The Golden Apple Corps

A day late and a doller short

So just so we are clear i dont have any pictuers right now. Soon, I will be flooding you with a sea of images but for now, you get to read.

I'm stuck out in camp, and as a rule of thumb, you complain about being in camp cause, well.. cause its camp. But i cant really do that. Yeah sure the cell services sucks but im ordering a satalite service so we should have interent and phone and the whole nine yards, but until then we have to suffice. The beds are VERY confortable, and the cooks and the food are better then half decient, they are actually pretty good.

The crew is a hit an miss, some of them are miserable old men who do nothing but complain to me about one thing or another, but for the most part i tell them where they can go and it stops for a while. They change out so much that its never going to really be an issue.

I miss Kant. Very much. When I call the cell sevices is broken but we make it work. He's being really good about me being away. This time last year he couldnt go twenty minutes with out calling me. I think my novelty has worn off :P

So we're bulding a pipeline, and its timeconsuming and really bloody expensive, like 25 million dollers expensive. Can you believe that? Twenty five million dollers, say it with me. Tewn-Tee F-high-VE MILL-EON doll-ers. Thats alot of freaking money, and they dont care! Meh, what ever, if it cost an extra grand just do it, its nothing, just walking around money. I actully hate oil companies for it, their non-scholance to the average joes finachel troubles. I can not think of a single person who couldnt use 2 grand right now. Not one! Can you? I dout it.

Its ignorence and it bothers me.

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Today we met 'Sue'

So My day didn't exactly start the best but when i got home from doing my orientation with husky, which was stupid by the way, but don't worry I'll get to that, we went for an EPIC walk.

Eris and i went on this Epic walk to the dog park. We went through all the back alleys,and in our fair city all the ally ways are grass so they were nice an cool for her tiny feet, and there were plenty of dogs to look at. She really wasn't all that interested in sniffing the other dogs and when they barked at her she kinda ran away. But yeah we went on this epic walk and i have to admit that i kinda got a bit lost and we had to back track a bit, but we got to the dog park and hung out for a good hour or so and met some other dogs. She was a real chicken! it want until all  but one of the dogs left that she started to get social. But boy! when she did it was hilarious! she was acting like a cat! thats how she would play because that how our kitties play with her, and the poor chocolate lab in the picture didn't know what to do, but Eris eventually caught on to how play is supposed to work and they had a wonderful time! Shes got quite the lil attitude to her too! she was barking and giving orders like i just couldn't believe! The labs owner dubbed her the 'Lil' Boss'

So after all that was done we walked home and she was so tuckered out that shes still sleeping on my lap. It was a long morning for her!

So back to my work thing. Well I got back from out of town on Friday and had to go into my local office to get husky orientated, which in itself was a joke... seriously, why would some one doing payroll even care about what the different color lock out tags are, yeah I know it a generic video for every one, but its so very very boring... But thats not the kicker. Their receptionist, this over bearing slobby looking woman, tell me that everything I had been taught was wrong, and she needed to see ALL my work before it's sent to the head office cause its a local job and blah blah flipping blah. Seriously, where does she get off talking to people like that? So I call the head office cause in the end everything gets sent there, so I want to make sure that what I'm going to do now instead of what i spent the last week learning was okay, and with a few tweaks  it will be and thats all fine and dandy. Well this receptionist, we should give her a name because I have a feeling that I'm going to be bitching about her in the future too, lets call her... Sue. Anyways Sue calls me up to tell me that i was out of line calling the head office and blah blah blah. I tell her that I didn't mean any offense *cause I like my job minus her and want to keep it* and that i only needed clarification, etc. Mean while I'm thinking, 'Your out of line to talk to me that way! I was only trying to clarify what was going to be expected of me.' 

Now, yeah I do know that maybe, possibly I jump to conclusions about people, or make judgments based on how they present them selves, or how they talk, especially if they talk without moving their teeth and it looks like an angry dog ready to bite you in the jugular and they have an awful slur because of it. Maybe I'm to rash, but you know what it doesn't matter, my first impression has been had,and she poorly represented herself. Poor Sue, all because she wore yoga pants that didn't fit and talked with her teeth clenched together. You know she could just be poor and have a mental retardation, but then again some times Kant and I make fun of people like that.

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Understanding Starbucks pebbels

So This new job of mine, its mostly accounting type work. accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll etc. Well, let me tell you, if i wasn't a Discordian before I sure as hell am now.

The chaos, or supposed chaos that they work in is unimaginable, and i wish i were exaggerating. lets say that everything you write down in a day that has anything, and i do mean anything, to do with money in your work place and put it all into one box. Now remember that there are 200 employees who will put there stuff in this box too, so its a very BIG box. then from there it has different categories, and colours that it goes into, 2 of the 3 colours get signed by 2 different people , then get refiled in to different categories again get entered into a computer, printed on 1 of 3 different coloured paper and get signed again. Now the papers that have only one colour they skip the first signing and get directly entered into the computer in the accounts receivable, if they have any bills associated with them. Then, or first if they didn't qualify for accounts payable they go to payroll because 9 time out of 10 they are your time sheets. then they get recorded once with their serial number, then again to their job number bot get printed an the serial numbers need to get signed and the job numbers go to accounts receivable and there's whole other process for that but we don't need to know it because they just hired some one to do that today. Thank god.

so after the the Etickets are sign they are hole punched and stored away in shelves no one will ever see , then the edocuments go somewhere and when they come back they are cheques ready to be printed out.

So some how in the middel of all this mad typing and flying rainbows of paper I'm getting an education in organisation, filing and accounting. Its madness and somehow it all flows so smothly. The people are so good to one another, happy and out going, friendly and welcoming. Its fun and crazy and some how I really think we are doing a good god damb job!

And this is what i have learned since Monday morning this week.

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The new Zune

So I was sent the new Zune ads today And I thought them worthy enough to put up here for you to see. So far the birds one is my favorite

Living in a hotel isnt really living at all.

So i got up really super early this morning to go for a swim. Like 6 am to hit the pool for a swim. It was really quite nice, I've never swam in an empty pool like that before, there was always kids or other people around. it was like a Zen kind of feeling. And iv decided that we need to get a pool for out back yard. No more grass, no more trees, just a heated pool. Yep, and hot tub.

So the people above me in the hotel are big jerks who don't go to sleep until midnight and have no concern for others. I really hope they aren't here tonight but i think i hear them already.

I don't really have a whole lot to say. Work as intense cause of all the training and what not but I think I'm getting it, and the people there REALLY seem to like having me around so its nice that way too.

But I'm tired, sore and kinda grumpy so rather then bitch for another 500 words I'll cut it short.

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Returning to a question

So I posted before about how its not a bad thing if you don't know what you want to do for a living, most people don't know what they want to do, even if they are 60 years old. I just wanted to touch on to that  quickly seeing as how I seem to be 24 hours into a new career for my self. I believe its my 7th COMPLETE career change so bear with me, i get bored easily.

Its good to have a goal, but most goals get given up on these days so i wouldn't recommend you start with that. I wouldn't recommend picking something you love to do, because the majority of people these days love to be lazy and only welfare pays for that. So i would pick something that you find your self doing repeatedly. For example, I've had A LOT  of bottom rung jobs cleaning and stocking shelves, but some how i manage to get my self into a spot where I'm receiving, doing paper work or obsessively organizing things, and i do mean obsessive. I once tore down, rebuilt, reordered and filed an entire store wear house in two and a half weeks. I may have tore a muscle in the process but it got me out of doing customer service and runing a till. From then on i was inputting all their computer shipping orders and stamping 'received' on hundreds of 6 x 8.5 pieces of paper. I don't really enjoy stamping things or entering in numbers or even alphabetizing this but it seems to be something i can, or am drawn to, do with out wanting to blow my pretty little brains out.

So now iv decided to go into administration for and oilfield construction company. Where my obsessive compulsive urges to prioritize and organize can flourish and i can tell some one to sod off with out  much worry of repercussion.

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A type of cross roads

So I drove 5 hours today to staying a hotel in a town where I'll be training for a new job. Sadly thats not nearly as exciting as it sounds. In fact I would say it sucks. I'm bored and lonely, wheres my dog when I need her?

I had Kant take Eris to her breeders so that she could have other dogs to play with while I was gone. If she was home she would just mope around and whine all day cause I wasn't there and thats no fun for any one.

I was thinking that I never mentioned that Kant proposed to me last month, naturally I said  yes, duh... But any ways I was on Ebay and i found this AMAZING wedding dress for like 180 bucks after shipping. Wait, pause, only 180 dollars? Yeah thats what I said too, but I figured that for what it looks like its worth the risk if its a scam. But when/if it gets here I'll let you all know. Even Kant's mom was amazed, and shes a woman who doesn't raise her eyebrow like that to often.

But I feel like I'm just waisting space. I should be able to bring Eris out to camp with me in august, but I'm still waiting to see how that goes.

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So its kind of like moving

I had started a blog about 2 months ago in anticipation of my new puppy, and due to some unforeseen frustration with my previous blog host I have decided to move here. Their loss is my gain, or something like that...

Moving blogs isn't unlike moving from a new house I've found. There is much cataloging and inventorying and budgeting, first and foremost to determine if its even worth it. But hey its change, every one likes change right? Well rather then try and repost everything over here I'm just going to leave a link up to my old site until one day it grows old and dies. The pictures however, are coming with me!

http://theoriginalsnub.blogspot.com/

I hope you all enjoy. :)