Boo-yah: Got my Rock Band 3 Squier Stratocaster and tuned it. Fail: Just noticed that one of the bridge sections/saddles is messed up and will need to be replaced and will need new height screws Boo-yah: I get to take apart my guitar and restring it. ^_^
Boo-yah: finally found a job that won't require moving across the country / to America after many frustrating months Fail: its a six month contract at a significant pay-cut and little chance of extension.
Shit, by the time I woke up, they'd raised £14,000/160%. The £3.2k prize is pretty awesome. The game design guy will come out to where you are and give a talk or help you design a game.
Boo-Yah: Threadless $10 Sale Fail: Threadless $10 Sale and I have to budget. Boo-Yah: Jeremy bought my shirts. I've replenished and upgraded my tshirt supply. Jeremy bought a matching set of this for the both of us. It's part Brony and part Star Wars.
Third party health insurance company. The branch I worked in dealt with workers compensation accounts. It was a boring job but pay was okay and it was stress free and easy to do. Boss was one of the coolest bosses I had worked for. Going to miss working with some of the people there also.
Boo-Yah: Spare PSU finally arrived! Boo-Yah: Oh wait, tried turning on computer again, totally works now! Fail: So now I have this PSU lying around... Boo-Yah(?): Since the PSU was acting screwy, it's probably gonna fail any day now, so I ought to just swap it out anyway.
Fail: My job finally gave me work so I can no longer spend all day dicking around on the Internet Boo-yah: I'm using a plasma etcher to synthesize graphene oxide from graphite.
Boo-yah: Received the Shattered Empires expac for TI3 this morning while I was at work Fail: They sent me Shards of the Throne instead. maybe Boo-yah: Getting this fixed in time for a game in a week.
Booh-Yah: Found on of my Gaming Holy Grails, Steel Battalion with Controller, for $80 Fail: Footpedals were busted. Booh-Yah: The Pedals are just pots pinned to a PS/2 plug, so I could fix it. Booh-Yah/Fail: It's cheaper to just buy the games, controller, and an Xbox on Ebay.
Boo-yah: Spent the weekend hanging out with my best friend and other good friends. Fail: My best friend (whom I stayed with) does not believe in air conditioning. >_<
Fail: Brutal Shift. A guy down, two new dudes with no idea what they were doing, I was on one and nine (Laundry and Juices, the two aisles with the heaviest stuff) and I ended up topshelving like twenty boxes of juiceboxes and a bunch of the huge detergent and bleach boxes. Not only that, but I spent the first 45 minutes of the shift cleaning up olive oil and cutting my hands on broken bottles because the skid came from the warehouse packed so terribly it was leaning over. Boo-yah: The endorphin rush at the end of my shift kicked unbelievable amounts of ass. I had my arms out like a bird the whole bike ride home. Fail: Paying for the shitty shift now, though. Knees hurt from the lifting, hands hurt from the cuts, body screams in protest every time I move.
Boo-yah: Had a blast yesterday partying with my friends for the 4th. Fail: Ended up falling asleep on my phone so I didn't hear either of my alarms and was late to work on the only day of the week that I can't be late for.
Fail: Brutal Shift. A guy down, two new dudes with no idea what they were doing, I was on one and nine (Laundry and Juices, the two aisles with the heaviest stuff) and I ended up topshelving like twenty boxes of juiceboxes...
Where do you work? I did the same thing at Target for a while. We can commiserate.
I do night stocking at a supermarket. I'm about one step above being paid under the table; it's been two months and I still can't get a pay stub off of them because they are too cheap to print them and too lazy to enter me into their online system. On top of that, they basically completely ignore labour laws regarding how much an employ is allowed to lift over their head, with the stair thingy for getting stuff up to the top shelves buried in the back and totally impossible to get at in the course of the work-day, not to mention that the managers heavily disapprove of anything that might slow you down even a little. As a result, I was basically stuck lifting these stupidly heavy cardboard boxes of bleach to the top of the shelves all night, which left me hurting for the whole day. On top of all that, my coworkers are mostly jerks and loudmouths, and it looks like the three new guys they hired get paid more than I do for some reason, to the order of nearly a dollar an hour more; I think it was incentive to get them on the night shift, whereas I wasn't really given the option. The manager specifically singles me out to work overtime basically every night because I'm the only employee who won't just bail when there is still work to do; I made the mistake of establishing a reputation of being a reliable, hardworking person, not realizing everyone else has the reputation of being totally useless.
I am so glad I'm going back to school this september and can put this crappy job behind me then.
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Fail: Just noticed that one of the bridge sections/saddles is messed up and will need to be replaced and will need new height screws
Boo-yah: I get to take apart my guitar and restring it. ^_^
Boo-yah: I introduced him to it.
Fail: its a six month contract at a significant pay-cut and little chance of extension.
Oh well, better than unemployment... I guess.
Win: Thanks for the free 2 day shipping on Project A-ko Discotek!
Fail: I have to go through all my dad's old resource cds...
Booh-Yah: I donated $20.
Booh-Yah: They've already raised, like, $5000.
The £3.2k prize is pretty awesome. The game design guy will come out to where you are and give a talk or help you design a game.
Fail: Threadless $10 Sale and I have to budget.
Boo-Yah: Jeremy bought my shirts. I've replenished and upgraded my tshirt supply. Jeremy bought a matching set of this for the both of us. It's part Brony and part Star Wars.
I also got this one, which is awesome.
Boo-Yah: Oh wait, tried turning on computer again, totally works now!
Fail: So now I have this PSU lying around...
Boo-Yah(?): Since the PSU was acting screwy, it's probably gonna fail any day now, so I ought to just swap it out anyway.
Fail: Drank a bit too much and woke up le tired.
Boo-yah: COOOOFFFEEEEE!!!!!
Boo-yah: I'm using a plasma etcher to synthesize graphene oxide from graphite.
Fail: They sent me Shards of the Throne instead.
maybe Boo-yah: Getting this fixed in time for a game in a week.
Fail: Footpedals were busted.
Booh-Yah: The Pedals are just pots pinned to a PS/2 plug, so I could fix it.
Booh-Yah/Fail: It's cheaper to just buy the games, controller, and an Xbox on Ebay.
Booh-Yah: The hand was all Colonies.
Fail: Going to be a while before we get to have another one.
Fail: My best friend (whom I stayed with) does not believe in air conditioning. >_<
Boo-yah: The endorphin rush at the end of my shift kicked unbelievable amounts of ass. I had my arms out like a bird the whole bike ride home.
Fail: Paying for the shitty shift now, though. Knees hurt from the lifting, hands hurt from the cuts, body screams in protest every time I move.
Woke up this morning thinking I'd slept until noon.
It wasn't even 8am!
Fail: Ended up falling asleep on my phone so I didn't hear either of my alarms and was late to work on the only day of the week that I can't be late for.
I am so glad I'm going back to school this september and can put this crappy job behind me then.