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.

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

Hmmm. Titles

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.