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Saturday, March 26, 2005
Somtimes I HATE my life...
UPS SUXS!
I now have a boycut.... I had to cut my hair, before entering the stupid Driver Training program, and I didn't want to turn it down, as we are kinda short money (household wise, the business is fine) and turning down work at UPS is like saying "PLEASE FIRE ME!"
N-E-Ways, So as I said, I now have a boycut, and then, I almost failed out of the damn class on Friday, as they have us driving a weird 5 speed disel in the following configuration R-1-2-3-4-5 (picture to come later) instead of a standard 1-2-3-4-5-R which is REALLY stupid when you consider that our center only has 4spd Regular gas package cars, in a 1-2-3-4-R configuration... So why do I need to learn this 5 speed monstrosity, when all the NEW vehicles are gonna be Automatic transmission?
N-E-Ways, nuff ranting for now.. Time to hugg woffie and cry some more.
-Kirstyn
Sunday, March 13, 2005
Presentations and past projects......
Well, I did my presentation on basic data/network security.... I used BJ's, Choice Point, Lexis Nexis, and DSW Shoe Warehouse as examples.... I talked about "social engineering" to get data, and how low-cost backups are nowadays.... I also sold them on the idea of VoIP.... So I've spent the last couple days, trying to find the best private lable VoIP reseller plan that I can, since we can't afford to put in our own VoIP infrastructure.... We have quite a few nice possibilities..... And I had to PROMISE that I would come back in a couple months, to update them on our (PP&F's) progress in the VoIP market....
Now that's over..... Onto other subjects....
Past Projects.... I've spent the last couple days, going through, and looking at an old design project, and wondering WHY the customer went with another company... Whilst I want to show off my design work, as we are still friendly with the company, I don't want to disparage their name... But I will say, the reason we were told, is that their main vendor, told them, that if they moved their site from us, to x company, then the vendor, would put a link to the customer's website on vendors webpage... and they did...
That SUX...
That's all for now... more in a day or so....
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
I just want to cry!
I can't belive this...
On monday, I was told by one of my business partners, that I was to be doing a presentation for the south jersey business assocation... On WEDNESDAY (AKA TOMORROW)....
OK, I decided to to it, as a favor, since he's the current president, and his speaker fell through... Plus, PP&F could ALWAYS use good advertising...
So I decided to make a dialup cellphone link to the net, and do a Q&A, with help from the internet...
KEWL HUH!.... Then I decided, I should do some sort of presentation... Well... I gathered some info, and slides from the net, and put together an 87 slide powerpoint presentation using OpenOffice Impress (Like PowerPoint, but FREE)....
Well, aparently my presentation about virus updates, spam, and cookies v spyware, was too long...
So I killed it to just the 5 basic steps of keeping ur puter tip top (virus updates, windows/mac update, scandisk, defrag, and backup).... Now I have it down to about 57 slides...
Still too long I'm told....
So I guess I could do just the Spam, and Cookies v. Spyware, or 10 tips for diagnosing puter problems.... but the most substantive part of the presentation is the damn 5 basics.... Which I told, would be good for a 1 on 1 situation, but not for a group setting...
N-E-Ways, I'm SEVERYLY fucking depressed at the moment... In fact I'm writing this, in the relative darkness of the bathroom (no lights in here yet, normally use a flashlight to get around)... Just so that Kim doesn't ask what I'm doinging, and I don't have to tell her that I'm updating my blog, altho someone will eventually tell her, someone always does....
n-e-ways, I'm off....
-Kirstyn
Monday, March 07, 2005
Wasted.... Wiring..... Weeping....
I'm SOOOOOOOO tired today... I just can't handle it....
I went into the office today to do a little bit of work for Kim, and then I just faded, and almost fell asleep at her desk.... It sounds semi innocent, and not important, but that doesn't usually happen to me. Not that fast, not in that way.
N-E-Ways, onto other things... We had what seems to be most of a circuit go bad Friday.... Wasn't till sat I think it was, when we got back online... I've done small bits of rerouting around the bad stuff, but I still need to find out what went wrong and where, as the stuff that seems to be bad, is really old paper wrapped wiring, which kind of scares me, and Kim...
Guess that's it... I know the title of this is Wasted, Wiring, Weeping, but I just wanted a title that sounded good... There's been no real weeping today, cept a lil bit, after the bad dreams....
-huggs-
Kirstyn
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Work SUX....
Today, a couple of co-workers and I, talked about creating an anti-UPS site... Where we could go, and bitch about our supervisors, our jobs, and all kinds of shit.
It's a good Idea, I think I might sponsor the space for it... No biggie....
Other than that, work just sux... Nothing more than usual.... I really don't like getting up at 4am to goto work, but then again, I'd be just as pissy if I had to wake up at 8am to goto work...
But, I promised Bill and Kim that I would hold normal office hours, if PPF got an office, a REAL office, and I found out today, that he was thinking that putting me in the basement of what is going to be his new office, would be ok... and that's not true... When I say I want a REAL office, I want a place, where I can bring in customers, a place where I can meet with clients, I want PPF to have a REAL office..
N-E-Ways, I need to sit down, and put my ideas on paper, so that we can have a business meeting, plus it's nap nap time...
-huggs-
piper
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Round and Round we go.....
Well, got my but up at 4:00am this morning (actually more lke 4:27 after liberally using the snooze button) got to work, and asked "Do you want to go home?" turns out, everyone actually showed up for work today... Talk about strange... First time so far this year.....
N-E-Ways, I did, and I had a nice long sleep... It was nice being able to wake up at 9am and feeling rested, instead of coming home from work, taking a nap, sleeping till noon, and still feeling like I had been up for days... I'm REALLY gonna need to go see that damn shrink about more sleeping pills soon....
No nightmares last night, thank god... Altho I got REALLY down today, had to do with a discussion about business stuff.... I really think I am reverting back to my always depressive state... But that's a topic for another time...
This is just a quick update, so that I get something down... N-E-Ways, that's all for now...
-HUGGS-
Kirstyn Amanda Fox.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Long time... No... Life....
Well, it's been a long time, since I updated this thing.... It's partially, my fualt, for not updting it, because, well, like every other journal I have, I get all enthused about it in the beginning, then just slack of.... And it's also partially my fault, for forgeting the user name and password that I used, so I wasn't able to update it when I wanted to... Kim's had plenty of problems since the last time I updated this.... But I'm not going to replay that all there... If you want more info, read her site @ http://www.kimem.net
On to me, beause, well, that's what this whole page is about... ME... Right? I mean this is the one place, I can be selfish and antisocial, and be allowed to do it... I mean it is MY page, and this is my place to rant, cry, get pissy, and anything elese I want....
So lets see... If I remember, last I left off, I was just starting prozac... Well now I'm on Prozac, Trileptal, and Ambien.... And I have to go see a shrink every once in a while... Altho I do everything I can, to NOT go to the shrink... I don't know why, but going to see him scares me, I think it has something to with the fact that I lie to him, alot....
He asks me if I have been having thughts about sewercide, and I say "no".... But the truth would be, "YES, OFTEN, ALL THE TIME, SEMI SEVERLY".... But why would I want to go and tell the truth about that.... I really don't want to be locked away.... I mean, if I hurt myself, it's my own problem... No one elses, cept maybee Kim and Bill, but we're not going to go there... I mean, I haven't done anything, and that's what really counts...
Also, I've never told him about being TG, so all he sees is the male me... Which is fine, since he's treating the Manic/Depressive stuff... altho, with me not going to see him, I'm not really even letting him do that...
I try to go see him, every 4 months or so, if I can force myself to.
He's a nice enough guy, and I had no problem in the beginning, but then, I think it's the lying that got to me...
Oh well... Still working at UPS, I'm loading trucks now (whoopie)... but atleast I got a $1/hr raise... which is better than nothing...
n-e-ways, that's all for tonite, now that I found the user name and password, I will try to update this page often, but you all know my habits, plus, it's not like n-e-1 cares.
