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.