Happy Halloween! Methinks..

So hmm.. could today be considered a normal day? Ya, I guess so, besides it being Halloween and all. We were going to dress up at work but since word came down that our East Coast Boss might be stopping in we nixxed that idea. Whatcha know, he never showed :) Hmm.. work was fine, except for two things.. 1) It took me ALL DAY to do three cycle counts; I had to count all the CDR's, Scanners, Phones, and Entertainment Software in the store; 2-3 times a piece, to make sure I counted right. Oh my god, my eyes start to go nuts after awhile. I need a raise for that. Oh,and I got slammed with activating two Nextel phones today. Why people keep wanting Nextel, I don't know - is the 2 way radio feature THAT important that you can put up with crappy plans, crappy reception, and crappy customer service? I guess so, since I have to keep activating the dumb things. Anyway, so I went to Wendy's for lunch right, and along with dealing with that guy who enjoys workin there waaay too much "IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I CAN HELP YOU WITH ON THIS LOOOOVEELLLY DAY?!", he had rubber claw gloves on today and was going "happy halloweeeen". frightening So we finally got our Matrix Revolutions groove goin today. Me, my brother, Matt, Charlie, Bill, and someone else (ticket's still hangin) are going to see it at AMC at 9AM Wednesday. Woo! Probably get some lunch afterwards. Works for me :) Still annoys me that there's no midnight showing, but oh well. Oh, and how come if I don't organize movie trips with people at work they fall apart? You should've seen some others attempt to see Freddy vs Jason over the summer without me really trying to make it work, wow, what a mess :) Guess I'm good for that eh? So hmm, after work.. came home, chatted with people/surfed the web, sat upstairs with my mom and got her to finally watch The Two Towers (yay!), gave out candy to the whole 10 kids that showed up; stopped the movie at about 8, went to get my brother's check at PetsMart (Oh, I'm supposed to say GO SHOP AT PETSMART! because they need business, bad), went to Ruby Tuesday (3rd time in 4 weeks! go me! I'm insane) for dinner (and saw Mike Norton), stared at where they want to put the Staples, again, went to Shop Rite because my mom and brother wanted to see it.. came home, finished Two Towers, and here I am! Speaking of Staples, the Hamilton Marketplace map says that the proposed area is almost 22,000 square feet; my Staples is 26,000 square feet, with almost 6,000 square feet in receiving alone (we have the biggest receiving I've seen in a Staples to date). So I think they could fit a nice one there.. Dover layout too, mm.. I think I need to do my history homework before I go to bed.. or definitely before I have work tomorrow (1-10, woohoo! Someone come visit, please god, it's so slow on Saturday nights, especially ones like this week where I don't have to set an ad). Btw, random thought - anyone who has a Gamecube and needs a game, do yourself a favor and go buy Viewtiful Joe - trust me, it's worth it. Oh yeah, I guess I'm not goin to Six Flags again this year - since the last day they're open is Sunday, and while me, my mom, and brother have season passes, neither of them really want to go, and I can't find anyone to go with me. btw.. you guys that know my whole issue with my wrist/arm.. do you know that sometimes I still can't straighten or bend my elbow all the way, and sometimes it gets weak and hurts? Talk about the most stupid thing I've ever done :/ going to be paying for it for a long time I think. Welp, off to attempt to get somethin done, or more likely read some and fall asleep, but still. PS- ever heard of the idea of saying "rabbit, rabbit" as the first thing you do when you wake up on the first day of a new month? Yea, don't do it; it's an evil satanic spell that brings bad luck upon you, trust me. Oh, Happy November! Egads, time flies.

Nighttime Talking

"So what'd you do on your day off?" "Slept till 12, woke up, ate frosted cheerio's, showered, wa bummy, attempted to do hw like 15 times, cleaned my room, read a lil, talked to people online, went to olive garden to get takeout, went to class for an hour, came home, went to staples, came home, talked to people online, ate food, fell asleep" God I'm lazy. But yea, my day turned out to be alright I guess.. it's still not the greatest thing in the world by far. The whole relationship stuff bothers me, issues I'm having.. sometimes I'm ok being single, sometimes I'm not.. I guess I'm still not used to it. I've talked to friends online today, they cheer me up luckily. It's good to have them. But then something like seeing that my Zodiac is shipping can cheer me up - shows you the two sides of me, huh? I still need to actually do my homework.. all I managed to do today was decide on a topic for a paper that's due in like 3 days. I still haven't touched any of my other stuff, not good. Must.. stop.. being.. lazy.. And I went to class, but my teacher said he worked on getting a lab going for us, connected the PC's to the internet, and they all got eaten by a Trojan horse, so we left early after he lectured a bit. I asked him though and next week he's going to let me install the version of Longhorn I have onto one of the PC's, hehe, should be fun :) I was so bored after class I went to Staples, ha. Gotta love it. I can't wait for my Zodiac.. random comment but it's true. Then I can have AIM up and running all the time on it, how sad is that? I should go look for other Palm stuff too.. I need to buy some new PC/GBA/GC games too, I should update my list. Ya know, I need to buy a new DVDROM drive sometime.. why I gave it to my ex.. OO, yes I remember now.. So tomorrow is Halloween huh? OOH YAY! not. I haven't gone out for Halloween in years now.. I doubt I will tomorrow. Just sit around and be bored - maybe I'll actually do some homework! I'd dress up in work tomorrow, but I don't think anyone can beat the 3 guys we had as women last year, plus supposedly a big boss is coming, so who knows. No one really had any ideas to dress up as this year anyway. ARR, this new keyboard, its buggin me.. I bought the EXACT SAME KIND I had that my cat dumped water on, but its not responding the same.. course this is new, the other was a good 6, 7 years old. Oh, I wanted to show this I was reading from CNN.com just now about student's being wired: From rural areas to the suburbs to cities, almost every public school is wired for the Internet and schools now have one computer with Internet access for every five students, the research shows. As a result, more children and teens use computers at school than at home. They must not have visited Hamilton schools, eh? :) I mean, we have the computers, yea, but unless something's changed in the past year, there are only what, 8-10 computers at Steinert that actually get online? Well, I think that's it for tonight.. if I think of any more random stuff to put in I'll do it.. like, I GOT PAID $347 THIS WEEK! I love it when I get my bonus each month, woo. Speaking of work, again, look! ITS STAPLES #736 IN HAMILTON, NJ! PS: Isn't my digital camera great? It's only a 2 megapixel too; don't let anyone tell you they're not good!

W00t!

Now this is what I like to see!

Dear Customer: The item below is now in stock and this portion of your order has been released for processing. If the quantity below isn't the total quantity ordered then the remaining quantity will be released when additional stock is available. Quantity Description 1 Zodiac 2 We provide online order tracking at: http://store.tapwave.com/tracking.asp. Tracking information is posted to the site the following business day (Monday-Friday) after the product has shipped. Sincerely, Tapwave support@tapwave.com http://store.tapwave.com

Updating the Journal

Ya know, apparently if I wanted to change how my journal looks without using one of the generic stylesheets I'd have to pay $5 to upgrade my account again temporarily. I guess that's not a bad thing, since I would get more codes to drag people on here, plus I had to pay for an account originally since no one wanted to give me a code (We don't have any!!) yea yea. More later. EEP! Apparently I touched something that made my site change.. ah well, luckily I don't mind how it looks.. Btw, what's the difference between a livejournal and a blog?

Mmmm...

I hope I get my Zodiac soon..

Blah

Well, I'm actually off from work today so I can get some stuff done; of course I slept till 12 so that doesn't help much. I should clean up my room (AGAIN) and do homework that I'm behind on.. maybe I'll play a game or watch a movie. Oh and look, EVERY PERSON on my buddy list has an away message up.. no one to talk to. Gotta love it.

Tornado?!

So apparently I'm not allowed to have a dull, boring day this week. I'm starting to miss those I think.. Anyway, I'm driving in my half-alseep state like usual to work at 6:50 in the morning, preparing to get my chocolate chip bagel, and I get ready to turn down the side street I use to cut to Rt 33, and there's this line of traffic streaming off of 33 onto Nottingham Way, and a cop at the other end! So I'm like, ok, let's go down the next one then.. so I turn down it, get to Rt 33, and there's a cop sitting there too! So now I'm wonderin what's going on.. the guy in the truck in front of me gets out and goes to talk to the cop., meanwhile I'm slowly inching my way up to the road to get a reaction out of the cop about what I should do. So he turns his lil cop car light on me, and the guy talkin to him translates: Him: "Where are you going?" Me: "I'm just trying to get to Staples to work" Him: "Yea, I recognize you. Just be careful, there's transformers and power lines down" Me; "Ok, thanks" I get to Staples, and it's me, Matt, and Kendall. I learn that they saw two transformers blow as they were getting there at 6:30 (one at the light at Westin, one down past Staples), and that the cops had blocked off Rt 33 - no traffic in or out, at least for two hours apparently. (I got bored, so I took a Canon A70 digital camera and took some pics): Two of the other employees, Jane & Tom, couldn't get past the roadblock to work. Somehow George and Randy, off the clock, not working (came to pick up school stuff they left last night) managed to get past the cops, the same way I did; same place too. So another of our employees, this older woman named Ginny, called and said she couldnt get in and she was parked on Westin at the moment (now infamous for the street I cut off the cop on turning onto 33). We told her to do what me, George, and Randy had done. After we hung up Matt and I went outside and we're lookin towards the left waiting for Ginny. All of a sudden we hear sirens going off and a cop comes flying down to Jiffy Lube. I'm like "haha, I bet he got Ginny". And sure enough, the cop made Ginny TURN AROUND AND GO BACK when she was not 25 feet from the Staples parking lot! That was THE funniest moment of the day, bar none. So now it's 8, and we're missing employees (for obvious reasons), thank god there were no customers either. Finally PSE&G pulls up and starts working on the poles: After nothing really eventful happening for a half hour, around 8:30 two employees show up - walking from over by Stewart's. They had to park on the side street and walk. Ok, its too dangerous to drive over down power lines, but you can walk? (Oh, btw, we had power during this whole thing - I believe Staples is powered to the neighborhood behind it, not to everything on Rt 33). A cop decided to drive down Rt 33 at one point, and I guess Jane & Tom made a mad dash for it, because they managed to make it in - fuming at how horrible Hamilton police are :) At 8:45 or so, this car comes in from the right by Stewart's and parks in front of Big Lots. I turn around again and I see this cop RUNNING, ON FOOT, from Stewart's, over to the car. Whatever the cop said, I assume it was "go back from whence you came, YOU SHALL NOT PASS!", because the car left immediately back towards Stewart's, and the cop walked back too. At 9 two more of our employees showed up, having to circle back onto Estates Blvd over onto Shady Lane and park by Hess, and walking in. They were kinda peeved too. At that time I went out and saw that they set up a real roadblock (guess the cop got tired of sitting). During this whole time cops kept drivin back and forth, workers were hikin back and forth, and most importantly of all, AT LEAST FIFTY CARS WENT IN AND OUT OF HALDEMAN FORD. Guess you know who supplies the Hamilton police eh? Anyway, at about 9:30 they opened up traffic going Eastbound only, and within 3 minutes I swear to god at least 15 customers pulled up, it was disgusting. The road opened back up both ways around 10 or so. I proceeded to have my normal lovely work day at work from then on. Of course, word spread by midday that it was believed an F1 tornado touched down in front of Boston Market, tearing up the power lines there, and causing transformers to blow out down to McDonald's. I went home on lunch and sure enough, the road was partially blocked off while FIVE PSE&G trucks repaired a huge mass of downed wires and a cracked pole. Not to mention that a few more poles are leaning pretty badly now and need to be fixed. I drove past again around 7:30 tonight, and Boston Market STILL had no power, and they were STILL out there fixing it, putting a new pole in, and fixing the wires. Geeze! So we had a tornado touch down on Rt 33. Feel special yet? lol

Online games & stuff

I'm debating on getting FFXI.. anyone plan on playing it with me? :) I should get the two expansions to DaoC.. The Everquest Evolution pack looks nice.. and of course, the Diablo II 1.10 patch FINALLY came out today, and it's supposed to be pretty good. Hmm.. not to mention I got Ghost Master.. and I have Viewtiful Joe over on Gamecube (which is a great game, go get it!) and Rebel Strike is out.. more games next month too, like Mario kart! Where's Half-Life2? :) Oh and uh, MS Office 2003 is cool :)

The Gang!

Ever expect to see this with my animals? Especially after only two weeks?

This just amuses me..

I, and EVERYONE ELSE that preordered a Zodiac, wants to know when they're shipping.. Tapwave keeps saying "by the end of October". Well, uh... Anyway, they have their phone & online support outsourced to India, and uh, as you can see from the following conversation I had.. Serene: Thank you for contacting Tapwave sales support. My name is Serene. Jerry: hi Jerry: I'm just wondering when the Zodiac will ship.. I know you guys keep saying "the end of October", and the "last week of October", but it IS that time of the month now.. and there's only 3 days left in October.. when should I expect the Zodiac to ship? Serene: Zodiac is scheduled to start it's shipping at the end of october. We don't have the information regading the exact date of shipment at present. But it will be in the end of october. Jerry: but there's only 3 days left in october... how can you guys not know an official day yet? Serene: Most probably in these 3 days you may expect the shipping of Zodiac. Jerry: will we be notified before it ships? Or will it just be "SURPRISE! We've charged your credit card, and you should have it shortly!" Will we get any email confirmation or anything? Serene: You will be informed about the shipment, once we know the wxact date of shipment. Jerry: um, ok.. i still don't understand how you guys don't know when this device is shipping, especially if its within the next three days.. Serene: Most probably.

Sleepy..

Well, I'd rant about work and stupid customers and how Staples half-asses things like the debit card machines we just got installed today but I'm going to sleep.. actually I'm going to go and read and have my kitten climb all over me, then I'm goin to sleep. I'll work on updating this more tomorrow (some of my random quotes on here somewhere would be nice), as well as an overall update each day I hope.. like how my LINUX CLASS IS CRAP! Erm, night :) Oh and, I plan on getting FFXI for the PC, so anyone else who is gettin it, let me know.. we need to play on the same server :) I need to buy other games too.. like RS3.. arr.. money.. Zodiac.. Oh, and if those damn Hamilton republicans call one more time... Oh, my kittens btw:

WTF WARNER BROS!!!

SLKFJSLFJSF. I'm so annoyed. My friends and I have been to FIVE MIDNIGHT MOVIE SHOWINGS. Star Wars: Episode II, LotR: Fellowship of the Ring, LotR: The Two Towers, Matrix Reloaded, and XMen2.. we were lookin forward to seeing Matrix Revolutions at night... but NOO. Warner Bros wants to do a "simultaneous worldwide release", meaning that the first showing isn't going to be allowed until 9am Wednesday the 5th. What the heck man.. ah well, there's always RETURN OF THE KING to see at midnight.. ON MY BIRTHDAY!

Another Hamilton Staples?

So my boss was ranting and raving today about how Staples corporate wants to build another Staples in this area. If you know this area, you know that from the Hamilton store (where I work at), you can reach three other ones within 10-15 minutes; two on Rt 1, one on Rt 130. Now they want to slap another one onto Rt 130 in the new Hamilton Marketplace., making there be TWO Hamilton Staples within 5 min of each other.. geeze! And we're still supposed to be a small town :) How that works with 3 high schools, 3 middle schools, 17 elementary schools, 90,000+ citizens, I have no idea.. My boss is afraid it'll eat our business and employees, which is true.. but.. I dunno.. it'd be interesting.. Apparently they're looking at the vacant lot/parking lot area/dug up dirt hole to the left of Ruby Tuesday.. Here's a map of the marketplace for those interested (yea, it's freely available - cool eh?) Btw, I love the Marketplace.. Walmart, Cracker Barrel, Ruby Tuesday.. soon Chili's, EBGames, Cingular, Barnes & Noble.. mm..

Where oh where is my Zoodiac...

Ya know, I really really really want my Tapwave Zodiac. It's supposed to ship "in late October". We're running out of days here.. I can' wait to use it though, ooh man.. I miss my old Palm, this one should be awesome :)

It's baack!

Yea, so it's been.. 6 months since I've touched this, so what? :) I've decided to fix the images, and like, actually use it.. I keep randomly putting things in my profile for people to read, so why don't I post it here? I'm so strange sometimes.. Welp, enjoy! Btw.. I'm not sure anymore.. so is it a good or bad thing to be compared to Tobey Maguire?