WhiteEagle’s Aerie and Blog

Started earlier, finished earlier

I was supposed to work 12 to 8 pm today at the main store, but I started earlier thinking I worked an 11 to 7 shift instead. I went over to the Wal-Mart location (I loved most of the shift there, except for during the cleaning of the grease trap. What a smell!) and finished my shift shortly after 7 pm. When I had started, my bro said I was late by a minute, but actually when I look at it, I was fifty-nine minutes early! Thanks to me starting early, I got a ride home from a friend of friend who happens to also work with my mom. Talk about good luck, as otherwise I would have been stuck in town until 11pm.

I got a trophy on Chess.com from a recent opponent. It was the “Great Endgame Play”, and he applauded my moves at the end of our first game, which I won. It’s great to see my hard work paying off. I am hoping to win more games, as my current ranking is 1248. I know I will be definably be getting myself a premium membership to Chess.com after I pay off a bit more debt.

I recently picked up the latest Holiday edition of Maximum PC. My favorite article was on how to customize and streamline my PC’s Windows desktop, and I will definately have to try a few out, like RocketDock and WindowBlinds. I also like the reviews of the latest hardware, as I’m always trying to keep my “Ultimate PC” build list up to date. Besides that build, I have quite a few others planned, and each one I must keep up to date as well, so Maximum PC is my #1 source off-line for doing so. Online, it’s HardwareLogic Forums, which is in my list of “Cool Sites”. Back to magazine, I think I may have found the perfect PC for my future kitchen: one of the HP TouchSmart series I think will do the trick.

Is it time for a new OS?

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If you voted yes for the previous question, then I have a group for you! It is called New Operating System Programmers, and it is for those who either want to help program it, or for those who want to help support the cause. For those who have Facebook, I’ve created this group. I’ve linked the two together. For those who prefer Google’s Groups to Yahoo’s, I’ve created a group here and linked it to the others. I really hope people get behind this effort.

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 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 got high-speed satellite internet today!

Today, high-speed satellite internet was installed at my place! Here are the results of a Speedtest.net test: