This weekend

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Was good. I had a fairly relaxing time. I got a bonus at work (see the previous post) and I have been wanting to get a Synergy hockey stick for some time, but couldn’t justify the cost. So when I got a bonus I decided to treat myself. Wednesday night I had a game, and right before it, a guy I knew had just broken his Synergy stick, and he gave me the broken stick, so I cut off the broken blade and fitted a composite blade to it and Boom! Composite Synergy stick, and I saved $100 on it. AND I know it’s got the juice, since I scored on my first shot with it. Quick wrister, top corner short side, and the keeper didn’t have a chance! I Rawk.

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Phantom Bonus…

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So today I went to my mail slot, to pick up all my mail, and my last 10 or so paychecks
And I’m going through them and between the 11/15 check and the 11/30 my bonus YTD has gone up $1400, but there’s nothing indicating that I was paid $1400. So I go down to payroll and show them my checks and she looks it up and says that in november, a check was issued to me, And they ask if I won some kind of award but was never told or paid. Usually they issue this award for filing a patent or something, and I know I haven’t so….

Then the payroll lady calls me back and double checks that the project manager didn’t give me an award. She relates that I was, in fact supposed to have received an award and check back in November.

Now I just got the real info: My boss told me that I was supposed to be given an award and check for extra-work back in the fall and it wasn’t a public presentation award(They’re usually given out at our all-hands meetings), because it was for personal extra effort. So now this is what’s happened:

I wasn’t told that I was supposed to get an award that people didn’t know about. It wasn’t given to me, I can’t tell people about it and no-one knows what happened or where it is.

But at least it’s on my permanent record.

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Gay IRC

Posted on by kylar

-> 6.6 Gig Are you serious?
-> Damn
-> I’ll start pulling it after work
(GodComplx) lets all start the DL at 5PM PST
-> OK!
(Beep) 6.6 gig for what?
(GodComplx) Cuis’ new Gay porno he starrs in
-> ‘Fast Eddie, Fast Times’
(GodComplx) hahaha
-> It’s a story of a small town boy who goes to the big city to seek his
fortune, and falls in with the fast times of high living, and has to turn
to pornography and gay prostitution to maintain his lifestyle
-> I think, ultimately, it’s a love story
(GodComplx) BWAHAHAA
(GodComplx) blah coming

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Demo and Stuff

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Last night we had a big demo where we showed the alpha of our product to our sales people and SEs. It went well. Today was kind of low key, we didn’t do much, talked about the things that we’ve been doing and what we’re going to do for the next couple weeks until we do our long term planning and start breaking things out. I also think there is going to be some re-arranging of people and groups at work, but no real information or evidence yet.

I was talking and thinking about how much things have changed in the last year. Last year I worked for Juniper, lived in a different house, did different things. This year I have a new house, work in Cupertino at Packeteer, and lots of other things have changed too.

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Don’t Blow A Fuse.

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Kelly told me that a few days ago when she was plugging or unplugging the cell phone charger into the car, it wouldn’t work, and at approximately the same time, the radio stopped working. So this weekend I looked up the fuse for the radio and pulled it. It was fine. So I just assumed that it was beyond me and told her to call the dealership and get it in there. Then last night, I thought “Wait, what IF! There was another fuse for the Rear Entertainment System? And that one was blown? So I get out of the van (I was waiting for Kelly at the store), and pop open the hood, pull the fuse and… Nothing. It’s fine.

THEN I get the brilliant Idea to find out if there’s a different fuse for the power/accessory thing. There is. It’s blown. So I grab me a quarter and jam it into that slot and BOOM! We’re good as gold. DVD player, radio, everything is back in action.

I’m just like MacGyver, baby!

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