This is my Open Track-Back Post for the weekend of 5/12-5/13
I darn sure didn’t want to get up at 4:30 this moring. The Boy has to be at the recruiting station in 45 minutes so I guess I need to get myself moving and get ready for work. Just wanted to put up a quick post before I go to work. This is my last day of work for this week and I actually managed to get two days off.
I didn’t have to work quite as late as I thought I might. My body has just about had it though. I am aching all over so it’s telling me I need a couple of days rest. I almost thought that my boss was going to try and tell me that I couldn’t be off Sunday when I spoke with him earlier this evening. Apparently he is taking the weekend off and we aren’t supposed to overlap. I hate it for him, but he’s had at least one day off in the time that I have worked over the last ten days, possibly more. There is no way that I am working past tomorrow. My attitude has started sucking and another day like today I will be lucky to wake up on time. I told the third shift crew where I am spending the day tomorrow that if they don’t see me by 6:30 someone had best call me and make sure I am up.
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These iPod cases from Zofunk are pretty nice from what I can tell. They are specially for the iPod Video and are very slim, only 1mm thick. They also allow you to put your iPod on the universal dock without removing it from the case, which is an issue I have with my iPaq as well as my wife and daughter’s current iPod cases. Check out these screenshots.
My eyes hurt and my head hurts and my legs are killing me. This is my ninth day of work after having only one day off the week before. I suppose I should just quit whining about it and deal with it, but this is a nice outlet. Tomorrow is my last day for the week and I only have one store to run thank goodness.
Tonight I have to go back in for drawer change and we (the division and district managers) are working part of third shift. My boss says he will let us go by ten, I certainly hope so as I have to get back up around 4:30 tomorrow morning. We have to have the Boy at the recruiting station for a mandatory training exercise. They are busing the boys out to Dobbins AFB where some Drill Instructors are going to have a bit of fun with them for the day.
I think I would rather be at work myself…
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I used to hang out in Chatrooms a lot on AOL back when it was the cool thing to do, and on IRC quite a bit. I have pretty much moved away from that because I am usually so busy that when I am at home I try to stay productive on my sites. If I could take a decent app with me then I might use it more often.
In steps Moco, a mobile chatroom which you can use on your phone. You can access MocoSpace on your mobile phone’s web browser by going to www.mocospace.com Here is a screenshot.
It’s a pretty cool little app which requires no installations and can be used wherever you go. My browser is somewhat limited since Verizon lags behind the rest of the world in web access, but I did connect to it on my iPaq. I can use it here or in the yard on my wifi connection, or away from the house using bluetooth to dial up through my phone. I enjoyed using it and the response time was also pretty quick for me, which was nice because occasionally my iPaq-Phone combination can be quite laggy..
…all this work stuff sure can get in the way of blogging…
…or a social life with the wife and kids.
Two more days until I get a couple of days off.
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Before I sat down to review Quibblo I decided to take the site for a little test drive to see what they were all about. Quibblo is a fairly new site that lets you set up polls, surveys and quizzes and publish them to your MySpace or Facebook page (or any other web page for that matter). I’ve used a couple of survey sites here before so I figured I would check it out and see how it does.
Sign up is certainly a snap. You enter your info as well as some captcha text, which I got on the second try. I hate captchas but sometimes they are necessary. I may even be re-implementing them here again pretty soon as I am getting tired of the comment spam. Anyway, after that they send you a confirmation email where you click the link. Pretty standard stuff. After that you have to enter your real name, birth date, and where you live.
Before creating a quiz I figured I would take a look around. You can find existing quizzes by searching, getting a random pick, browsing all of them, or by tag. They have a little tag cloud with the popular keywords on the main page. They also list the most popular quizzes there as well. Here’s a pic of the main page.
OK, time to create a quiz. Actually after looking through the popular quizzes I decided to snag one of the existing ones. There are options to publish these to your site as well. They have code that includes Javascript, plain old html (for non-myspace), HTML for MySpace sites, and just the link. And since it fits in quite well with my site and the posts I have been putting up over at Eric’s site while he is overseas, I decided to use “Am I going to Hell?“
The site also lets you customize the style, so if that is working it should fit right into the theme of my site. I didn’t bother looking up the exact color codes from my style sheet, so they may be off slightly. Over all I like the site so far. The quizzes are certainly much more customizable than previous ones that I have used where I hoped that the widgets would fit into my site design. Most likely I will be using Quibblo.com again.
Maybe this promotion won’t be so bad after all. I need to get the hang of delegating duties and kicking their asses when stuff doesn’t get done though. That is one thing that was a bit easier as a single store operator.
I don’t really have a whole hell of a lot to post about tonight, I think I am going to hit the sack early. I have a couple of hours of meetings at the end of the day tomorrow.
I did manage to get my water back on though (thank goodness). A friend of mine is a supervisor for the water department, actually he got promoted the same day that I did and he is over public works now. I left him a voice mail earlier and he came back out and is going to try and see what happened in the morning. I figure that Monday I can take in a printout from my online bank statement just so that they can at least see that I’m not full of shit.
I have to shower in the morning in order to get my day started. I could take one now and go to bed and I would still have to shower in the morning. That is one of my morning wake-up rituals I suppose and without that shower I always feel pretty crappy and everyone around me generally has a lousy day.
One thing that I can’t currently get with my land-based cable deal is the DIRECT TV NFL Sunday Ticket Deal. Direct Star TV is a DirecTV preferred online retailer and they have the NFL Sunday ticket deal going on right now, all of the NFL games in the 2007-2008 NFL season for under $250. Just five payments of $49.80. That’s not a bad deal at all.
You can also add Superfan to your NFL Sunday ticket and get over 150 games in HD. For a limited time they are also offering a free iPod Shuffle with mail in redemption so you’ll have something to do when the season is over.
This is my seventh straight day of work and I still have three more until I get my next days off. It was pretty hard to crawl my rear end out of the bed this morning. I had fully planned on going to be early last night but I got sucked in to a movie on one of the stupid cable channels.
I haven’t had the chance to watch the last X-Men movie yet until last night. It was OK I suppose, but not nearly as good as the first two were. The special effects were OK, but it was like they tried to jam way to much X-Men history into too short of a film.