Sigh.

Well it's Thursday again. Nobody is online, Spencer hasn't come over, Ashley's in bed, I'm out of school, I work tomorrow, and I really miss Olivia, she's at my mom's. I'm pretty sure this is what depression feels like. I wish I could just make it go away, or cry, or some shit, I don't feel like doing anything, just lay in bed and do absolutely fucking nothing.

So yeah, no school, that's cool, if the weather stays nice I'll take Livi to the park more, otherwise I'll probably end up with some serious cabin fever, and more depression come work time. It's hard finding an IT job nearby, Careerbuilder.com and Monster.com recommend I should be an RN... considering that's not what I put as my career path, that's not what I have a degree in, that's definitely not what I fucking want to do, I think not. There is jack shit for work in this piss ant little town and it aggravates me to no end.

I got new glasses, I guess that's cool, I can finally stop wearing those 6 month old contacts I have. I've had a headache all day but I think it's because I have to get used to glasses again.

I saw The Watchmen tonight, good movie, not $9 per person good, but no movie is $9 per person good. I'll definitely snatch up the collectors edition DVD when it comes out.

I've decided that Lord of the Rings and Star Wars will be the pinnacle releases for Blu-Ray, if it happens. But the players, and the TV sets required, have to hit a reasonable price, which means the economy needs to get better, which means you need to stop shopping at fucking Wal-Mart and buy local!

I don't know what else to do or say, I guess I'll go smoke and contemplate what's going to happen to my life, I don't want to move away just for a new job, but I know I can't stay here, technology, and tech jobs, just seem to pass us right by.

Scheduling Fail

So the hospital has implemented this new scheduling system, perhaps you've heard of a piece of shit called Clairvia? We're supposed to be able to put in requests off, days we want to work, etc, from anywhere. We can actually only do it at work, defeating much of the purpose of this useless application. In FireFox the links necessary to do anything but stare at the damn calendar don't show as links, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer show an untrusted certificate, saying it's insecure, and from a home connection it very well could be. But also in IE and Chrome you are prevented from using your login credentials. No matter what I do, there's no way to properly log in with IE, and Chrome doesn't even give you the chance.
I see this as a huge waste of money. Training for this application was almost nonexistent, none of the employees understand or enjoy this, even the ones who understand don't enjoy it, and they don't understand why they must request for days to work. The manager is still in charge of scheduling, so you're never guaranteed anything, the fact that staff inputs requests and the manager still handles staffing is redundant and a waste of resources.

Personally I'll be happy when I find a job in my field, as I've always looked forward to, but demand for IT jobs is already down this year, unless I want to learn programming, which I don't, because I don't like math.

Time to Get the Money

So I'm sick of my job, no secret there. Not that I've ever enjoyed it. I'm almost done with school. I was thinking of working for the Geek Squad, aside from the fact that there are horror stories about them, it's right up my alley, helping people with their computers, hands on work with computers, and just maybe I'd have some intelligent coworkers. After looking at their prices I think that's a big no.

$140 to install a stick of RAM, plus hardware costs. Let's break that down.

Let's pretend Best Buy is generous and pays me $12 an hour because I'm just so damn good looking. I get told to drive the Geekmobile out to Joe Customers house to install 512MB of RAM in his computer. Geek Squads website says this will take about an hour (are you fucking serious! I can put 2, that's right, TWO! sticks of RAM in a computer in like 5 minutes, eat it bitches!). Anyways, I get out to Joes house. I go inside, power off his computer, unplug everything, disassemble the case, take old RAM out if necessary, install 512MB stick, put it all back together, power it on, and ensure his OS recognizes the RAM, hand him his bill, and get on my merry way. That was not an hour, that was a matter of minutes. But let's be kind and say he lives on the outskirts of town, in my town, from my Best Buy, that's maybe a 10-15 minute drive one way, 10-15 minutes back, and 5 minutes there, plus maybe another 5-10 for friendly chat. So let's be nice and round it up to 1 hour, I get $12 bucks for that, while Best Buy gets $140, plus the $50 for the 512MB of RAM, how screwed am I?

Meanwhile, I could do this, by myself, as an individual, and charge Joe maybe $50 plus hardware costs, maybe throw in a few extra services like defragmenting his hard disk or something, after all I'm trying to make a name for myself and I want repeat business.

I've canceled my Best Buy application halfway through, not only are they ripping off customers, but they're ripping off employees as well. I understand that everyone has to make money in this situation, but that's just ridiculous. I already have two people here at work wanting me to look at their computers, and I'm happy to do it. I've decided that I'm going to work up a price list of basic services, for any "mystery" problems, like "my computer keeps acting funky" I'll charge maybe $15 to $20 an hour. I'll make decent part time money and still be a lot cheaper than Best Buy.

Now I just need to know what to call my little endeavor. I've tossed around the idea of Nerd Corps. before, which I thought was quite the clever shot at Geek Squad. Anyone have any ideas? Does anyone read this? I can just write whatever the hell I want can't I? I would write something quite disturbing yet oddly funny, but I can't think of anything.... frosty nipples.

Still Testing

I'm still working here. In case you haven't noticed, Obama will be our next president. Tomorrow is my birthday. I've gotten my Twitter updates working again, but all of my Adsense ads aren't working yet. I smashed the crap out of my finger today and it's making it hard to sleep. I'm hoping to get enough cash to pick up a Logitech G15 keyboard, since my $5 junker is falling apart and is a pain in the ass to type on, I need something designed for a gamer. I'm at least hoping to pick up a digital optical to digital coaxial converter. They're only like $15, the optical on my surround sound gets worse all the time and a new home theater isn't an option at this time. Any Adsense guru's have any idea why my ads won't show properly? I need some in my sidebar and in between my posts.

Blog Problems

I know, I lied, there's still no new updates, don't expect anything spectacular here. There are a few elements of my blog that are no longer working as well as they should, namely Adsense, or the lack thereof. If you'll notice, I have no Ads in between posts or on the sidebar, which is a problem. So the whole layout may get changed, posts may disappear, the sun will blacken and rocks will suddenly become liquid and boil. Not really, but until I get the opportunity to further investigate, feel free to keep up with me on Twitter. My Twitter updates are on the sidebar or you can find them HERE.

Updates pending.

With work, school, building my pc, doing random tweaks, hacks, and mods, and preparing for my wedding, updates have obviously been pretty scarce. New posts coming soon! All future updates will have that same great Pwn4g3 taste with half the calories! Prepare for lots of pictures of my gaming rig, the wedding, screenshots of games, you name it, I'll have it!

More on my PC

So it's done, kinda. My video card took a dump, I'm sure it was dead on arrival, since I never had a processor to test it, but I think Newegg is shipping my new one today. Just got my new CPU cooler which is a beast, the Xigmatek HDT-S963. I lapped my CPU and the cooler, so I should get spectacular contact which will allow for better performance with overclocking. I'm so ready to fire this computer up it's driving me crazy. I'd already be enjoying the full beauty of Lord of the Rings Online and Crysis if my video card didn't shit.