Sorry For The Lack Of Pictures

Sorry all for the lack of pics on the site... it's amazing how something fall unto the back burner when one gets busy. I will do my best to get a new Sherpa picture on soon... I really have been falling behind. I guess with actually working these days, the time spent on the fun stuff disappears. The real world sucks, eh?

So, I thought my shoes would be a good return to the photo world... granted, it isn't the best pic. They are RED shoes though. They'll look good with my Team Canada jerseys... I might have to get more pairs just to match my other jerseys... nah, just kidding.

This morning on the ride into work, I thought I would get my Dad involved in my idea to get a car soon. I knew I had to sell him on the idea or else the grief factor would be off the scale. 'How could you buy a car without me,' or some sort of whine like so... or he'd wait 'til it breaks down to say 'this wouldn't have happened if I was there to buy it with ya.' He's good like that... always ready to 'tell ya so.'

He did make the point of trying to find a place to live... which does make some sense. You know, I wouldn't mind getting the house any sooner, rather than later... but if I have a car paid for and owned... a used car, not a new one, then I'm killing birds with stones I got for little to no saving up. So, he relented in his argument/lecture... I had my points of purpose bringing this topic up beforehand... I knew what was coming. His predictability is his downfall.

The car I want is still on the Auto Trader site... it's red like my new shoes too. I'm on a huge red streak of late. I dunno why, really... I've never really been keen on red things before. Nevertheless, it's red... it's a Honda Civic... and it has a CD player. Perfect. I don't really need too much... just something that works reliably and has that CD player. I have too many CDs not to have a player in the car.

So, the mission this week will be to finance the hopeful purchase and get the deal done on the weekend... fingers crossed. I can do it!!

As expected today, the new guy had started at the office. Tyrone. He's an odd fella... I don't quite know what to make of him yet. When he came in this morning, I was still the only one in the office, so I was left to talk to him about the job of helping me with all the EDGAR filing that I do in the office. I was sort of quizzing him on what he knew about HTML programming for webpages and such and he was coming up with some pretty good answers. Sadly, once we got into the work load (finally, after a few hours of waiting for something new to come in), he wasn't quite as sharp as I was sort of expecting.

I don't think my patience was quite ready for training new employees at work... hell, I haven't even been there a month yet. I know the job is fairly straight-forward, but as of late, I've hardly had enough work to keep me busy through a whole day, let alone share the workload with someone else. I guess, I'm just not ready to give up what keeps me busy at the office.

Granted, his level of knowledge of HTML isn't bad... but trying to beat the idea in his head that we are trying to "re-create" what's on the page to looking fairly exact on the screen in a webpage was really hard. If a word is bold on the page, it has to be bold on the screen. Same with underlining and italicizing... just make it look the same. I don't think those are really overwhelming tasks... but I don't think he's really done much of the way of just general design as it is... so it may not be the first thing that comes to mind.

Tomorrow will be the joy of a couple pretty big projects coming in to be done fairly soon. A 200 page document to be converted has partially come in already and another 300 pager will come in tomorrow morning. The 300 pager will be first priority and will probably be a teaching tool for Tyrone... he'll get to learn a whole bunch more of the formatting part of the job. This job should only last the day, barring any major jobs coming in during the day that need to be sooner rather than later. It's unlikely, but possible. I do have one big one that should have shown up today, but didn't... and another to be proofed tomorrow, but that should be okay in the end. It's gonna be busy at work for a while... excellent! At least its payday on Friday!

I love the comment I got this morning from a recent new commentor of sorts, The Phoenix...

"OK, I'm tired just reading about your weekend.

How do you have the energy to get through your work week?

Maybe I'm just getting old. "

Are my weekends really that bad? I suppose I really should be getting more sleep during them... but I do seem to last the week, only to start again. Maybe it's the length of writing about my weekends that make him tired. Granted, I used to write longer passages about them when I first got started on the Blog scene. Hmmmm. I suppose the secret is coffee... apparently its good for us people again... so bring it on!

Nevertheless... go check out the Phoenix's Blog... he comes to mine!

Well, I suppose there's only one more thing playing on my ever-working mind... any guesses? C'mon... I should be pretty predictable, not that I wanna be, but I probably am. It's probably hereditary.

My concern these days is filling that ticket to see the Arcade Fire. I wouldn't mind taking Theresa, but the caution of "desperate" timing and again, my ever-working mind, isn't really helping me out too much. I didn't really get a great chance to ask her on the weekend and I really should get to it this week. Here's the thing though... I don't have a car to guarantee travel, not to say I couldn't really put my folks out for an evening, but I would figure it would have to be an evening without coming back to Langdon. The second concern would be her working hours at the Wildfire, hence my haste to give her enough time to try and get the Wednesday night off, if necessary... see the trouble I put my head through? I think there are more concerns as well... and my overly-analytical self is getting me stressed out so much that I'm sleeping poorly of late. I need to drink to forget or to stop conjuring up great plans or escapes from these great stresses.

Fudge.

Ah well... tomorrow is another day. Work, car, girl... yeah. Something like that. Priorities man, priorities. Get to work, check on car and it's necessities and confirm the hopes and/or fears... sounds about right. Okay, I'll go with that. Damn, it's too early to think that writing this will clear my conscious... I know I'll think of something else. Dementia... here I come!