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Sunday, January 31, 1999

Money, money, money...

Well, nothing exciting happened yesterday, just stayed home and did nothing but play on the computer...Wing Commander the DVD version... so I'll just put what happened today which was pretty exciting...

The supervisor at Sam Goody called and asked if I could come in early by an hour... I thought I was off so that was a pretty quick wake up call. After the much of the same thing, organizing things and such, about half way through the day, some idiot decided he was going to run out of the store without removing the security tag...pretty stupid! One of the clerks ran after him, and didn't come back for a bit, was wondering if he was in with the guy or got hurt trying to take him down...

That was about all the excitement for today. Got my taxes done after Micron decided to take they're sweet time in sending me my W-2... Going to get back about $985.00 total from both the state and the gov. Woo Hoo!!

I'm hoping to pay off my bills, but then again, I want a larger monitor, or a bigger TV than the 13" one that I have or get the 10mm that I've wanted for a while... but I think the bills are going to come first before any of the other things... I can always save up and get the other "wants" later...

Well, guess that's it for today... till the next time... Oh, and I had a very bizarre dream that I can only remember bits and pieces of, but because of it, I won't put it down...hopefully the next one will be in more detail and I can remember it...

Friday, January 29, 1999

Computer DVD!!

Well, skipped a couple of days, nothing much going on with the past couple of days... I've been playing with Asteroids the 90's version, pretty cool! That and the DVD version of Wing Commanders "Price of Freedom"... Last night I ended up buying 3 DVD's and watched them all... Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and Top Gun.

I had Top Gun when I used to have a Laser Disc player so I decided to get it, was looking for Pink Floyds Delicate Sound of Thunder but it's not available on DVD or at least yet... But Pulse is supposed to be available soon. Was looking at Blade Runner - The directors cut, Somewhere in Time and Amadeus... I really liked Amadeus, mostly for the music.

Blade is going on Sale at Sam Goody so maybe I might get it, last night I learned that I only get a 15 percent discount on DVD's, so when it goes on sale, it'll be cheaper to get it then...

Now that I have tomorrow and Sunday off, don't know what I'll do with myself, but I guess I'll have to copy those discs before I have to return them so maybe it won't be a wasted day after all... I changed my screen resolution back to 800X600 but up'd the colors to 24 bit, and it seems that the Movies look better, might experiment a little more later...

Well, Taxes are done and submitted...GOD, I like this Telefile thing...quick and easy, but the thing that makes me a small bit nervous is that when I set up the direct deposit...hopefully it goes into the right account...

I have to get my haircut tomorrow, it's begining to give me headaches so I'll be also checking out other places that sell DVD's and seeing what they have... Till tomorrow for sure!

Tuesday, January 26, 1999

Computer fun...

Work was kind of interesting today, got calls that I'd never thought I would get so soon... good thing I was being shadowed by a vet today. Other than that not much going on...

I didn't want to come home so soon, so I ended up at Rosedale ( a very very large shopping center, bigger than Ala Moana and Pearl Ridge put together...) and took a look around... was tempted to buy a couple of movies, but instead, ended up at Best Buy and picked up a Creative Labs DVD kit for about $266.00, not bad considering that it's a 5X DVD and a 32X CD-ROM drive...

After getting it installed which is always a pain in the butt because of the cats and that I have a tower case under the desk... I didn't have sound and had to disable my MultiSound Classic because I didn't have enough IRQ's, so now I'm down to one sound card, but have 2 CD-ROM drives, one being a DVD player and the other being a CD-RW...oh well, sacrifice one for another....

Well, I guess that's it for now, it's pelting mini ice drops so the drive tomorrow should be exciting, but good thing that I start at 6:00 am so I leave at about 5:00 am...so no traffic...lol Well catch ya all laters...!

Monday, January 25, 1999

Beating Traffic

Man did I get to work early today... I thought I would see some traffic, but none at all at 5:00 AM, I got to work at about 5:30 and sat around till I had to start, was interesting...

They had me sit by myself, but side saddle of a couple of vets... and when I ran into problems, I would be able to ask them for help. There was one problem I was glad I was thorough, a user had called in and said that her printer wouldn't print, using a system that was going to be phased out.

I kept asking her for a address for the printer, but couldn't find one, so I made sure and asked one of the vets, then wrote up the report to the vendor to go out and fix. I was later approached by a supervisor who was just informing me that this printer is written up as a severity 3 and not as a severity 4, but it wasn't my fault as she said because not everyone would know... I made sure she knew that the user couldn't provide an address but I did get a serial number and tried to enter the model number of the printer, but the report wouldn't let me so I had to put "other".

She later praised me for being thorough and said that I had done a good job... :) Well...the rest of the day went on without a hitch... well, I guess that's it for now...catch ya on the flip side!

Sunday, January 24, 1999

As Normal as it gets...

Today started off pretty normal... The usual happenings at Sam Goody, a friend stopped by and dropped off the Visual Studio 6.0 today and I gave him a copy of Asteroids.

About 2 hours before closing, 2 Spanish males entered the store, and I observed one of them looking about as if he was planning something, so I stuck with him, my supervisor informed me that I could go on break, but informed her of what I was doing, she then had someone else watch them while I went off on break.

After I came back, found out that one of them was trying to open the security case but ended up buying the tape because he knew he was being watched. After the store closed, we had a store meeting and they gave away some CD's, I walked away with about 20 or so...

On my way home, stopped off for some grocery shopping and picked up dinner, had a recipe that I wanted to try out, but after getting it started, I should've started the baked potatoes a while before because the filet mignon got done way before the potatoes, so I'll take half of the filet to work with me for lunch... Well, that's about it for today...more tomorrow...Ja nee!

Saturday, January 23, 1999

Loss Prevention fun...

Well at least it was a bit of an exciting day, at Sam Goody today I caught 2 people about to shoplift from the store.

The first one when I was coming off from break, I had just come out of the back room and was walking to the area that was the most problematic. I had got to within 15 feet of the area when I saw a person pick up a CD, look around rather nervously, then walk around to the other side of the CD rack, as he walked to the other side, he tested the anti theft device as if to open it. He looked around a bit more then spotted me and moved towards his friends and dropped the CD into the rack, then his other friends looked over at me.

I then moved closer and stood in the area, all his friends looked rather nervous and kept looking at me, and eventually they split up and left the store one at a time. The main suspect then sat outside the store and kept looking at me after I followed him all around the store. His other friend had the nerves to actually walk close to me and at times either brush up next to me or stand close by.

The other person I had noticed several times that she and her friend kept coming into the store and she kept looking at me, then walking to the video section and stop at the end of one of the isles, every so often looking around the shelves. After about the 3rd time that she came into the store with her friend, I decided to see what she might have been doing back there, I moved one of the video tapes and found about 7 or 8 CD singles fall to the ground and everyone of them with the security tags removed.

At that point, like the last time, I notified the supervisor on duty and we kept a watch on them, eventually to try and throw me off, she purchased a single or two and then left the store with her friend.

So as you can see, it was a pretty productive day... after I got home, I got my scanner to work and scanned some stuff to give to my friend but he didn't show, got an email from him saying that he went to my work place instead... so missed, I hope that he'll get my reply and bring the stuff to the store... well, till tomorrow....

Friday, January 22, 1999

New job?

Finally woke up at about 1 P.M. and was planning on getting some things done, but ended up just sitting around the apartment till I had to go to work. Was snowing when I left and eventually it stopped sometime later this evening, in the meantime at work, it was pretty slow so the newly promoted Manager had let me and another person go home early.

I decided to hit CompUSA and check out to see what they had... wasn't planning on getting anything except blank CD-R's and ended up buying the new Asteroids, was torn between that and the new Centipide game. They had the Imation blank CD-R's in a 5 pack for $9.99, so I had to get a bunch, ended up picking up a total of 20 blanks. So I'm all set.

I met a friend that I worked with at Micron and found out that they are now just doing Corp. tech support so they don't have to do much, just replace parts...not my idea of tech support, and learned that Gateway opened up a store right across the street, so after CompUSA, I ended up checking out the Gateway store...

Well, I want to tell you all a secret, but I'll hold it until I can get a confirmation and let you know then...check you all laters!!

Thursday, January 21, 1999

Cataclysmic Dream

The device was about to go off, it was a new type of destructive weapon, only organic material would be destroyed, but everything else would be intact. Could it have been a neutron bomb? I wasn't sure, but then someone had come up to me and said " What was the matter" and I replied "no time, we have to leave now!"

As we ran through the building, looking for an exit, I kept looking at the countdown, just seconds remained, then when the timer had reached all zeros, I then yelled "We’re out of time, keep going, we just might make it" all the time while the other person kept asking "What was going on?"

We crashed through the door with the exit sign above it, but there were still 2 floors that we had to get down. I could still hear people in the building, somewhere further down the hall, someone was shuffling papers or things or was it someone crying? I wasn’t sure.
Flying down the stairs, sometimes skipping 2 or 3 steps. Knowing that we just had to get out of there. As we reached our goal, the door leading to the outside, I was waiting to hear an explosion or something to indicate that the device had gone off, but nothing, just a dreaded silence.

Once again crashing through the door to the outside, thinking that we still had a distance to go and not being sure that we were going to be safe. As we walked hurriedly through the area, almost at a panicked run, not wanting to panic people, I was still unconsciously holding the timer or detonation device. I could see the people going about they’re business, not knowing of the danger that existed.

I saw a familiar face, Jessica, as she was attending to a child, wearing her pink sweater, looked at me and smiled, but I couldn't return the smile, knowing what I knew what was about to happen. I saw children playing about, people walking, enjoying what was about to be they’re last day on the face of this earth.

Just then someone that I didn’t recognize, the person that was following me out of the building, had turned to me and said "remember this, and don’t forget us" in his long dark coat, flowing in the wind as he walked he started to smoke or smolder, not a cigarette, but from all over his body.

The children that were playing in the courtyard and the people that were walking had stopped where they stood and crouched down, covering they’re faces and started to smoke rise all over they're bodies as well…

I stumbled backwards while walking and eventually fell to the ground, I started to crawl, trying to get away, watching in horror as the words burned into my mind, repeated itself over and over again, "remember this and don’t forget us, never let this happen again".
I looked at my arms from where I sat, looking for signs of smoke from my arms, knowing that the device had gone off, wondering why there wasn’t an explosion, but knowing that it had gone off.

I could see the desperation and in his and Jessica’s eyes, and the questioning look as if they were asking, why did this have to happen to me?

I sat there frozen in horror seeing the people smolder and hearing the crying from the people.

Not much going on...

Well, work was pretty quiet at Northwest Airlines... with an occasional call coming in for a password reset... getting the commands down ok and what ever I can't get, at least there is reference materials available to look up.

Well, it's been a long night...talk you you all laters...going to catch some sleep... more later tonight.

Wednesday, January 20, 1999

On the way to work

On the way to work today, it started snowing pretty heavy... getting there was not a problem...just that later during the night the mainframe went down where our profiles were for the software that we use... They brought it down so that they could back it up and increase performance...I guess you could call it a preventative measure...

That was really fun...NOT! People calling in and not being able to do much for them at the time until they are able to bring it back up... Things are getting easier, but its just trying to work with the reservation system that gets me... the computer part is ok, just the entries that they have to enter if you want to get information...

I guess I'll just call it a night, don't have to start until 8 PM tomorrow so that should be an interesting night, then trying to make my way home after work at 6 AM and having to fight traffic... but with the 3 days off, that should be nice...

Tuesday, January 19, 1999

My hobby...

Another short one, but late, can't remember what happened yesterday...oh well... Oh, yeah...got some night shots with my camera...(35 mm) using ASA 800, hope they come out so that I can post them...looked really pretty and you'll be able to see it too...if it comes out...

Monday, January 18, 1999

Promotions?

Short one today, pretty tired, but started work at Northwest at 6 AM, but according to the schedule, I was supposed to start at 5 AM... Stay there till 4 AM and went directly to Sam Goody.

Somehow I have a feeling that they want me to do more than just sales... not sure at this point, but last night and tonight, they had me assist with counting the nights totals, then the Manager told me the combo for the safe... I hope not, at this point, I don't want to be a Manager, nor do I want the responsibility of being a supervisor.

Well, anyway, going to try and catch some sleep. Pretty tired... till tomorrow...nite all!

Sunday, January 17, 1999

Values, where and what are they?

Well, today at Sam Goody, there were several thefts... There was this one guy that came in 4 times, on the 5th, I started to shadow him and when I was about 8 feet away, he had the audacity to open up a CD security case and remove the CD from it and then quickly walk out the store...

At that point, I alerted the Assistant Manager and she called security. I hope they got that guy! I just can't believe the kids these days, they get money from they're parents and even with the wad of cash that they carry, they still insist on stealing!

Parents just don't give a darn nowdays or are not teaching they're children proper values... it's sad to think that this is the fate of our future. I guess like Sparks, it makes me wonder what the future will hold for us when these kids grow up and join the real world.

Well, other than that, been working on a web site for a private school, you can check it out at http://members.tripod.com/kcamn. It's still under construction so please bear with it for a bit. Well, I guess that's it for today, catch ya all tomorrow!

Pictures of Winter

Finally finished Blade today, got too sleepy to finish it last night. I was planning on taking the tapes back today, but forgot them, realized that after getting to work at Sam Goody.

Well, thought I'd keep this one short, because I finally developed the film, but still having problems with the scanner... At this time, am only able to scan 2 photos at a time... I have to call Visioneer tech support one of these days and figure out why it's doing this. With my new schedule at Northwest, I should be able to call them either Thursday or Friday.

As promised... here are the pictures...more later...







Saturday, January 16, 1999

Still in training...

Smoked too many cigarretts today, oh wait, that's a Madonna song... sorry, today was an interesting day. Most of it I kinda spent by myself on the phone, the person that I was doubling with was away doing something else, then she had to go to a meeting and I got paired up with another person, but she had to do important things so I pretty much went about it alone, when I came up with some tough ones, they were there to help.

My last call of the day was a real tough one, because I ended up staying about 1/2 an hour later than I was supposed to. A user in Atlanta, Georgia was locked out of NT and someone else had used the system and didn't change it back to them so they couldn't get in no matter what they or we tried, ended up having a Field tech go out and do the sysadmin stuff...

After work, I ended up going to CompUSA and just drool over the new stuff that I couldn't get...like the new Creative Labs DVD kit...Some software, some games and other hardware like a 21 inch Monitor for $599.00... Then I ended up driving over to Sam Goody to check my start time for tomorrow.

In the end, was pretty tired and went to Blockbuster to rent some movies, just got done watching Dr.Doolittle, still got Armaggedeon and Blade so I guess I'll finish that up after I make my daily entry.

One of the web sites that I've been working on is going through a final revision and should be ready by Sunday... I hope...will keep you posted as to when it's done...I hope to also use up the rest of the film so that I can get it posted here... Well, till tomorrow...gotta finish watching those movies!

Friday, January 15, 1999

Someone turn off the throughts, its running again...

Seems like the week is going by fast, no, wait, the year went by fast... well, either way, seems as though everything is going by fast. As for the weather, it appears that they expect a warm up, to about 30 or 35 degrees, which is better than what it's been this past 2 weeks, either zero or below zero.

Right now as I sit here writing this, my mind keeps drifting... I'm thinking of the new Pentiums that are coming out this quarter, the Pentium III, originally called the Katmai. They have a 450 and a 500 megahertz coming out and by the end of this year a 600 megahertz. I was just looking up the prices of motherboards and CPU's and it seems like the prices are coming down. I can order a 300 PII for about 200 dollars and a motherboard for about 90 dollars, and the SDRAM prices are not bad either, but I need to take care of my bills and save money before I consider upgrading.

Work seemed to go by quickly today, mostly because they have me taking calls and submitting reports as I sit with a veteran. I like this better than just sitting there listening, it's not bad if it were for only about a couple of days to 2 weeks, but after the 1st month, that's kinda draggin'

This afternoon, as I left work, it started to snow lightly, was hoping that it wasn't going to snow at all, but the drive home wasn't that bad. I was planning on going to CompUSA and check out the new software (games) and maybe pick something up, but ended up falling asleep till about 10:15, so that could be a good thing, no go out, no spend money....

Well, with my thoughts jumping around and not quite coherent, I better go. More tomorrow so tune in tomorrow when Robin says: Holy Kleenex Batman, it was right under our noses and we blew it... or was it when Bishop says: I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid.

Thursday, January 14, 1999

Something familiar, something strange...

Got the pictures of that snowy hill in the back of the building of where I work, as soon as I get it developed, I'll put them here... One of the calls that I took at the help desk at Northwest that stood out today is that an employee called asking about installing Office, at first I thought it was Office 97, but it turned out that she was installing Office 6.0.

She was asking about the space available that the program needed to install, which she only had about 8 megs of space when Office needed about 80 megs. I informed her that she didn't have enough space, and wanted to find out how much space she had total of hard drive space, but first I wanted to make sure of which version of Windows she was running, after she cancelled the install, she told me she was at the program manager, at that point I knew she was running Windows 3.11.

I had her located and open file manager and read to me what it was showing at the bottom left corner, which she told me she had 49.0 total...I told her that she would have to ask for either a larger hard drive or a newer pc...

Well, made it to my other job about an hour late, but it was ok cause I called to let them know that they changed my hours and that I would be that late... At Sam Goody, it was a mall usual, quiet and not much going on... The Assistant Manager got a strange call, someone calling and asking her to play some music over the phone because she was "snow bound". She said that the caller at the end of the call told her she loved her... strange....

Well...that's it for today... more or less tomorrow...

Wednesday, January 13, 1999

Same ol', Same ol'

Same as yesterday, roads were still messy, of course it snowed through the night. As a matter of fact, it snowed all day today, was real beautiful to look at but awful to drive in... if I can and remember to, I'll take my camera to work and take a picture of what it looked like.

I just got to remember to take the camera and use up the film so that I can develop the film. Work was as usual, in the morning they had me sit with someone, but I think he felt that it would have been faster for him to do the work himself instead of trying to teach me what to do. I was all for it, but made for some sleepy sitting and listening....

In the afternoon, they had me paired up with another person who was real nice and understanding, took her time to make sure I was doing things correctly, but funny, ran into some that really took a bit of work... One of the problems was with a reservation agent trying to change the name in a newly created record, wouldn't let her and ended up calling the people that took care of that end, ended up spending an entire hour...

The drive home was not bad, sort of, but they expect more snow tomorrow night and I have to work at Sam Goody... Well, guess I'll be back to let you know what's been going on for that day... Oh, and not to mention, to let you know if this cold goes full steam, been feeling a bit under the weather with a sore throat...so.... got to drink a lot more water and hope for the best...

Tuesday, January 12, 1999

Mondays...

Hated the drive into work, was pretty messy on the roads with all that slush and snow. Work at Northwest was as usual, was supposed to have communication training, but the trainer called in sick, I would've too the way the roads were.

Sat with one of the regular employees, did the talking and the typing, and she would jump in whenever I got stuck, which was about 1 for 1. The person that I was sitting with is a single Mom, well, not quite, but thats a long and private story that I feel that I shouldn't tell, but she's friendly and very aggressive.

At one point during the day (towards the end of her shift), was helping her kind of plan her vacation, she had written down something for me to look up for her, but couldn't read her handwriting very well and thought it was something else... I just hope that she didn't take it the wrong way and file sexual harrassment charges... but anyway, we both had a good laugh...

The drive to my other work was just as dangerous and excitment filled... got to work about 15 minutes late... Work was slower than usual, even got to joke with a couple of customers...

Other than a boring day, came home and made this entry... till tomorrow...

Monday, January 11, 1999

Lazy and Irresponsible...

Well, that lazy feeling is still with me, called up Sam Goody and told them that I was going to be late, ended up not going in at all, pretty much just sat around the apartment and did nothing except play on the net and tweak my web page.

My Manager called from ARC (Alternative Resources) and told me that the supervisior of Northwest Airlines (NWA) called her to say that I've used up all of my "Get Out Of Jail Free" cards and that if I mess a last time that I'll be looking for another job... Had a feeling that this was going to happen, so no matter what now, I have to show up or call if I'm not going to be there or late, either that just show up with or without a car or if I'm sick and just die at work... I guess I want to work, but not want to work... one thing about me is that when I do work, I put in 150 percent or more and burn out quickly, which is a bad thing, and when I burn out, I really burn out.

I just wished that I was rich so that I could work when I want at what I really want... Well, I guess that's it for today, short one, but otherwise a descriptive one...

Sunday, January 10, 1999

Over worked...

Can't get rid of this lazy feeling... ended up going to work late at Sam Goody, the boss there called to see where I was at... :(.

Well, not much was going on at work (as usual), there was a bit of excitement when the assistant manager ejected some patrons because they were getting loud and obnoxious. They were molesting some young women customers and even to one of the clerks there. As they were being told to leave, one of them started to get hostile, at that point, I decided that just in case, better back him up, so I came up behind the loud one and just stood there in case he tried anything. They eventually left... but the clerk that they were harassing, I decided to watch over him when he went to lunch.

So when he went to get something to eat, I shadowed him just to make sure that those idiots didn't try anything... however everything was ok... Well, at the end of the night, heading out to the car to go home, it was snowing pretty good... Had to stop off and get that blue stuff for my windshield washer... talk about fun...trying to stop in a parking lot that just got fresh snow and only having one brake working... Yes, I know, I should get them fixed and stop complaining about it, but I need to pay my bills otherwise I'll be living in an Igloo... which should be at the beginning of Feb.

Well, made it home safe and without incident... but you can tell that because of this journal entry... till tomorrow...stay warm and keep well....

Saturday, January 09, 1999

Couldn't sleep at all last night, was worried about what the Manager would say because I didn't call in to work... I finally fell asleep at around 3:00 AM and woke up at about 6:00 AM, but sat to watch the news and the traffic conditions, fell asleep again and woke up at 7:30...Da#@ going to be late... called in with car troubles (Sorry Mike if your reading this...) got ready and left for work on roads that were pretty awful!

Very slushy and slippery because the MN road crews had just plowed and dumped salt on the road... Drove like a retiree... On the way there, about half way, the car in a long line of cars had slowed down... still only one brake working out of 4... started sliding so quickly I switched lanes with a pickup coming up quickly behind in the other lane that I switched to...too quickly...

As soon as I made the lane change, he slowed waaaaayyyyy down. My heart pounding and me swearing to myself. After getting to work about an hour late, the manager asked why I didn't call...gave her my story and she told me that I should've called and that this is beginning to become a habit... (I really felt guilty and didn't want to lose this job because I liked the people and the atmosphere). I apologized and felt a dread all day.

For the first couple of hours I sat with someone, I did the talking and typing... and she, the person that I was sitting with, being very aggressive, jumped in when I got stuck... Thank You!! After lunch went to a Network Communication lecture and tried to stay awake...got a lot out of the class and how Northwest Airlines networks its computers...

Well, at the end of the day, forgot to get my time card signed, guess I'll have to make the drive back so that I can get paid next week, went into my other job, but as usual was pretty quiet...bought a new Yo-yo, if my fiancée found out how much it costs, she'd kill me... :) On the way to my second job, realized that I needed to fill up my gas tank... after work went to fill it up, while standing there, saw that the temperature on the bank clock was about -2 and the wind-chill felt like it was about -20.

Was debating on getting something to eat but wasn't hungry so I came home and made my daily entry for this journal... and I guess that's about it for this day... hope that you come back and find out more about my goings on here...

Friday, January 08, 1999

Well, it's still cold outside but very pretty... Snow on the ground but with that temperature being about -6 degrees and a wind-chill of about -10, it's pretty cold...Hawaii it is not... and after checking the weather forecast, they predict that there is going to be another 1 - 2 inches of snow tonight... I hate driving in it, but it's fun to play in and look at.

Well, the day went on without a hitch...just bored out of my mind, just trying to learn MS Access and categorizing my CD collection. Well, I guess that's it for today, tomorrow I go back to work and hope that I still have a job at NW, and after that I have to work at Sam Goody (because I played hooky from work today) I ended up waking up late and figured why go in at this point.

I still can't believe that I woke up at 5 something this morning, then fell back asleep, only to wake up at 10:45 AM... Why? I'm still trying to figure that one out... I don't even remember the alarm going off or hitting the snooze bar, which I don't believe that I did... Well, more tomorrow after I get home...

Thursday, January 07, 1999

2 jobs and whatevers...

My fiancée had to go back to Missouri today... called into work to let them know that I was going to take her to the airport. Was pretty cold getting to the car, but the weather report said it was about 5 degrees, felt like it was way colder than that, I guess that was because of the wind-chill which was about -30 today. After taking her to the airport, had to go into my other job, working for Sam Goody.

Now that the holidays are over, things are pretty slow at the mall, at the end of the night, with me, 3 people to run the store. At the end of the night, the temperature was about -10, just imagine having to try and start a car in that weather... good thing I have a good battery, if you don't it's difficult to get your car started in that kind of temperature. Made it home and started this journal.

It's difficult to try and remember the past couple of years so I guess I'll just put them in a synopsis of those times.

Wednesday, January 06, 1999

Work and the Weather

The roads were pretty messy today and the 1 out of the 4 brakes on my car were working... pretty scary trying to drive like that. Left for work early so that I could drive slower and make it in safely. Work was as usual, employees calling because they're passwords expired or the ticket printer isn't printing... Still trying to get those mainframe commands down, hopefully I'll be able to remember them soon, some of the people there are really patient and good about it, understanding that I'm still learning, but I get the feeling that some people are not as patient, but they forget that they were in the same situation when they were training... those people, I can understand because they've been doing this stuff for a while. I'm not a mainframe person, and my experience is from a strong PC background, the commands and software they run are both very different. Oh well...

Tuesday, January 05, 1999

The New Job...

Work was pretty hectic, being that it's the first work day of a new year, so because of that, they just had me listening in to the calls that were coming in. Other than that, not much going on.. more tomorrow...

Monday, January 04, 1999

After the Holidays

Sam Goody at the mall was busy... people still trying to return gifts that they didn't want or picking up stuff that they wished they had gotten. Well, not much today...

Sunday, January 03, 1999

The Web and Relationships

Well worked on my web page last night, Bobbi, my fiancée hates when I work on the computer and don't pay attention to her...but it's something I need to do if I want to get recognized and get work as a web page designer... I guess that's it for now, seems as the new year begins, there's a lot less going on... here that is...

Saturday, January 02, 1999