I have an alarm clock why?

I set it, I make sure it's on, I even double check it. Yet I still managed to sleep through it today. Decided to skip class instead of getting there late and having to sit through a "you're just wasting your own time. You pay for this course so you should make the most of it" lectures from the teacher. Strange how those lectures on wasting time end up wasting forty minutes of class time.

Today is a work day, but hopefully it won't be a crappy day. A raise should be coming on Friday so everybody cross your fingers. We've all been told by our respective agencies that November 1st is a raise, but they could still have been the victim of "miscommunication."

Money money money money - asmyth82 10:35 AM -

One hell of a week

The week started out well enough, I got up early to head over to my friendly neighbourhood Kinkos before work to print off an Illustrator project. I was planning on getting this done ahead of time since it wasn't due until the end of the week. I also had another project to print off so I figured I'd get it done and give myself some breathing room. Now both these projects I had worked on very hard to finish up, spending both Saturday and Sunday in the school lab to work on them.

I load them up in Kinkos only to realize that Kinkos only has version 8 of Illustrator. Seeing as how I had built all the files in 10, I wasn't too happy. For those of you who don't bother with the program, it looked like the dog's breakfast. Correction, it looked like the breakfast the dog ate, vomited up, ate again, shit out and decided to eat again. In other words, real purty. Now between the strings of explicitives, I decided to say to hell with it, print of the least shitty stuff and fix the rest later. There was no way I was rebuilding it at Kinkos, not for twentyfive cents a minute, anyways.

Cursing all the way to work, I figured it was going to be a really bad day. I was wrong.

Upon arriving at work, I found out it was employee appreciation day. Firstly, that meant free subs and pop. Seondly, and perhaps most importantly, it meant an hour off the phones and getting paid for it. Thirdly, it meant prizes.

The prizes were broken into price ranges, not unlike golf tournaments. They drew names, the names drawn drew numbers and the person picked a prize off the corresponding table. There was about a one in two chance of winning something. There were three tables. The first was $25-$50, the second $50-75, and the third was $75 and up. Along with three grand prizes of a 13 inch TV and two DVD players, it was pretty good. Surprisingly enough, my name was drawn and I was able to pick off the most expensive table, snagging myself a CD player/speaker combo. Not bad for someone who never wins anything.

The rest of the day went by pretty well. I had my best sales night ever, so the night sped by.

I tried to snag a computer Wednesday to wither print off or upload my files, but it wasn't to be. Since I had no time and had to go to work, I asked a friend to save my files in Illustrator 8 format so I could print them off the next day. He told me it would be no problem. Wednesday night the phones went down for three hours so we all sat around twiddling ours thumbs. I think I could be a professional thumb twiddler, especially if the money was good enough.

Thursday I find out that my idiot friend couldn't follow my simple request of "Could you please save this as an Illustrator 8 file so I can print it off?" He did nothing with my disks except save some of his work on them. This day turns into a big rush/panic. Thwarted at every turn to get this file printed correcly, I finally upload them to print off at a friend's house since he had Illustator 10. Upon arriving at his house, I download the files only to be thwarted yet again, because the files had become partially erased. An hour of speedy work later, I have the files returned to a state of completion as close to the original I could make it. The files were printed and subsequently handed in.

Friday was slower than the previous days, thank God. Work crawled by and when the system went down 15 minutes before the end of the shift, instead of letting us go home a little early, as they had with the other groups who had been working that night, they pulled it back up another 15 minutes of fun. Sure Canada may have a lot of very nice, polite people, but we also have a fair share of assholes.

Here's to a quiet weekend. - asmyth82 5:42 PM -

Means to a post

Today will be a quasi-post since I'm right between leaving class/going to work. It's been a hectic week but I'm pretty sure I survived it. Unless of course I died and this is my version of heaven. Doubt it. I'm sure I'll be posting a long post a little later.

That's it for now. - asmyth82 2:49 PM -

Well, shit

I just happened to notice that as of eight days ago, Smyth Central has been around for a year. Shit, I've bothered to keep doing something for this long.

Go me! - asmyth82 10:20 PM -

Hey, remember when...?

Anybody remember when I used to be able to get through one post without mentioning work of some kind? Neither can I.

Spent this evening in the lab at school. That's right, I spent a Saturday night in school. Woo! Jeebus, even vanilla would find me dull.

I was able to finish One project almost entirely, leaving minor tweaking for another day. Now to finish photography, finish yet another dull project by Tuesday, and also get an essay done by Thursday. I believe that's it, but I could be forgetting something. And to think, I had planned to spend some time this weekend just kicking back and catching my breath. Pfft.

Resting when I'm dead - asmyth82 10:13 PM -

Enjoying the time off that I have.

The only thing better than having time off is not having any projects to do while you have that time off. I just get to plan ahead and work out my schedule to fit in time to get future projects done. Too many damned close calls as of late. Hopefully I'll head in on the weekend and finish up some work, instead of sitting around enjoying myself. We can't let that happen, now can we?

I'm also trying to figure out something to do for the weekend. I have that restless feeling creeping up again and I always hate it. Nothing is worse than feeling restless because I end up wasting the free time I do have pacing or trying to think of other things I could be doing. Ah well.

When trouble comes along, take a nap. - asmyth82 9:53 PM -

Anybody else have a forwarding address?

I believe I now have all the links updated. So you know of course someone is going to move in the next five minutes.

4:59, 4:58, 4:57... - asmyth82 10:43 AM -

Tweaking continued

Replaced the title image. I was getting bored with it and it lacked something. Useful for starting out, but it was time for a little more colour.

Whatever could be next I wonder - asmyth82 9:15 PM -

Even the gods need a little break

I swear, I sometimes don't know why, but the powers that be occasionally stop kicking my head in and throw me a bone. I talked to my supervisor about capping my hours so I could do other things, such as attend class. He asked what I would like to work and I told him to tell me, seeing as how every time I had previously made a suggestion it was shot down. And they weren't unreasonable offers either. I had said I would work every day but leave at nine. I would be working 23 hours a week and then deal with getting projects and such done when I had time.

What he recommended was much better. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. That's it. Though it does make me scratch my head because he had told me that I needed to work a minimum of 22.5 hours and yet the Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule only makes me work 20.5. Oh well.

On top of that since Monday is a holiday up here due to Thanksgiving, I have a four day weekend. At least from a work perspective. I'll still have to go to class Tuesday to hand in my first html project. I'm glad it's all posted on the school website or I'd have missed it, since the class is basically starting at the beginning og the html book. Hell, I learned all of this before and practised it during the Majestic days. It's like playing that game again, without the shitty gameplay.

Also, in one last, we're-being-nice-to-you way, I checked my bank balance to find out that I have about $300 more than I expected and my quarterly tax rebate check arrived.

Now to spend it on penny whistles and moon pies.
- asmyth82 1:04 PM -

I should be dealing with more pressing matters, but...

I'm still tinkering with some of the text colours. Some I like, others I'm trying out different variations to find something I like. Thank god I won't be spending a career doing this. Wait a sec...well shit.

Back to the projects. - asmyth82 11:05 PM -

Posted new ring code.

And yes, I'm finally getting around to changing some of the colours so they're, you know, readable. - asmyth82 10:14 AM -

Cleaning up the links again.

Fixed Dayna's site link. Also replaced Neko, (yes, I'm awfully damned lazy sometimes,) with MajesticGamer...oops, I mean BohicaJake. I don't blame ya for the name change Jake, if I had Majestic in my nom du web, I'd change it too.

And to think, that's the only thing that's happened to me this weekend. YAY! - asmyth82 1:06 AM -

A quick pause before I drop dead.

I finished the training for my new job Monday. The next day I talked to my team leader about adjusting my hours for school. He doesn't seem to want to budge very much. So I'm working every night until 11 and getting up at 6:30. Basically with travel time I'm not getting home until nidnight or after so I'm not getting much sleep. Hopefully I can get them to change their minds before I die on the job. - asmyth82 2:33 PM -