07.04.08: No Work, Early Finishes, and The eee PC Reloaded

Streaming Song Of The Day: I'm Back by ?

Well, I was going to blog from outside again today as apart from a few clouds, it's quite a nice evening.  And I don't often blog in the evenings.  But just as I wiped the chair outside down (it's been raining) it began raining again, so, I'm sitting inside, in my "office" and blogging today.  No reason for mentioning it, but, I thought it might be nice for you to have a little insight into my life!

So last night I turned up for work, and was promptly told that I wasn't working.  So I go and look at the rota, and lo and behold, I'm not working!  So I get my phone out and prepare to call home when Heather offers me a lift back home if I can hang on until she finishes.  I decide to wait around, as this way I can find out all the gossip!  And the first person to turn up is Ian, who is in a bad mood with me because he has to work 8 nights in a row, which apparently is my fault.  The other reason he's in a bad mood with me is because he has to work until 7am but I finish at 5am, which means for an hour he is on his own.  Which apparently is also my fault.  It really annoys me that he keeps blaming me for this stuff.  He blamed me for him working over Christmas.  And now he's blaming me for the fact that he has to work on his own for an hour.  Thing is, I have nothing to do with the rotas.  Or staffing.  Or anything else like this, but because it involves me and him and shifts, it becomes my fault.  Well, this time I am not standing for it.  Whilst the company I work for no longer holds career interests for me (I'm going to The Linux User's Group to learn as well as socialise) but I'm going to keep working my way up until my qualification is done and a Linux job comes up...

Now, like I said, I'm finishing at 5am tonight, I'm also finishing at 5am on Wednesday.  How come?  Boys Club training.  I have to go to training with my lord and master Pete, as well as Alan, Kelly and a mystery person who has yet to be picked.  Could be interesting.  I'm actually looking forward to it, because I've never been to Canford before, and I hear it's impressive.  Supposed to be one of the stores that always gets it right.  Anyway, it's from 2pm until 6ish.  And then finally, I will be able to reveal something about what this Boys Club is.

Lastly, I mentioned yesterday that at The Hampshire Linux User's Group that I was trying to get Puppy Linux working with networking.  Well, I now have wireless networking up and running on it.  I also have sound.  And Skype 2.0 Beta for Linux working on it.  This is significant for me because I use Skype a lot to chat to Alejandra.  Now I have an ultra mobile PC which runs Skype perfectly(ish) and has Wifi.  My new challange is getting Linux to run on my mother's laptop.  She wants Linux because of the lack of viruses.  Problem is, her laptop is pretty much refusing to budge on the whole Wifi thing, which she wants.  Ubuntu will run the Wifi, but I have never been able to get Ubuntu to install properly.  I'm giving a lot of thought to installing PCLinuxOS which I run on my laptop
Tags: Blogging Outside, No Work, Co-workers, Boys Club, Pupeee Linux, Ubuntu
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