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Jan. 12th, 2006 06:26 pmWell, I went to "work" this morning after having yesterday off, and found that I had a warehouse day today. When there is a ridiculously low number of jobs, one of us gets to stay at the warehouse and help John. Some days, this can be hectic if we have a large number of pods to pull, or several flatbeds show up wanting/delivering BX containers.
Then there are days like today. Other than changing five containers to BX containers (which involves putting the stickers with the new number over the old number) and organizing the pod we use to store office supplies, there was nothing much to do. We also finally put together our air compressor, so now we can top off the eighteen thousand tires on our truck at the warehouse. Yay! Now we just need to get some of those digital tire pressure gages so we can check the pressure quickly. I was out of there by 1000, and got clocked out at 1550. :)
Got home, and noodled about the net for a while.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kshandra has fallen in love with iTunes, and is teaching me its more nifty features. Looming in the near future is a massive "go through all 9 gig of music and make sure we have them correctly labeled" epic. Once that's done, I'll probably do a post where I put up my list and offer copies to folks. File-sharing uber alles! It's amusing.. the party shuffle feature brings up music from both our play lists.. so while I'm dealing with occasional invasions of 80's pop, she's being suddenly assaulted by heavy metal and punk.
We had to go out to pay our late rent, and since Kiri is feeling a bit off-center, I went with her. I was not impressed by the new property management people. The office looks awful, and the one guy working there took several hundred dollars in money orders without offering a receipt. I had to ask for one. Of course, he didn't have an actual receipt book. Not very promising, and another entry in the "Why We Should Start thinking About Moving" book.
Got home from that, took a very hot shower; which is really the only way I can get warm quickly anymore. My post-cancer body does not handle cold that well. Which explains why I'm sitting here in a Sharks jacket with a blanket over me.
I've gotten into a playtest of Steve Jackson Games' version of UltraCorps. Damn, I'm having fun. I realize that I made a severe error of strategy in the first few turns that has doomed me to eventual absorption by my rapidly encroaching neighbors, but I've played a few solo games to refine strategies for the release version. What I think I'm going to do is build up a strong fleet of cargo carriers (which are cheap as dirt) and then start conquering near-by neutrals. Once I have them, I'll take all the population and Ultranium (the magic substance that is both building material and power source) back to the home world. This will allow me to build up fleets faster; which will allow quicker conquests. As I get several worlds under my control, I can switch product of the "small, fast" builds to colonies, and concentrate on the world-beaters at home. Also, I can build planetary defense units and ship them to the worlds I stripped to serve as a sort of defensive wall. I'd still strip minor worlds of as much Ultranium as I can carry to feed the gaping maw of my war machine, of course.
Coming up, more work. Sunday I expect to knock out the rest of the kitchen clean up ("including the dishes" he said glaring at the monitor in hopes of making a point to the next person to use it.) And start on clearing a path to the door. I canceled the paper (I was barely reading the damn thing.. I get most of my news online these days) and we've decided that getting the cable back is going to happen very soon.
Teeth continue to bug me. I think the tax refund is going to be mostly set aside for the Tooth fund.
Then there are days like today. Other than changing five containers to BX containers (which involves putting the stickers with the new number over the old number) and organizing the pod we use to store office supplies, there was nothing much to do. We also finally put together our air compressor, so now we can top off the eighteen thousand tires on our truck at the warehouse. Yay! Now we just need to get some of those digital tire pressure gages so we can check the pressure quickly. I was out of there by 1000, and got clocked out at 1550. :)
Got home, and noodled about the net for a while.
kshandra has fallen in love with iTunes, and is teaching me its more nifty features. Looming in the near future is a massive "go through all 9 gig of music and make sure we have them correctly labeled" epic. Once that's done, I'll probably do a post where I put up my list and offer copies to folks. File-sharing uber alles! It's amusing.. the party shuffle feature brings up music from both our play lists.. so while I'm dealing with occasional invasions of 80's pop, she's being suddenly assaulted by heavy metal and punk.We had to go out to pay our late rent, and since Kiri is feeling a bit off-center, I went with her. I was not impressed by the new property management people. The office looks awful, and the one guy working there took several hundred dollars in money orders without offering a receipt. I had to ask for one. Of course, he didn't have an actual receipt book. Not very promising, and another entry in the "Why We Should Start thinking About Moving" book.
Got home from that, took a very hot shower; which is really the only way I can get warm quickly anymore. My post-cancer body does not handle cold that well. Which explains why I'm sitting here in a Sharks jacket with a blanket over me.
I've gotten into a playtest of Steve Jackson Games' version of UltraCorps. Damn, I'm having fun. I realize that I made a severe error of strategy in the first few turns that has doomed me to eventual absorption by my rapidly encroaching neighbors, but I've played a few solo games to refine strategies for the release version. What I think I'm going to do is build up a strong fleet of cargo carriers (which are cheap as dirt) and then start conquering near-by neutrals. Once I have them, I'll take all the population and Ultranium (the magic substance that is both building material and power source) back to the home world. This will allow me to build up fleets faster; which will allow quicker conquests. As I get several worlds under my control, I can switch product of the "small, fast" builds to colonies, and concentrate on the world-beaters at home. Also, I can build planetary defense units and ship them to the worlds I stripped to serve as a sort of defensive wall. I'd still strip minor worlds of as much Ultranium as I can carry to feed the gaping maw of my war machine, of course.
Coming up, more work. Sunday I expect to knock out the rest of the kitchen clean up ("including the dishes" he said glaring at the monitor in hopes of making a point to the next person to use it.) And start on clearing a path to the door. I canceled the paper (I was barely reading the damn thing.. I get most of my news online these days) and we've decided that getting the cable back is going to happen very soon.
Teeth continue to bug me. I think the tax refund is going to be mostly set aside for the Tooth fund.
