Sunday, January 4, 2009

I've been setting here for hours attempting to navigate all the junk to be found on Blogspot in terms of trying to get the thing set up the way I want it to be set up.
I hate the pre-designed themes for the blogs here, I have gone beyond those borders and attempting to upload a couple of different blog templates that I thought looked cool - none of them would work.

Undoubtedly my own ignorance in that department, oh well.

And no offense, but having to do all that stuff on several blogs in order to be able to post a comment, including having to type in the "word" shown is a bit of a hassle.

The games yesterday, what a HOOT!!!
I DREAMED that the Chargers would win and potentially be up against Pittsburgh, I had no idea that it would actually happen. What a great game that was, too! Overtime, the Chargers win the toin coss and walaah, they actually manage to score and win the game. Manning never even had a chance to get on the field after overtime started.

The Cardinals also pulled off a HUGE upset, at least as far as I'm concerned, against the Falcons. I found myself actually rooting for the Cardinals. I know, kinda lame, I'm "supposed" to be a fan since it's my home team, but - I have always been a Steelers fan through thick and thin and will never let the Steelers take a number 2 spot on my very short list of favorite teams.

So there's a couple of more Wildcard games on today, I'll be watching those as well.

The extended periods of days off are over as of the end of today. For whatever reason, having a hard time getting my brain back into full-work mode. I don't have any choice in the matter, I'll be at work at 5:45 am tomorrow morning, and I will be there until at least 2:30 pm and that will be that. Afterwards - on one day this week anyway - I will probably be heading to Fry's to fill out an application in person and attempt to land a part-time job there.

My new tenant thinks I should just do the taxi thing for 48 hours during the weekend. Weekend Warriors they call them, people who just do it on weekends. I think I'd rather work at Fry's to be honest. At least, if I could get a job cashiering. Well, heck, if I had my druthers, druther be finding a job on the side driving a truck. That hasn't exactly happened, yet. As the economy dives further and further, jobs of any kind are becoming more and more scarce. Perhaps you might call it extinction. Not a heckuva lot out there and I did not bother to buy the Sunday paper today or last week cause' it has practically nothing in it. 3 pages - where it used to be friggin' 20 plus pages of employers placing ads for help.

Oh, I have pictures! Have yet to upload them to my computer, though. Try to do that later, I'm trying to get some laundry and other things done right now. Gotta make a trip to Fry's later on - for food, not a job - and I still have holes to dig outside, plus I was going to go get those poles today.

Again, this period of having all the time off is spoiling me. I could take another week off of work and not miss work -at all. Yes, I even have the hours saved up to do so. Lessee: 61 hours of sick leave; 40 plus hours of vacation; 24 hours of personal time and 16 hours of floating holidays plus 6 paid days off for holidays and I get my birthday off. That's almost 200 hours of paid time off for this year. Plus I accrue even MORE vacation time. 6.6 hours per month, to be exact.

I'm still wondering what's going to happen at the main branch at my company. Someone has to move to Albequerque (no, I won't even think about it). An inside salesman, to be exact. Which means, if/when that person decides to do so, someone will have to be promoted to take that person's place. I can think of some others that MIGHT qualify for the position, but the pickings are starting to thin out. People that are qualified are already filling other positions that have to have someone filling it. Wait and see thing - I have put my name in the hat more times than I can remember in informing management of my desire to get out of trucking.

Whether it actually materializes, who knows.

I'm off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of - laundry.
c'yall later.
ben

8 comments:

BonnieBehave said...

Hey, ya never know what the future holds, right? Whatever happens, I hope you end up happy. :)

BenB said...

Yes, indeed. I'm just hoping for the opportunity to get my foot in that particular door.
thanks!

becomingkate said...

Yay! I found your blogspot blog. Happy Sunday Ben!

Sunny said...

Hi Ben :) Yup, it takes some exploring around to get your place set up here ;) I like the gadgets in our layout in our Dashboard.

We can "add a gadget" then drag it where we wish to place it!

There are some neat backgrounds at a site that betty has on her blog here, the site is there so just click on it.

I don't know how to do that (yet!) But will try my hand at 'er when I have some time.

Good luck and be happy :)

Hugssss!

~Judy

Sunny said...

P.S. : Oh and you don't have to type in any letters in order to comment,

in my blog,lol. I hate those things too!

But they do keep 'Mr&Mrs Spam' outta our little homes here.

Benita said...

Nice to meet you, Ben! Thanks for stopping by my blog! I "don't do sports", but I enjoy your pictures and other things you talk about here. May God bless you with a healthy, happy, and prosperous new year!

BenB said...

Hi Kate! To you, too!

Sunny: I got the gadgets - some of them anyway - it's trying to upload a new blog template that has got me ready to tear out the wiring in my house....

Sunny: Thanks - I wondered about that. I don't care who comes here, the whole world is welcomed, just like it was on my JS blog. I know some people have issues that preclude them from having an open, public journal - but I don't!

Hi Arwen! Lots of people are disintereted in sports, lol. I love the NFL and NBA. Kinda gave up on MLB several years ago. Thank you for the blessing and my God bless you, too!
ben

Benita said...

Thanks, Ben; about the only time I watch TV sports is Super Bowl and college basketball finals whenever the Univ. of Memphis "Tigers" make it that far! Their team isn't as good this year as last, unfortunately!

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