Change is good.

That is all.

Starting to get into a routine now, my life feels more obviously different.  Somehow reducing myself to barely-functional poverty serves to make me feel more like myself again.  It'll take some getting used to.

My sympathy to Nathan and his family.  I can't honestly say I know what you're dealing with, but I've got the vaguest idea.

I can safely say this about my return to 7-11: They need me.  The manager and assistant manager are clearly delighted to have someone working in the vicinity of evenings who understands concepts like "work" and "independant thought".  The downside, spending hours and hours sitting in front of a computer listening to mind-numbingly stupid online ( Read more... )

Pirate Nickname Thing

And according to that...

Arrrrgh matey, send the name Andrew Scott Balfour to davy jones's locker! You will commandeer your ship as:
Blackspot Vane
(Tisn't the prettiest nickname, tis a nickname none the less)

Commandeer?  I think perhaps they mean command.  Unless I only get that nickname when I'm taking over someone else's ship ( Read more... )

Had an "interview" of sorts at the 7-11 right by my house today.  The quotations are there due to the fact that it's really a formality.  The manager just needs to check my references and get the OK to bring me back aboard and then I've got more consistent hours ( Read more... )

Second Life in a few sentences, as described by ScootsMagoo of Something Awful:

Second Life is this massive virtual world where people come from all corners of the bad internet to awkwardly socialize and have pretend sex with people from even worse corners of the internet. It's furries reading poetry to people who think they're vampires that are ( Read more... )

I'm sure Daria will have her own post describing the even, but mine was FIRST!  HA!

Met Leigh and Vanessa at the MTS Center, where Leigh learned that the south side of the building is not Broadway, and there is no Quizno's there.  Important lessons to be sure.  Then it was off to the venue!  The line moved pretty quickly, there were no snags getting ( Read more... )

I had no idea voting was such a brief process.  I spent more time getting a sandwich afterward than actually voting.  Kind of robs it of its mystique.

Newest Transformers Trailer

You know, this might not completely suck.  Then again, I said that about Ghost Rider...

Spent three hours getting "trained" at the Park Theater.  The only thing I'll be doing there that I've never done before is dealing with their rental software.  The only thing keeping me from getting the hang of that right quick was the fact that we had all of two customers in the time I was there.  All things considered, this job will be a ( Read more... )