Seriously Brain, I work in the morning.

ARrrgghh!
The worst thing to happen when you know you'll have a ridiculously busy day in the morning is when your brain is on overdrive and you can't sleep. And so, the blogging at 3:30 in the morning. Feel my wrath as I attempt to exhaust myself ranting of nothing of consequence! Let the over-tired ravings.....Begin!



Now.
Interesting things have been happeninglately, and by interesting I mean mundane. Somewhat. My "little" brother is having his 18th birthday this weekend (hardly mundane!), and has asked for a new xbox(nerd). Seeing as all of his dear older brothers are dirt broke, having to either pay off mortgages or ridiculous VISA bills, save for moving or a trip, or just generally have NO money, I seriously doubt that it'll happen. UNLESS, we all magically coordinate a day where we all pitch in and buy him the Goddamn Xbox 360 Slim, with a 250 Gb harddrive. Yeah, at a $299.99 price point, that's a hefty gift. Hell, for my 18th birthday, I got a minifridge for the residence I was moving into, and a laptop. And that was a combined graduation present!
In other news, I'm going to miss Mini, as he is so affectionately referred to, as I bought a one-way plane ticket to Edmonton today (monday). Yes, that's right, all of my planning for the past YEAR have finally come to fruition and I shall be returning to my wonderful land of snow and cold! I will NOT be shipping bedroom supplies, however, and shall be visiting my local Swedish embassy for said furniture. When it'll cost just over $200 to furnish a bedroom purchasing new meubles and close to $450 to ship them, I have decided that the lesser expense is the better idea.
As of Monday, September 20th, 2010 I shall become an Edmonton resident (sort of) again! And no need for searching for ridiculous jobs either! A wonderful piece of news I received today was that Geek Squad gets paid RIDICULOUSLY well. Better than I was planning of asking them. When $15/hour is LESS than what they offer, you know that you've gotten yourself into a good career path. It just means that I have to work my butt off to obtain the certification required for future employment, but they give me a 3-month berth to obtain said certification. And that would be just the basics as well!
Before I get too giddy about my transfer to awesomely-paid-ville, I need to finish a metric ton of assorted small jobs:
- renew prescription so I don't die from lack of meds
- purchase adequate amounts of said meds to last until extended-health benefits commence
- pack/ship computer/gaming supplies for myself and my better half (Seriously, xbox is on it's way!)
- pack clothing and assorted necessary curtainings and linens
- plan/execute a fairly organised "you're leaving you bastard" party. My friends here demand one apparently
- clean my room as Mini has decided that he shall comandeer my room the day I leave
- as yet to be determined assorted jobs, miscellanious jobs, "OH MY GOD I FORGOT THAT" jobs, etc. etc.

Aaaaaaand, now I'm wired. Thank you Internet, for this lovely re-awakening of my brain so that when there are literal hordes of elite gamers frothing at the mouth waiting for a chance to dive head first into the lovely science fiction world of super-human cyborgs combating nine-foot tall aliens in a holy war bent on the destruction of the human race, I shall be unable to help them, yearning for sleep. Yes, I am aware that the previous sentence was a run-on, but you can kiss the lower part of the back of the canister that is my body.
Hopefully, sleep shall arrive now, having vented my wrath for avid Halo: Reach fans.
This will, unfortunately, lead to a faster re-union with TM, my power-loving "senior" (as he is one year my junior) at work. Beacuse of my move to Edmonton, the managers at work had to by-pass myself for a promotion to senior of the department. It didn't make sense for them to give me a full-time, full-responsability position if I was going to be leaving in 2 weeks. This led them to the ever-so-popular decision to promote a guy I have known since I was playing hockey in elementary school, who has somewhat of a reputation as a bully. He had it then, he has it now. To be fair, outside of work, I somewhat enjoy his company. At work, or talking of work-related issues, I would MUCH prefer his absense. Dear. Lord. there is an age-old philosophy that those who lead by doing make much better and much more respected leaders. TM has apparently decided to forgo this wisdom and instead tries to bully and order others to do tasks which he deems below himself. In a retail environment, talking to customers and finalizing a sale, is not below anyones part in the company. I have seen my General Manager stop performing an important part of his position to either find a sales associate who was free, or helping out the customer himself start to finish. Granted, this does not happen often, however he does not believe himself to be above performing these duties. TM, has forgone any attempt at forming bonds with the other guys in my department, and I fear that my transfer will set off a chain reaction of the associates focusing their attentions to other companies and jobs. Not to blow my own horn and make it seem like I'm the all-knowing, infallible party here, but I do believe that I would, and can, perform the duties of said position to a much higher calibre than he is currently. Product knowldege has absolutely nothing to do with it, in my opinion, but more of an openness with your co-workers, managers, and definitely customers. A mutual respect between those above and below your positions is also key, and I believe that an immediate way for those among with whom you must co-ordinate and oversee, is to show that you would never ask them to do a job that you yourself would not do. Travis, my previous senior understood this well, and though he can be a bit of a chump and a bit of a jerk, we still respect him and would perform the tasks he bestowed upon us, were we available.

Wow, this post was supposed to be a small one, but 30 minutes of almost continuous writing apparently fills a blahg. G'night!

-Craig
P.S. Dan you bastard, booking two days off AFTER the release of the game to sit on your ass and pwn 13-year-olds across the globe continuously. I wish you well, and I shall join you next week when the cash is high enough for me to be able to purchase said game without losing a weeks worth of groceries.