Update thingo
hoo boy.
So once again this is just me, rambling on at great length to a few sets of eyes and a lot of brick wall, where to start?
Work. It doesn't really change, I rock up, I sign my name many many times and then I spend the day loading various valuable metals onto different carriers. No you can't have any gold. It's sort of half and half workload wise, things aren't busy but we're not dead quiet, or at least my aspect of the job isn't dead quiet. I am slowly getting sick of the almost draconian OHS adjustments they keep bringing in, adjusting, changing etc. Whether it's someone trying to impress a higher-up or they want to go full nerf on anything that isn't made of bubble wrap I don't quite know but there is this lack of SENSE, no, not the common stuff, I mean SENSE that just really subverts any possible attempt at prevention and again pulls people back to needing their bubble wrap wrapped in bubble wrap, you know, to avoid cuts or something.
I'm also finding that my general disposition toward my work might be a bad fit. I don't oft joke about or indulge in humour while other workers seem to be able to make time for a light chuckle here and there. So I do quietly question my suitability to this job. I can do the work no problem, it's not really that hard but there are times where I just think that it's a poor fit. With winter coming back in, the sun will be raising later and so I think I'll be falling into this point where I won't see daylight heading into work, that in of itself isn't an issue but I will be needing to make sure I keep a proper sleep schedule.
Home life is also somewhat meh. any given day of the working week I'm home, my sister is either at work or spending time with her partner and really I am not entirely sure if I'm using my time in a fufilling way. At best I just seem to keep myself distracted until it's bed-time and go through and repeat the sleep / work / slack off cycle. Any time a friend greets me after some time they of course ask what's happened / what's news. Well there is plenty going on around me but I'd have to say personally, a whole two squirts of fuck-all occur between catch-up sessions.
This week is a rent inspection, So I've spent a couple of evenings trying to straighten things out in the apartment under the theory that it'll be somewhat presentable. The real estate mob ( company, agents, managers whatever the PC name is for 'em ) had trouble keeping up with their rental properties managed so have taken on a new staff member whom split workloads with my usual agent, Makes no difference to me personally, I pay rent, they take rent I have a roof we call it a fair trade but this new bird, either she's a hardass or she's on some kind of warpath/mission. Prior inspections have been mostly a case of 'well the apartment hasn't been burnt to the ground and it has been vacuumed out, that'll do' but this one broke out the fine tooth comb and weirdly, her primary focus of issue was the state of the oven... granted it had seen better days given how old the unit itself is, and fair enough, that inspection I kind of forgot to give it the once-over but she seemed pretty transfixed on it.
So I've spent some time to really work over the main faces of the stove and I do use aluminium foil over the burners to make the top easier to care for, the wall behind said stove is basically rendered brick with paint, no tile. it's had some splatters from previous cooking mis-adventures which I gotta say, are a ROYAL PITA to get off. boiling water and sugar soap plus hard scrub would just move a tiny spot then the cloth would need to be re-soaked to get more heat into it... could I just use a blow-torch to reheat the oil? XD the other real issue is this apartment complex is pretty old ( from the design and decor, I'd say about 70's ) so while a retrofitted fire alarm and circuit breaker bring the building up to code, the kitchen has no active ventilation so anything that smokes steams or fries will either fog out the unit or set the alarm off. or both.
But I digress, I'm doing what I can within the limitations of my lazy ass and hoping it'll be dropped back to non-issue. the rest of the place isn't bad, factoring age of course and as they say, you can polish a turd as much as you like, it's still a turd. I do note that my place isn't like 'zomg fetid' but there certainly are better built homes out there... doubting at this price range mind you ^.^ So anyway with the inspection happening on Wednesday that leaves me this afternoon and tomorrow to do anything that's left, like my bedroom carpet and more of that bloody wall behind the stove. the carpet I'm actually more worried about as the portable AC had a little over-flow a while back which I did what I could to minimise impact ( soak up water, give carpet good brushing / vacuum when it dried ) but there is a slight discolouration at one section which hasn't "blended" too well, I might have to dab that with a wet towel and see if I can work it even.
But jumping topics not too much is happening on the social circle side of things, Noex is about three weeks away from finally having his new house completed and settled, Zera is looking to pull the funds together to have some head work done on his wrx, he was close but a touch short of budget after getting it quoted out. Zodiac is doing his thing, and I've been keeping somewhat arms-length from people lately, it seems, a mentally unenthusiastic outlook I suppose, ergo I just don't really feel like face-time. Maybe it's all the bullshit that goes on in each persons day that I just would prefer to not know about. Hypocritical of me I suppose. Hello reader. Sorry reader.
Other menial news includes I've got my car rego sorted and pushed away from January so the Nov-Mar period should be less annoying to budget for and aside from getting close to needing some new rubber, I'll have spare change with nothing to blow it on, budget wise. Well there is plenty I could splash money onto but I like to weigh up each financial investment and ensure it has more than just face value. That is to say I do want my moneys worth if I'm going to just throw it at something. Hot on the list is either car modifications ( suspension primarily ) or looking at a semi-fancy camera. I don't feel the need for a full blown DSLR but having spent some time tooling about with a friends Compact System Camera, ( Sony NEX-F3 ) I find myself impressed with what they can do in conjunction with practicality. I'd have to do a bit of window shopping before rendering a decision mind you, again, value for money investments when it comes to toys.
On the front of amateur photography I've taken some time to learn the nuances of manual settings and worked on experimentation from there with pleasing results. It's helped me get both and understanding and an appreciation for shunning 'auto mode' in favour of doing things right rather than quickly. At the least this is my logic for bypassing some fancy canon in favour of something more portable and practical, being able to make better results than a simple point-n-click but not having to go into so much detail as a DSLR might possibly need.
Well I've got the oven going, thankfully both my pizza and my garlic bread take the same heat and time to cook so dinner shall be both tasty and easy. Hardly 'good' for me but hey, since when is anything I consume properly good for me anyway, right?
I suppose I should leave on a traditional question for the floor... hrm.
What /Drives/ you? Motivation wise I mean.
So once again this is just me, rambling on at great length to a few sets of eyes and a lot of brick wall, where to start?
Work. It doesn't really change, I rock up, I sign my name many many times and then I spend the day loading various valuable metals onto different carriers. No you can't have any gold. It's sort of half and half workload wise, things aren't busy but we're not dead quiet, or at least my aspect of the job isn't dead quiet. I am slowly getting sick of the almost draconian OHS adjustments they keep bringing in, adjusting, changing etc. Whether it's someone trying to impress a higher-up or they want to go full nerf on anything that isn't made of bubble wrap I don't quite know but there is this lack of SENSE, no, not the common stuff, I mean SENSE that just really subverts any possible attempt at prevention and again pulls people back to needing their bubble wrap wrapped in bubble wrap, you know, to avoid cuts or something.
I'm also finding that my general disposition toward my work might be a bad fit. I don't oft joke about or indulge in humour while other workers seem to be able to make time for a light chuckle here and there. So I do quietly question my suitability to this job. I can do the work no problem, it's not really that hard but there are times where I just think that it's a poor fit. With winter coming back in, the sun will be raising later and so I think I'll be falling into this point where I won't see daylight heading into work, that in of itself isn't an issue but I will be needing to make sure I keep a proper sleep schedule.
Home life is also somewhat meh. any given day of the working week I'm home, my sister is either at work or spending time with her partner and really I am not entirely sure if I'm using my time in a fufilling way. At best I just seem to keep myself distracted until it's bed-time and go through and repeat the sleep / work / slack off cycle. Any time a friend greets me after some time they of course ask what's happened / what's news. Well there is plenty going on around me but I'd have to say personally, a whole two squirts of fuck-all occur between catch-up sessions.
This week is a rent inspection, So I've spent a couple of evenings trying to straighten things out in the apartment under the theory that it'll be somewhat presentable. The real estate mob ( company, agents, managers whatever the PC name is for 'em ) had trouble keeping up with their rental properties managed so have taken on a new staff member whom split workloads with my usual agent, Makes no difference to me personally, I pay rent, they take rent I have a roof we call it a fair trade but this new bird, either she's a hardass or she's on some kind of warpath/mission. Prior inspections have been mostly a case of 'well the apartment hasn't been burnt to the ground and it has been vacuumed out, that'll do' but this one broke out the fine tooth comb and weirdly, her primary focus of issue was the state of the oven... granted it had seen better days given how old the unit itself is, and fair enough, that inspection I kind of forgot to give it the once-over but she seemed pretty transfixed on it.
So I've spent some time to really work over the main faces of the stove and I do use aluminium foil over the burners to make the top easier to care for, the wall behind said stove is basically rendered brick with paint, no tile. it's had some splatters from previous cooking mis-adventures which I gotta say, are a ROYAL PITA to get off. boiling water and sugar soap plus hard scrub would just move a tiny spot then the cloth would need to be re-soaked to get more heat into it... could I just use a blow-torch to reheat the oil? XD the other real issue is this apartment complex is pretty old ( from the design and decor, I'd say about 70's ) so while a retrofitted fire alarm and circuit breaker bring the building up to code, the kitchen has no active ventilation so anything that smokes steams or fries will either fog out the unit or set the alarm off. or both.
But I digress, I'm doing what I can within the limitations of my lazy ass and hoping it'll be dropped back to non-issue. the rest of the place isn't bad, factoring age of course and as they say, you can polish a turd as much as you like, it's still a turd. I do note that my place isn't like 'zomg fetid' but there certainly are better built homes out there... doubting at this price range mind you ^.^ So anyway with the inspection happening on Wednesday that leaves me this afternoon and tomorrow to do anything that's left, like my bedroom carpet and more of that bloody wall behind the stove. the carpet I'm actually more worried about as the portable AC had a little over-flow a while back which I did what I could to minimise impact ( soak up water, give carpet good brushing / vacuum when it dried ) but there is a slight discolouration at one section which hasn't "blended" too well, I might have to dab that with a wet towel and see if I can work it even.
But jumping topics not too much is happening on the social circle side of things, Noex is about three weeks away from finally having his new house completed and settled, Zera is looking to pull the funds together to have some head work done on his wrx, he was close but a touch short of budget after getting it quoted out. Zodiac is doing his thing, and I've been keeping somewhat arms-length from people lately, it seems, a mentally unenthusiastic outlook I suppose, ergo I just don't really feel like face-time. Maybe it's all the bullshit that goes on in each persons day that I just would prefer to not know about. Hypocritical of me I suppose. Hello reader. Sorry reader.
Other menial news includes I've got my car rego sorted and pushed away from January so the Nov-Mar period should be less annoying to budget for and aside from getting close to needing some new rubber, I'll have spare change with nothing to blow it on, budget wise. Well there is plenty I could splash money onto but I like to weigh up each financial investment and ensure it has more than just face value. That is to say I do want my moneys worth if I'm going to just throw it at something. Hot on the list is either car modifications ( suspension primarily ) or looking at a semi-fancy camera. I don't feel the need for a full blown DSLR but having spent some time tooling about with a friends Compact System Camera, ( Sony NEX-F3 ) I find myself impressed with what they can do in conjunction with practicality. I'd have to do a bit of window shopping before rendering a decision mind you, again, value for money investments when it comes to toys.
On the front of amateur photography I've taken some time to learn the nuances of manual settings and worked on experimentation from there with pleasing results. It's helped me get both and understanding and an appreciation for shunning 'auto mode' in favour of doing things right rather than quickly. At the least this is my logic for bypassing some fancy canon in favour of something more portable and practical, being able to make better results than a simple point-n-click but not having to go into so much detail as a DSLR might possibly need.
Well I've got the oven going, thankfully both my pizza and my garlic bread take the same heat and time to cook so dinner shall be both tasty and easy. Hardly 'good' for me but hey, since when is anything I consume properly good for me anyway, right?
I suppose I should leave on a traditional question for the floor... hrm.
What /Drives/ you? Motivation wise I mean.