Cake or Death!?!

So I know I have been lazy with the updates. Sorry. But I haven't been lazy with the rest of the crap I need to do. Yesterday I managed to get my Fett helmet finnished, the kid's rocketpack finnished, and the 3po arm done. I also got one of my Hett saber hilts done the other day and the parts for the one will be here either today or tomorrow. So it looks like I should be able to get everything done in time for CIV! I am getting really excited now. I have lots to rant about from the last couple of days but I am short on time today so I will have to run. But always remember never ever trust your

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Welcome back fans of the all mighty Mark! (a bit over the top?) Sorry I haven't had a chance to write here in a few days. Well I had plenty of chances I just didn't because I was lazy. Sorry. So pretty much nothing has gone on since my last posting. I am still working, every day. I have managed to get some work done on my Fett costume for C4. I am about seventy five percent done with the rocketpack. I need to get some measurements taken and sent into SkyGunBros so he can make my damn jumpsuit otherwise I will be stuck wearing my crappy Starfortress one that I hate. The problem is I don't have anyone to take the measurements for me, and I can't do it my self. I have also been working on scratch building my lightsabers for my A'Sharrd Hett costume, that isn't going well. I ordered a hundred and twenty dollars worth of parts from www.thecustomsabershop.com tonight, hopefully those will get here soon and they will work for what I want them for. If not I have no idea what I am A. going to do for my costume, and B. Do with all these stupid parts. I plan to finnish the rocketpack today if I can get it all done, if not today then it will be done tomorrow. I have very little left to do on it, I do need to stop at the retard zoo and pick up some stuff to finnish it (see previous post about what the retard zoo is). I am pretty glad this isn't my pack, I really don't like it much. It isn't very accurate nor very light and neither of those things make for good packin. I was also a little dissapointed today that I saw that the guy who made my custom pre-pro gauntlets for my Fett coutume sold another set to someone else. Now I am not upset that the other guy got a set (though he did say he wants to have the costume that all others are judged against (GOOD LUCK!)) but rather that the maker told me that he wasn't going to sell sets of them to anyone, just mine and he was going to keep a set for himself. Now of course they are his molds, and he put all the work into them so he can do what he wants with them. But it does kind of suck that he said mine would be the only ones out there and now they aren't.

I am getting excited/nervous about CIV. Garry got our tickets for the fan club breakfast that were very limited and hard to get and I am very excited about that. I am nervous that I won't get everything I need done. I did hear back that I am in the Friday costume contest, and on the wait list for the Sunday contest. Also they finally posted the schedule of the panels. My tusken panel is the first costume panel of the entire con (yikes)! My Fett panel is the first one on Saturday and it is late in the day, so I will be tired, and hopefull happy that we are winning the droid hunt. I am still really worried about money also, but only time will tell on that front.

Oh and since I haven't really had a decent rant in a while I have a doozy tonight.

[pre-rant] So at one point durning the night when I am actually working it is my job to go though all of the charges/refunds for the day (and that is a lot of shit) and make notes about the refunds on a spread sheet. Basically I make a note as to who the refund was made to, how it was made, who made it, how much it is, and why it was given. Sounds simple enough right? Now the staff is supposed to make notes on the reservations anytime they give refunds with an explaination as to why they did the refund. Also the front desk staff is supposed to fill out a form and turn it into me every night when the make refunds (this is on top of the notes on the res).[/pre-rant]

[Rant] So there is this stupid bitch that works the front desk durning the day, her name is Amanda. She seems pretty smart, until it comes time to do simple job related tasks. Last night when I am doing my work I come accross several refunds that she has done, all for the same amount. I make the notes on my paper work and then go to research why they were done. Now does she leave notes on a single one of a half dozen reservations about why she gave back all this money? Of course not. But wait she must have filled out the paper work and turned it in right? NOPE! I did have one form from four days ago that just got turned in. (helpfull now..) Now if this was the first time this has happened I would just be nice about it and ask her in the morning to please make the notes and go about my day. But no this isn't the tenth time she has done this it happens nearly everday she works. Now just so you know it takes all of about twenty seconds to write notes on a reservation, you don't even have to pull up a special window or anything. And now you might be wondering why don't I just go to the manager and say something to them? Well I have, several times, nothing gets done or if they do say something then the staff makes notes for about a week and then stops again. Now she isn't the only one who does this, most of the staff does, but she is the one that I talked to this morning about it. And she just brushes it off like it's nothing. Then when I handed her something for her to do our conversation went like this

Her:"Don't you know how to use dispatch?"
Me: "Nope"
Her: "It' super easy to use."
Me: "Well when you learn to make notes on reservations for your refunds I will learn dispatch"
Her: "Your mean this morning"
Me: "Yea, when people make me do three times the work I should have to do it makes me mean"
I then walked away from her.

She also claimed that she only made two refunds, when I said it was more like six. Well tonight I printed out a list to show her (it was five by the way).

The saddest part of all of this, they just made her a supervisor of the PBX (phones for you non-hotel people) department!! She can't even do her damn job correctally, now she is the supervisor for a whole department? She doesn't even work in that department!

Well that is all for now. I think I might eat pizza today at NYPD. I have been craving it for a few days. Eric mentioned wanting to go there, perhaps I will call him around noon and see if he wants to go. I am sure he won't since he is a vagina.

So what happens when you are short on money and trying to save...

Well if your me, you lose one of your jobs! So there was no update yesterday because we have new people here at work and one of them was sitting looking over my shoulder all night. Since I couldn't really talk about him while he was sitting over me I decided to skip the update for the night. But tonight he went home at three. We have two new people here now, an overnight front desk monkey (the guy) and a new night auditer (a girl). The moron is training the girl, and I am training the guy, somehow I have a feeling that the girl is going to be more confused then before she started. But yesterday was more or less uneventful. Today on the other hand has been just full of supprises. I intended to go down to West Palm this morning after I got home. But my mom told me to stay up here for a few hours since Dad couldn't leave work until lunch time to meet me at Hugo's to drop off my truck for repairs. So I wanted to try to get a little bit of sleep, so I layed down, silenced my cell phone and set my alarm for nine thrity am (thinking I would leave around ten and be in West Palm by noon and a half). Well nine thrity rolls around and I am still tired, so I turn off the alarm and go back to sleep. Well I wake up around one or so and relize it is way too late to drive down there, so I go back to sleep. I wake up around five or so, and I call and tell Julie that I won't be able to see her (I had made plans with her to have her come over for dinner again). I then listen to the fifteen damn voice mails I have since eight am. All but two are from either Mom or Dad. One of the others isn't important and the last one is from Michelle (my boss at the golf course/bar). So I call her back and find out whats up. Well I guess that there was some random meeting Tuesday night at the bar that everyone had to go to ( I knew about it I just forgot). Well becuase I didn't go, when I called Michelle, she says for me to not bother coming to work anymore. I was like over one stupid meeting?? I guess Tim and Patrice (the owners) said that I missed the last meeting as well (and this one I really have no idea what the hell they are talking about) and this meeting so that was it. I personally think it is bullshit. But I actually don't really care, I mean I could have used the money but all in all I am not really that upset about it, I was planning on leaving right after CIV anyway. It just sucks that they did this. But since I found this out this evening and I new I wasn't going to have money that I was counting on I called Reunion and asked if I could come in tonight, and so here I am at work. I also offered to work on Saturday (which makes seven days for me this week) and I offered to work seven days next week too! So I will have thrity two hours of overtime on my pay check that I get right before CIV so I should be ok with money... at least I hope so. I hope my car lasts with out any problems until I can get it down to West Palm after CIV. Well I don't really have much else to say tonight, I need to get some work done so I am off. I will be back tomorrow (and every day from now until Wednesday two weeks from now!).

What happens when you mix no sleep and bordom...

SLEEP! I am really tired tonight. I wish I didn't have to sit here listening to smooth jazz all damn night since that really isn't helping me stay awake either. Now why you ask am I so tired today? Well it would have to do with the fact that this morning instead of going home and going to sleep I went home, changed clothes, ate something and then went to Dave's house. I was there until after four pm. I went there to work on some props and what not that I need to get done before CIV. I did manage to make a little head way on my saber hilts for my A'Sharad Hett costume. Since I couldn't find anyone to machine them for me like I really wanted, I ended up having to scratch build them. Man I hate scratch building shit. It always looks looks like you scratch built them, but at this point I don't have the time or the money to have them machined so these will have to do for now. I also planned on working a bit more on my three-pee-ooo arm but that didn't happen. Dave did say it looked relly good and I am pretty happy wiht how it has come out. All that is left to do is figure out a way to attach the hand to the arm, and that is more difficult then it relly sounds, I am not real sure how I am going to do it yet but I will figure something out. I also while I was at Dave's finally remembered to pay him for the hotel and plane tickets to California. I have offically started worring about the trip, money, time and everything. I am pretty supprised it took this long. Hopefully everything will go OK but at this point I am really worried I won't have enough money to get everything I need. Stupid StarWarsShop.com processed two of my orders over the weekend, once again with out any notice or anything. I really hate that they do that shit. You place orders months in advance and then when it's time for the shit to ship they don't give you any warning or anything, just ding charge your card. The last time it ended up really screwing me money wise and that pissed me off since I wanted to cancel that order anyway.

So it looks like yesterday I did manage to do both my job and the morons without any problems. My boss looked at the shit I did and didn't say I did any of it wrong so it must have been ok. Which only further proves my point that she is a total fucking retard. I managed to do both her job and mine and had plenty of time to screw around. She started tonight at eleven and i am willing to bet she won't be done come seven, and all three of us are here tonight!

Well it's Mountail Dew time since I am starting to get a headache. I will be back later to post more.