I've been workin' on the...Liquor store?

Indeed that is where i've been working...pulling 40 hour weeks and making a decent amount of cash. Unfortunately i'm now in over my head. You see in my haste to get as many hours as i could i guess it gave my boss the impression that I always want tons of hours. and as it happens one of the people got fired at my store and another quit leaving us short staffed. Where does this leave me? with more work then i can handle...i mean it's not overly hard or anything but now i'm pulling some 12 hour days and overtime for the next 3 weeks and maybe even more depending on if we get some new person soon which will be more difficult now that school is starting up again and all. what does this mean for me? total exaustion for 3 weeks or more, but also losing the "new guy" title once someone else comes aboard. But i DO like money and overtime DOES get me more of it. it'll pay off i just gotta live through it.
-Matt

All around the world

The internet used to be one of my favorite pass times before i started working all the time. And while in times of extreme bordom i would make those e-mail surveys that annoy people to great extents, i never really expect them to make it much farther then my group of friends that i initially send them to but i guess one of them caught on and spread rather well and it just so happens that the one that spread was one that i included my website address in as some shameless advertising...*grins*...so i guess a few months ago it had made it to Australia and other places like Ireland and South Africa. How do i know this you ask? well someone posted it in a message board and included the link which allowed my counter to track the hit. If you don't believe me the site is right here go check it, it's the one i made, and i should apologize to all the people that it probably annoyed...but i won't.
-Matt

One thousand bottles of beer on the wall

Ever actually seen that? Well i have...in fact i was the one who put them up on the wall. If you havent guessed it, I now work as a clerk at a liquor store. And despite what people think i didn't just do it for the discount. Albeit a discount would be an added perk, i find it rather annoying that the first thing that some people ask me is how much of a discount i get.

Actually the store i work at hasn't even opened yet, we've been spending the last 2 weeks setting up the store for the grand opening on september 2nd...just in time for the long weekend! Woo! (note: not actual enthusiasm). I can hardly wait, i mean i've had a mere 2 hours of training on till and then i get to do an entire 8 hour shift on one of the busiest days this store will ever have.

Although this day horrifies me to no end the weeks preceeding it have been rather pleasent, i get along with all my coworkers and the manager likes me too. But i have learned a very valuable lesson...a 36$ bottle of scotch has the ability to stink up the entire store to the point that it can make you gag trying to breath. Honestly i look forward to working here, it seems like it could be...fun?
-Matt

hello children, i have the sudden urge to walk outside onto my patio, and kill the ice cream man, his little buggy has been parked outside my building for the past hour or so, i can't tell becasue it's all one continuous song. i'm ready to snap, and to make matters worse, i got zero sleep last night, aboslutely none, so this is wearning my patience thin. even if i close the windows, i can still hear it. if i go into my room and try and listen to music, the tune will still be stuck in my head. it's driving me fucking insane

Pet peeves

Alright, so i figure my biggest pet peeve would have to be working with my dad. I guess it's mostly due to the fact that i'm forced to go get anything he needs to do the job. I've thought for a long time about this and i have come to the conclusion that it's because he doesn't want to go into our garage and get it himself. You have to understand that my garage is comparable to Hiroshima after it got nuked, dead serious here, the mess inside is THAT bad. Here's a drawing to show what i mean...

the empty boxes are just piles of junk and the like and despite the fact that the door is at the bottom of the picture that's the back of the garage and the top is the front...in other words the part that the cars go in and that's facing our driveway is the back.

So i'll be helping him and he'll ask me to get the thing that he needs...that's right...the thing. He won't say something like screwdriver or hammer, nope they're all a thing. and when i ask him where it is...it's in the garage, by the thing. so basically a conversation would go something like this...
dad- "go get me the thing"
me- "what thing?"
dad- "the thing that i need"
me- "because that helps?"
dad- "a 7/16 wrench..."
me- "ok. so where is it?"
dad- "in the garage"
me- "that doesn't help much...where in the garage?"
dad- "by the thing"
me- "the thing? what thing?
dad- "it's the thing on the thing over by the thing" (i'm not kidding, he HAS said this before)
me- "um...what???"
dad- "it's in the............." *very long pause, he turns away and starts working again*
me- "dad?"
dad- "what?"
me- "you didn't finish your sentence"
Eventually i get fed up with this and go to the garage and sit down for 10 minutes before coming back out and saying i can't find it, usually i can get away with doing this a couple times before he goes and gets what he needs himself.

generally this is why i avoid helping him directly at all costs, it just avoids all confusion and makes things easier.
-Matt

A lesson to be learned

Tim...Tim...Tim Tim Tim, now why is that name familiar? Oh yes, someone who constantly posts comments on my site. Indeed i did block you, and for a reason, some of your comments annoyed me. I figured that temporarily banning you would allow you some time to take the hint, but alas, you threaten me? Anyone who knows me at all knows that I don't respond well to threats. And so i figure, you want to post on my site? well for the time being no you may not. When will you be able to again? when i feel like not being lazy and undoing it, and who knows when that will be? i am prone to being quite lazy, it DID take me 2 years to change the layout of my page even though i really didn't like it that much to begin with. My advice to you...be patient, wait a while, otherwise you might just piss me off, and generally me being pissed off is a bad thing.
-Matt

Brand new face

Well as some of you can see i finally got around to changing the template of my blog...i figured it was time to change it, and i also got out of my procrastinating slump at the urgings of other people or just one person. So here it is! The new face of a happy death! It's been almost 2 years since i've made any major changes and i suspect it'll be equally long before i do so again...like i said, i hate html even if i'm just adding something.
-Matt

The wonder that is the internet......and piracy

2 days ago i ran across a problem, kazaa being unreliable and relatively slow, didn't have the programs i was looking to pirate. This was bothering me for a while until it dawned on me.....HOTLINE!!!!!!! Absolutely the greatest file sharing program ever, it's been around for a long time, even if you've never heard of it, it been around for MAC users since around ....................19................94..............ish...............I think. but anyway, even dispite the sometimes frustrating rules set out by some of the servers, I see their point for them, they don't want to get arrested, they are covering their pirate asses, and god bless them for that

adios


oh ya, you can get Hotline at http://www.hotspringsinc.com/

i post this because i was horribly threatened...only kidding!! Actually i've been meaning to put up another picture for a while and this one was suggested to me. Believe it or not though that's not actually my computer, it's the laptop of a friend of mine and i was playing with the coding of her website to add some stuff in. Poor her...she can't do anything on a computer and unfortunately has to rely on a lot of cruel and mean people for help. Oddly though, for something that should have taken me a couple minutes tops, it took me over half an hour...i hate html! hate it with a passion!  

And now for some randomness

Alright, so as i've been going around and getting along with my life, I've made some random decisions about stuff that should be a certain way, they're completely random (mostly) and only really have to do with things i've come upon in recent weeks.

1. Salsa is not meant to have corn in it. I don't care if it's southwestern style or Corny McCorncorn's special corn blend, salsa should NEVER have corn in it.

2. When people move, the house should have averything already in it. and i mean everything, there's ntohing i hate more tehn trying to fit a freaking couch through a door that it wasn't meant to fit through and then try to manuever it up a flight of stairs.

3. Ants should never build nests where it's in the way. Ant nests just should never be where some person may want to go at some point in time. they should have to be in the middle of nowhere and not somewhere where you can run it over with a lawnmower.

4. Milk should change color when it goes bad. just think about it...then how often would you accidently drink a glass of bad milk if it was red when it wasn't good anymore?

these are just some random things that i think should happen...just because
-matt