so been enjoying the fact that I now have TV and radio in my room. see, before, I had a TV, but without any antenna or cable hook-up (digital cable, so I would have to run the wire up through the attic as well as "rent" a converter box....those bastards!), I was relagated to VCR tapes and DVD's. but now, since my step-father decided to buy a digital converter box (with the FREE coupon from the government, it cost $5....>cough cough< fuck you people bitching that they could not afford the converter box and the ACLU jackasses!....BTW, read my last blog for some more of my thoughts on that) and an antenna, I now have TV stations.
the nice part is I can turn on the converter box, then have it scan for channels. with the analog signal, I was lookin gat 6 channels (8, 10, 13, 21 and 31). now I'm above 7....including The CW (2nd 13) and a bunch of others. gee, yeah, i can see how digital signals are soo bad. maybe if you live where you don't get a digital signal. but here....bite me bastards.
plus, my TV has a radio tuner in it, so with the antenna hook-up, I get FM stations as well! yay!
so what else? been kind of "blah" lately. don't know why this happens, it just does. I refer to it as a "mood funk". maybe the wiring or the chemicals in my head are wrong or something....but every so often, I just don't feel like talking, sharing, or really doing much. I just don't feel happy. oh well.
so what did I do? picked up my bass and started "playing" it. I really don't know how to play bass guitar or what the chords are. so I pluck the strings making different noises. I know beats, so that helps. I just kind of play around and see what I can get out of the instrument. a good 1/2 hour to hour of doing that, I'm feeling better.
so what else? Wegmans is still trying to kill me. we're "cutting hours" now because of the economy and such. so a guy comes back from being out in one department. this guy is pretty much burnt and, well, useless. that department goes "We can't use him anymore, we don't have the hours." so what happens? he's put on the Front End, where I work. seriously....that's when the Front End Manager has to go "Look, I don't have the hours either....why can't the department that hired him cut some of the hours of their part-time employees to cover his hours?" instead....we have him.
great....sometimes I do wish my Front-End Manager would grow a set. let customers know when they are wrong and tell the scammers "No." and don't let other departments "dump" people on us. seriously....this guy we now have....there is a reason why the department he was in got rid of him....he's unreliable., calls in all the time, and doesn't work.
so that's done....how else is Wegmans trying to kill me? having me work overnight, followed by overnight and then in 8 hours later. so basically I have 4 hours of sleep right now in over a 24 hour time period. does not make me happy.
work Monday and Tuesday, took off Wednesday, conference on Thursday (McKinney-Vento Laws....educaitonal laws. and its free), then the overnights/helping hands crap. who knows what I'm working next week!
so I'll be in chat when I am....probably Monday night, Tuesday night, and Thursday night. not a lot Wednesday night....not sure when the conference starts. that has a big impact. and go from there!
3 days ....
the nice part is I can turn on the converter box, then have it scan for channels. with the analog signal, I was lookin gat 6 channels (8, 10, 13, 21 and 31). now I'm above 7....including The CW (2nd 13) and a bunch of others. gee, yeah, i can see how digital signals are soo bad. maybe if you live where you don't get a digital signal. but here....bite me bastards.
plus, my TV has a radio tuner in it, so with the antenna hook-up, I get FM stations as well! yay!
so what else? been kind of "blah" lately. don't know why this happens, it just does. I refer to it as a "mood funk". maybe the wiring or the chemicals in my head are wrong or something....but every so often, I just don't feel like talking, sharing, or really doing much. I just don't feel happy. oh well.
so what did I do? picked up my bass and started "playing" it. I really don't know how to play bass guitar or what the chords are. so I pluck the strings making different noises. I know beats, so that helps. I just kind of play around and see what I can get out of the instrument. a good 1/2 hour to hour of doing that, I'm feeling better.
so what else? Wegmans is still trying to kill me. we're "cutting hours" now because of the economy and such. so a guy comes back from being out in one department. this guy is pretty much burnt and, well, useless. that department goes "We can't use him anymore, we don't have the hours." so what happens? he's put on the Front End, where I work. seriously....that's when the Front End Manager has to go "Look, I don't have the hours either....why can't the department that hired him cut some of the hours of their part-time employees to cover his hours?" instead....we have him.
great....sometimes I do wish my Front-End Manager would grow a set. let customers know when they are wrong and tell the scammers "No." and don't let other departments "dump" people on us. seriously....this guy we now have....there is a reason why the department he was in got rid of him....he's unreliable., calls in all the time, and doesn't work.
so that's done....how else is Wegmans trying to kill me? having me work overnight, followed by overnight and then in 8 hours later. so basically I have 4 hours of sleep right now in over a 24 hour time period. does not make me happy.
work Monday and Tuesday, took off Wednesday, conference on Thursday (McKinney-Vento Laws....educaitonal laws. and its free), then the overnights/helping hands crap. who knows what I'm working next week!
so I'll be in chat when I am....probably Monday night, Tuesday night, and Thursday night. not a lot Wednesday night....not sure when the conference starts. that has a big impact. and go from there!
3 days ....
Do you still use an antenna with the converter box?