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Oct. 12th, 2008 01:11 amBleeh...
Seriously, everyone talks about recession, and the economy breaking, and bleh, but i can't really feel like if any of that was really happening.
Been working 50-60h at least every week since i came back from vacation. Work gives a 100$ bonus for bringing someone hireable to them, and they lowered their standards quite a bit.
Doesn't seem like a recession to me. Maybe it's just not yet, but eh. Good for me, i guess.
And it's always funny, people don't have the slightest clue how the stock market works. So many people think the only way you make money is by buying low and selling high...
Without any knowledge of what dividends even are! Hell, that IS what gives shares their value.
I'm slowly getting myself out of debt. Well, slowly-ish. I still make about 550$/week, with very little expenses, so that helps quite a bit. Can't wait to be able to afford to have work done on the cruiser, and to go down and pick it up. I miss that thing. I know it'll cost me quite a bit to get it home, well, unless it's modified. Which i want to have done while down there by people who know those cars. But eh.
And well, i can't really have it up here just yet. The driveway is nowhere near done yet. Still working on that, sort of, slowly, when i have time where it's day and i'm not either dead or at work.
I really miss the 4-day weeks. I didn't have to give up on sleeping to do stuff.
On the other side, sleep deprivation and dumb work can lead to interesting thoughts. And very random ones. I spent a good hour and a half pondering the meaning of "feeling corrugated". Came up with some pretty fun stuff. Which i won't type right now, 'cause.
It's funny. It's a tech job again. I think the whole hate-love thing comes with those automatically. Or maybe that's just work in general. I think i spent less time hating the night shift one tho.
On the good side, with the current job, i don't spend hours typing things. And i can still do nightshift stuff, i just get paid more for it. And it's really awesome, i managed to automate about 90% of my daily tasks. So that leaves a lot of free time. And free time is good.
It's just so often a fight between "i have free time, i can just mess around and avoid doing work" and "I have time to work on special projects i'm not required to work on, but would make awesome stuff."
At least i did manage to go with the second option from time to time. Which is fun... Unlike at Telesonic, when i manage something good, i actually get a reaction other than "i pay you the same every day, you should do stuff like that every day".
I still hold on to my mission of making one strange thing happen each week at work. Singing barcode scanners!
Next week i need to tune the bowl-sinks so that you can play a tune properly. I actually did that one some time back, but having it done right and during the day could be just so much fun. ANd they have a nice sound too. It's silly. Those, plus some buckets as drum, and you could get something decent done...
I think i could actually manage to get some people into that at work.
I also want to make a zombie movie in the store. It could be used as safety video after. "See how they killed the zombies? Don't do that with living people around."
Damnit, i wanted to do something special for halloween this year. Looks like i won't quite be able to afford that.
Furfright next weekend. And i'm apparently bringing a coworked. How will that go. *chuckles* Well, honestly, i'm not fully sure how much i care about the convention, i just want a roadtrip and fun. And see other friends down there.
Fun thing about work. I'm gaining that special exception status again. I missed that... Lots of freedom, and getting away with things i shouldn't. Which is rather nice. But it always has that downside of making me kindof disqualified for lots of things, because after all i'm not just a normal human, so it wouldn't be fair...
Me and a friend started doing 3-movie weekends. It's not a bad idea. Been seeing lots of stuff i should have had a while back. It's kinda funny too, i'm slowly realising that most of the movie i like turn out to have been made with barely enough budget and in unusual circumstances.
It's making me want to make a movie. Ideas pop up easily all the time. Worst is, i know a friend kinda already tries to do that here with other friends. But i'm not sure if we'd get along that much with that kind of project.
I need to know more people who are willing to just go and do stuff. And i need to work less and do that more damnit...
I also want so badly to buy an old military 1955 dodge power wagon. Not going to help with the work less thing.
I also desesperately need a garrage or somewhere to work on stuff. And be able to just have projects in a ready to work on state. Not toss them back in my room 'cause i have nowhere else to leave them
Nothing pisses me off more than people who bitch about how i'm not doing anything with x or y. Give me the ressources, i'll do something with it. I'm not into that feeling good by having as little as possible. That's fine if you just want to get thru life without really living...
Rock is nice when you don't mind lyrics getting in the way of your thoughts. I need a radio at work too.
Blah, why am i 24 already. So little time to find a way to switch to a better body.
Anyway. I suddently want soup.
Seriously, everyone talks about recession, and the economy breaking, and bleh, but i can't really feel like if any of that was really happening.
Been working 50-60h at least every week since i came back from vacation. Work gives a 100$ bonus for bringing someone hireable to them, and they lowered their standards quite a bit.
Doesn't seem like a recession to me. Maybe it's just not yet, but eh. Good for me, i guess.
And it's always funny, people don't have the slightest clue how the stock market works. So many people think the only way you make money is by buying low and selling high...
Without any knowledge of what dividends even are! Hell, that IS what gives shares their value.
I'm slowly getting myself out of debt. Well, slowly-ish. I still make about 550$/week, with very little expenses, so that helps quite a bit. Can't wait to be able to afford to have work done on the cruiser, and to go down and pick it up. I miss that thing. I know it'll cost me quite a bit to get it home, well, unless it's modified. Which i want to have done while down there by people who know those cars. But eh.
And well, i can't really have it up here just yet. The driveway is nowhere near done yet. Still working on that, sort of, slowly, when i have time where it's day and i'm not either dead or at work.
I really miss the 4-day weeks. I didn't have to give up on sleeping to do stuff.
On the other side, sleep deprivation and dumb work can lead to interesting thoughts. And very random ones. I spent a good hour and a half pondering the meaning of "feeling corrugated". Came up with some pretty fun stuff. Which i won't type right now, 'cause.
It's funny. It's a tech job again. I think the whole hate-love thing comes with those automatically. Or maybe that's just work in general. I think i spent less time hating the night shift one tho.
On the good side, with the current job, i don't spend hours typing things. And i can still do nightshift stuff, i just get paid more for it. And it's really awesome, i managed to automate about 90% of my daily tasks. So that leaves a lot of free time. And free time is good.
It's just so often a fight between "i have free time, i can just mess around and avoid doing work" and "I have time to work on special projects i'm not required to work on, but would make awesome stuff."
At least i did manage to go with the second option from time to time. Which is fun... Unlike at Telesonic, when i manage something good, i actually get a reaction other than "i pay you the same every day, you should do stuff like that every day".
I still hold on to my mission of making one strange thing happen each week at work. Singing barcode scanners!
Next week i need to tune the bowl-sinks so that you can play a tune properly. I actually did that one some time back, but having it done right and during the day could be just so much fun. ANd they have a nice sound too. It's silly. Those, plus some buckets as drum, and you could get something decent done...
I think i could actually manage to get some people into that at work.
I also want to make a zombie movie in the store. It could be used as safety video after. "See how they killed the zombies? Don't do that with living people around."
Damnit, i wanted to do something special for halloween this year. Looks like i won't quite be able to afford that.
Furfright next weekend. And i'm apparently bringing a coworked. How will that go. *chuckles* Well, honestly, i'm not fully sure how much i care about the convention, i just want a roadtrip and fun. And see other friends down there.
Fun thing about work. I'm gaining that special exception status again. I missed that... Lots of freedom, and getting away with things i shouldn't. Which is rather nice. But it always has that downside of making me kindof disqualified for lots of things, because after all i'm not just a normal human, so it wouldn't be fair...
Me and a friend started doing 3-movie weekends. It's not a bad idea. Been seeing lots of stuff i should have had a while back. It's kinda funny too, i'm slowly realising that most of the movie i like turn out to have been made with barely enough budget and in unusual circumstances.
It's making me want to make a movie. Ideas pop up easily all the time. Worst is, i know a friend kinda already tries to do that here with other friends. But i'm not sure if we'd get along that much with that kind of project.
I need to know more people who are willing to just go and do stuff. And i need to work less and do that more damnit...
I also want so badly to buy an old military 1955 dodge power wagon. Not going to help with the work less thing.
I also desesperately need a garrage or somewhere to work on stuff. And be able to just have projects in a ready to work on state. Not toss them back in my room 'cause i have nowhere else to leave them
Nothing pisses me off more than people who bitch about how i'm not doing anything with x or y. Give me the ressources, i'll do something with it. I'm not into that feeling good by having as little as possible. That's fine if you just want to get thru life without really living...
Rock is nice when you don't mind lyrics getting in the way of your thoughts. I need a radio at work too.
Blah, why am i 24 already. So little time to find a way to switch to a better body.
Anyway. I suddently want soup.
