's taking things too seriously? Me for being upset over something someone said to my girlfriend or the people who are dissecting my every word to have a literal meaning that doesn't fit the context clues?!]

Anyway, I recently checked up on the forum out of random boredom and a few people noticed me and posted I was "back". I impolitely stated I wasn't going to return because nothing had changed and the person I had a problem with replied to my post with a rather... Well, he wasn't happy in his reply. Let's leave it at that.

So, in order to avoid internet drama [because this is the internet and this is serious] I took the topic off the internet and contacted the person via IM. About an hour later, we had more or less finished voicing our opinions and the entire situation and it would appear I have "returned" to the forum [I'm active now, you literal bastards]

One could say I'm a hypocrite for going back, but I could also say that those people should be Gibb-style smacked in the back of the head. I guess either way it isn't important, but I felt like announcing my return, because I am, after all, much like Jesus. My return shall, obviously, be legendary.

Thank God I'm so modest, eh?

Today was beautiful and I simply had to go out to enjoy it a bit. I wound up at the mall and then back home, but overall, if Bunny hadn't been working, I would have dragged her fluffy ass to the beach. See, that's a double plus because 1) I would have enjoyed the beach and 2) I'd have seen Bunny in her bathing suit. That is always good fun!

I find myself growing disgusted with my Myspace and Facebook pages. I find myself sacrificing the integrity of my friends lists for more members on application games. How horrible does that sound? The "integrity of my friends list"?! What the bloody Hell is wrong with people today?! Why am I yelling about something when the person doing it is me?!

But yeah. I'm hooked into Mobsters, Bloodlines and Overdrive, those kind of browser games where you buy weapons and attack people or do missions based upon how much energy you have and get experience to level up and in the end, there's no actual point to the entire damn thing. [That was a very long sentence]

~Class Dismissed~

Eve of Independence

It's a sad, sad day in my life when I realize that I may be required to wear my knee braces to work from now on. Both of them. Ugh.

When I was around... 8 years old, I was playing soccer in my own back yard. I was kicked in the back of the knee by someone and my left knee was badly injured. I was on crutches for a few months and during that time, my right leg was used to shoulder all my body's weight and ever since, my right knee has been almost as bad as my left knee, especially considering my left knee didn't seem to heal correctly.

Nowadays, I can feel something in my knee pop in and out of place as I bend and unbend the damn thing. Sometimes the entire knee gives out and I'm in pain for a few minutes afterward... It's never good times.

Yesterday, I was at work and just walking around to get from the desk to the receiving tables seemed... Achy. It didn't HURT, like a great deal of pain, they just ACHED a lot. The braces will give me a bit more support and maybe wearing them throughout the week will keep them from aching or maybe make it a bit better... Either way, I have to try to find my braces before Monday and give them a shot. I just cannot wait for questions from people who work there, though. That's going to be fun.

I had the day off and instead of doing anything productive, I elected to spend the day with a Vampire Movie Marathon and wound up watching the Blade trilogy. Good actions movies, but in the end, they kind of suck for Vampire movies. They're the kind of movies you watch for the cool explosions and weapons, not to watch a good Vampire movie. Underworld was a great Vampire movie, Van Helsing was one of the best new Vampire movies... Lost Boys, John Carpenter's Vampires... Good Vampire movies. Blade trilogy... Not so much.

I still cannot believe they tried to make a TV show out of it. I saw a few episodes and decided I was wasting my time. Speaking of television, that new show, Royal Pains? It's actually really good. It reminds me a bit of House and Burn Notice... House is a famous medical show and Burn Notice is a newer show about a resourceful ex-spy trying to live life after being fired from his spy job. The reason I relate Burn Notice to Royal Pains [which has absolutely nothing to do with spies] is because the doctor in Royal Pains his extremely resourceful, as he usually does not have the capability of going to the hospital to treat people who are sick or injured. It's very cool to see how he makes everyday things work in a medical situation. Very cool indeed.

So this past week was the first week I was alone in the warehouse with just our NFL stock guy. It wasn't easy and the weather didn't really help. It poured like crazy a few days and when it wasn't pouring, it was really REALLY hot out. All in all, not a great time, but I think I've got things under control for now. I'm finding out that talking to my bosses doesn't seem as hard as the old Supervisor made it sound like. The way he talked about their conversations, it was like they refused to compromise about anything and everything had to be done as it was set down in the beginning and nothing could ever change. So far, I haven't seen that kind of attitude or mindset, so I'm pretty relaxed with how things are going.

I'm not looking forward to next week, though. I have to empty three containers into the already over-crowded warehouse and then receive another fourth container on Wednesday. THEN I have to find time and manpower to pack up probably about two container-fulls of old merchandise and have it transferred to our other warehouse in the next town over. All while trying to keep our daily activities relatively still on-time... Yeeeah. We'll see.

I do have to try to walk into my old job and talk to a few guys about if they want full-time work and to get out of retail. I know at least one guy is definitely looking and another guy used to complain a lot, but never seemed to try too hard to actually get out of that store... We'll have to see, either way. And speaking of either way, I doubt I'll get anyone into the warehouse within the next month, even with the projects of next week. I'd be lucky to get anyone as early as the middle of August.

Oooh, I have to post Road 2 Glory, too! Almost forgot, even though I'm sitting here, watching WWE Smackdown! Ah well. Here we go.

~Class Dismissed~

Steady Pace

So basically, my plan at work is to maintain the steady pace. We're currently actually behind on some of our things, but we're no more behind than we were on Friday, when my old Supervisor was laid off. Thus, we're not falling more behind, we're just staying where we are. It's not progress, but it's not the opposite, either. If anything, I think we're kind of proving that we can operate through the slow season on fewer people. They'll probably do this again next year, unless we get the College Bookstore thing to work.

Anyway, they're talking about getting a third guy next month because one of our programs starts up again and we'll need the extra help for that program, among other things. I've already offered to try to find a guy, because I have someone in mind that may work out great [someone I've worked with before, so I can trust them to be a relatively hard worker] Either way, if it all works out and we don't get too loaded up BEFORE that third person comes in, I think we'll survive the slow season just fine.

I also offered to my manager that if it's ever necessary, I'd work after hours, off the clock. I wouldn't get paid for it, but in the end, if things aren't done when the boss needs them to be done, it's going to be our fault. In the end, I would rather not get paid for a few hours of work and keep my job because I get everything done than be a bastard about money and eventually get fired for falling behind. But my Manager didn't seem worried and also flat out told me he didn't like the idea of anyone working off the clock. That's decent of him, but in the end; Anything that doesn't get done is my fault now.

Speaking of my boss from before, he's kicking up trouble by apparently trying to clear the warehouse out enough so that we can move everything in the containers inside. See, we have these huge trailers outside on the ground, three of them. Each container holds about an entire rack [36 bins that can hold about 18 boxes in each bin] of boxes inside. So that's 3 racks, 108 bins. How many bins do we currently have open? Maybe 60. See my problem here? So he plans to move about 2 entire racks into the other warehouse, giving us another huge empty space to bring merchandise in from the containers. I love that idea. I am IN love with that idea!

The cool thing was that he asked what we could survive without and two of the things he plans on moving are two of the things I suggested. Meaning he apparently took my ideas into consideration. That feels great. That's a new feeling for me, because I don't think the Supervisor ever actually took what I said into consideration. I actually think he purposely did not tell the other managers and whatnot things I thought up when HE didn't think they were good ideas...

I don't know. The more I find out about him from other people, the less I like him.

We had some NFL people in the warehouse, too. It was fun being the guy to talk to... We worked things out and the woman in charge seemed pretty pleased. I don't know how nervous she was about the "kid" in the warehouse being her contact in charge of getting things ready for her event, but in the end, she seemed pretty satisfied with what we spoke about. Now, I just have to not drop the ball tomorrow. Hopefully the Boss will understand that we have a time limit on that little project, because the equipment we're putting together is actually being picked up tomorrow as well... Fun fun! WOO, TIME LIMITS!

So, a month from tomorrow, I'm going to be calling the apartments Bunny and I looked at to talk to them about holding one for us. I plan on asking for one of the bigger rooms if possible and I cannot wait for the moving. It's still not til November, but I keep getting so excited, thinking about it. I CAN'T WAIT!

YO MI GUSTA! WOO!

~Class Dismissed~

The New Era

So today at work wasn't that bad without my old Supervisor. I was backed up with receiving, but Fedex surprised the crap out of us with almost 30 boxes... Then UPS dumped over 30 on us and with the few customer drop-offs, we had almost 70 boxes in one day, which is kind of a lot. However, I was lucky enough to not be bothered by Customer Service left, right and sideways. That's new since the Customer Service woman got laid off... Interesting, isn't it? I go from phone calls everywhere with one woman devoted to a certain task to two people who are doing half Customer Service and half another job and the two people with other jobs to do don't bother me. Weird.

I was asked by the Boss to try to think of things to get out of the warehouse so we have room to bring everything in our three huge containers inside... Except there just isn't room. We have another warehouse in another city, but I don't think they'll keep our same rate with even more stuff. We've already got more stuff then we're paying for... So I don't know what to do with what we've got.

I re-posted Week 1 - RAW for Road 2 Glory, so if you wanted to see the difference, now's the time. I was pretty happy with it, because it gave me the ability to add 3 brand new matches and use my older characters that I made up with the game's Create-A-Wrestler feature...

All-in-all, I had a rough day and tried to take a nap but woke up from really bad dreams. It's late and I'm exhausted still, so I think that's it for the day.

~Class Dismissed~

Jedi? Sith?

Okay. Remember a few posts ago, I mentioned having bought like... 3 new 360 games and barely playing the Iron Man one?

That's because I started the game binge with the wrong game. Star Wars; The Force Unleashed is an amazing game. The powers are cool, the graphics are amazing and the storyline really draws you in. I was shocked when... Well, after the third mission. It shocked me.

I love how you can customize your saber. I'm trying to unlock more color crystals because I actually like the golden/orange color they have. When I saw there were "lightsaber" options, I was hoping you could construct different kinds of saber handles and whatnot, like the double sided saber and whatnot... But no such luck, or rather no luck I've found.

One thing I'm not huge about is the Apprentice's voice. He's very light voiced and it kind of ruins the moment when you hear a voice that sounds like a teenage kid going through puberty coming out of this big, tough agent of the Dark Side. Speaking of which, how does this big bad boy suddenly fall in love at first sight with his new pilot? I mean, I understand he's still human, but... C'mon. The dude fell like the decapitated heads of the 2 Jedi Knights I killed. Pft. Tough guy my ass.

Overall, though, it's sucking me in. You obviously see a much more violent side of the Force and of course at some point, you have to realize that the Dark Side Apprentice on the side of the Jedi is quite possibly genius.

Oh! You wanna know what pissed me off?! That stupid part where you go to find the Senator and wind up in the belly of some beast in the ground?! And the damn thing sucks you into these little chambers and tries to digest you?! Yeah... THAT'S REALLY BLOODY ANNOYING! I couldn't find any way to stop it, so I just hit my Shield and tried to dash through it [by the way. Dashing didn't work. Go. Figure.] Either way, though, I managed to survive, so it was all good.

But the big question is... Sith... Jedi... Who knows. Maybe I'll start my own branch of the Force. The Awesome. Word.

~Class Dismissed~

Expansion

Wow. I'm going through the guys I want to add to Road to Glory... And I may double the size of the company with this extension. That might be a bit much... Mucho. Huge.

My Time Starts Now

So. I am no longer the right-hand man of the the Supervisor at the warehouse. I am the Supervisor. I am in shock, confused, worried, nervous and a number of other things at the moment. Apparently, this Monday, I will be sitting down with the Warehouse Manager and my only other co-worker in the warehouse about what we're going to be doing from here on out. I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to do now, except try to make things run better. I know what I'd want done, but I have no idea if it will ever actually be able to be done. After all... How exactly do I run things any better as a kid than Joe with all this "warehouse experience" can get things done?

I don't know. I just... Don't know.

Road to Glory is going well. I actually got a few comments about how people really like it and one person even said I "need to keep doing this every week". And I plan to. Did it so far for a week!

And I started doing more shows today when I started realizing that I can write the stories a lot more freely if I don't let a computer with crappy stats and features run the story for me. So I ditched the idea of simulating the matches and instead started doing it from mind with knowledge of the characters I have.

Speaking of characters, I overhauled the entire roster. I added all my CAWs that I have ideas for and will probably be adding more... And then I decided to upgrade it to the real roster and added current wrestlers as well. I may even bring a few guys back that aren't in the WWE anymore, just because they're favorites of mine. It is, after all, fantasy wrestling. Why can't I put who I want in it?

Ahhh, creative freedom. Thy name is Seth Cross.

~Class Dismissed~

Late Night

Okay, so almost midnight isn't really a late night for me. But I feel like it bloody is. I'm still exhausted, I'm starting to regret trying to work a second job when I'm feeling like this.

To be honest, I don't have much today... I'm that tired. But I'm determined to keep my streak going as long as possible. Hell, even if I ended it now, I could say I posted SOMETHING. But that's cheap, and I don't like it.

Something at work disturbed me today. It wasn't anything to do with opinion, but mere fact... We were told to dispose of defective merchandise that is logo'd. Meaning it has a logo on it, but there's something wrong with it and the customer who owns the logo wants it unusable... And I watched my Supervisor give one away to one of our customers. And I'm kinda in a crossroad here... I'm not one to rat things out, especially big things. People who make mistakes deserve to make their own mistakes and fall for them. I wasn't going to lie... If asked, I would tell them and maybe only lie to say I assume he had been given permission. I don't have to know what is or is not allowed if I'm not doing anything.

But I think I do need to say something... I'm... Still nervous about it. This is a big thing. Our biggest client said "get rid of this" and he gave it away. Free of charge. Without permission. I'm worried the trouble that can land on him and I'm not sure if he deserves that.

But it wasn't my choice to break the rules.

~Class Dismissed~

Bedtime

I don't know what it is, but lately I have been EXHAUSTED! Every day after work, it seems like I'm ready to fall asleep. I don't think we're doing any "extra" at work [nothing was worse than the Mailers] and I'm sleeping along the same schedule as usual... Still eating as much of the same kinds of food... So there was no huge change... Except, DAMN, I am tired...

Maybe I'm sick. Ah well, won't know til I get another symptom. [Wouldn't that be a great time to suddenly puke? Right after typing that? It'd be awesome.]

In all seriousness, I don't feel too sick. Sick of my supervisor, but I've come to an agreement with myself about all of that.

From now on, if I have a problem with someone at work, I'm going to either deal with it professionally [bring it to a manager's attention] or shrug it off. I'm done bitching about things to people who can't do anything except spread rumors. I'm done getting annoyed and upset over everyone's crappy attitudes or doing things I don't like/want them to do. That's free will, I and everyone else in the world just have to learn to bloody accept it. So while I may record things, I'm going to try to be a lot more unbiased about everything that goes on and a lot less bitchy. Let's see how it goes in the days to come.

I'm very impressed with myself. I've managed to keep blogging everyday so far this week. I might even go non-stop over the weekend and into next week. I think a schedule is just not what I need, so from here on out, I'm only blogging when I have something to say... Which, if I know myself [and how would I not? I've known my our whole life!] will be quite often.

Wow. Sleepy's commercials... Or rather, commercials in general... Bloody. Horrible.

I'm starting to think I have ADD when it comes to video games. I was huge into GTA Chinatown Wars what... 2 weeks ago? Barely picked it up since then. I got 3 new games and I've only played like one of them because I went back to Road to Glory.

While we're on the topic of ADD... HEY, LOOK, BUTTERFLY!

~Class Dismissed~

Lucky Day

Ha. Ha. Ha. The bloody irony of it all. Man, sometimes things are just so well timed... It's funny!

You remember yesterday, I mentioned that I kinda sold my supervisor up the river with his crappy attitude? Well, I asked my Manager this morning if he'd spoken to my supervisor, because [as per usual] I had been getting a terrible attitude all morning. I was curious if my Manager had accidentally used my name or implied it was me that had complained... Or maybe my Supervisor just intelligently put two and two together and realized that the person who spends the most time with him at work is the most likely to complain.

Either way, it doesn't matter because my Manager had never spoken to him. Meaning I was getting a pissy attitude for no apparent reason, considering that it had started the second I walked in. So I explained to my Manager why I asked and he said I would have to try to bear with him for awhile, as it was busy in Production and he wasn't sure when he'd be able to speak to the Supervisor.

So, I started to think that maybe my Manager wasn't as convinced as the Office Manager I had originally spoken to... You see, the Office Manager has openly admitted to me that she doesn't like my Supervisor. She realizes he's got a temper and an attitude problem and believes he feels he can get away with things like yelling at co-workers and customers whenever he wants because he's special. I wouldn't go that far with my opinion, but that's not the point. Point is that the Warehouse Manager seemed a little less eager to handle the situation and I was curious if perhaps he wasn't convinced. After all, if someone comes to you and tells you someone else is always a shithead to them, but that person is only ever kind and polite with you, wouldn't you be a little... Well, at least suspicious of the claim? I know I would.

And in my greatest luck of the past month, my Supervisor actually extended his list of "people I've given attitude to" to include our Manager. Long story short, he started mouthing off the very Manager I wasn't sure believed that my Supervisor was a pissy bitch! THE FREAKING LUCKY IRONY OF IT ALL!

Okay, let me clarify. My Supervisor is not a bad guy. I don't particularly like him, but I don't want anything bad to happen. My goal is to merely have the guy ease off my back so that I can do the things I need to do at work and not have someone ride my ass trying to make it seem like I'm not doing my job. That's all... I'm not even asking for gratitude or appreciation... Just the ability to work without someone breathing down my neck telling me every thing I do is a waste of time.

Too much to ask? I think not.

In other news, there was another Road to Glory post yesterday night. I'm really starting to like the project, even though there won't be another post to it until Thursday. I'm already concocting an idea to add a fourth post in the week, but perhaps it's best not to get ahead of myself. I have enough fun with three so far.

Bunny's feeling kinda better, which is good. She's not throwing up, but I'm beginning to suspect the worse, something I typically do right away... This time, because it was her, I guess I just wanted to be optimistic... I'm beginning to believe Bunny's gotten Swine Flu. She started getting sick a month ago and it's seemingly gotten worse, even though she's not throwing up now. That doesn't mean it's getting better, but it doesn't mean it's getting worse either... It's really scary to think she might have it. Not because I care if I get it, I know that if I start throwing up, I'm seeing the doctor immediately and hopefully getting healthy just as quickly. But because it's her and not me, I don't know. Very frightening.

I've noticed that I'm continually gaining weight, which is actually a great thing. When I started working at the Warehouse, I only weighed 120 lbs., standing at 5'6" or so. For those of you who don't realize, that's REALLY thin. Like... Unhealthy thin. I now weigh in at 146 lbs. [from a few days ago] and I'm very proud of that. My goal is actually to hit 180 at some point, because I think that's right around where someone healthy should be for my height. I've never been a "healthy" weight and while I typically don't care, I have noticed the physical changes in my form and I like it. I look... Well, I don't look like I'm going to blow away in the wind anymore. It's funny because I went to an old retail job of mine today and everyone who was there when I worked there had to comment that I looked great, a lot healthier than the last time they saw me. I'm also not minding how typically more stressful physical things are becoming easier, probably because most of the 26 lbs. I'm adding is muscle, thanks to the physical nature of my job. Nice.

So, a friend of mine got married today, apparently, and I find the entire thing off... I'm not a huge believer in getting married really young and these people are younger than me. Not only that, but these are a HUGELY religious couple, right? They got married at the municipal court in town. But wait. It gets better. These people are so religious that they have a church in their basement and a website dedicated to their church. They're like... "Cult" religious... And yet, they got married the legal way. Hell, apparently the guy is a pastor... Unless I miss my guess... He can actually PREFORM the ceremony... And yet. Mr. and Mrs. Religious took the Legal route to marriage? I'm confused. Some people don't agree with me that I've spoken to about it and I respect that, but it's just funny to me. Weird.

You're all weird, though.

~Class Dismissed~

The Rat Pack

For the past few months, I have been on the edge of telling my supervisor to piss off, or talk to someone about his shitty attitude. I've been holding back because with the economy the way it is, I know they could probably fire him in a second and not even be hindered. Not only that, but I know a few people in the office don't like my supervisor and that's just another few feet in the hole he's digging himself into by being a pissy son of a bitch to anyone and everyone in the general vicinity.

However, today I was just so tired of being a nice guy and keeping my silence, so I opened my rat mouth and sung like a canary. Before you get excited, no, the guy didn't get fired. He still works there. As a matter of fact, I don't think anyone even spoke to him, even though it was supposedly arranged that someone was going to. The Warehouse Manager was supposed to speak with him privately, but he's kinda too much of a "nice guy" for being an outstanding prick [the irony of all those statements? I like the guy. Good boss.]

Anyway, to make a long story short, I was trying to figure out some of the UPS Bill without the Billing Tool we need to get downloaded, and instantly, my supervisor is bringing up "It's not even your job, I don't know why you're wasting your time doing that when you should be doing what I asked you to do"... See the attitude I'm talking about? Those aren't exact words, but they're damn close.

I feel like if I'm not doing what my supervisor wants at ALL times, he thinks I'm doing something wrong. But the truth of it is, is that "warehouse" employees are never specified to any particular topics. They're always the "jack of all trades", do everything guys. They get pulled here and there, it's like that no matter where I've ever gone or seen guys who either work as stock boys, warehouse employees, anything. We will always be doing things that are not "our responsibility". Not for other people, but for the betterment of the company... Isn't that what we should be worried about anyway?

Not my supervisor. He doesn't seem to care about the company. And the more he talks, the less respect I have for him. According to him, he's been this great warehouse manager his entire life, sooo... Why does he suck so much now? Don't get me wrong, this is my first warehouse job, but I grew up with a father in a warehouse. I've seen other warehouses and had friends in warehouses. I just think that if he were as experienced as he says, he'd actually know what he's doing. So why, most of the time, to I suggest more logical means of doing things than he does? Why am I thinking of things he is not? I'm not egotistical to say I'm smarter than him because I don't really know him that well.

So today, I spoke to both the Warehouse Manager and the Office Manager and basically explained that I feel like if I don't do exactly what my Supervisor says [and explained what it is that my Supervisor believes, which I believe is wrong] I'm doing everything wrong and in trouble. Which is true... And thus, we find that I'm actually at least in the right.

Not a huge surprise. I typically am right. [Here's the end of my egotistical bit]

~Class Dismissed~

Road To Glory

For those of you that know me, I'm a huge Sports Entertainment Wrestling fan. Since I was a child, I've been a huge follower of the WWF [now known as WWE] and even a bit of WCW and ECW, which are now defunct and bought out by WWE. I've been a huge fanboy of their video games as well, especially their recent trend of "Smackdown! vs Raw" series games [now featuring ECW! WAHOO!]

Also for people who know me, I love to create stories and characters. I like to create things, have people read or experience them and get hooked into them wanting more. Maybe it's a control thing, maybe I'm just starved for attention. Either way, it's something I've always done.

When Smackdown vs. Raw [Smackdown and Raw are TV shows owned by WWE, as is ECW that appear every week... For those of you that don't know] first came out as a video game, I started doing something that I'm slightly fanatical about. The first games had something called a GM [General Manager] Mode, where you could control 1 or all 3 shows, who faces who, who rivals with who, who has what title... Etc. etc. And I began making records of this, using MS Excel.

I've done this for YEARS now, each year developing my records with the games that come out each year. And this year, I decided to make it public. Thus, we have Road to Glory, my SECOND blog. Each week, the day before the show typically is hosted [Raw is on Monday, ECW is on Tuesday, Smackdown is on Fridays... So I'll be posting Raw on Sunday, ECW on Monday and Smackdown on Thursday] I'll be posting my shows, based on my matches and storylines and as I continue to work on them, my own characters will begin popping into the shows to combat the WWE stars. You'll eventually see old superstars that aren't in the business anymore, or completely made-up people, but it's all fanboy stuff... So who cares?

I doubt anyone here is interested, but if you've ever read anything I've written and liked what I do with characters and such, feel free to check it out;

http://www.rd2glory.blogspot.com

It's going to be a fun project... So we'll see.

Today is Father's Day and I'm ironically happy I'm not spending it with my father. In the end, I guess I do care about my father, but we've had such hardships in our relationship, sometimes spending entire days with him is hard. He and I don't get along great, but sometimes we're okay. He's been a lot less confrontational and bossy since I moved out and now that I'm talking about moving farther away up north, I think he's trying even harder to be more friendly with me... I guess it's good, but you look at it as "Why does it take something this serious to give him a reason to be nice?" you know? He should have been a kinder man to begin with.

I'm not saying I had the worst relationship in the world with my father, but it definitely wasn't good. Details shall remain grayed out, thank you.

Anyway, the reason I'm not doing the Father's Day thing is that Bunny is viciously sick. Off and on this past month, she's been feeling sick and throwing up, then feeling fine again. But last night, she was at work and started vomiting her brains out. She actually had to have me pull over when bringing her home [too sick for her to drive] and yak a bit more on the side of the road. Then she vomited all night long and had to call out of work today [which did not go over well] but luckily, now she's feeling a bit better... She's keeping water down, at least.

Gotta tell you, her being sick freaks me out. I'm not a medical genius because as a kid, I really never got sick. And when I did, I simply dealt with it and if it didn't go away, I continued to deal with it. I even had strep throat for over a week, merely because I was too damn stubborn to go to a doctor without insurance and when I finally did get better, it was because someone else had and knew the proper medication for strep.

If it wasn't for that, I'd have had strep for a few MONTHS until my insurance kicked in and I could afford to go to the doctor. Or maybe I just wouldn't have bloody gone. I'm stubborn, I told you.

So now we're chilling at home, Bunny laying on the couch all day. I think she's actually asleep now [which, by the way, is an adorable sight] and we're watching movies. I hope she feels better because a) I know she hates doctors and b) I just don't like her being anything but the perfect picture of health. She almost never is, but in the end, I can dream.

We can all dream.

~Class Dismissed~

P.S. ~ If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm trying out a new signature. Like it?

Scammed and Feeling Stupid

It's no surprise that everyone is feeling the bad economy by now. People are being laid off [A LOT], people are losing their homes [A LOT] and people are just generally miserable [A LOT... Notice a pattern here?!] I am not immune to this bad economy, just like I'm sure you're not. In the end, we're all in a sinking boat and we hope that plugging up the holes with a few corks will keep us afloat long enough to reach the Promised Land (tm)

And sometimes, people make really stupid decisions to try to put more corks in at a time, without realizing the corks are made of sponge and thus, don't stop water for shit.

Confused? GOOD!

Long story short, I'm reading articles [ironically enough, news articles FROM THIS BLOG!] and I start clicking around more and more, reading different bits of news here and there. Eventually, I'm far from the original news article I clicked on from Crossology, but it's still news, right? News is somewhat dependable no matter where you go, right?

Ah, the naive.

I read this article about this woman who loses her job weeks before her husband does. And they find some Google-based home kit on how to make money at home by posting links for Google. And naturally, seeing a good money solution that I could do in my spare time, I check it out and at first, it looks legit. It isn't until I've signed up and been charged $2 that I realize something is wrong and decide to research it a bit. Turns out the company, Profit Studio Learning is a scam and I'm expecting to be charged $70 in about a week which I have to call my bank [again] about to dispute. Turns out, after you pay, they decide to tell you about this extra charge unless you cancel via certified mail. But even people who do that also find that they're being charged anyway and their mail is returned, because apparently the address is to a company that's "moved".

Lovely. The morale of this story is that whenever you're using a credit card online or Hell, even giving our your E-MAIL ADDRESS, please research what it is you're signing up for. Even if it's connected to a bigger company name... That's how places like this get you. You know Google, Google has more money than Bill Gates. So naturally, you don't think paying you a few grand a month is a big deal to them, so why wouldn't it be true?

Well it's not! IT'S NOT, I TELL YOU!

Sigh. There's just no honesty left in this world. It's all very depressing. I can't wait to yell at these people, however... Going to be great fun!

In other news, I went on a slight Video Game Shopping Binge [VGSB for short and future referencing] because Gamestop was having a buy 2 get 1 free sale on anything used [ah, Gamestop... At least I can still trust you!] It's funny because I was actually in Best Buy minutes before walking over to Gamestop and Gamestop is the one handing me the better deal. I kinda feel like I cheated on Gamestop, especially when you consider the fact that I worked for one for about 6 months before being laid off because the former store manager was a thief. Ironically, I also somehow managed to lose my social security card in that store when they hired me and I was never able to find it. By the time I went back to talk to the manager about it [the second manager in 6 months] someone ELSE was the manager and had no idea what I was talking about. Lovely.

I wound up buying Iron Man, Star Wars: Unleash the Force and a game called Legendary that looks really awesome. Originally, I was in Best Buy to look for Iron Man, but I haven't seen it in there for months. I found it in Gamestop and was only going to buy that when they told me about the sale, and like a sucker, I bought more. I played Iron Man for a bit and while it's a lot of fun to destroy stuff, it's also hugely chaotic and just... I don't know. Too easy? Seems like I can't die and that really degrades the entire point to a game. I haven't tried the other two yet and only got slightly into Iron Man, so when I fully test them out, I'll write something up about them.

Can't say I'm looking forward to Father's Day tomorrow. In retrospect, I'm never looking forward to any family outing. I'm sure I'll wind up being miserable, as I'll be spending time with my father and without Bunny, as she's gotta work. I truly hate her job. I wish that scam hadn't been a scam... If I made the kind of money like what I saw in the news articles, Bunny would be able to afford quitting and finding something that didn't abuse her like a mule.

Famous saying: You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.

~Class Dismissed.

Branded

Does it sound corny to say I want a family crest? Not even a "family" crest, but I guess a personal crest? I've always loved the idea of having a symbol to represent one's self, something flying on a banner that basically says "This is mine, this is where I am" in your own personal colors. Something to be sewn into your clothing or marked on your shield that basically marks what's yours.

Someone design me a crest. Ya bastards.

So the week kinda sucked. From the yelling tirade I had to withstand this past Monday to not knowing if I'm working for UPS this upcoming Monday to just some generally annoying shit. In the end, we were able to really clean up the warehouse... We were finally open the second dock door that has never been opened since I started in September... The place looks huge.

That UPS Billing Training never happened. The Tool didn't download properly and the Trainer didn't have access to the proper resources to fix it. In the end, we have to re-schedule for sometime next week and get a special guy in to fix it. Looovely.

I walked into work this morning and two different people brought two of my screw-ups to my attention almost immediately... Both of which had to do with Shipping, which I try to be very accurate and precise with... Not the greatest way to start my day. It got progressively better, but one thing still continues to bother me and may never stop bothering me until it's resolved.

My supervisor is a dick. Every time I'm not doing whatever HE wants when HE wants it done, he gives me a serious attitude and it's annoying. And it's not like I'm ever screwing around or wasting time. I do the paperwork, I do the computer work, I'm doing things for the office or a manager... I'm doing SOMETHING, just not whatever HIS priority is... If myself and the Warehouse NFL guy only ever did what our Supervisor's priorities, we'd never get anything done. He jumps around a lot, too... So he never keeps the same priorities. Thus, less would get done.

I'm not saying I know what's best for the department. Sometimes he has the right idea and in the end, I do whatever he needs. But I do tend to get what's best for ME done or for the company. Some things are bigger than our things. It's a company, we're not divided amongst our departments. All the departments work toward one goal.

I don't know. Maybe I'm egotistical. Maybe I give myself too much credit and my supervisor too little. Maybe it's a little in between...

Maybe you should think on that philosophy... But maybe... You shouldn't.