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Saw Chris this last weekend, we went to a pub on Stark called Goodfoot, they had free happy hour pool. We played with a few people at the pub, whose names were Nigel, Maureen, Joe, Tanya, Emily, and Zoe. Nigel and Maureen were a couple, and Nigel was very good. Joe was good too, he was from another group whose names I did not get. Emily, Zoe, and Tanya were a threesome sitting at a table across the pub from us, and Chris thought Emily was pretty so we asked them to play. They beat us by a hair, boys vs girls, and Emily dropped a hint that she had a boyfriend.
Afterward we were feeling fine, so we went to Mulligan's on Hawthorne to see if anyone cool was there. Mostly we were looking for Eric, someone who goes to Mulligan's and works at my work and also does some design gigs on the side, multimedia. Chris thought me and Eric should interface given my Multimedia bent. Eric happened to walk up, so we talked briefly about multimedia design and stuff. He said he might be able to give my card to some people about web design, if I was interested.
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Blah blah. Just got into a fight at work with an employee, not good. This is the second time. People just don't take it seriously when what they do causes problems. That apparently pisses me off. I should just pass it up the line when I feel someone needs a reprimand, instead of taking it into my own hands and getting all fumey. It wasn't my employee, is the thing, it was an employee at the place where I do security. They didn't return a key until the next day, that someone needed early this morning. When I told him that, he thought I was joking, and when I made it clear I wasn't joking, I did so with mild curses and tightening jaw. I told him he could check the room for himself. He then proceeded to say it was my fault for not telling him to return it yesterday, even though it said on the key in big bold letters to return it the same day. Twice. In two different wordings. You can tell I wasn't very diplomatic about it. He kept making more excuses, such as the fact that he apparently left at 9:45pm. However, I countered that there was a guard here until 10. I'm not sure if his pass gives him access to my office after hours, but I have a feeling it doesn't, so unless the guard was at the desk (which I suppose I'll find out this afternoon), it's possible he really couldn't turn it in. This is actually a problem we've been looking into, which I failed to mention... we've been considering getting some kind of dropbox for when a badge needs to be returned in the absence of the guard (patrols, escorts, etc). I've already gotten in trouble once for telling someone off about that same key. Last time it was because someone left it out. This time the guy was responsibile enough not to leave the key somewhere unattended.
Eva went to New York over fall break, so I'm glad she's back. I missed her. I spent the night at her place night before last, even though as usual she was hella busy, and as it happened she didn't get her work done, probably because she cooked for me. We went to brunch with Eliah and brimtoast this past weekend, and that was good.
School takes up a lot of my time. I have to go in an extra day this week to prepare our techfest offering for the corporate headhunter guys that are going to techfest Friday morning. It's a sort of 3-d fighting game using Shockwave. It's basically rock paper scissors with stat progression, but the underlying code is very interesting, and is a good example of what Shockwave can do, given the right input. The current model is grotesquely ugly, not that I could do better necessarily. One major problem is getting the skeleton to work correctly with shockwave's 3-d format. Shockwave itself can't edit 3-d models, nor is it editing the animations. The animations are preprogramed in Maya, because that is what the modeler (Kyle) knows. Unfortunately, until recently there wasn't a copy of Maya at school, so he had to do all the modeling at home and we had to cross our fingers that he brought all the parts with him that we needed, and that they worked.
I wish I could do more with Eliah and Kara... but right now I can't even type about them. Back to work...
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Bleh, got ass chewed and good advice. Don't cuss at employees, and more importantly, don't take anything that seriously. Badges and keys aren't that important. They open locks, and locks are important, but he didn't leave it unlocked or let anyone else unlock it. Shut it offf.
Saw Chris this last weekend, we went to a pub on Stark called Goodfoot, they had free happy hour pool. We played with a few people at the pub, whose names were Nigel, Maureen, Joe, Tanya, Emily, and Zoe. Nigel and Maureen were a couple, and Nigel was very good. Joe was good too, he was from another group whose names I did not get. Emily, Zoe, and Tanya were a threesome sitting at a table across the pub from us, and Chris thought Emily was pretty so we asked them to play. They beat us by a hair, boys vs girls, and Emily dropped a hint that she had a boyfriend.
Afterward we were feeling fine, so we went to Mulligan's on Hawthorne to see if anyone cool was there. Mostly we were looking for Eric, someone who goes to Mulligan's and works at my work and also does some design gigs on the side, multimedia. Chris thought me and Eric should interface given my Multimedia bent. Eric happened to walk up, so we talked briefly about multimedia design and stuff. He said he might be able to give my card to some people about web design, if I was interested.
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Blah blah. Just got into a fight at work with an employee, not good. This is the second time. People just don't take it seriously when what they do causes problems. That apparently pisses me off. I should just pass it up the line when I feel someone needs a reprimand, instead of taking it into my own hands and getting all fumey. It wasn't my employee, is the thing, it was an employee at the place where I do security. They didn't return a key until the next day, that someone needed early this morning. When I told him that, he thought I was joking, and when I made it clear I wasn't joking, I did so with mild curses and tightening jaw. I told him he could check the room for himself. He then proceeded to say it was my fault for not telling him to return it yesterday, even though it said on the key in big bold letters to return it the same day. Twice. In two different wordings. You can tell I wasn't very diplomatic about it. He kept making more excuses, such as the fact that he apparently left at 9:45pm. However, I countered that there was a guard here until 10. I'm not sure if his pass gives him access to my office after hours, but I have a feeling it doesn't, so unless the guard was at the desk (which I suppose I'll find out this afternoon), it's possible he really couldn't turn it in. This is actually a problem we've been looking into, which I failed to mention... we've been considering getting some kind of dropbox for when a badge needs to be returned in the absence of the guard (patrols, escorts, etc). I've already gotten in trouble once for telling someone off about that same key. Last time it was because someone left it out. This time the guy was responsibile enough not to leave the key somewhere unattended.
Eva went to New York over fall break, so I'm glad she's back. I missed her. I spent the night at her place night before last, even though as usual she was hella busy, and as it happened she didn't get her work done, probably because she cooked for me. We went to brunch with Eliah and brimtoast this past weekend, and that was good.
School takes up a lot of my time. I have to go in an extra day this week to prepare our techfest offering for the corporate headhunter guys that are going to techfest Friday morning. It's a sort of 3-d fighting game using Shockwave. It's basically rock paper scissors with stat progression, but the underlying code is very interesting, and is a good example of what Shockwave can do, given the right input. The current model is grotesquely ugly, not that I could do better necessarily. One major problem is getting the skeleton to work correctly with shockwave's 3-d format. Shockwave itself can't edit 3-d models, nor is it editing the animations. The animations are preprogramed in Maya, because that is what the modeler (Kyle) knows. Unfortunately, until recently there wasn't a copy of Maya at school, so he had to do all the modeling at home and we had to cross our fingers that he brought all the parts with him that we needed, and that they worked.
I wish I could do more with Eliah and Kara... but right now I can't even type about them. Back to work...
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Bleh, got ass chewed and good advice. Don't cuss at employees, and more importantly, don't take anything that seriously. Badges and keys aren't that important. They open locks, and locks are important, but he didn't leave it unlocked or let anyone else unlock it. Shut it offf.