Raises ftw
So APPARENTLY I got a 50 cent raise at Hartlen's, pushing me up to $8.25. That's pretty cool. Especially since I just got a 50 cent raise in April (although, I think that was mostly because minimum wage kept going up).
Also, by the end of this month, I'll be the one with the most seniority at Hartlen's. Hurrah!
Speaking of which, Billy's back from his orientation-trip-sort-of to Alberta. He put up a sign saying "SHIFTS UNTIL BILLY RETIRES: 18", with a spot to change it every time he comes on. I lol'd.
Pretty much also think the main reason I got a raise this time is because those two are both leaving (and they were both making more than I was, or at least, that'd be logical).
In other news, I work at 8:00 tomorrow.
A very tech. oriented night, helping Nickie set up a bunch of torrent tweaks, helping Stephanie Walsh with trying to print off lots of powerpoint pages on one slide in OpenOffice's program, which I couldn't figure out how to do (I've never used OpenOffice before, and I've heard most of their programs other than the word processor are sort of subpar...).
I found my cell phone headset that Jeff had found in the parking lot at work. I tried calling my house, and it worked quite nicely. I mean, it's a cheap one, but it's ALSO free, and will prevent me being paranoid of brain-junk by holding the cell phone (my head always feels weird after talking on it for too long, and I frequently switch ears/try to hold it far away from my head to prevent this).
I haven't made bread in a long time. For shame.
KBYE
EDIT: The first Blu-Ray burner was released. With a release price of $1000, it's actually cheap (keep in mind that the first-generation DVD-burners were over $2000). It burns Blu-Ray, DVDs, and CDs. Slow burning DVDs, just as DVD drives aren't as fast as burning CD-R's as CD-burners are.
The Blu-Ray rewritable discs are around $20 a pop right now. Basically, the prices the way they are, and if prices come down the way they did for CD-R's and DVD-R's (which, I may add, you can now buy in bulk ridiculously cheap) then perhaps they'll be a viable solution in the not-so-distant future (say, maybe a year or two instead of the 6-7 years it took for DVDs to overtake VHS movies in popularity)
Links for people interested:
Review of drive: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1980121,00.asp
Slashdot Article: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/06/22/2258200.shtml
Wikipedia Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS
And, for anyone that wants to read up on the alternative:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-DVD
HEY LOOK GUYS, THIS GUY'S BEEN PLAYING GUITAR FOR OVER A DAY STRAIGHT!
http://seejefbreaktherecord.com/player/player.asp
Currently been playing for:
1 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes, 52 seconds.
Every once in awhile he'll take a sip of water from the cup next to him, when I saw him do it he was still playing.
Crazy. I hope he's eating too.
EDIT: He's still playing as of this morning.
1 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes, 35 seconds. He's playing Led Zeppelin right now without singing, probably because his voice is shot.
Wonder what happens when he breaks a string?
And no sleep. That probably sucks more than anything.
Also, by the end of this month, I'll be the one with the most seniority at Hartlen's. Hurrah!
Speaking of which, Billy's back from his orientation-trip-sort-of to Alberta. He put up a sign saying "SHIFTS UNTIL BILLY RETIRES: 18", with a spot to change it every time he comes on. I lol'd.
Pretty much also think the main reason I got a raise this time is because those two are both leaving (and they were both making more than I was, or at least, that'd be logical).
In other news, I work at 8:00 tomorrow.
A very tech. oriented night, helping Nickie set up a bunch of torrent tweaks, helping Stephanie Walsh with trying to print off lots of powerpoint pages on one slide in OpenOffice's program, which I couldn't figure out how to do (I've never used OpenOffice before, and I've heard most of their programs other than the word processor are sort of subpar...).
I found my cell phone headset that Jeff had found in the parking lot at work. I tried calling my house, and it worked quite nicely. I mean, it's a cheap one, but it's ALSO free, and will prevent me being paranoid of brain-junk by holding the cell phone (my head always feels weird after talking on it for too long, and I frequently switch ears/try to hold it far away from my head to prevent this).
I haven't made bread in a long time. For shame.
KBYE
EDIT: The first Blu-Ray burner was released. With a release price of $1000, it's actually cheap (keep in mind that the first-generation DVD-burners were over $2000). It burns Blu-Ray, DVDs, and CDs. Slow burning DVDs, just as DVD drives aren't as fast as burning CD-R's as CD-burners are.
The Blu-Ray rewritable discs are around $20 a pop right now. Basically, the prices the way they are, and if prices come down the way they did for CD-R's and DVD-R's (which, I may add, you can now buy in bulk ridiculously cheap) then perhaps they'll be a viable solution in the not-so-distant future (say, maybe a year or two instead of the 6-7 years it took for DVDs to overtake VHS movies in popularity)
Links for people interested:
Review of drive: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1980121,00.asp
Slashdot Article: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/06/22/2258200.shtml
Wikipedia Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS
And, for anyone that wants to read up on the alternative:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-DVD
HEY LOOK GUYS, THIS GUY'S BEEN PLAYING GUITAR FOR OVER A DAY STRAIGHT!
http://seejefbreaktherecord.com/player/player.asp
Currently been playing for:
1 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes, 52 seconds.
Every once in awhile he'll take a sip of water from the cup next to him, when I saw him do it he was still playing.
Crazy. I hope he's eating too.
EDIT: He's still playing as of this morning.
1 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes, 35 seconds. He's playing Led Zeppelin right now without singing, probably because his voice is shot.
Wonder what happens when he breaks a string?
And no sleep. That probably sucks more than anything.