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It would figure that on a morning that I woke later than usual, I would have a number of thoughts on my mind. I simply don’t have the time to get into any of it.

Almost an hour until I need to leave for work.

I’m tired.

I actually got to spend time in frozen, and while things are moving along, there are of course things that I would’ve handled differently if I were spearheading the project. But, I mean, everybody likes to say something like that about almost everything that goes on in that store–or in any workplace for that matter. I do find it interesting that one of my criticisms and thoughts for what could’ve been a solution is shared by Ashlee.

*sigh*

I really don’t feel like writing anything. I just thought that maybe I should take advantage of the time I had to sit and do something.

I think I’d rather try to take a nap.

I think I’m gonna go take a nap.

Got home a little bit ago; enough time has passed for me to visit the bathroom, dress down, gather up some laundry for the wash, and sit at the table.

My feet hurt.

It was a pretty good night at work, I guess. Rather than being in frozen, I was directed to go work Claire’s–or the tenant space that had been occupied by Claire’s up until last year; since Claire’s left, the store has been using the space for additional “stockroom” space, primarily for whatever merchandise is being promoted on the “seasonal pad”. At present, Claire’s is being occupied by our BTS–“back to school”–items.

I didn’t have too awful much “live” freight that truly needed to be worked to the floor, so once that task was finished, I spent the remainder of the night “binning” the rest of the merchandise. I do hope that someone gets a chance to go through the room and “pick” it, otherwise all of that work I did to label and stack everything on the walls is kind of a loss. In binning it, however, I did–at the very least–sort things back out, and gave the grandest portion of the merchandise a label carrying the items’ respective locations. Beyond the binning of all that merchandise, someone needs to go back through the seasonal pad and play with the shelf caps (capacity).

I think I’m supposed to actually join the fun in frozen, tonight, so long as no-one gets the idea of having me run any other freight elsewhere. And, no, that’s not a complaint–far from it; I actually liked the task I was given, at least as I understood I was to handle it. I wouldn’t mind tackling any other projects that are tossed to me, either. I just kind of hope that I get to at least touch the one that I thought I was being brought overnight for.

Meanwhile, I just noticed two flaws in my html version of the journal/blog/whatever; 1.) I don’t have a refresh tag to attempt a forced reload of the “posts” page, so that viewers don’t get stuck seeing whatever cached version they may have in their history–I think I remember that being a thing 2.) I don’t list any date/time-stamp in the body of the posts. I guess those are things that I should look into changing sometime in the future.

I dunno. I’m running out of things to say, again. Guess I’ll end it here, and find something else to do, while I wait for Ashlee to come home.

Sitting at the table just killing a little bit of time before I go into work. I’m not sure what I’m expecting when I get there. Ashlee had said that when she had spoken with Hayden that the plan was going to be to have me focus on stocking, and that the primary focus of everyone else would be to set the mods.

I tinkered with the taillights on the truck. It looks like the one just needs a new bulb for now. I do need to trace the wiring, because it looks like the parking light isn’t working, but the brake light does. Honestly, I need to replace the sockets for both sets of taillights and reverse lights. I also need to see about fixing the marker lights that Dad had put on the rear, below the taillights. The marker lights aren’t necessary, but the added lighting is a nice backup if the others burn out. If I’m remembering right, Dad installed those lights when he was trying to figure out a wiring issue.

I dunno. Guess I’ll see what else I can tinker around with, as I can’t think of anything else to write.

I think two of the primary reasons why I let the laptop fall out of memory are that: 1.) the thing is slow, and; 2.) connectivity issues.

Speed really isn’t that huge of a deal; the issue there lies mainly in that it’s an old netbook that was built to run Windows XP at an awesome pace in a Windows Vista and Windows 7 world. It’s old. It just can’t handle the weight of modern browsers accessing the modern web–unless I tried to use lighter, handicapped browsers, which I’m really not opposed to.

Connectivity issues are probably my biggest problem with the thing. I really don’t know what is up with the wireless in this laptop. I’m guessing that the radio might just be suffering from it’s design–maybe it’s low-powered when compared to others, and it’s the low power design that causes it to be weak. More likely, however, is that there is an issue with the antenna, and I just can’t catch a strong enough signal thanks to the wire being routed funny or accidentally grounded out somewhere.

I went ahead and did a fresh install of Debian on it the other night, and it seems to be running a bit better, so some of the issues I had been noticing were related to the previous OS and what I’d done to it. Sad, really, as I remember having fun using the distro I had previously installed–Q4OS. I think what my issue there had ended up becoming was my preferences for vanilla versions of random applications over the ones tweaked for Q4OS, and then the random program or two requiring libraries outside of that distro’s base; so my punching holes and adding on top of the OS just kind of ruined it.

But, now, the laptop seems to be running fine–or as fine as is to be expected, given what I’m trying to do with it.

Just a quick random note for the heck of it. I just discovered that I had a whole other laptop that I forgot about. It ain’t anything to write home about, as it–like most of my other hardware–is way out of date; but it’s a laptop that I forgot about!

Long time, no write.

I’m not really sure how long it’s been since I’ve written anything–maybe a week or two.  That’s not because I haven’t had anything to write about–I have–I’ve just not had much time to sit down and write, though I wouldn’t necessarily say that I’ve been too busy; I’ve just been focused on other things. One of the most recent things that I’ve had stealing my focus away is what I’m using to write this entry–a “new” laptop!

My parents came over the other day, as I *finally* found some time available to help my dad out with an issue he had with his van. For the past few months–maybe longer–dad’s been waiting for me to be available to change a plug, because it would be a total pain in the ass for him to attempt to do so–the joys of vans with recessed engine compartments. Anyway, when they came, they brought a gift from my sister–an old ThinkPad she was no longer using. This is now the newest computer I own, lol.

I really haven’t done much to the laptop, other than set up an account, install a few packages, and introduce it to the home network. It came with Mint installed and I decided to keep it, since I’m familiar, and I’m already a fan of Debian derivatives. The only “work” I had to do was drop into a root shell, reset her password and then use that account to create mine; then I killed that account and reset mine to the newly freed user and group id.

Other than laptop things, I toyed around with some cheap junk I got from Ali. I picked up a couple of flash drives, and neither one worked as expected, which I guess is really what should have been expected. One drive is “damaged” according to F3–it won’t allow anything to happen other than attempts at creating partitions; the other has an identity crisis–it’s an 8GB drive that thinks it’s a terabyte. Sadly, I’d hoped that maybe I could use that fake one for the Wii, but where it turned out to be only 8GB it’s not useful for much of anything other than sneaker-net use.

I did, however, manage to recover data from one of the previous drives I was using on the Wii, so I don’t need to re-download anything whenever I do finally get a drive for it. Hopefully, whenever that happens, the kids will keep calm and stop tripping over or yanking controllers around, as I will most likely get yet another spinning disk as a replacement instead of something solid state. Yes, I said yanking and tripping over cords–the kids have preferences for games that take advantage of the GameCube controllers, though there are a few they do like that use the Wii-motes.

*sigh*

Well, I guess it’s time for work. Maybe I’ll come back later today and write some more.