best day of work ever

Deliveries are usually boring but not Thursday. It started with the diner that we wanted to eat at being closed, making me think this was a foreshadowing of the day to come. But oh no it only went up from there. He made our first stop then went to a different diner that served pancakes as big as your head, that is not exaggerated. We were still running ahead of schedule so we called a head and managed to make our next delivery. It was a long shot for the next one that was supposed to be 2 hrs from that time but we got lucky and got that one done too. It was about 11:30am at this point. Our next time was at 3pm and there was not way to change this so we had to find a way to busy ourselves. How first idea was to go bowling but that did not work out so well. We then had a much better idea as to how to fill in these hours, mini golf and skeeball. We went on the the Sports Emporium and did just that. I can hardly believe that I was playing mini golf in late February. Something to note at this point, sticks and pine cones really throw off ones game, the cold and small amount of rain did not help either. I lost.

After that we wanted to go inside where it was warm. We were the only customers so we had free reign of everything. The arcade machines were ok for about 5 minutes then we moved on to just about each and every ticket giver in the place. Spending tokens is so much easier than spending money, meaning you don't realize how much you are pumping in to these machines. We were there til about 2pm, leaving with a stuffed donkey from Shrek, a Dash keychain from the Incredibles, and the ridiculous notion that we just got paid to play games all afternoon.

You might think that we proceeded to the delivery but you would be wrong. We managed to get on the right road going in the wrong direction. We took this opportunity stop that the local G-man where I feasted on fried cheese and we sought a correction to our course of travel. Our delivery was only a few minutes late but other than that it was all good.

We recounted the various activities we did on the ride back to Harrisburg and revelled in the fact that the people back at the building were none the wiser. We even made it a point to tell people how horrendious our day was and they could not even begin to imagine the shit we had gone through. Hell we even managed to get in an hour of overtime.

who do i look like

Today at work one of the girls told me that I looked like Bo Bice (he is from american idol and i disgust myself for knowing this). I replied with an "Oh God!" She then downplayed her previous comment by saying that I only kind of did and that my hair was much better than his. I got a laugh by telling her that she was the first and hopefully the only person to ever say that I looked like him.

Speaking of funny, I learned an important lesson the other day. That a weak box piled high with packing materials, can NOT withstand the impact of a 200+ lb man leaping through the air in an attempted to compress it. This man with be left with the reminents of what used to be a box under his ass and packing material stroon around in every direction. And any one fortune enough to have witness this tragic flight will be shocked that it was even attempted since it was obvious to everyone that it clearly was not going to work and they will also be on the verge of collapsing to the ground in hysterics. I think it goes without saying who has this high jumper might have been.

menagerie

Never did I think when I woke up late for work yesterday that I would have my crotch eyed up for a ramming by a goat that acted like a dog, see peacocks walking around in the road, meet a one eyed cat, see a pen full of deer, witness a lone cow grazing with a field of horses, or get introduced to a myriad of different dogs. One of them I can not explain any better than being a mop-dog. I petted his head and that was all it took for him to be my friend. I am a friend to animals but that was ridiculous. He followed me around everywhere I went, the whole time I was thinking to myself, "I wonder how many different types of shit I have managed to find with my feet?"

Worst Job in the World

So after 3 and a half days and 11 buildings later I am finally done. No more coverage testing for me. Unfortunately now everyone at work greets me with "Can you hear me now?". I am not amused. As an end to the torture of having to endure the boredom of this assignment the guy I was working with showed me this video, which I can totally relate to. After watching it I think you will know why.

NSFW unless you have the volume down but where is the fun in that. Kind of funny since that is where I saw it but I figured I should pass on the warning.

And now for your feature presentation:
Worst Job in the World

4:00am

This is the time that my body has decided for the past 2 nights that I should be awake.

Monday - I awoke to find myself rummaging around under my bed. For what you might ask. Well I don't undertsand it but i was looking for a flip-flop. For whatever reason it was utterly important that I know where both my flip flops were at that very moment.

Tuesday - I heard my alarm so I got as usual and took a shower. Not until I sat down to put my contacts in did i realize that it was quarter after 4 in the morning and I had only imagined the alarm. This was evident from the fact that it was still set for my regular time of 630am. At least I got the extra few hours of sleep I always want when i wake up in the morning.

Day One of testing

Already the "Can you heard me now" joke is wearing a little thin. And I an sorry to say this but people that work for the state tackle a problem for about 10 minutes and if it does not get done they pass it on to someone else. This happens til they run out of people and then they come back to you with some dumb excuse why it will not get done. I say this becasue it happened with me getting my security badge. I ended up going myself down to the building super to ask for one. I did not leave his office til i got one, I clingy like that. So i unlike the employees there actually got off my ass rather than make phone calls trying to get something done.

I ended up with an hour and a half for lunch so i drove on down to Subway. And with my luck running the way it is, I ran across some lady asking all the patrons about their business. All I wanted was to eat my tasty sammich and she asks me a string of stupid questions.

Annoying Question Lady:"And where are you coming from today?"
Me:"Up the road."
Annoying Question Lady:"Well how far?"
Me:"I don't know like 2 miles."
Annoying Question Lady:"What road would that be?"
Me:"Damned if I know." ( I think I her on the ropes.)
Annoying Question Lady:"Could you be more specific?"
Me:"The windy one." (Take that nosy lady with a clipboard.)
Annoying Question Lady:"Ok, well where will you be going after you leave here?"
Me(with my finger in the air preparing to point):"Right back there."

She resigned from further abuse and walked away to put the whammy on every single unsuspecting person that walked through the door. And they, like myself, fell into her trap.

Ok, besides that, does anyone else think it disgusting when you can hear some cutting their nails from the cube over the wall?

can you hear me now?

so this coming week i get the oppurtunity to sit a cubicle. sounds like a whole lot of boring to me. the reason for this is that i will be involved in what is called coverage testing. i get to talk to a guy that will be walking around the capital building and several other important buildings around the city of harrisburg. it's basically going to be a cross between battleship and "Can you hear me now?" every location is marked off with a grid which requires testing in every square. i did not realize the scope of this project until i got details on friday afternoon. this looks like an all week project. the guy told me to bring a book to read or something because there will be downtime.