November 16, 2007

Back to Work Again…

Well, I had planned on posting a bunch more anyway. I did manage to get tomorrow’s Photo Hunt up anyway but that’s about it. I watched about half of 28 Weeks Later and then it was time to pick up the girls. Friday is normally pizza night for them so I ordered and then Pete hung out with me watching the rest of the movie. She loves scary movies. It was a bit more gory than scary and certainly not even close to as good as the first but that’s the way it is with sequels most of the time.

We decided through mutual consent to make it movie night and everyone sat down to watch Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer after that. Not too bad, but very cheesy, like the comics. I enjoyed it (not to mention Jessica Alba, although she looks better as a brunette). The only problem with watching her is that it makes me feel like a damned pedophile. Yuck.

Anyway, I got a couple of calls this afternoon and apparently my manager in the shithole store is gone now. The store could be better if I could only run it with a couple of folks that care for awhile. Looks like I may get that chance since I may be running it without a manager at all through the holidays. Good thing she was already going to be off this weekend anyway. I means I won’t have to make any major changes to the schedule until Monday.

The only issue is that she is my second manager there in seven months and that doesn’t look good at all.

Tomorrow’s another day and hopefully it’s going to be a good one. Back tomorrow…

Samsung i760

One of the things I have noticed about my new phone is that when I leave for work I have to make sure and turn WiFi off as well as Bluetooth if I’m not using GPS. I don’t use a Bluetooth headset so that becomes unnecessary  unless I am going somewhere I haven’t been before. Samsung supplies a normal battery as well as an extended lithium battery for the i760 and it’s a good darn thing but even with the extended battery, as I discovered last week, if WiFi and Bluetooth are both left on all day it can seriously drain the thing. I finally started carrying the extra normal battery with me just in case.

HTPC Thoughts

When I rebuild my HTPC after the first of the year (I’ve had to put it off until then) I think I am going to try and run everything so that most of it is in the basement. My network router is down there anyway so all I really need to do is to run a bit of fiber cable from the living room into the basement and then pick up a couple of wireless doodads as well. Either that or I will try and get the smallest case I can find and then start using more USB TV tuners than I have in the past. There are some pretty nice ones out there. Mainly I just don’t want all of the wiring and a big old PC case sitting next to the entertainment center. We have doors on it that close so that it just looks like a big cabinet and having a PC sit beside it is somewhat counterproductive.

OJ Headed to Trial

I posted the other day about how gleeful I was that OJ Simpson will be headed for a jury trial. CBS news has a bit of video up about it.

One thing totally unrelated to it that I found interesting…Check out the judge right at the beginning of the video. The dude has long hair and a ponytail. It’s not that I find it distasteful or disturbing in the least. I used to have hair halfway down my back, but it was surprising to me that a judge would. I don’t know, I guess maybe I am still stuck in the conservative age or something as I get older.

I am part of the business community and I believe that as such I should look and dress like the rest of them. If/when I get to retire I am sure that I will go back to not cutting my hair again, except that this time it will have more of a Gallagher look to it…Scary thought.

Drug Rehab The New Black?

Why is it that the big thing nowadays for celebrities is to go through drug rehabs? I guess this is nothing new but just this year we’ve seen Mike Tyson, Lindsay Lohan and Pete Doherty go through. The big problem is that they are going to skip out on jail time and then they check out early only to go on to the same old junk they were doing before.

Perhaps if the judges that are letting them go would clamp down and give them a bit of good old time in the crossbar motel they might actually learn a lesson or two.

Ding Dong The Witch is Dead….Maybe

Just got a call from the guy that works as my relief manager. I asked him to work today at my problem store since I have had so many problems there on Fridays. Apparently the manager who has been there for a little under four weeks has decided to throw in the towel and quit.

With it being so close to the Thanksgiving holiday I am sure that they will try and get down there and save her but I just can’t bring myself to care. Personally it’s a blow to me every time someone quits or I can’t develop them successfully, but on the other hand if she does leave it will certainly stop some of the problems I have been having there.

I think maybe I will stop answering the phone today and enjoy the first full day off I have had in two weeks.