este's Journal: The (BS 5-0 to crook bigspin FS crook) Grind.

Work is slow today - mornings tend to be, a) because I'm tired, and b) because I haven't really found what I'm going to devote my time to today. I need to keep up with some documentation, but I'm running a giant wget to get an assload of RPMs I'll need to do the process I'm documenting. Eventually it'll go quick, but right now.....ugh. I also need to do other stuff, but it can wait. I'm drinking my coffee, so don't bother me.

Ahh....coffee done, I'm a much nicer person now. Tonight I'll be moving crap around in the NOC, some late-night hours I thought would just be adding to my general wealth, but since Joe can't have me work more than 40 hrs. a week, it ends up being time that I just can't spend working tomorrow. w00t! I'll probably be able to go home at like 2:00. Special cookies, here I come!

Man, those were killer. Chloe's roommate made "magic cookies" for our party last weekend, I had a piece the size of a die (singular dice), and it kicked my ass. When I went to see her the next day, she gave me all the leftovers - like 8 in all. I gave two to Dylan for being so helpful on Saturday, six now live in my freezer, waiting to be enjoyed (mmm....minty).

Yesterday I turned in a timesheet for -two whole days- of work. Apparently, I was just that close to the payroll cutoff date. So on the 15th, I get a check for a whopping $175 bucks. You know what's funny though? In those two days, I earned more than I would in a week of 5am hell at Staples. Note to self: keep doing this computer thing.

This punk-ass bitch "bought" my wah-wah pedal off of eBay like two months ago, and he never paid me or wrote back or anything. I waited three weeks and kept sending him email. Finally I filed an Non-Paying Bidder report on him and relisted it. It sold for the princely sum of $50 to some kid here in PDX. Three days -after that- he sends me a paypal payment of $83. I send it right back, saying basically "sorry dude, you snooze, you lose". It sat there for two weeks. He never claimed it. Weak sauce. So I cancelled the transaction. I'd rather try and work it out later than leave it pending like that.

Well, it's later.

I got an email yesterday from paypal basically saying that he'd filed a complaint and they were investigating and that my ass best pay the man by August 12th. Not a problem, but two things:

1. Fuck you, you pole-smoking bitch, for stringing me along for this long only to then be a total santorum-gulping asswipe and file a complaint. How dare you.

2. I don't trust this asspatriot to take my money one I've sent it to him, and there's plenty of historical precedent to make me feel that way.

So now -I'm- the bad guy, just cause this guy's a flaky dickless pice of shit. This seems to happen too often. I'm not going to involve myself with other people anymore, too much of a pain in the ass :-)

Anyway, keep it crackalackin', ya'll.