Multiply 365 Day 274 - Dick Cancer Awareness

I am watching football yesterday and during the course of the games I am seeing players with pink towels, or pink gloves, or pink mouthpieces. Apparently it was in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I guess my question is, when isn't it Breast Cancer Awareness Month? Really, is it ever off the schedule? I know there are times when here in Pittsburgh they will change the water in the fountains pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness, there are cabs that drive around town that are pink, because it's all about Breast Cancer Awareness. I get it, really I do. Breast Cancer exists. I am aware. Enough already. Or at least grant Dick Cancer Awareness equal time. Let's spend a few years talking about nothing but Dick Cancer. It's only fair.

So without further adieu, this will be your Dick Cancer Awareness Blog. Between little snipptes from me, I will make you aware of Dick Cancer. And really, that would be an awesome porn name. “Anal Invaders” starring Dick Cancer. Okay, I'll stop.

So it seems that Monday Night Football on ESPN has pulled their Hank Williams Jr opening after HW Jr appeared on the Fox News morning show and basically called Barak Obama Adolph Hitler. Now those of us locally know that ESPN can get testy when it comes to their image, as was the case with Mark Madden, a local sports talk host who was working for the local ESPN affiliate at the time and was fired for making the comment upon Ted Kennedy's passing that he figured when Kennedy died it would be from drowning. That was reason enough for management in Bristol to end their association with Mark Madden and he was shown the door, so them pulling the HW Jr opening of Monday Night Football is not that big a stretch for those of us living here in Pittsburgh.

In the United States there are reported between 7500 and 8000 cases of Dick Cancer a year.

The register system at work is still trying to figure out just what it was I did to it. It was still running slow most of Sunday and while it was better today, it still had numbers in the system that I had taken out on Saturday but the deletions haven't crossed the entire system yet. I hope they have rebooted them at least once since I did everything, maybe I should do that tomorrow. Just to make sure that when it reconnects it is connecting to the new improved model I have in the basement and not keeping shadows of its crappy former self hanging around.

Dick Cancer kills roughly 400 men in the United States each year.

Did you ever have one of those moments where you are doing something and remember that you forgot to blog about something, but now that you have remembered you will be sure to get around to it, on,ly to find that now that you are sitting down you have once again forgotten what you previously remembered after you forgot it the first time? Yeah, that's where I am right now. I distinctly remember being at work and through the course of the day I was doing something an the thought that “yeah, I forgot to mention that” popped into my head. Well guess what? Looks like I am going to forget to mention it again, because I forgot what it was.

While I call it Dick Cancer for comedic purposes, technically it is testicular cancer. But I imagine you already knew that.

Well, we are closing in on about 10 days till the hockey game I a supposed to go to but I still don't have the tickets yet. I talked to Fred about them on Friday and he said he would bring them in this week, probably on Wednesday, so I a not in full blown panic mode yet. But I am aware of my luck with women, so it would not be beyond the realm of my karma for the whole thing to blow up in my face since I actually have an attractive female that wants to be seen in public with me. Or will at least tolerate being in public with me if a free hockey game is involved.

You can still have sex even after having Dick Cancer.

Okay, I am done now. Feel free to go forth and tell other about Dick Cancer. Make them aware. Get it a month.

Multiply 365 Day 273 - Every day is not like Sunday

Hello again. Just me being lazy this evening, watching some football and being all warm under a comforter. I sort of slept in today, didn't get up until 8:30am. Then it was me waddling down to the corner store for coffee and chocolate chip coffee cake for breakfast. And that was the extent of me being outside today.

Unlike last week at this time, I am uncomfortable about all three of my fantasy football teams. They all are winning, but none of the games are blowouts and both myself and my opponents have guys playing Sunday and/or Monday night. So I can't really come in here and brag all that much. The only thing I know for certain is I move on in my survivor pool, I had the Atlanta Falcons this week who won 30-28 over Seattle. I know a handful of people fell out again this week, a few mistakenly picked Buffalo this week, so the pool will shrink again. There were 43 entries in the contest, we are down to less that 17 after 4 weeks.

Other than that, not much to report again. Just a very quite day on the home front. I got some cleaning done for a change, no where near enough mind you, but some nonetheless.

Hopefully tomorrow I can begin putting items back into the register system that I removed yesterday. My plan of attack will be to just break the store into sections, and each day try to knock out a section or two if possible. Technically I did start this on Saturday by working on the Pepsi, Coke and Arizona products but that is just a small amount of all of the things we carry.

Well, that was nice. Just saw a Ray Rice TD run, that will help all three of my fantasy teams. He also had a long pass reception earlier, 52 yards I think, so he is off to a nice start this evening. Go me and all that jazz.

Anyway, I guess I will call it a night. I have a few long days ahead of me this week and would like to start the week without being sleep deprived.

Multiply 365 Day 272 - Working weekend

I'll try to be brief, seeing as how the midnight hour is fast approaching. I would have like to have settled in for this entry sooner, but as luck would have it I ended up pulling a 14.5 hour shift at work. I wasn't planning on it being quite that long, but admittedly what I did needed done and it will not hurt the paycheck none.

The plan was to go in and work on getting stuff put into the system, items that previously did not scan. Sammy wanted to do breakfast this morning, it was his turn to buy so I wasn't complaining, though I probably would have went somewhere whether he was going or not. Instead it was a Deluca's run, which was much needed if for no other reason than for the coffee, though the food was quite good and filling. It turned out to be handy given how long my shift turned out to be.

I managed to get a large portion of the bottled sodas into the system, but the main thing I ended up getting done was getting rid of all of the useless items and codes from the system. If I never see a bar code again, I can't say I would miss it at this point. Of my 14.5 hours, probably a good 11 of it was spend in front of a computer just looking at bar codes and deleting items that were put in wrong originally, or items that we don't even carry that were left in there. We literally had items still in the system from a dairy provider that we haven't used in at least 4 years. And cigarettes that I am not even sure are available anymore. Kent? Vantage?

Of course when I have to rip stuff out of the system, it slows down the rest of the system, including the registers because our system is so out of date that they don't have the memory to do updates as fats as I am making them. As a result the registers pause between registers, trying to process all of the information going into them. I am hoping they are done updating by Monday morning, but given how much I changed I can't say for certain that will be the case.

Anyway, I am off for some nap time I think. Getting out the door at 6am and getting in after 11pm makes for a very tired me. And I still haven't checked my email yet. Thankfully I get to sleep in tomorrow.