Starting next week, my team will have to do 5 hours of mandatory over time due to Q4.
I average about 43 hours a week, so an extra 2 hours is not too bad. Honestly, I could use the money. What this means is that I will be getting up at 6 am to catch the 6:37 train to be in at work by 7:30. 7:30 am to 5 pm with 1/2 hour lunch = 9 hour day x5 = Victory.
And so begins another Q4 of work, have dinner, sleep, work. Good times. Good times.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Go Away, Busy Writing
November 1st . Today marks the beginning of a new month, NBA season, and National Novel Writing Month. I am going to curtail my online activity to write this month.
The basic gist is that you write 50,000 words in 1 month. Don't edit. Don't correct. Write. You don't have time to make a profile. Shoot him in the head. Go. It's up to us ... (Inside Joke).
So, 50,000 words = app 1,700 words a day for 30 days = 175 pages = a novella length work. We will call it a novel, because novel sounds sexier. Novel sounds official.
For more details, go to:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
The site is being redesigned and will be slow, so don't be surprised if it times out.
Also, show your love and support for my bud, Uppity:
http://www.uppityrib.com/
The basic gist is that you write 50,000 words in 1 month. Don't edit. Don't correct. Write. You don't have time to make a profile. Shoot him in the head. Go. It's up to us ... (Inside Joke).
So, 50,000 words = app 1,700 words a day for 30 days = 175 pages = a novella length work. We will call it a novel, because novel sounds sexier. Novel sounds official.
For more details, go to:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
The site is being redesigned and will be slow, so don't be surprised if it times out.
Also, show your love and support for my bud, Uppity:
http://www.uppityrib.com/
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
Undefeated
That is my theme for the day.
As in, my son's soccer team went 6-0 and ended the season undefeated .
Full disclaimer, we don't keep "official" score for 6 and under soccer, but still.
I am going to miss coaching these kids. I was pretty emotional after the game Saturday.
The wife kept busting my chops about it.
*Sob* You don't understand!
There is always next fall to look forward to. Some of Gabriel's team mates go to the same school that he does, so I should be able to run into them here and there.
Undefeated...
As in, my son's soccer team went 6-0 and ended the season undefeated .
Full disclaimer, we don't keep "official" score for 6 and under soccer, but still.
I am going to miss coaching these kids. I was pretty emotional after the game Saturday.
The wife kept busting my chops about it.
*Sob* You don't understand!
There is always next fall to look forward to. Some of Gabriel's team mates go to the same school that he does, so I should be able to run into them here and there.
Undefeated...
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Ho Ho Ho Happy Halloween
My 2 year old daughter exclaimed, "Ho Ho Ho!!! Happy Halloween!" last night.
It was so cute that we all had a good chuckle about it.
However, we were a bit perturbed. Colleen turns to me and says, "this is what's wrong with our society. We are so over commercialized. It's not even Halloween yet and we are already hearing about Christmas."
You know. She's right. Let's skip Halloween and Thanksgiving and go straight for Q4 BUY BUY BUY SHOP TILL YOU DROP OMGWTFBBQ SALES!!!! X-Mass extravaganza.
This might be an ironic stance for me to take as I work for a major etailer, but still. I want to be able to enjoy Fall and Halloween, upcoming Birthdays (Gabe and my sister in law Amy), Thanksgiving before I have to worry about selling all my blood plasma to try to afford to buy presents for people, who already have everything that they NEED.
Trick or (Humbug) Treat everyone!
It was so cute that we all had a good chuckle about it.
However, we were a bit perturbed. Colleen turns to me and says, "this is what's wrong with our society. We are so over commercialized. It's not even Halloween yet and we are already hearing about Christmas."
You know. She's right. Let's skip Halloween and Thanksgiving and go straight for Q4 BUY BUY BUY SHOP TILL YOU DROP OMGWTFBBQ SALES!!!! X-Mass extravaganza.
This might be an ironic stance for me to take as I work for a major etailer, but still. I want to be able to enjoy Fall and Halloween, upcoming Birthdays (Gabe and my sister in law Amy), Thanksgiving before I have to worry about selling all my blood plasma to try to afford to buy presents for people, who already have everything that they NEED.
Trick or (Humbug) Treat everyone!
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