Formatted my computer
I formatted my computer on Sunday, and spent most of yesterday setting everything up the way I want it. I’m still downloading Windows updates as I type this. The windows update site was having some problems because of my firewall, which is strange because I’ve had the same firewall for years and there was never a problem before. I think I have it worked out now, but XP service pack 2 has failed to download once, and I’m trying it again. That might have something to do with other programs I had running at the same time.
I have Microsoft Office installed already, so I just have to add Wal-Mart to my resume, and I’m ready to go job hunting. I found lots of ads in the paper, and on the government’s job website. Hopefully I find a job soon, but my parents told me not to worry, they can help me out if I run into financial trouble. I’m not too worried, but I do want to get a new job as soon as possible.
Bad news
I have lots of things to blog about today, starting with some bad news. When Wal-Mart hired me they told me, and the others that were hired at the same time, that they were offering us temporary employment for a span of 3 months, and if after 3 months they liked how we were working they would most likely keep us on. Well, last night at the start of my shift we were all told that there would be two staff meetings at the end of the night. One at 6:00 and the other at 6:30. I figured it was strange to have two meetings, and started to wonder if they had a reason to split us into two groups. They did. I was in the first group along with six other new people. The store’s co-manager talked to us and explained that they weren’t making as much money in their new store as they had expected, and they had to cut back on night staff. I thought that was a bizarre reason since the Kelowna store is making a million dollars a week, almost every week. So I’m now unemployed. The only good part about it is we were told if they ever needed more staff they would call us and offer us our jobs back, and we could put them down as a reference because they are happy with the work we all did. As my manager John put it, this sucks. I can only assume that the second meeting was to explain to the remaining staff what was happening and to tell them they now have to work even harder to do the work that the seven people they fired were doing previously.
I have a few other things I was already planning to blog about before I got the bad news. While surfing the net yesterday I found a few things, mostly through other people’s blogs, that I thought were worth mentioning here. I found out about Google Maps, which has regular maps, and new satellite maps. You can put in an address and see a satellite picture of that location. Here’s the satellite picture of my house:
I added the red circle around my house because Google’s pointer thing actually points to my neighbour’s front yard for my address.
I’m sure everyone knows by now that the pope died. I was reading a news article that said “The entire world has literally come together to praise this one man.” When I read that I thought it was stupid. There are plenty of people in the world who are not praising the former pope. I personally couldn’t care less.
I found a funny video about the Terri Schiavo case. You can view it at here. Also slightly related to the Terri Schiavo case I found this, and all I could think was “oh no, not again.”
I also found a story about a man in the U.S. who got arrested for trying to spend legal currency. It’s really pathetic that they had to call in the secret service to find out the guy wasn’t breaking the law. I wonder if he can take any legal action against them, or if his arrest is legal with all the new anti-terrorist laws.
Tags: Google Maps, Terri Schiavo, the pope, Wal-Mart
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Well, I don’t know what the hell happened, but I talked to Cherie and out of nowhere she’s decided that we need a break, and she wants to just be friends for a while.
She’s been working some extra hours at BK and hasn’t had time to spend with me lately. Her only day off right now is Saturday. I guess she’s having a difficlt time with life right now. I’m not sure how being apart from me is going to help her since she says she still loves me and nothing has changed. To tell you the truth I think the whole idea is fucked up, but I guess all I can do is wait and see what happens.
I got a phone call from a collection agency today. My brother Nathan moved to Kelowna for a few months a while back and he needed a phone for work. Or at least that’s what he said it was for. He said he couldn’t get a phone by himself because his credit is bad. So like a fool, I agreed to put a phone in my name with the agreement being that he would pay the bills. Then Bell Canada, who by the way is a fucked up company, changed their billing system and wasn’t sending out bills for a few months, or the bills always arrived late. Last summer my brother moved back to Calgary, and took the phone with him. Somehow he got Bell to change the phone number and mailing address on the account to Calgary. I emailed Bell about this and they said that they didn’t need my authorization for this change on my account because my brother had been added as an administrative contact on my account. I never authorised that either. When I got the phone the guy at Future Shop asked if anyone else would be using the phone. I told him my brother was, and he added him as a contact person. So anyways, I didn’t worry about it too much, since whenever I talked to my brother he said he was paying the bills and everything was OK. So today someone froma collection agency called and said i had a balance of $800-something dollars owing on the account. Strange thing is Bell never contacted me about this, and I haven’t seen a bill from Bell Canada since June. The collection agency lady said they had sent me something to my address here in Kelowna about my balance, but I never got it. So I have ’til Friday to pay the bill or the collection agency is going to make a entry on my credit record, and fuck everything up.
I called my brother and talked to him, but he said he didn’t have any money. (Big surprise there 
) And then either his phone died, or he hung up on me. Probably the latter. So I was talking to my parents about this and my mom said she would cover the bill since I obviously don’t have $800 to spare. This is rediculous though. I’m glad I’m not paying for it, but my mom shouldn’t have to pay it either. Especially since I’m pretty sure my brother is making more money at his job than either of us are at our jobs.
Life is just pissing me off lately.
Tags: girlfriend
Never tell her how you feel
As a followup to my comments about my girlfriend in one of my previous messages:
You know how women always tell you they want to know how you feel? They say it’s important to talk about your feelings. It’s a load of bullshit!! If you value your relationship you will not tell your girlfriend how you feel unless what you feel will make her happy. If’s she’s not likely to agree with what you are feeling than keep your big mouth shut. You feel nothing.
I come to this conclusion after sending a text message to my girlfriend, and recieving, as a response, a voicemail that included a lot of yelling that basically painted me as the bad guy. So now, not only is she not talking to me, she’s also completely pissed off at me. Which apparently is something new, because being pissed at me wasn’t the reason she wasn’t talking to me before, and it was a mistake for me to assume that.
Oh god this is confusing.
Tags: girlfriend
Window pictures
Before I forget about them again. I have some pictures of my window.
Sleepy
I’ve been really sleepy the last couple days, but haven’t been able to sleep. I feel really tired, but when I go to bed I can’t sleep. Oh well, I have just one more day of work this week, and then I can rest for two days. I decided to wait until my days off to deal with getting the window on my car fixed. I duct taped some plastic over the hole yesterday.
For some reason Cherie isn’t talking to me. I stopped in at BK on my way to work the other night to see her, but she didn’t seem happy to see me or anything, and didn’t really talk to me much. Then yesterday I stopped in at BK for breakfast. I went through the drive thru, and I know Cherie saw me there, but didn’t even say hi or anything. Then I sent her a couple text messages which she hasn’t replied to. So who knows, I guess she’s pissed about something, but I don’t know what. As far as I know I didn’t do anything wrong, and she’s the one who cancelled our date last Tuesday. Maybe that’s related to this whole not talking to me thing too. I’m too tired to worry about it right now though.
I’m off to bed. Hopefully I can sleep a little.
Tags: car, girlfriend, sleepy
