Work work work

So I've started my new job, and gotten my first paycheck (51.12) and I think I might like this job alright. Its hard adjusting though, just because I get off at 7 am, so I sleep all day. And I could literally sleep all day if given the chance, yesterday I didn't wake up until 8pm because I was so physically tiered. Thats the part thats really getting me, the physical strain, my feet hurt, my legs hurt, my back pops when I bend it, my arms are sore, etc. Physically its not THAT demanding of a job, its just that I have to work quickly in order to keep up with the amount of product we have to put out.

The way it works is basically this:

10:00-Get to work, clock in and have our meeting in the break room. The manager in charge for the night will go over who is working where, and about how much to expect tonight so what we should prioritize.

10:10- Go to our area and bring the shopping carts up so that we can separate our pallets by shopping isle.

11:00- Finish seperating, start upening and stocking the freight (the new stuff we just got today)

12:00- first 15 minute break

12:15- Back to work

2:00- Lunch (I get an hour for this, which is nice, but it cuts into time I could use to get my freight done and start to work on breakdown buggies)

3-Back to work

4-last 15 minute break

4:15- This is when I tend to get done with my portion of the freight and start to work on breakdown buggies. A breakdown buggie is when we have shopping carts full of just random items that go on my lane, but aren't in boxes or anything.

5:30 (ish)- Start cleaning up, getting all my trash into as few shopping carts as possible, and going to see where else I can help in my section

6- Start taking the trash into the back, I like to do this as early as possible to make sure I don't get stuck with having to make a bale ( a large compacted rectangular prism of cardbord boxes, tied together and put on a pallet) mostly because I don't know how. After this, I go back to my lane and zone it (straiten all the items on the shelves so the label is facing outward and its all uniform)

7- go home

maybe 9 ish- sleep

so its definitely not the easiest thing I've ever done, but its not TOO demanding. The work goes by pretty quick (except for the last 2 hours, but I've found that to be true of ANY job) and the pay is good, especially considering I don't pay rent or anything 'cause I'm living at home for now.
I'm wondering if I should try to get this transfered down to San Marcos when I go back to school. Its good money, and again with my parents paying my rent I could be saving easily most of it. The downside though is of course the hours and its conflict with school. Right now I'm registered for classes starting at 11 and ending at about 3 Monday-Thursday. Its a schedule I really like (no Friday classes) and I like the classes I'm taking, some of which this is the only time I COULD take those classes. But if I generally sleep from like 8-5pm, I would either have to take my classes from say 5-9pm or 8-11 am or something like that, or try to only work maybe 2 or 3 days a week so its not too much for me to handle.

I'd be scared though that those 2-3 days would be Friday, Saturday and Sunday and I would find myself sans a weekend this semester, and I desperately need my weekends because of my proximity to everyone I know. I have friends in Austin, a girlfriend in Houston, parents in Dallas and I live in San Marcos. So with the obligations and the desire to be in all of those places at once, I really need my weekends.

I guess I have a month to think about it though, so its not something I need to decide right now. Anyway, thats all for now, I'm going to go stretch out my back and get some water, then maybe a poop, who knows?!

This honkey gunna get paid bitches!

I went to orientation all day for my new job. My new job that pays 8.45 and I work 80 hours in the next two weeks. So on July 12, my first REAL paycheck, I'm going to make $676 dollars before taxes. Thats easily the most I've ever made, like ever. Then I'm up for a raise after my first 90 days, then after a year. so hopefully I can get transfered down to San Marcos, or maybe one of the other nearby ones once school starts.

Dad is cool with my seeing April on Monday and Tuesday (the only two days I get off this week) and that was a big load off my mind. I was surprised he was as cool as he was, but he just said "you're almost 21, so its your choice" so I'll have a chance to see April before she leaves for Germany this week, next week and if I call in and ask for it off, I can probably see her go too.

Happy days happy days!

So now I'm stuck as to if I should go to bed now because I'm tiered, or stay up all night and sleep during the day, so I can wake up and go to work tomorrow at 10 pm. I mean I'm guessing either way I'll be really tiered. Anyway, I'll decide in a bit.

sometimes life just piles it on

Ok, so its a little after midnight on Friday and I go to orientation for my new job at Wal-mart in just a few hours. I'm glad I have a job, but I'm also kind of depressed that I'm working the overnight at Wal-mart. I mean, I've been a stock boy, a cashier, and now a stock boy again. Is this all I'm actually good for? I look around at some of my friends and they all find really nice and interesting jobs, while I can't even get the guy who mows our lawn to call me back.

On top of that, I haven't been able to see April for like 2 weeks. First I just thought I would not see her for a weekend to get my stuff in order, find a job, make sure every thing is going well. Week two I couldn't go and see her because we had so many things to take care of, plus I was waiting for several people to call me back about jobs but of course I didn't get a call until Monday. So now I have orientation of Friday and the thing is I don't know if I'll have a chance to see April THIS weekend, because they might have me start work on like Saturday or Sunday. Including this weekend I only have 3 chances to see her before she leaves for Germany for the month of July. So now she's pissed off at me because I keep having to tell her "I don't know if I can see you this weekend because I might have to do something." In all likelihood I may not get a chance to see her before she leaves, making it one of the, if not the longest stretch without seeing her since we started dating. All of this for a crappy ass job I'll probably end up quiting when I move back to San Marcos. Thats whats really getting to me about all of this, I'm "home" for now and for the last almost 2 years I haven't really felt like I had a home, just a place I slept at. Hopefully having an actual apartment will help that out a bit.

So that all sucks, but then again it could be worse. I mean I've got one friend who's in jail but who's girlfriend is still having his baby. Another friend who got evicted from his apartment and had to give his dog to the pound while he moved back with his parents. I could be in their shoes and be envious of someone like me. So do I really have a right to complain? I guess not.

Oh well, in other news I've been thinking of a list of things I want to start doing:

1) Play Ultimate again
2) Play Warhammer again
3) Get and learn Photoshop
4) Start drawing on a regular basis
5) Start reading/writing for an hour a day
6) Find a kind of exercise I can do regularly without any trouble

I figure if I can start doing most of those I should hopefully get myself out of this funk I seem to be in. Honestly I just can't wait to get back to school, hopefully that should help.

I'm out for now, I'll update again tomorrow after work with a list i was working on elsewhere.

Buisness plan

Ok, so I was talking to April last time I saw her and she mentioned opening up a movie theater. Her suggestion was to open a dollar theater and show older movies for cheaper tickets. I had actually played around with the idea myself some time before and had more or less forgotten about it until recently when thinking of what she said again.

My idea for a movie theater:
A struggle within

by Philip Rigney

Let me take you on a little tour of my movie theater, a tour of the mind if you will because I don't have any pictures to post with this. You walk into a room, you check for traps and find none (bah dum ching!) there are a few couches and stuff in the room, a recliner or two, and some nice theater seating. You select your seat and sit down and notice the option to call over a waiter to bring you whatever you want. Pizza, popcorn, nachoes, a soda, a beer, its all good and its all there without you having to get up out of your seat to get it. The lights dim, you sit back and relax and the screen lights up with the magic of the silver screen. You look up and behold, the glory of Die Hard playing in full surround sound while you relax with your date and see your favorite action movie on the big screen. Tomorrow you plan on coming back to watch Casablanca because she gets to chose the movie tomorrow. The ticket prices are affordable enough to be able to see your favorite movies more then once a month. You can still come by to see the latest and greatest movies: Spiderman 6: the search for Spock, Rocky Balboa: revenge of Mr. T's son and whatever, but the main draw will be on Thursday when we're playing Jaws and you've always wanted to see the shark on a big screen like that.

That is basically my idea. It sounds simple enough, so there has to be lots of problems I don't see, like paying royalties to the actors for showing old movies like the original Star Wars. That and it would cost something like 5k per room. You'd have to get good couches and stuff, so 3k right there, a kickass surround sound, so maybe 1,500 with that? A modern movie projector AND a DVD projector, so theres another couple thousand. Then on top of that, theres the question of "would this actually work?" I mean, how much would you pay to see your favorite movie of all time on a nice and big screen, without renting out a theater and getting better seats and serves?

seriously, would you?

Did somebody say webcomics?

Why yes, i believe someone did. Me to be precise.

COMICS NEWS:

first order of business: Ugly Hill This is one high quality web-comic that totally flew in under my radar while i was off reading The crap thats passing for a web comic these days yes your URL says "marrymemovie" because this guy has every intention of turning that into a movie and decided to reserve the site now.

COMICS NEWS THAT INVOLVES ME:

found a site called "smack jeeves" and while whoever stayed up all night coming up with that hilarious title should be given an award, say, the honorary "we just set fire to your cat, how you like me now?" award. Its a unique award with a rich history, but more on that later.

basically its a web-comic hosting site. Take blogger, throw up some web comics, package it and ship it out. I've set up my account but the file limit is 400kb, while it would appear that everything I've created is a tantalizing 500 or so. Here's the kicker though, for a mere 1 dollar donation I can get that increased to like 26,000. So obviously the name of the game here is "give me money" but this is a game I try to avoid playing like Ryan would avoid playing "not it" and look where that got him.

what, too soon? I just called nick and he said it was fine.

anyway if I can find a way for it to work out cash free, or just cough up the dough to get my old website back, the comic should be up and running soon.

Also, i might write and draw one, while just writing another for April. w00t!

hers is about pirates btw, they ride in a rubber ducky and have wacky adventures!

Summer jobs

Ok, I've got 3 possibilities right now:

1) Gamecrazy. Its the gaming store owned by Hollywood video.
Pros: Close to home, least physical intensive of what my possibilities are, probably the most fun potential.
cons: This one could probably pay the least, and I've probably got the least chance of getting this one. They may also not actually need anyone right now, but I'm going to make sure to pester them because this is the one I think I want the most.

2) UPS package handler. Moving boxes for money!
Pros: 4-5 hours a day, Monday-Friday, at 8-9 dollars an hour. This is the most steady of pay jobs, because I'll work basically the same hours every day and not for too terribly long. I've got my appointment tomorrow and unless I just make myself look retarded or look like I can't pick up a heavy box I've probably got the job, but theres always that chance.
Cons: I think it may take me 30 minutes to get there, in decent traffic and is moving 5-70lbs boxes.

3) Yard work for the guy who mows our lawn.
Pros: Probably paid in cash. Don't have to work out, because I'll be doing intense physical labor. This might have the best pay potential as well. I've got the job already basically, all I need to do is call the guy.
Cons: I'll be doing intense physical labor. I just strait up do not want to do this, I mean, they do 30 lawns on Saturdays and work for like 15 hours. I'd rather go crawling back to Target.


On a side note, my dad gave me a lecture about responsibility and respect. Normally I have these coming and he ends up being right, but today it just completely pissed me off. He started out by saying that I called him a pushover in my last post, which when I didn't know what he was talking about he seemed to think I was playing dumb. Now, what I said was:

Asking my parents to do this might not go over so well. My Dad would probably understand, and even though he might disapprove I think he would be fine with it.

Now, where he got him being a pushover I have no idea. Everything in those above two sentences are just true and meant in a respectful way. Asking my parents to take summer I off probably would not of gone over too well, thats just true. They want me to take summer classes to make full use of the education they're providing for me, so every time I want to take time off, or fail a class/withdraw from one it just keeps me in school for that much longer. I understand that, they understand that but it was still something I was considering doing anyway so you can imagine that me asking them may not of been exactly what they wanted to hear.

"My dad would probably understand" this is also true. My dad understands that seeing my friends is important to me, he would of understood why I was making that request.

"Even though he might disapprove, I think he would be fine with it," Again, this is just me saying that my dad, if given the option would always chose my taking summer classes then me not taking summer classes. This is also me saying that my while my dad wants me to do that, he's pretty easy going and in the end would be fine with my decision to just not take a class now. This is probably where he got the whole pushover thing from, but I still don't see how being easy going and a generally mellow guy is being a pushover. I mean he's made a kid a footlocker cry, and almost got someone else fired at McDonald's over being overcharged 30 some odd cents for coffee.

I guess it just goes to show how important it is to chose your words carefully around people. Seems like the more I talk to people the more its like stepping through a minefield, one wrong move and it just gets messy.