Well, I've begun looking for a second job as a result of impending hour cutting at the OMax. Apparently, due to a glitch in the rules of OMax, our District Manager sent out a notice that even full timers can be cut to 26 hours, due to the fact that benefits and full time status are calculated bi-quarterly, meaning they would have to be below for 8ish weeks for it to affect. Super de duper de. If anyone knows of any interesting prospects, be sure to hit me up.
Lynn had an interview, she hasn't heard back from them quite yet, but they said not to expect to hear from them for a few more days, so we'll see how that goes.
Not a whole lot else going on. I haven't had the energy to read any sort of news yet today, so nothing important to discuss that I can recall.
Have fun kids.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Kicking it into high gear.
Well, sense I spend enough time on the web staying up to date with everything and anything, I figured it would be interesting to post my life and random news blurbs out there for everyone to see. And as such, I have created a quasi-personal psuedo-blog for everyone out there to enjoy. Here goes.
Today is Thursday, that means the gang got together and played some D&D. That's how we roll, I guess you could say. Christian is still out of town, but the rest of us were there in full force .. Aside from Jay, who was maybe three-quarter force because of the Red Wings game.
For those of you that don't know, I of course live in Michigan, meaning I'm pretty amped about the Wings and the Pistons right now, even though the Pistons somehow managed to ditch the first game to the Sixers, god knows how. But, the Wings won tonight, and the Pistons won last night, so all is well as of right now.
I guess the most important world news in the Tech world as of recent is that Virgin UK announced that they will start to, essentially, throttle customers that don't pay their premiums for full useage of their bandwidth. Now, I'm a huge supported of net neutrality, that is to say that everyone should get the same speeds going to a web site, obviously within reason, as going to any other website. Meaning if, for instance, I wanted to surf YouTube, but Virgin had made a deal with another video website, YouTube would get throttled and the other website would run crystal clear, and I am against that for many reasons. I guess the mean reason boils down to freedom of speach and choice, and really the fact that information shouldn't be capitalised to that such a point. I mean, I'm already paying for the privalege of you connecting me to the internet, the company shouldn't have to pay for that same privalege, should they? Kind of a double dipping corporate greed scenario, and incredibly unfair to websites who can't afford or won't pay the information tariff being levied upon them.
Politically speaking, I'd like to formally announce that regardless of who ends up going, I would never say that I won't vote because someone doesn't win the bid. Hillary and Barak are both great choices, in my opinion, though I would prefer to see Barak make it. I have nothing against Hillary, and she's definately, in my opinion, a better choice than any Republican or Independent running this term, but I think my views of what the country needs more align with Barak's views, and that's what it's all about in the end. I can understand that Hillary has White House experience, and Political experience in general, but that doesn't make her the best choice overall; it comes down to who can handle the pressures of the position and maintain a clear head and enforce their ideals better, and in my opinion Barak has better plans, and better stances on the key issues, than Hillary does. That's not to say Hillary is a bad choice, and that's not to say that her stances are completely off the wall and she will crumble instantly under pressure, I would just prefer to see Barak in there.
In other news, I saw There Will Be blood last night. It was .. interesting .. although it's slow pace lost me at several times throughout the movie. Walk Hard was a bit of a let down for me, really. Juno was great. I'll do more indepth reviews later when I'm not so tired.
Adieu, until we meet again.
Today is Thursday, that means the gang got together and played some D&D. That's how we roll, I guess you could say. Christian is still out of town, but the rest of us were there in full force .. Aside from Jay, who was maybe three-quarter force because of the Red Wings game.
For those of you that don't know, I of course live in Michigan, meaning I'm pretty amped about the Wings and the Pistons right now, even though the Pistons somehow managed to ditch the first game to the Sixers, god knows how. But, the Wings won tonight, and the Pistons won last night, so all is well as of right now.
I guess the most important world news in the Tech world as of recent is that Virgin UK announced that they will start to, essentially, throttle customers that don't pay their premiums for full useage of their bandwidth. Now, I'm a huge supported of net neutrality, that is to say that everyone should get the same speeds going to a web site, obviously within reason, as going to any other website. Meaning if, for instance, I wanted to surf YouTube, but Virgin had made a deal with another video website, YouTube would get throttled and the other website would run crystal clear, and I am against that for many reasons. I guess the mean reason boils down to freedom of speach and choice, and really the fact that information shouldn't be capitalised to that such a point. I mean, I'm already paying for the privalege of you connecting me to the internet, the company shouldn't have to pay for that same privalege, should they? Kind of a double dipping corporate greed scenario, and incredibly unfair to websites who can't afford or won't pay the information tariff being levied upon them.
Politically speaking, I'd like to formally announce that regardless of who ends up going, I would never say that I won't vote because someone doesn't win the bid. Hillary and Barak are both great choices, in my opinion, though I would prefer to see Barak make it. I have nothing against Hillary, and she's definately, in my opinion, a better choice than any Republican or Independent running this term, but I think my views of what the country needs more align with Barak's views, and that's what it's all about in the end. I can understand that Hillary has White House experience, and Political experience in general, but that doesn't make her the best choice overall; it comes down to who can handle the pressures of the position and maintain a clear head and enforce their ideals better, and in my opinion Barak has better plans, and better stances on the key issues, than Hillary does. That's not to say Hillary is a bad choice, and that's not to say that her stances are completely off the wall and she will crumble instantly under pressure, I would just prefer to see Barak in there.
In other news, I saw There Will Be blood last night. It was .. interesting .. although it's slow pace lost me at several times throughout the movie. Walk Hard was a bit of a let down for me, really. Juno was great. I'll do more indepth reviews later when I'm not so tired.
Adieu, until we meet again.
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