The Coming Days

So the next few weeks will be mighty busy for me, hence a huge post. There's a shakeup at work in our department and positions are bouncing all over the place as slots open and disappear like hotcakes. There's a wedding coming that I still have to pay my portion for. There's a movie coming out that I can't wait to see. In that order:

For some reason, they've added a Supervisor position to the Geek Squad, but kept the Senior position. Since you're probably not familiar, let me explain. In Customer Service, there's a Manager, who takes general ownership of the department and it's tasks as a whole. There's a Supervisor, who manages the Seniors and the day to day tasking of the entire department. There are Seniors, who generally watch over a shift or a section of the department as their own area. This makes sense to me, I follow it.

Geek Squad, on the other hand, has rapidly become the bastard stepchild of the store in terms of management. All of the employees reported to a Senior, who technically reported to the Customer Service manager, though for all practical purposes, actually reports to the Computers manager. Our performance is judged by our relation to computers, but we list as a Customer Service department section! So now they've added this Supervisor position and kept the Senior. In realistic terms, this Senior is literally going to be doing whatever the Super says at any given time. On the flip side, it theoretically opens up a fulltime slot that I can apply for, so I'm all for whatever the hell they're trying to do with this.

Crystal and David's wedding is rapidly approaching. Scary to think that next Saturday is The Day. Pranks and jokes abound, we've still yet to prepare for all of our evil deeds. On the off chance that either of them should see this post, I'll just warn you both right now that both of you have solicited the rest of the group's services for at least one or more pranks on the other, so I hope you're ready for that. On the less evil side, these two are damn near perfect for each other and I'm happy to see them take this step.

Since the majority of us are in the wedding in at least one form, we've all got crap to do. Greg and I are candle lighters, as well as sharing Usher duties with Brandon and Adam. Cori is a bridesmaid, and hopefully we won't have to take a shotgun down to ASA Scheduling and ensure that she gets the two days off. This is especially important since she is functioning as the replacement Bridesmaid in the first place! I managed to convince Cori to let me have a picture of her in her bridesmaid dress, and here it is. Everybody take note on your calendars, because this is one of those rare pictures she's pleased with.

Let's not forget that whole movie thing. Serenity comes out soon! I've got the evening off and I fully plan to see this movie at least twice in the next few weeks. If you don't know what this movie is, you're sorely lacking and I feel sorry for you. Go buy Firefly and watch the damn thing, for the love of god! Then go see the movie, twice. Over the last few months I managed to convert Greg, Brandon, and Cori to Browncoats and they all plan on seeing it as well.

I Know Crazy People!

Click here first. Now that you see the crazy people, I'll move on.

So as things do occasionally, Monday of this week (09/05/05) fell into a pseduo-hangout day which, as always, became a computer day. Owing to the fact that The Cave here at the house is resident to most computer days due to the plentiful amounts of power outpets, spare equipment, and network hookups already provided, as well as copious seating in the room itself, people generally use The Cave as a repair shop.

Cori's computer has become gradually more nerfed by Windows and it's general ability to simply die over time. Most of you have experienced it, it just gets slower, and shittier. Apparently Eddie's boss's boss's boss's boss's boss's boss's (Did I get that right?) computer died, and so he also made use of The Cave on Monday. Over time we picked up Greg as well, though Brandon was too exhausted from work to make it to the festivities.

So anyway, crazy people. Cori and I spent most of the late morning and afternoon with me fixing her computer and her playing Warcraft on mine and my laptop's, something which is a semi-regular scene. Around 5PM we received a call from Eddie regarding the Boss^6 machine, and we (Cori) decided that dinner would be best before repairs commenced. Greg became involved around this time, and after some emergency relocation due to various food places being closed, we ended up at Outback.

Both David and Crystal were there, with Crystal being head waitress and David being our waiter. As they tend to do when we're there, they take their short breaks by sliding into the table with us and eating our food. During this whole process, random BSing resulted in the resurrection of old high school memories of who we hated and loved as teachers. Crystal actually went off the clock during this process and joined us. Testing out my newly repaired cellphone camera, I decided to snap some pictures.

I attempted to take one of Crystal, only to find the woman eating my cheese fries! Later, I tried to take one of Eddie during the Sauce Story, which I will cover later, and got a nice one of his expression after a slight misunderstanding of the words. I've got one of Greg, looking smug and chilled as always during a picture. It just screams Wassap. David, immediately to my left, wanted to be mysterious, and so here he is. Cori, to my right, was just happy to get the picture out of the way and move on!

So, here's the thing with Sauce. I order (and here Eddie will ALWAYS echo my order as I say it) a Rockhampton Ribeye, Medium Well, with Cheese on Chips (cheesefries!), and Cori gets the Salad. They bring this fantabulous steak to me on a nice hot plate, with my steak and chips there. However, there's also some sort of dipping sauce on the plate. Normally I don't care, but it does NOT look appetizing. Those who've tried it generally hate it. It looks like a white lump of something nasty, and even worse, when you take it out of the container it comes in, it falls out as one big plop. This stuff is just nasty. So today Eddie takes the rye bread we got with our order and tries to dip it in the sauce. I rescue the bread, but later end up using it as a weapon by dipping it and threatening Eddie with it. He makes it worse by pouring and then spreading this nasty ass sauce all over the bread. Crystal (with real pic) thought it was funny, and I was getting ready to take a picture of it when she faked licking it! Everybody exploded with laughter when I caught the pic and stored it.

All in all, the day was fairly amusing and very enjoyable.