waiting at the dmv is very interesting. i wonder if my number will
ever be called.
Monthly Archive for December, 2007
I really need to remember to cover my scooter at night. When I went out to get on it to ride to work this morning, it had been visited by Jack Frost and was covered in a nice layer of frost. Now that in itself is not so bad, but for some reason, I couldn’t turn the key. My guess is that some water got down in the key area some how and froze which was preventing it from turning. If the key doesn’t turn, the electronic ignition doesn’t do much good. I wanted to ride my scooter, as I need to get gas in my jeep, which as of when I got to work today, said I could go 3 miles until I am empty. During lunch I hope to get some gas, and go home and switch out to my scooter for the second half of the day as well as heading out to Christmas dinner tonight. We will see if that happens or now.
I came to a realization earlier on today. Normally I go grocery shopping and get provisions that will last for a month or more, but I have the problem that I forget about most of the perishable parts of that fare and it ends up going bad. After work today, I needed a few things from the store, so I went on my scooter as that is what I rode to work today. When you go shopping on a scooter, you really have to pay attention to what you buy so that you have room to get it home. I got everything that I needed, didn’t spend loads of money, and had an easy ride home. I think that I am going to have to do all of my grocery shopping this way. I also took a small bag that I was able to strap to the back of the scooter so that I didn’t need to use plastic bags in the store. Granted this means that I am going to have to make more trips to the store over time, but I think that this new way of shopping will work out better for me when everything is said and done.
Obviously from what I just wrote, I got Bonnie Chan back from the shop. She looks good as new, and I realized how much I missed riding. I did get a full face helmet too. It has some sweet graphics on the back of it, and I definitely need to post a picture soon.
I did have the joy of working today, where I watched the extended Fellowship of the Ring and started the extended Two Towers. Tomorrow when I am at work, I am going to do my best to try to make it through TTT and ROTK extended. It will be cutting it close, but I think I can make it through both of them. After work tomorrow I am headed to a Christmas dinner at Liz and Todd K’s place which will also involve some Call of Duty 4, GH3, and probably Rockband minus the drums if I take it with me.
I hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas and safe travels if you are out and traveling.
All 5 harry potter movies on HD-DVD.
Well I worked at DK last night for the first time since I left at the end of July. It was kind of scary. I felt like I didn’t know where anything was since the store had moved stuff around so much, didn’t know how to work the phones, as they put in a new phone system, and felt that I wasn’t able to answer questions adequately. I had 2 people ask what the big selling board game had been so far this season, and 2 ask for books that were hot. I really didn’t have an answer to either question. It didn’t help that it was busy and I was scheduled at the information desk solo. I think that after Thursday, I will probably take my name off of the on call list. The bookstore business is a timely thing, and I am not the type who doesn’t like to work if I can’t offer proper educated service. I will probably try to help with inventory or something like that, but regular working on the floor, I think at the end of this week, that will be the end.
On another note, when I got to work yesterday, I had a pan of brownies sitting on my desk thanking me for helping someone out. I thought they were joking when they said that they were going to bring me brownies. I tried to give them out to folks at work, but no one really wanted any, I took them to DK with me, and after all of that, I still have 1/4 a pan. I didn’t think that was possible with a pan of brownies, but I guess that I was wrong.
