Incandescent Thoughts

So another Olympics has come and gone and I for one am saddened by its departure. Ever since I was a kid I've always looked forward to the Olympics not because I cared about what the outcome was but because it was always exciting to watch no matter what was being aired. The Olympics always seemed to bring out the good in people where even though it's country against country every seems to respect one another because in the end their all athletes. The surge of pride that flows through you when you watch as Canada gets gold is something only a Canadian would feel. That's not saying I feel hatred against another athlete or their country when they beat us to the gold. The expression on their face and the feeling you get when you try to think of how that country must be feeling is something that warms the heart. That athlete receiving the highest honour that any athlete can receive must feel great.

Every Olympics has their star players and this time around is no exception. For the Americans the obvious one is Micheal Phelps who was the swimming star that no one could keep up with winning 8 medals a new record.

Another athlete that made a huge impact on the Olympics was a a 21 year named Usain Bolt who ran the men's 100 meter dash in 9.69 seconds a new world record. Not Only that he later broke the 200 meter world record running a time of 19.30 making that two world records hes beaten in under a week. Usain is part of the group of runners who call themselves The sprint factory from Jamaica. He was able to not only out run everyone in the men's 100 meter dash in a world record time of 9.69 seconds but his shoe lace was untied.


Overall Canada did really well at these games receiving 18 medals and placing 19th overall in the world standings. Not bad for a country whose never given out incentives for receiving any medals until just this year or having a government backed program to get our athletes on the podium until just after the last games in Greece. All the Athletes did their best and no one was hurt physically which is all we can ask for.


On another note the Taekwondo matches were boring beyond boring. Ever since last year when they revised the rules sparring matches seem to now be all about farming points. Of all the Taekwondo matches I watched during these Olympic games there was probably a average of one head shot attempt which is quite low. I realize their trying to conserve energy since they have to endure three 2 minute rounds but still everyone ,even the Koreans, are too defensive. Which makes for a boring Olympic event, as a result Taekwondo might be pulled from the line up like baseball, and no one wants that.

So last night /slash/ at 6:20am I set my alarm clock for 8:58am, because at exactly 9:00am the flood gates would be open and I could be one of the lucky few to pick their "perfect" timetable before anyone else would steal it away from them.

my Game Plan was fairly basic.
- No early Monday
-No Early Thursday (since Wednesday night is Pub night at Mohawk)
-Early Tuesday or Wednesday are cool if it came down to it.
-*As your looking through the timetables look for repeating times as not to waste your time denying timetables because one class say always start at 8am.

BEEP* BEEP* BEEP*
God dammit, 10:50am is what it read on the alarm clock

Logged in as fast as I could while rubbing my eyes and looking for my glasses at the same time.
Awesome I got in on my first try. IT's THE LUCK OF THE ASIANS


Last night I had called Casey at around midnight (sorry again) (well it was after work so I had no choice) asking what the timetable picking procedure was like since I didn't even know if we picked it class by class, day by day or week by week. Turns out its just a huge list of previously made timetables for your entire week and you just choose the one best suited for you. I`m my case the later it started the better.


So thanks to Casey I had some understanding of what to do. "PICK a Block and don`t waste your time looking for another that's better one."


Even though I was an hour late I was able to find the perfect timetable in seconds, woot only early class is on Tuesday but that was unavoidable.


I got to sleep in and I got the timetable I wanted...awesome start to the day.

So I finally made the plunge and went to Futureshop to see if I could get the laptop of my dreams.

I went a little earlier to check out the laptops before I came in that night and had them ring one up. I narrowed it down to three laptops that I knew i would be happy with either.


Sorry Amber but that's not my style.


I picked the third one (brownish laptop). This one was also the one I was looking at last month but never acted on it. I had Tammy talk to a manager that knew me pretty well to see what kind of deal he could get me. Tammy came home saying that for the nine hundred dollar laptop he could give it to me just above cost at eight hundred dollars....at cost being seven hundred ninety something dollars.

When I went in to pick up what I thought would of been a new laptop instead I was asked if I was ok with getting the display model. I looked at it and it seemed like ti was still brand new so I agreed. They go into the back and bring out a older display model, wtf crap what did I just agree to. The laptop seems to have been used and old judging from the amount of dust built up in the fan beneath the laptop.


Whatever it doesn't really matter right now since I bought the 2 year warranty and if I really can't stand the laptop I'll over load the processor and have them replace it for another one lol.


BIG NEWS!

So about the display model

MY MODEL CURRENT MODEL

The display laptop was a older model of that they carried before and I'm happy about that. The difference between the two is that the "current model" has a dual core 2.1Ghz AMD processor where as "my model" only has a dual core 2.0Ghz AMD processor, Big woop everyone knows to round down if the decimal is 0.4 or under. The reason why I'm glad I got this model is because "my model" comes with wireless a/g/n grade where the other model only has wireless a/g WAN. Did I mention the older model has Bluetooth? Because it does....HA two things I was really hung up about since the one i thought I was getting didn't have those two features which I would actually use.



EDIT!!!!!!!!!

I'm going back and exchanging it, I rather have a new one then a display with bluetooth and N grade wireless...the Sales clerk tried to rip me off but Tammy caught it when I talked to her about it when she got home.

I got to work a bit early just so that I could check my hours and figure out when it was the best time for Anhie and I to head to Ikea for some Dorm supply shopping, more on that when it happens. So its not even 7am yet and already Fran one of the mangers asked me if I could get some carts for her, first off getting carts was store standards curse and I'm Sporting Goods. Even still I was called in to work in Seasonal so still half asleep I think I mumbled " no can do, no steel toes" and went on my way without waiting for a reply.


Working in the seasonal department wasn't all bad there was Andrea the Department manager, Linda a co-Manager from Cambridge and then Nichole from Kitchener. Around lunch time Brandon one of the Store Standards walks up and starts opening a box. Fran had sent him to help us instead of doing his actual job, hey i wasn't complaining. The day wears on and nothing really exciting happens, the only thing Brandon and I came to agree on was that Nichole had a nice rear end.

The day seemed like it was gonna be an easy one with the majority of what we were doing was putting away boxes of stock on the shelves. Then the bomb shell hits when Linda comes back from her lunch break tells me that she needs me to take down a bike rack display so that she can make room for all the stuff she'll be putting there. Take down a giant fixture cool I'm game but when i asked how it comes part her answer was the last thing I wanted to hear. "How should I know I'm from Cambridge, this is your store why don't you know?" well I work in sports part-time the most I've done was move shelving around and setting up cardboard displays.


Obviously she wasn't going to be any help so I grabbed two rubber malets off the shelve in hardware and tossed Brandon one.

Taking the display apart wasn't all bad aside from the extremely loud crash when a metal bar support nearly taking off my head fell off from us just pulling another one off....funny.....co-workers and customers as far as pantry came and asked if everything was ok but not one manager came to check if we were ok. Probably were waiting for a code white (injury) to be paged over the P.A since they were too lazy to walk over.

2 o'clock rolled around and all the girls just seemed to drop what they were doing and started walking towards the back telling Brandon and I that they finished at 2 and we were to finish what they told us earlier and then leave at 4.

Brandon was cursing a lot after they left since he wanted to go too so he just got up and left half an hour later, umm thanks. So it was just me left in the department and the store started to get a little busy. I worked the rest of the stock that they said wouldn't fit on the shelves, on to the shelves, then broke down the boxes. The guys back in recieveing were also having a bad day when i went back there with the broken down boxes, apparently Chris the store manager have been on their case all day with reandom orders, suxxs. I cleared a 4 foot section in the toy section for some scuba gear my department (sports) had received and worked them in beside the life jackets...hey I had to work on my department at least a little today lmao. Sold two lawn mowers, a BBQ display model, and a fishing liscense and clocked out for the day.


I clocked out at 3pm...HAHAHA (it was long enough day)

The sun wasn't even out yet and my mom walks into my room holding the phone....it was ringing?


....it's Wal-Mart,

Before I knew it I agreed to be in at 7am and stay until 4 pm. Somewhere in that conversation I also agreed to work tomorrow from 8am until 4pm, but they already had me working everyday starting Thursday until Tuesday. My Kick back relaxing week of only 20 hours just became 42 hours in less then 2 minutes of talking.



here we go again.