I wish I was less boring

It has been another great while since I either posted anything worthy, or since anything interesting has happened, that I would care to share at any rate.

My bed finally came in, not after the ten business days I expected, but rather 30. About a month after all it was coming not as I thought from California, but instead Malaysia. Since I've gotten the bed, I have slept more soundly and fitfully than ever before.

Not interesting, but then again that's been my life lately.

Sometimes I Even Bore Myself

I haven't had anything interesting to write about lately. For the most part, nothing of interest has been happening to me, and it feels like life has been on a permanent stand-still. I've got the rest of my snowboarding stuff, and I'm taking some time off again this week. So that is finally going to happen. I tried taking time off from work during Feb. vacation, but maybe it is a silent blessing I didn't get it, because I would have been surrounded by annoying children last week, at whichever ski resort mountain I went.

Also, I had been shopping for a new bed, I've been using the futon mattress I had in college, (it's really flat, and should probably just be thrown out. I am upgrading to a new platform bed, with a much nicer futon style mattress. It should be here in about 10 business days.

Well, I am off to pack my snowboard gear, and empty out my bedroom.

On Call Again

This will be my third overnight shift this week. My sleep has been sporadic and uneven, my eating habits have been mildly unnerving,and my week can essentially be summed up in three words; work, sleep, television.

I hope to change that this weekend, as I am getting out early tomorrow, and so my festivities can begin in earnest a full half day earlier than expected. More to come...

Unpr3c3d3nt3d

It is typically unprecedented for me to write on her three times a day, it'll probably never happen again, but today's special circumstances. I have to go into work tonight, and this is usually how I make extra income, by picking up extra usually third shift hours. It is tough, some days harder than others, but the work is easy enough, and sometimes as I've said before I can catch up on my reading, laundry, you name it, if I have a hard time making myself do it during the day, when I'd rather be doing whatever, I'll get it done at nighttime.

Also, assuming I'm not on here tomorrow, I'd like to wish my older brother a happy birthday tomorrow; Have a great birthday, Jay.

As Previously mentioned...

Still looking for new Snowboarding boots, pants, gloves, and maybe a helmet.

I was going to make some plans up to the Northern reaches of either Vermont or Maine, but since I haven't gotten that far yet, and the ski-season will probably wind down as soon as it finally pulled itself out of the hole, I'm going to start going to Massachusetts's own Wachusett Mountain. It has the added benefit of having a train that goes there.

Still also trying to break the pitiful record of last year's post by one, every month. I didn't quite make it in January, but I have already reached the yearly marker and I should only write more as events unfold.

Still also writing on the oldest PC in America.

That's all for Stills.

Superbowl Sunday 2007

...and it is so quiet you'd think it had become a secular national holiday. At least they haven't started printing up something stupid like Jesus-footballs or something to that effect.

I need some coffee, and really the only thing I need to do, is get some laundry done. If the Patriots aren't playing in it, who cares? Well, my dad is originally from Indiana, so at least he'll get some enjoyment out of the day, as long as the Colts win.

Needed Weekend

I am very glad I didn't agree to any extra shifts at work. I'm very tired of that place, and while I enjoy working with most of them, I am even tired of my coworkers faces.

Mostly I'm just tired. I would like to;

a.) get a cell phone. I'd like one, I think sometimes I miss out having no kind of wireless data device. phone/e-mail capable hand held.

b.) get some car parts; battery, new tires/wheels.

c.) get a couple of video games. I've earned them.

If I buy any of these things, I'll post it here.

Paid Time Off

Here's the way it works: at the place I work, you do not get; sick days, or vacation. You do get paid for certain Holidays, but you're expected to work some of them as well, and they aren't automatically off. So instead, we have PTO. So even though I have had two weeks off this recent holiday season, now I have more than 100 hours allotted for the new year.

I'm planning on several snowboarding weekends over February and March. I'd have gone already except that conditions until recently were pretty warm and slushy according to the news and internet weather reports.

It'll be the second and fourth weekends of both months. That way for 4 long weekends, I only use 8 days worth of PTO, or 8 x 8 = 64. 104-64 = 40.

Now one week left for the year doesn't sound like a lot, and it isn't, but here's the plan; overtime. The more extra shifts I pick up on the corresponding weeks, the less I have to worry about using up my time off, and it is only 2 extra shifts every pay period. No problem.

I tried helping out, but...

I'm honestly not very good; at giving massages. Therapeutic or otherwise. A coworker had a pinched nerve in her neck, or maybe just a sore muscle. I tried to help out with a neck rub, but I just don't think I have what it takes. And on that note, we have a trained masseuse working with us, so I think I should just do her a favor and offer to pay for a professional to work out her literal pain-in-the-neck. It seems like the nice thing to do, and that way she also doesn't think of me as creepy if I keep offering to give mediocre massages.

My Goal for This Blog

Is

To make as many posts per month +1, as I did all of last year: (7).
To get occasionally read by someone other than myself.
To create some graphics or else have some made to make my website somewhat unique; like maybe some black and white photography to show an artistic side.

Is Not

To ramble on incessantly or else randomly write about next to nothing, as I am here.
To get any readers at all through a forced and/or offensive stance on subjects I don't actually care anything about. Kind of like the way FOX News does things.
To make posts that nobody will read anyway, so who cares a fig's worth what I write about.

That Was a Little Disappointing

My Sunday was just a series of ups and downs...

Played video games; good.
AFC Football game: NE 34-IND 38; bad.

Visiting: brother's family; good.
Visiting: door-to-door Mormons; bad.

Chinese Food; good.

The good wins, I guess.