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Posts from November 2007

Plus: Can We Say Discount?

At Game Store, of course I get the discount. But being employed at this particular Game Store allows me also to get discounts elsewhere!
What does ABC Company give me?

Dot dot dot
Paper cuts.
Lovely. Really.
I’m beginning to think this retail thing was a good idea. Easier on my pocket books during Christmas, thats for sure.


Minus: Pay Per Park

Oy. I have the easiest parking at real job, but ABC Company is located in one of the most dangerous cities in the United States. I get to park right across the street from the door that takes me up to my perch. But I’m constantly listening outside for screeching tires and gun shots (which [...]


Plus: More Eye Candy

Real job is in an office. Far far away from hipster zombies and lost geek boys.
Game Store is in eye candy central. I get to see more boys (men, mind you) and toys. Flirt and smile.
Seeing my coworkers at Real Job every day only makes me realize how much more grey hair they are getting.


You’re hired!

I am fully employed at a very boring job. Said job will be called ‘real job’, and real job is at ABC Company, in Any City, USA.
But real job is very boring. Very secluded. More details will reveal themselves when need be, so all you need to know right now is that real job is [...]


Recent Oil Spills

2 oil spills in less than 3 weeks.
58,000 gallons in the San Francisco Bay Area
Over 500,000 gallons in the Black Sea Strait
Just typing those sentences makes me scared. And it’s making me very skeptic.
These events… are….
COME ON! Two spills in less than three weeks?! Oil companies have to be in on it. They totally could [...]


Sad cold season.

Oh how sad I am. Windsurfing season has been long done with. But each day I drive by the Berkeley Marina and I look over to see if there are any brave souls in their 4/3’s or thicker braving the chilly winds.
I might have to take up off season surfing. Find me a thicker wetsuit, [...]


My, that was a long road trip.

What do I recommend for long road trips?
Audio books!
Lots and lots of audio books. Because when you’re trucking 90MPH between El Paso and Austin (the posted limit is 80MPH, btw) at 2am in the morning, you aren’t going to find your favorite NPR station.
I picked up The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and it [...]