Suspended...

So today has been just one giant shit-fest. I came in last night and the night manager (not supervisor but actual manager) told me that the big boss (the one I spoke with when I was asking for a promotion) was coming in first thing in the morning to talk to me. I have learned that when the boss wants to talk to you it is not a good thing. If it was good he would just send an e-mail or something. So I asked her if she knew what it was about, she said she thought it had something to do with me calling in sick over the weekend. (I called in Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) I asked her was I not allowed to get sick? She replied that she thought it was more to do with the time of day I called in vs. actually calling in (which I would have been fine with since I called in about thirty minutes to an hour before my shift started each day as I was trying to get up to come in). So morning comes, and he actually shows up early to talk to me (which I know isn't a good sign since he is the one that never keeps appointments). I finnish my work and go to his office to talk. He lays it down that since I called in this weekend and I had been late ONE DAY since he talked to me several weeks ago that I was being suspended. He asked me if I had a doctors note for calling in, to which I replied "No since I don't run to the doctor everytime I get the flu. I have had thousands of flus over my life and at this point I know what a doctor would say 'Get plenty of rest and drink lots of fluids'." Plus Mom had the revelation that it was the weekend and I couldn't have gone to see a doctor even if I wanted to. So I asked if I was being punished for being sick? He said I wasn't being "punished" but rather some other stupid wording that ment the same thing. I said that he was argueing semanticts and that what ever word he used and punished ment the same thing. He went on to say that it was excessive the amount of days I have been late and called in sick (in my entire year and three months I have been here) to which I responded "where is it spelled out how many days I can be late or sick? I want to see in black and white how many days in a month, six months, a year etc. I can call in sick or be late. What is excessive if it isn't defined anywhere??" He resonded "that the managment is left to decide what is excessive." I just think that it is bullshit that I can get suspended for calling in sick, it's not like I call in sick often, hell before this month I hadn't called in in like four months. I had sick time saved up that I was planning on using for these days so if I had managed to save up enough sick time to take three days off how could I have been excessive?? I am so angry I don't even know what to do. I don't know if I was even supposed to come in tonight, the boss was supposed to call me during the day to tell me when I had to go speak with HR and he never did. I called him three times and left voice mail asking if he had spoken with HR and if I was supposed to come into work tonight or not. He never called me back. On the last message I left I said that if I didn't hear from him I was going to assume I was supposed to come to work tonight.

To top things off my god damn paypal account is still sitting at a negitive balance since the ass-bag from e-bay was too impatient to wait a couple of days for me to ship his stupid items and filed a claim with paypal. So now I can't get money sent into that account so I am having to have money sent to Eric's paypal account. I have sent the moron several e-mails telling him to fix it and he still hasn't. The items have been delievered and he still sits. That douche.

If things weren't bad enough I looked at my bank account tonight and noticed that I have eight dollars and change to my name right now. Mom loaned me a hundred dollars on Sunday but several things were deleyed in going through so I had less money then I thought I had which is why I am so broke. Plus e-bay took their twenty some odd dollar selling fees this week, and my damn netflix went through, both of those I wasn't expecting. I think I need to start looking for another job, maybe two depending on how long I am going to be suspended for.

What is it about life that when things get bad everything gets bad all at once?? I can never have just one problem I have to have ten. One or two I could deal with and fix, everything all at once is overwhelming.

Thursday I go into the foot doctor to have surgery on my toe..again..for the twentyith god damn time. I was planning on going down to West Palm so I could lounge around Mom and Dad's place while my foot healed but now I don't know if I can afford to do that.

With no more guilding the lilly....

I'm back cats and kittens! Here we are again gathered around your computer screen, reading my words instead of looking at interent porn. Man you need a better hobby. Just kidding with you. So once again I am at work, and once again I am alone... this time it wasn't someone calling in or anything it was planned this way. I really hope that when it is time for performance reviews (which in turn means raises!) they remeember who is the only person they trust to stay here alone! So help me if I get a bad review I am going to burn the building down with everyone trapped inside. (no I'm not so don't anyone get all nurvous or call me a terrorist or anything) There was something I wanted to write last night, but I forgot what it was...perhaps later I will remember. Tonight is going so-so as of now. The overnight F/D monkey is starting to get on my nerves tonight. He doesn't seem to be able to solve any problem on his own, even simple shit. It's annoying as hell to have to tell him what to do when someone needs to find a pharmacy right now, and then exctally how to do it.

So tomorrow marks the first day of the last weekend of Star Wars Weekends at Disney. I still haven't, at two thirty six in the AM, decided which costume I am going to wear tomorrow. I don't know why I am having such a hard time deciding but it is being a pain in the ass.

I haven't been sleeping well these last couple of days, and I am not real sure why. But it has been a nice chance to get some stuff done I needed to. I got Garry's Seethreepeeo head all painted and finnished, I got all the prep work done on the clone long rifle I have, and the Boba Fett ROTJ helmet for a TDH member done. All of that has been nice, not sleeping has not been so nice...

Speaking of not so nice, I got my car insurance reinstated and while that is a good thing the two hundred and seventy dollars it cost me wasn't. All that becuase Mom couldn't figure out how to make the auto-pay feature work correctally. She set it up (according to her) but it never worked correctally, and for some reason I never got a bill. So my insurance got cancelled, I found out when the state sent me a letter saying my DL was going to be suspended. So I got it fixed but man I am pissed about it. So now of course I am broke, and the new girl at work was supposed to be taking some Disney tickets from me to the tune of two hundred dollars worth and now she isn't. I hate counting on other people for money and then them falling through.

Ah I did remember what I wanted to talk about yesterday...it's the moron. Some how she is regressing in her ability to do her job. On two seperate nights she did the first half of the audit when I wasn't here. On both of these nights she managed to screw it up. The report that I fill out everynight that is part of the first half of the audit tells you when you don't do it correctally, as soon as you finnish it. All of the other reports that are done at night don't do this, you would have to have someone notice the problem and then e-mail you with what you did wrong. Not this report, intant confirmation if you did it right or not. Somehow the moron did the report wrong, on both nights she was here, and didn't even attempt to correct it. One night she just left it, the next night she just told the new girl "tell who ever(as if she didn't know it was going to be me!) does the report that it was off yesterday". NO SHIT MORON! THE REPORT TELLS ME THAT! I of course had to go back in on both days and figure out why she was off, and correct them. It took me all of thirty seconds to correct the first day, and less then five to correct the second day, that is how stupid she is. I really wish stupidity hurt the stupid, in the end it only really hurts the rest of us.

Well I think I will leave you with these final words of wisdom, if you can't think of a single one of your friends whom you are smarter then, you are the idiot of your group. Perhaps it's time to work on that, and I mean fix your self not find dumber friends.

Man I don't want to be here tonight!

So here I am again... I wish I wasn't here....but alas I am. I called in yesterday, not because I was sick or anything I just didn't want to come in. Well what actually happened is after SWW I went to lunch with a group of my friends and after lunch I went home. It was around two thrity when I went home. I went pretty much right to sleep, I think I was actually sleeping by three thrity. I set my alarm to wake me up at ten pm. Needless to say that didn't happen. I woke up at ten fourty (mind you I needed to leave at ten thrity) and decided that instead of being late and getting yelled at for that I would just call in. So I did. And I went right back to sleep. It was fantastic! I slept all night long until seven thrity in the AM. I got up and went to Star Wars weekends and was wide awake and fresh for that. Of course I was up all damn day since I got so much sleep so now I am tired all over again but stuck here at work. It was pretty funny though when I called in the manager got on the phone and said that it was just the moron and the new front desk monkey and asked me if I thought they would be allright...to which I promptly responded, "hm..no I don't think she will be". I got off the phone and had a solid chuckle over that bit. But I guess the manager took what I said to heart as she had one of the day time f/d (front desk, I am going to start writing that as such from now on) monkeys stay untill four thrity. And from what the f/d monkey told me her and the moron nearly had it out! It was fantastic.

So speaking of the moron, the managers, and me, I guess I can tell you that I talked to the big boss about the promotion on Saturday... and no, I am not getting it. His answer is that it "isn't in the budget right now." Now I don't know if that is the real answer or if he is just being nice and telling me no without being mean. I did manage to vent most of my problems about the moron to him though and he said he was going to talk with her about them.

So just one more weekend of Star Wars weekends left, then nothing until Dragon Con. I don't know how I feel about that, I mean I have really enjoyed the marching and what not but I am kind of tired of doing it. What am I saying?? No I am enjoying every minute of it! As a matter of fact check out a couple of pics of the event. I only have pics of me in the tusken but I have worn my Boba twice as well.
That is me on the right:
Me on the left:

And me holding hands with the female tusken:

Well that is all for now. Who knows I might have more to talk about later if I think of something else to say. So until then...

I'm not dead, are you?

I forgot to put in the last post a fun thing I have been doing for years. If you don't see someone for a while (more then a few days think months or years) assume they are dead. Don't take other people's word for it that they aren't dead tell your self they are until you see them again. Trust me it feels really nice when you see someone you thought to be dead isn't. Plus they always get excited when you look really excited to see them, little do they know it's because you thought they were sleeping with the fishes. Try it out, it's a little sad at first, but eventually you get used to thinking everyone is dead and then the sadness goes away and the good times roll.

I have returned!

So I am back! I went down to my unit's house on Wednesday and came home today. Man that made for a long day today! I got up at like six fourty five this morning and I only got like a two hour nap this evening. I went home to get my truck fixed and just to get out or Orlando for a couple of days. I wanted to see Julie again, but she was having a bad couple of days and didn't want to see anyone. I feel bad for her as I think something really bad is going on and she won't tell me what it is. Other then that I didn't do shit the entire time I was down there but watch TV and eat at a few of my favorite places down there. It was also nice because Wednesday night I went and bought some steaks and grilled them for all of us Thursday night Mom made roast which I enjoyed of course.

So I know I mentioned that I was going to ask my boss for a promotion, well he was a no-show the other morning, I guess he forgot about me. I saw him today when I came in to pick up my check and he said he will be here at seven am tomorrow, let's see if he actually shows this time! I just looked at the schedule for next week and once again the new girl managed to get the damn weekend off. That is the fifth week in a row! I am getting pretty pissed about that shit. And as if that wasn't bad enough she is also taking four days off next week which is screwing up my days off once again! Also one of the nights I have to work alone, agian. All of this further proves my point that i NEED a promotion, since I am the only one they trust enough to have work alone as I am the only one who can get the job done and correctally. It also seems that the moron has started pawning her work off on the new front desk monkey at nights. It's not like her work load has incresed, or gotten harder some how, but she has found someone who she can take advantage of and is now doing so. I don't think this is fair as he doesn't get paid to do this kind of shit, and she won't ask me for help, not that I want to do it even if she does. She has stopped coming out to the front desk area and instead sits in the back office all by her self. When I am here that is fine, as I don't want to hear her mumble to her self all night, and he massive mess of papers that she always makes is unprofessional for guests to see, but when she is here with the new girl she does it as well, and that is unacceptable. The new girl isn't confortable enough with the computer system to have to check in all the guests alone. When I speak with the manager tomorrow I will bring these issues up with him as well.

So on a more fun note, Star Wars weekends is once again this weekend! I will be wearing my Tusken on Saturday and Boba on Sunday again. Next week is the last week of the thing so that will kind of suck, it also sucks because I can't have the night off Friday or Saturday because the damn new girl took them off again. But it has been a fun run and it couldn't last forever.

Oh if anyone reading this has the abilty to do drawings, concept art sort of stuff shoot me a PM on what ever board you know me from or e-mail me. I need some concept art done for a project I am working on. It would need to be very well done (think McQuarrie art from Star Wars kind of stuff) and it will be SW themed.

And last for now is that LAAN from TDH knew what my quote from last post was from, it was Stan Lee in the older Spider-man comics and TV show. So points to him.

Well until next time...never eat blue beef, I don't care what anyone tells you. Yellow snow is never lemon flavored, lemons don't just fall off the tree, spit their jucie all over the snow and wait for you to eat it. Even if they did I think lemons only grow when it is warm out. If something says "if accidentally swallowed call posion control" you should still call them if you drank it on purpose.

I have no idea what to put here...

So welcome back true believers! (that's a nice old school nerd referance bonus points to anyone who can tell me what it's from) (oh and yes these points will count toward something in the end) So here I am again, bored, at work, Dewless. This has been an interesting week so far, first work had us start coming in a half hour later and leaving a half hour later, which sucks hard core. Also this week they have decided that the entire lobby needed to be re-painted. Which of course means they had to sand off the old paint and start anew. This led to me sitting in the back office to avoid the sanding dust, since I don't want another trip to the hospital since those aren't really fun. But that has actually been a good thing, as I can listen to internet radio back here, as though I needed one less thing that was work related to distract me. I have decided that I am going to talk to my manager here and ask for a promotion. Before Jeff left he was the Night Audit supervisor and I feel that now he is gone I am filling that role. When problems arise they turn to me to fix them and even the moron is now refering people to me when people ask who the manager on duty is. I feel if I have to deal with this kind of stuff then I should get paid more to do so. I sent an e-mail to my manager asking to sit down with him sometime next week to ask him about this. I didn't tell him what I wanted in the e-mail.

So I am really enjoying Star Wars weekends at Disney. I have been marching in my Tusken Raider as I didn't bother to fix the problems I had with my Boba after CIV. I also finally showed pics of my completed Boba on TDH and it has been very well recieved. Which makes me pretty happy since I was feeling ify about it. I do think that after I replace my ammo belt and get the new rocketpack from Lee I am done with this costume. I also think that even before then it is going to go on a maniquin at home and reside there. I don't know why but I have lost a lot of desire to troop in that costume. I am really enjoying trooping in the tusken raider, and soon I will have new snowtrooper armor. I am also once again thinking about building a Jango cosutme. I don't know why but I just want to. I also want to build a droid, probally Arfive (the one that blows his motivator in ANH to let Artoo go with threepeeo) but I don't know that I have the time, space, and most importantly the paitence to build one. I still want to build a scout trooper, and now things are looking like I am going to build a Republic Commando with Dave and Randy and maybe Rick.

Oh I mentioned looking at dating sites, as I thought nothing of any intrest. I did get two e-mails from two different girls but both were, um, whats the nice way to say this, fat? fat and ugly? no that isn't the nice way, um just not my type. Yea that's better.

I Live!

WOw so I am back from CIV and alive! I know I have been really slacking on the updates but too bad. But as stated I am back from LA and back at work. Celebration was a total blast, the convention was a ton of fun and it was great hanging out with everyone. I also got to meet new people who I now call good friends. Once again the Florida boyz took home the Droid Hunt title! This time we had a new addition to our team, an Ausie from Japan (I am not sure about that one either?) named Stewart and his wife Miko (she spotted for him) and he rocked the casba! Our winning tally on driods was four hundred and sixty six...the second place team had a hundred and twenty nine! Stewart got a hundred and nine all by him self, talk about an amazing first DH for him. Our number would have been more but we kept a hand full of droids for our selfs as keepsakes and we got the artist who drew them to sign them for us. The only thing I didn't like about the convention was that it was in LA. That city is a sespool if I have ever seen one. If i never go back there it will be too soon, but of course since I said that the next damn celebration will be there! Garry once again decided he was going to break the world record for longest time in stormtrooper armor without taking it off (of course it was his own record he was beating this time...). His old record was seventy five and a half hours. This go around he broke eighty five. While I was excited for him, my nose wasn't. Come Sunday night when he took the armor off and more importanly the boots off I nearly threw up the smell was so bad. I have never smelled anything worse in my life. I described it as a homeless person who had had chinese food and refried beens taking a shit up your nostrils. It was so bad we had to take the damn boots out of the room just so we all didn't puke all over the place. Dave got the terrible job of doing that, he got one of the laundry plastic bags and wrapped his hand in it. He then grabbed the boots and neckseal and ran them out the front door all while holding a pillow over his nose and mouth to help with the smell. he said the texture was like a slightly dried up dog turd, kind of hard while still squishy in the middle. He said he could also feel the wetness through the bag...ew. The best part of the entire ordeal was after they went outside Chrsitine (Dave's wife) asked "what if somebody steals them?" we all got a good hard laugh out of that since we really thought if anyone got close enough to steal them with out a breath mask or a biohazard suit they would actually die. I have lots of other fun stories from the week but I don't feel like typing them all here. The TDH dinner went so so, the company was great, and the food was ok but it took forever to get food. This was not our waitress's fault as she did a great job, but I do blame the managers for only giving us one waitress and not preparing her at all. I had two panels on costuming that I gave (one on tusken raiders and the other on Boba Fett) both went really well. I had people come up to me all weekend telling me how much they enjoyed them. That made me feel good since I was afraid everyone was going to think they were really boring. I was sad to have to come home and back to work but it's all good. Because now Star Wars weekends are going on at Disney/MGM Studios! So I still get to see friends and costume so it has been a nice transition.

I did find out that I am not allowed to take long vacations anymore since while I was gone all hell broke loose here at work. The moron and the new girl did not get on well while I was gone. They had just problem after problem after problem. But it did have a couple of good outcomes first work figured out that the moron is a moron and needs training and that they really need me here! So while I was pissed that I had to fix nearly a weeks worth of problems I am glad they figured out the two above mentioned parts.

Well kids I am going to run, I need some Dew and I think I am going to browse the online dating sites in the off chance I can some how find the hot, single, straight/bi, nerd loving, star wars fan girl who wants me...somehow I think this isn't going to go well.