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Saturday

Well, might as well start off 2009 with a change meter update. I didn't make it to $40 before the new year began, as I have only found 5 cents since the last posting, leaving the change meter stuck at $39.98. That, however, might be the only bad thing to report.

I should note, all of the things you have either come to love or loathe about the page will be back for 2009. I have every intention of doing a brand new Neverending thread, as soon as I finish off a book this year. I still have four to add to the 2008 version,. I just have been incredibly lazy about doing so. Ask Matt Anything will also come back, though I think rather than a blog entry I am just going to post it on the calendar instead, where it will be much easier to reach. Of course Asshats and Karaoke Fridays will also be back, just because I like doing them. And Blunt Force Trauma will also be back, I have two now that I want to do, as opposed to before when I couldn't think of anything. Multiply has informed me that BFT 10.0 is lost, so it will have to be recreated, and BFT 11.0 is swishing around in my cranium as well, I just have to get up the venom required to type them out.

I did start the new job on Friday, and I can honestly say that I never thought I would be this close to a jizz mopper. Not that I am mopping floors, or that I have opted for a career in the porn industry, but the business right above the newsstand is one of those porno peep show places, so technically the first sentence is correct, at least from a proximity perspective.

Really though, I have just worked two days, hardly enough time to get a real liking or disliking for the job. And so far I have just worked from 7am-3pm, not particularly difficult shifts. It is kind of neat to actually be working downtown, a first for me, and it is something to get to work before the city really wakes up and just kind of watching it come to life as the morning progresses.

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Monday night/Tuesday monring

We all know what the dotted line means by now, I have walked away from the blog and come back to pontificate yet again. I wish blogging was more like sex. Then again, one of two things would occur, either the police would break down my door to find me all withered away, laying in front of my computer amidst a puddle of my bodily fluids, or I would be able to finish a blog entry in two minutes and still have time to microwave a hot dog.

Aren't you glad I came back for that description? Sometimes it is a almost worth asking for a refund on the price of admission around here.

Well, since I last left the blog I can say that I am a winner. Hockey wise that is, as my team went 5-3-2 this past week. I can't remember the last time I posted a winning week, so uncork the champagne kiddies, the Argonauts are back, and no longer in last place.

I did the third day of newstand work so far. The new store that was supposed to open today hasn't, there are some things that still need set up. I really haven't learned all that much since my first day, just doing a lot of the same old stuff. Not that there isn't a lot for me to learn, there is plenty I haven't been taught yet, but for now they have kept me solely on register duty. I still haven't made it on the schedule yet, I am just coming in when they tell me to, if they tell me to. I was not told to come in for Tuesday, which is fine, there are a few things I need to do anyway, so I am not going to force the issue. I have some pretty big errands to run tomorrow, most of which are career related.

Carol, who I used to ride into work with at the radio station, informed me that she had spoken to Marshall Adams, the news director at KDKA AM and he said that they may be looking for a radio producer and that I should give him a ring. Well being all computer geeky like I am, I just emailed him instead. Turns out he isn't even the guy that hires the producers for KDKA, but he did forward along my resume to those that do. As an added bonus, he saw on my resume that I had sat in for Lynn a few times, and while he has little to do with the producers that are hired, he does have a hand in hiring the on air talent so he wanted a demo of my on air work. I sent him a quick show segment that I had done with Jon Delano, but he wanted more audio, so I am going to put together a couple of CDs of my work and drop them off on Tuesday.

Tuesday is also a radio jobs fair at Duquesne University, so I have to update my resume and make some copies of it so I can drop them off with other radio stations around Pittsburgh. Don't get me wrong, I am working and in this day and age that is good, but I am not doing anything career related and the sooner I can get back into that field, the happier I will be.

I did get my unemoployment card from the great state of Pennsylvania. Mind you, they still haven't put the money on it for the two weeks I was off of work yet. And with me not knowing if I will be working full time or part time at the newsstand, it would be nice if they would get about actually compensating me for the two weeks I had off.

I have been tinkering with Diablo 2 again. Maybe it was seeing my cousins playing WOW online while I was on vacation, but I have hopped into the online option and started playing. I have rolled up 14 levels pretty quickly playing a druid. First time I have really tinkered with that character and my goodness, it is like having a walking army going with you. Usually I conjure up 4 wolves, a creeping vine, my gift archer (from completing a quest) and a spirit that all run with me while I am out fighting. There is very little yet that has stood in my way as far as combat is concerned, I am like Sherman on the march to Atlanta, just leaving destruction in my wake.

I finished off the Neverending Thread of 2008 and I am about a dozen or so pages away from starting the Neverending Thread of 2009. Since I last spoke about my reading habits and how lazy I have been in that regard, I have actually forced my way forward through the book I was reading to the point I am now just about done. Plus I fired up the old B&N gift card and the Visa gift cart the other day and bought a couple of more books (as well as a 2009 Dilbert desk calendar). I have been spoiling myself of late in that regard, I used some of my WalMart cash to by a printer for the computer and have used gift cards for cool things like groceries and stuff. I think I officially have enough food in my house where I can hole up for quite a while now, if the need should arise. That being said, one of the perks of my newstand gig is that I can buy whatever I want in the shop at a 30% discount and rather than cash, they just put it on a charge sheet and take it out of my paycheck.. It is tempting, since we do get fresh sandwiches and some cool stuff in every day (we are almost mini grocery store like in our selection) but I am wary of walking down that path, because once I start charging stuff, I may never stop. I have seen some of the charge sheets some of the employees have done, and it looks like they are working for free. I will just stick with my coffee or fountain drinks (which are free for me) and not get all caught up in throwing my money away, though the notion that I can charge my smokes now is an appealing one. I will never be out of cigarettes again. As the song goes "Bring on the cancer stick, I know if I can hit it once, I can hit it twice".

Bored to tears yet? Hope not, because there is no crying in blogging, but I will save you before your eyes start welling up and call it a nite, after all, I still have to print up a resume and burn a couple of CDs, so my computer is not quite ready for bed yet, even if I am. Nite all.