WhiteEagle’s Aerie and Blog

Writers Zone Added to the JPN

Another site has been added to the Joffee Publishing Network today. It is called Writers Zone, and it is a place for authors and comic creators, and people who like reading stories and/or comics to come and meet. People can help each other become better.

Some shifts are not worth working!

With the price of gas at $1.30/liter here and living out in the country, some shifts are not worth working. My parents refuse to take me in for short 4 hour shifts, so I have to take taxi rides for them. Even if I get a ride early in the morning, I still lose 4 or more hours of sleep.

A taxi ride from my place to town costs me $25 right now. I am currently earning $10.40/hour at my job. With those two things firmly in mind, let me show you the calculations if I have to take two taxi rides for a 4 hour shift:

4 hours of work at $10.40/hour = $41.60
Deductions off my paycheck     =-  0.72
                                 -------
Total earned from 4 hours        $40.88
Two taxi rides at $25/each     =- 50.00
                                --------
Net earned/lost                 - $9.12

Now for the same calculations for an 8 hour shift and no taxi rides:

8 hours of work at $10.40/hour = $83.20
Deductions off my paycheck     =-  1.44
                               ---------
Net earned from 8 hours          $81.76

As you can clearly see, a four hour shift is not worth working as it just loses me money. I would like to thank CanaTax for their online payroll tax calculator.

Site updated

This blog has been updated to the latest version of WordPress successfully, and all plug-ins needing to be updated have been.

All links are back!

All of the links are back, and are in the proper categories. Enjoy the links!

UPS Humor

Here is a joke I received in my email box:

Remember it takes a college degree to fly a plane, but only a high
school diploma to fix one; a reassurance for those of us who fly
routinely in our jobs.

After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form, called a ‘gripe sheet,’
which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics
correct the problems, document their repairs on the form, and then
pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight.

Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor.
Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by UPS ‘ pilots
(marked with a P) and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by
maintenance engineers.

By the way, UPS is the only major airline that has never, ever, had an accident.

P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.
*
P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.
*
P: Something loose in cockpit
S: Something tightened in cockpit
*
P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order..
*
P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute
Descent
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.
*
P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.

*

P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.
*
P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That’s what friction locks are for.
*
P: IFF inoperative in OFF mode.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.
*
P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you’re right.
*
P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search
*
P: Aircraft handles funny. (I love this one! )
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious.
*
P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.
*
P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.
*
And the best one for last
*
P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget
pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget……..

HOPE THESE GAVE YOU A GOOD LAUGH !

Today was interesting at work.

Today was the Grand Opening of the McDonalds in Camrose, Alberta, where I work. I managed to see Ronald McDonald, Grimace, Hamburgler, and Birdy(the bird character) before I left. Also, 98.1 CAM-FM started broadcasting from outside the main door at 1pm. It was nice to be a part of, even if it was a busy morning! Also, the forty-nine cent hotcakes made for a cheap break!

New rules proposed to protect anti-abortion doctors - CNN.com

New rules proposed to protect anti-abortion doctors - CNN.com

Finally, a decent idea that should have been put in place a long time ago! I hope Canada follows their lead in this. If I was a doctor, I would be asking my MP to pass something like this in Canada to protect my right to object as well.

I am so tempted to find a new job right now.

I am so tempted to find another job and put my two weeks in at McDonalds, it is not even funny! The schedule has had me working six days this week, and six days next week as well. It really ticks me off because I am going to be losing a lot of sleep next week, because my dad’s shifts and mine do not sync well, meaning I will have lots of being in town all day next week. It also means I will not be able to post as often here as I’d like. Continue reading I am so tempted to find a new job right now….

I’m in town all-day tomorrow!

Due to my schedule not being in alignment with my parents, I’m going to be stuck in town all day tomorrow. So I don’t think I will be able to blog tomorrow. This is the reason why I haven’t been posting more often lately.

I found a great app.

Today, while in town surfing on the library’s internet connection, I found a great application for making RSS feeds. Best of all, it is free! I think I will use it for Google Base, and probably for a RSS feed for Joffee Hosting, so that people can keep up with the latest news from that division. I may get an infusion for the other sites that creates an RSS feed for the news. I had better hurry up and get done my web-surfing, because my time is almost up. I should be home around 5:30pm.

I really think I should start planning to move out…

I am starting to believe I had better start planning on moving out of my parents’ place and into my own. I know I should pay off my credit cards first, and I will. I think I will slow down my savings for a moped after that, and instead start saving to move into my own place. I know that if I don’t, sooner or later the tensions between my parents and I will explode, and I would like to try and avoid that situation. I think I will need to save between five and seven thousand dollars before I will have enough to move out.

Busy re-uploading Joffee Publishing Inc’s site.

Well, I have almost finished moving to my new server. I just have to finish re-uploading and installing all of JP’s software, including the affiliate manager and the mailing-list program. I hopefully can complete all of this by tonight, so that tomorrow the whole network will be fully back to normal. Of course, I still have to finish re-adding all of the links here at my blog as well.

What I would do if I became Prime Minister

With all of the potential of an election this fall up here in Canada, I thought I would tell you what I would do if I was elected Prime Minister as head of a Canadian political party. I would try and do the following:

1. Make a plan for paying off the national debt.
2. Make government as small as practical, to help in the next plank of this potential platform.
3. Reduce taxes to the average tax-payer.
4. Ask respected scientists to see how valid global warming is, and if it is serious, ask both them and respected economists how to reduce Canada’s contribution to it, while keeping the economy good.
5. This is a BIG maybe:Ask Canadians in a referendum how they feel towards Canada keeping the British monarch as our Head of State, and if they don’t want him/her as the head of state, what to put in his/her place.

If you have any ideas, feel free to register and post a comment, or contact me via the Contact Me page.

Thinking about adding my resume here.

I’m thinking about adding my resume to this site and blog as a private page. Good for keeping bots from it, and grabbing my email address. Plus people would have to register in order to read it.

I also went and added a site to the Cool Sites that was not there before: World Play Online. I think it is the coolest gaming site out there, and it is a must check-out! Plus it has a messaging app that lets you send and receive files, and you don’t even have to install any software! It is totally cool, and free right now to join.