2.20.2004

Nabbed from a little exercise in Lu's LJ

Rules:
1) Load your entire list of mp3s
2) Shuffle
3) Write down the first 20 songs that play.

I cheated and simply randomized my list and grabbed the first 20 songs. :)

1. Pearl Jam - Corduroy (4:33)
2. Reel Big Fish - Hate you (3:27)
3. Audioslave - Bring'em Back Alive (5:29)
4. R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (4:07)
5. Zebrahead - Playmate Of The Year (2:58)
6. System Of A Down - Spiders (3:35)
7. Tom Petty - Free Falling (4:16)
8. R.E.M. - Low (4:54)
9. London Symphony Orchestra - Alliance Assembly (2:10)
10. Tom Lehrer - Oedipus Rex (3:42)
11. Danny Elfman - What's This (3:07)
12. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (Entire Album) (43:00)
13. Tenacious D - Kielbasa (3:00)
14. Nirvana - Lake Of Fire (2:55)
15. Dada - Disneyland (32:43)
16. System Of A Down - Sugar (2:33)
17. Save Ferris - Come On Eileen (3:39)
18. Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing (3:32)
19. Weezer - Take Control (3:04)
20. Castlevania - Prayer (0:46)
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Oh My Fucking God I'm tired of the sap/betty loveydovey soap opera. They're nuts about each other and that's wonderful for them, but is there any reason why, on God's green earth, that we have to hear about it any time one of them posts next to the other? Baka and Woofie never did that, Michelle and I certainly don't, and Atama and Margo didn't used to until now, simply because Atama feels guilty for not professing his undying love every time sapwood does. I don't know how much of that is his insecurity and how much is her being a bitch, but she certainly comes off as someone I wouldn't enjoy sharing a relationship with. They may think they're proving to everyone that they love each other, but from an outside perspective of someone who actually knows what love is and what it means to hold onto it, it looks like they're trying to prove it to themselves because they apparently need to convince themselves that they're in love. Not only is that wrong on many levels, it's annoying to everyone that has to watch from a third-person perspective. It's quickly approaching time for me to ask them to cool it. Sapwood owes me a favor anyways, and Betty, when she's not being a bitch is occasionally my friend. Rather than getting all gestapo on them and telling them what they can and cannot say, I'll simply ask them to respect that not eveyone wants to read their lovey-dovey bullshit in every other topic. Hell, I only read Betty's LJ every couple weeks because I can almost guarantee that every other entry will involve "nessy" and how great he is and how much she misses him, etc. It's her life and her private LJ, so it's certainly not for me to judge what she says in there, and I don't. I just hop right over it onto the next entry. Once it's permeating the forums like some kind of sublimated sugar-vapor that makes everyone around sick from the sweetness of it all, then it's my territory and my job to do something about it.
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Another shipment day down, another huge night for the crew. 243UPH and we managed to get the two closers (Nate and I) out the door by 9. Everyone was happy, I was happy. I also found out a reason I may want to stick around Old Navy for a little while: The new Stock Supervisor position is apparently going to take a bit of a bump in the promotion department. Apparently it's being shoved up to a position just under manager and they'll get keys to the store, a hefty raise, and full-time hours. That caused a bit of a change of plan, and now I'm going to passively put in a few applications at a few other places and keep the job-hunting on the DL until I find out my chances for promotion. I've obviously made the improvements that CJ talked to me about, so I think there's definitely a chance. If not, I'll defect because there's nobody on my crew I could stand working underneath and I refuse to work under some new person that they hired from outside just to be our shipment captain. It's impossible to respect someone who is supposed to be your boss, but you spend the first two shipment days he/she is there suffering low numbers because you're training your new boss. At any rate, I have this gut feeling it'll end with me finding a new job. It doesn't really bother me other than the twinge of injustice I feel simply because I am more than qualified to run this crew, I've been doing it ever since Amelia got fired, and I'll keep doing it for no extra money and no extra hours right up until they make a decision and shit all over me. I can see it happening already.

Other news: I haven't decided if I'm going to keep fucking around in Zelda or just go get the 8 triforce charts, decipher them and go retrieve the pieces. My sea chart isn't even finished yet, but I'm getting bored with this. I've missed some stuff I can't get back, so a new start would be kinda neat.

Other other news: I need to pick up a new anime. Naruto just isn't getting the job done, since it's only once a week. USER INPUT TIME! What's the next anime I should download and go nuts on?
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2.18.2004

Well, tonight went much better than I had anticipated. The shipment was HYOOGE, but rather than bring a bunch of other people in for small shifts, they just used all of our on-call shifts, extending them to full shifts. The truck was late, so that makes for a nice "fall back" excuse if we don't get all of shipment done, but we certainly didn't need it tonight. Four of us were staying until close, and we got shipment done a half-hour early. That's 2 hours off the DPP and CJ was more than pleased. Plus with the truck being late, our shifts were all kinda truncated when it came to actual time spent processing shipment, so by the end of the night we ended up with a 290UPH. (that's very good, approx. 25% above goal) Had the truck been on time, we would've been done an hour and a half early and had boku hours to use on Thursday's shipment. As it is, we'll probably be short and all of tonight's work will have been in vain. However, I'm not going to let that drag me down.

We also appear to have stumbled across a random intelligent newbie that wandered into chat tonight. The only info we can get on our mystery date is that he/she's a "chuushin supporter." If you thought "intelligent newbie" was an oxymoron, prepare to be utterly floored. S/he is also on AOL! I'll give everyone a second to rebound from that.
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Good? Good.
Yes, a random newbie that has an IQ greater than their shoe size and sits on an AOL connection. There's hope for the world yet.

On the Zelda front: All of the dungeons are finished (Except Ganon's tower) and now I'm running around frantically gathering fundage and triforce charts so that bastard Tingle can charge me an arm and a leg deciphering them for me. But I'll show that little asshat, I'm going to go back into each dungeon using the tingle tuner (and the strategy guide) and get all of the tingle statues. I should make back about 75% of whatever I'm paying him to decipher the Triforce charts. My inventory is full now, having finished the merchant sidequest and picking up the bottles I was missing. I now have a magic shield that I'll never use and three empty bottles that I haven't gotten around to filling yet. Elixir soup needs to go in one, one already has a fairy, and I figure I'll go to the forest haven and get blue potion in the third. Maybe i'll fill the fourth with forest water and start the tree-growing sidequest. I played hide-and-seek with the lame kids on Windfall today, cashed in my Joy Pendants and got my own private island and the triforce chart that lay within it. While I was gone today chelle did all the slide puzzles for me, too, which is great since I can't stand slide puzzles. I have off tomorrow, so I think I'll be hitting up that tingle statue sidequest i mentioned earlier. Fuck that green-suited fairy wannabe.
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2.17.2004

Well, after opening five of the celesial gates of expostulation, and after 4 hours of near-contant litigation, I now reserve the right to be a member at narutoforums.com. Why do I even care, you ask? I don't fucking know, but I wasn't going to let Tazmo make the decision about whether or not I joined his shitty forum or not. :)

Other new business: I half-expect to find a new shipment captain when I go to work tomorrow, and that'll just make my fucking day. -_-; Not only is it going to be one of the most insane shipments in recent memory (6400 units) I'll more than likely be training my new boss. Don't need that, what I need is a new job. I think I'll keep the car on Wednesday and commence the job hunt for real. Factory work, no fewer than 40hrs/wk.

Operation "Kyubi box" is about to become operation "Shukaku box" before it even gets off the ground. The deal was sealed for me when I saw this while Michelle was searching for a stuffed fox to use. Operation "Kyubi box" is our new project to build a fully functioning, even though not impressive statistically, into a stuffed animal. That bot, in turn, would host primarily, if not exclusively, the bot that runs in #dbzcenter and is a staple of that channels existance at this point. It wouldn't be the same without Kyubi. :) I've got my eye on a mini-itx all-inclusive board that only has a 170x170mm footprint and has everything but RAM and drives onboard. That, a power supply and a stuffed animal should be all the parts i need to buy to make this work. I have SDRAM laying around to put in it (by "laying around" I mean in Chelle's computer) and a few small hard drives that would work fine for this project laying around also. (by "laying around" i mean in a box in the bedroom that hasn't seen the light of day in a few months. As soon as I can put together the scratch for the board ($99.99) and power supply, we'll be in business.
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