Well, I reckon no time like the present to update...especially while waiting for random installs on another computer to finish. 
Movie night in Fairfield was incredibly fun! I've yet to do anything w/ the few pics I took that turned out exceptably. The last time I'd free reign of a theater after close was 5-7 years ago. The big difference this time is packing in a cooler filled to the brim and drinks of everyones' choice.
It's been equally long since I've seen Rocky Horror on the big screen. GrumpyBear, chiquitabonita and myself performed the requisite jumps to the left and steps to the right. I couldn't have imagined a cooler time...we'll only have to work on the body count. The more, the merrier, damn it! 
Today I've spent decompressing and letting off steam from work stupity yesterday. The fellow whose work habits in the past have included and aren't limited to: Showing up to work drunk and causing property damage while hammered; showing up 8+ hours late w/o notice of any kind; missing work having had started a bar fight and was subsequently thrown in a Boston drunk tank. You get the picture...
Well, last night he showed up 3 1/2 hours late, at 1:30 am. 
He was due to relieve me at 10pm, having worked a 13 hour day. At 10:30, I started leaving messages on his infrequently answered cell phone. I tried calling AlienPrincess letting her know that I was being forced into working an overnight shift. Overtime yes but, clearly not being home starting my 'relative' weekend. He strolls in after I'm well asleep in a recliner chair. I woke to him yammering on talking about my telling him I needed to be somewhere at 11pm, apologzing (sort of) the entire time. I gather my stuff and make my way home.
The Fellow tried calling me from most of this morning. The group home manager and myself, through progressive discipline sessions, have been documenting a case history of DMR negligent slacking. It's been successfully been held over his head at a behavioral stalemate for a little while now. Well, no more... I'll be having a pleasant chat w/ my supervisor about what'd happened over the past 24+ hours. Hopefully this will be the last such rant I'll be compelled to post.
On the funner side of things, I've been dicking around with Azureus for the past few days... I've absorbed a computer from my job that I'm setting up for the greyed AmazonRed13. Perhaps the most obvious reason she's grey is she doesn't own a computer.
So, I've been looking in Bit Torrent nooks and crannies for ways to reformat and install Win 2k on this old Packard Bell. Once given a desktop w/ acceptable internet browsing capabilities, she will rejoin our morally crippled ranks. Yay!
In the remarkably cool surprise catagory, I received an awesome phone call on Sunday night! It was the member formerly known as TheRetronerd and her known partner-in-crime, Dalonghair. It seems I came up in conversation over dinner and was still on Retro's cell phone addy book. We caught up on SGCT growth (as she was one of the first members), how King_Of_Skulls & SmokingBuddha are and what my better half has been up to. I reissued invites to the two of them of the usual Wednesday affair at ECD's as they live, at most, three blocks away. Crossing toes that they pop in at some point.
Tomorrow will be laundry, CD burning and more installations... It'll probably be peppered w/ phone calls to folk I'd care to see at ElmCityDrunk's on Wednesday.
KoS & Buddha Man, this means you.
Movie night in Fairfield was incredibly fun! I've yet to do anything w/ the few pics I took that turned out exceptably. The last time I'd free reign of a theater after close was 5-7 years ago. The big difference this time is packing in a cooler filled to the brim and drinks of everyones' choice.
It's been equally long since I've seen Rocky Horror on the big screen. GrumpyBear, chiquitabonita and myself performed the requisite jumps to the left and steps to the right. I couldn't have imagined a cooler time...we'll only have to work on the body count. The more, the merrier, damn it!
Today I've spent decompressing and letting off steam from work stupity yesterday. The fellow whose work habits in the past have included and aren't limited to: Showing up to work drunk and causing property damage while hammered; showing up 8+ hours late w/o notice of any kind; missing work having had started a bar fight and was subsequently thrown in a Boston drunk tank. You get the picture...
Well, last night he showed up 3 1/2 hours late, at 1:30 am. He was due to relieve me at 10pm, having worked a 13 hour day. At 10:30, I started leaving messages on his infrequently answered cell phone. I tried calling AlienPrincess letting her know that I was being forced into working an overnight shift. Overtime yes but, clearly not being home starting my 'relative' weekend. He strolls in after I'm well asleep in a recliner chair. I woke to him yammering on talking about my telling him I needed to be somewhere at 11pm, apologzing (sort of) the entire time. I gather my stuff and make my way home.
The Fellow tried calling me from most of this morning. The group home manager and myself, through progressive discipline sessions, have been documenting a case history of DMR negligent slacking. It's been successfully been held over his head at a behavioral stalemate for a little while now. Well, no more... I'll be having a pleasant chat w/ my supervisor about what'd happened over the past 24+ hours. Hopefully this will be the last such rant I'll be compelled to post.
On the funner side of things, I've been dicking around with Azureus for the past few days... I've absorbed a computer from my job that I'm setting up for the greyed AmazonRed13. Perhaps the most obvious reason she's grey is she doesn't own a computer.
So, I've been looking in Bit Torrent nooks and crannies for ways to reformat and install Win 2k on this old Packard Bell. Once given a desktop w/ acceptable internet browsing capabilities, she will rejoin our morally crippled ranks. Yay!
In the remarkably cool surprise catagory, I received an awesome phone call on Sunday night! It was the member formerly known as TheRetronerd and her known partner-in-crime, Dalonghair. It seems I came up in conversation over dinner and was still on Retro's cell phone addy book. We caught up on SGCT growth (as she was one of the first members), how King_Of_Skulls & SmokingBuddha are and what my better half has been up to. I reissued invites to the two of them of the usual Wednesday affair at ECD's as they live, at most, three blocks away. Crossing toes that they pop in at some point.
Tomorrow will be laundry, CD burning and more installations... It'll probably be peppered w/ phone calls to folk I'd care to see at ElmCityDrunk's on Wednesday.
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-Josh