Mlughha.

Bah. it's like 11:00am, and I'm getting tired enough nearly to go to sleep, and I haven't even played any UT2004 today. Heh. heh. I did do some fun cleaning, shaved (my head&face) did some exercises and so on, and I feel positively tired. I think that I really ought to exercise regularily and drink more water and less soda, and eat more healthy and less unheatlhy that way i can trim off some of this excess (I ate a lot of my wife's cooking) belly. :P I have this thing about food... if it's on my plate, or the plates of those around me, it should be eaten, not left for waste because there are starving people in Africa and China and so on that'd gladly eat whatever scraps were left over. Or so was said to me as a child and ingrained into my being. I'd rather not leave food to waste, then to do so and feel somewhat, not ready to explode. Heh, it was easier when I smoked cigarettes. I had very little urge to just randomly snack, because I would instead have a cigarette, but now, obviously to compensate, I've started snacking a bit more. Soooo, eat less, exercise more, drink less soda, drink more water. That's gonna be my plan from here on out (except for Saturdays), let's see how it goes, right??!

Okay, now that i've gotten off that little trip, what else can I say to summarize last nights work experience. Well, I was on maintenance instead of as a stocker, and I must say, it has me moving around and 'exercising' on the job which is somewhat good. They pay me good $$ to work hard and sweat and exercise basically. I like that. I hate doing the bathrooms/carpets for exactly the opposite reason. They basically pay you to fuck off all night (or so it appears that's what most of the people I work with do, when given that task.) When I was first hired to at Wallyworld, I was instructed as to how to vacuum all carpets and even extract as necessary, and do all the toilets in a single night, but apparently the way I was taught was either crap or trash, because now, all carpets are not vacuumed, and all toilets are done. Amazing. *rolls eyes* Even though my previous boss (Although an excellent guy and a person I love to chit-chat with and even hang out with; but hardly the type that should be 'driving' others towards productivity), is gone, transferred to another store where he can be a grunt instead, I notice the same tendencies seem to recur amongst the other group of people I work with. Don't get me wrong, there are days when I don't want to work hard too, but the problem is mainly that we have either too many people, or too few people, usually not the perfect number. I'd say the perfect number would be something like 4 people, with specific schedules. 2 people come at 9pm, 1 is manager and works til 7:30, other is not and works til 5:30. 2 more people come in at 10pm. We'll say Manager = A, person 2 at 9 is B, person 3 & 4 can be C & D respectively. A & B sweep the entire store and begin scrubbing it. C does the Radio Grill (sweep/mop) and Service Desk, then prepares the buffer and goes at it. D sweeps up the "big" stuff on the carpets and begins vacuuming. A & B when finished scrubbing the store, then begin a waxing project. (Stripping/waxing/recoating/etc.) This is an Ideal solution to the way the night should go.

Even though I have said this, time and again, and it's proven that it would work and did work and the store was in excellent shape and all that. That is impossible. Then, of course there is the next issue, that being the "materials/supplies" that we have. We got this wax that is absolute horseshit, called "Butcher's Wax", now this shit is extremely strong & clear (when used with the apropriate sealer), but as soon as the snow & sand came out, that shit was totally wrecked. Signature on the other hand, (which I might add as what we used before) is slightly yellow, not as strong, but has extreme bounce-back capabilities and shines like the SUN whereas this Butcher's bullshit shines like a black hole and is 2* the price of the Signature along with any 'Neutral Floor Cleaning' soaps and crap needed to use for daily maintenance of the Butcher's Wax. Now, I can't even begin to comprehend the idea of the person who simply offhandedly decide that our maintenance crew would use this stuff or why, but we do, and it totally sucks it in the goat ass. There is absolutely no reason our team couldn't make our store's floor shine like liquid ice and be a sight to behold if not for the two above listed reasons. A. The Crew is lazy. B. The wax is bullshit.

Sorry if I've offended anyone with my rude language. I've been very upset about these issues for quite some time now, and nothing ever changes. Oh well. Not my place to care, as I am not a manager, however my job's appearance is affected by this.

Oh well. I'm tired and I'm going to bed (although I'll read a little bit of 'The Thrall & the Dragon's Heart' by Elizabeth Boyer first).

Later

\Koltur

Ahhhhhhhh.

Okay then. Finished work. Bleh. Got home. Whew. Everything is fine. First thing when I get home is: The cat-attack. I'm nearly boweled over by two miniature felines. Well, not really, but they did attempt to attack me, until they were otherwise diverted by the dish of food&water. Ahhh. Good, so obviously I go to see the wife, and she's passed out on the bed as usual considering. So, I gave her, her morning hugs and muddled off to the PC to mess around a bit until I gotta go wake her up to get ready for work.

Firstly, I did notice that I was extremely happy to sit down. Just to sit down. I think I am becoming a bit old, when simple things like, "Not being at work", and "Sitting down" make me extremely happy. Am I old?! Yikes.

Now that I've gotten that out of my head, let's move on to something more interesting. Let's see, last night at work, there was nothing of extreme interest, other then the fact that perhaps, I -willingly- seemed to want to work hard today. I'm not exactly sure or why I had this desire, but instead my usual "steady but mediocre" pace, I kinda kept up a pretty steady & fast pace. I mean, I was actually sweating pretty good, and I tend to really dislike sweating at work because of my lack of ability to clean up and so on. Well, I tend to think work went pretty well, so far, I've not been hassled by any management like I was when there was a different manager (there was a recent managerial switch/transfer thing) and it appears as if I am semi-liked by the management, at least for my consistency if nothing else. Heh. So, that works good enough.

There wasn't much else of any import at work tonight that I can think of, and not much was actually on my mind, except for of course Unreal Tournament 2004 and of course my glasses (although I don't have a link/picture to that as of yet) but I will see about getting one as soon as I have them. Man, those things are going to cost me a fortune. Basically, so far, my wife & I have had our eye appointments and I ordered my glasses and so on, and we had to pay something like $320.00 or so, while we saved something like $480 because of our insurance plan apparently. Well, that's sort of nice. My glasses are apparently fairly expensive, hope they are worth it, and help with the near-constant headaches from viewing PC/TV/etc. (Anything digital really)...

Oh, sidenote. I did notice that a lot of people seem to like to send messages to me on ICQ. Spam messages. And hopefully soon, I will have a way to filter that *expletive deleted* out. Dirty *expletive deleted* spammers!!

Well, not much more that I can think of to report as of this moment, so I won't bother to try.

Later

\Koltur

Re-Edited and Fixed up.

Okay then, after several hours of messing around and fixing it up to be a certain way, changing colors, editing the format, I've finally come to the point where I think it is completed, except for possible and/or potential minor edits. I hope that I am finished as I have spent a few hours on it and I 've become tired of CSS/editing as well as HTML formatting and so forth, this is exactly why I wanted a website like Blogger to do all this for me, so I didn't have to dick around and waste all this time changing shit around to make it what I wanted it to be like. Heh, well, hopefully with all this bullshit taken care of, it's finished.

Good, now that I've got that part outta my system...

I think it's time to go waste some dudes in UT2004 now that I've just updated my Soundblaster Card drivers (Audigy-Platinum) and hopefully, these bugs that I've been experiencing with UT2004 are fixed (those being the ones where the game crashes to a nifty blue screen and the only way to recover is to reboot), so... hopefully all that works dandy and I'll see shortly. Mwahaha.

Later

\Koltur

Okay then, I just was carousing around the net for a good portion of time, and came across a few things that I found important. Several news thingies listed on this page here and several thingies listed elsewhere. I also talked to a long lost friend of mine that I haven't seen in a long time (online) and that was rather nice to do. It's been a long time since I talked to "Val" or "Cynthia" as she is otherwise known as, heh, and it was rather nice to talk to her, even though I was a bit side-tracked while doing so because I was busy messing around with the templates on this page. Yap, I've been messing around with the "look&feel" of this website, ever since I started using this "Blogger" service, and I must say, that this website has come a long ways from the site that it was before. I mean, essentially when I first designed the site in Flash, I had it calling an external text file that I could update, so as to try and give it the sort of "updatability" as a site of this nature, however, it was not quite as "user-friendly" as I would enjoy. So, suddenly, when I found the existence of this Blogger thingy, I just set this stuff up and went a head. Damn, it works slick, and I am glad that I found this shit. Now, it's just a matter of getting some of my pals to start posting there thoughts, etc. on along with what I find, because as they say "Many brains work better then one brain", and that is the age-old tastiom.

Anyhow, after viewing several web-pages of amusement, I must link them now.
1.) www.NakedText.Com
2.) A ... funny read.
3.) The English Text-to-12-yr-old-netjunkie-Translator
4.) The Vampiric Squirrel

And I think that's all for now. Heh.

Later

\Koltur

Wow.

Okay then. I had a relatively nice weekend, as you can most likely guess, because I didn't have to be at work, (isn't that enough to make it nice??!), and of course, my pal came over Saturday and we played D&D as usual, and had some interesting stuff happen. Sunday, I woke up (without much sleep), to go to this Book-sale at the local, Eagan library, but because I was an hour after the opening, all the fantasy/sci-fi books had essentially sold out and this made me rather somewhat pissed off because of course, the wife coulda woke me up a bit better or I coulda set my alarm a bit better, but either way, I'll live. We also went to check out the apartment that we moved from, a apartment we had lived with a room-mate at but when we got there to clean up, it apparently was already all done. Amazing. We showed up with all these cleaning chemicals and stuff to take care of our portion of the apartment, and.. poof. Nothing, even our portion was pretty much cleaned up.. I don't really get it. Oh well. Big thanks to the guys that did that (if they even seen this, but that is unlikely), but I can still at least extend even this much thanks.

As to other news: Hmms. I got to buy a new anime dvd this weekend, I haven't bought any for a few weeks and I've been itching to do so. I managed to score Trigun Vol.1 (the box set it something like $220 and each individual is like $20) so, I was pretty happy about that. I looked for 12 Kingdoms, but they didn't have any of those in, so I didn't pick that up. *sniffles* I have watched the latest episode of Naruto (76) obtained from here or here. I looove Naruto, too bad it's not on DVD here yet, but I can't wait til it is, I'll be at the store buying each one the day it comes out, that is definitely one I want to get a hold of, (that or I will buy the volume that is Vol.1 + Box + T-shirt or whatever, because they have al of those specials too), and I can't wait. I did manage to score a copy of Tenchi Muyo OVA 1-13 on DVD (2discs) and I was -VERY- happy about that, because it is a re-release from circa.1995 or so, and it would have been very difficult to get a copy of that, although Tenchi Universe & Tenchi in Tokyo seem fairly easy to obtain. (Those are also on my list) If I were to go out and spend the $$ on the anime that I want to get a hold of, I'd be spending something like $2000 right now, and I certainly can't afford all that. Heh, I wish I could, because I want it, but the problem is 1.) Money, 2.) Space to keep all that stuff, 3.) Wife. Heh.

Well, I've rambled quite enough for now, hope that anyone who reads this ...

Later

\Koltur

Saturday. Whew.

Thank god it's Saturday. I put in a rather hard night at work, (Hail the Buffer), and managed to score out early, however I did forget the one thing the wife told me to pick up, that being cat-food. Boo. I did manage however to remember certain things that contain no importance whatsoever, except to our ongoing AD&D campaign. A box (5 reams of paper), a Whiteboard (for quick battle-placement sketches) and a package of board markers. Heh. Well, can't say much else, other then I should hit the bed soon after fucking around with the PC for a while, so .. that is essentially my plan, and soon that plan will come to fruition. Sidenote, I did notice some cool stuff on the Neverwinter Nights homepage, relating to a "All-In-One" hakpack. I think the link to that is here. Amazingly, the hak-pack integrates nicely with what I have going so far, and seems to add some cool things. One thing I noticed that is -incredibly- cool, is the cloak... (obviously, I think that 3rd Person Fantasy RPGs should have cloaks.) amongst many other things. Several mobs, several pieces of armor/weapons/outfits.. everything that I saw was incredibly cool. Seems as if they took the cream of the crop from the community and compiled it all into 1 large pack.

Also looking forward to the next piece in the Shadowlords/Dreamcatcher series. *drool* That guy is a damn smooth module creator, too bad he doesn't work for Bioware, eh? And it's a shame about Black-Isle. I tend to think games made from the Infinity Engine were damn cool and I wish that even more of them would come out, Baldur's Gate & Baldur's Gate 2 were two of my favorite RPG games of all time. Hell, Icewind Dale was even pretty good, (although there was no real story to it). BG2 is/was by far, my favorite RPG (aside from maybe FF7 & ChronoTrigger but those are console titles) that included a variety of character development/RPG elements and the nice hack'n'slash "Lot on your knife... NOT ON YOUR LIFE" kinda stuff, that is also fun to a point. (Which is my main gripe about FFXI - Very cool graphics/sound.. Horse-shit gameplay.) Oh well. Another $50/+12/month for 3 months, down the trash. Bastards.

Later.

\Koltur

Excellent.

I have just gotten off work to get home to find my wife sleeping (I got off early, at 6:00am today), and when I entered, I did notice the cats seemed especially happy to see me, although I imagine that is mainly because they had drank all their water and ate all their food... So, I said "Sleep" to my semi-conscious wife and came back to the PC to play around for a while before I got to do a bunch of the stuff that I have to do today, it being friday.

Today I have to go to the eye doctor. It has been approximately 12 years since I last visited an eye doctor. Why? Because, I decided, being a youth, that I had no absolute need to have glasses or contacts. Well, times have changed and many things have as I have gotten older.. I'm 26?!?! and I've actually started getting headaches, from using the PC, Reading, playing vids, watching movies or any other thing that really involves focusing my eyes. Suffice it to say, I will get some glasses (yes, once again I will look like a dork) and I will alleviate the headaches.

Well, I played a little bit of a video game that my everpresent and beautiful wife got me while she was purchasing games for her work. She got me a game called Lupin the 3rd, which is of course based from an anime (I think I mentioned it in a earlier post?) and anyhow, as I've played, I've had quite a bit of fun with it so far. It drives kinda like any typical 3rd person view games, Tomb Raider, Tenchu, etc. although it is somewhat comical in its animation and so on, just like the anime I suppose.

I also have Unreal Tournament 2004 which is so far, a beautifully graphic'ed game and such and have been enjoying that for as much as I've played it (which was quite a bit , a few days ago), although my eyes started hurting so I had to give it up.

Anyhow, I've rambled quite enough and I will move on with the farewells, and hopefully I can post something new and entertaining or at least interesting next.

Later