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The Week That Was 2009-06-28

Posted By: monogodo on June 28, 2009.
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The Week That Was 2009-06-21

Posted By: monogodo on June 21, 2009.
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  • @CaptShutter it sounds like your wife caught some shit from you for not catching any fish. in reply to CaptShutter #
  • Pulled staples for an hour: http://twitpic.com/7h4pu #
  • Back to scanning files. I've noticed that the battery life on my iPhone seems to have taken a hit since it was reset yesterday. #
  • Overheard at work: "it has a neutral charge." #
  • It's awfully warm in the copy room. #
  • I'm breaking a sweat standing still. #
  • @jendraknet yeah, but it's a dry cool. in reply to jendraknet #
  • iPhone still has the same WiFi connectivity issue that I reset it for. I hope iPhone 3.0 firmware will fix it. If not, it's warranty time. #
  • Tired today. It's Christian Bale's fault. Stayed up too late watching Batman Begins on AMC. #
  • @tombert maybe that's her goal. in reply to tombert #
  • Still pulling staples & scanning. Should finish it today. #
  • I am so tired. I guess I can't stay up as late as I used to & still fully function the next day. Getting old sucks. #
  • Still feel tired. Not a good way to start the day. At least it's not raining. #
  • @daysies It's one of the controls in iTunes. More iPhone 3.0 tips here: http://tinyurl.com/lkro3b in reply to daysies #
  • Installing Acrobat Std so I can break apart the files I scanned earlier. #
  • Got 5 new polo shirts from work today. I was the only one to get all 5 of mine. #
  • Found out today that the Copy Center made 30% profit in May. #
  • Had I been there all month, the profit would have only been 25%, all else being equal. #
  • One of my former employer's biggest accounts is one of my current employer's accounts now. #
  • Waiting on the 6:35 train. It's hot. Africa hot. #
  • Just checked. It's 90F. Not quite Africa hot, but close. #
  • updating to iPhone 3.0. Here's hoping it works. #
  • @sleepypika considering we lost money each month for the last 5+ months, I'd say it's great. in reply to sleepypika #
  • YAY!!! 3.0 upgrade was successful! #
  • So the iPhone 3.0 update didn't fix my WiFi problem, so I'm gonna try to make an appointment to get it replaced. #
  • Wanna know where I'll be Sat @ 1:30 pm? @ the Knox St. Apple store getting a replacement iPhone. #
  • Got stuck behind a family that couldn't figure out the ticket machine for the DART train. #
  • Billing for the copy center has tripled in $ value in 5 days. #
  • just consolidated the contents of 21 storage boxes down to 1 that we'll keep & 5 that get shredded. #
  • Let's see how much PDF work I can get done in the next 30 minutes. #
  • Well, crap. just as I sent that last update, Acrobat froze. #
  • Was able to extract 333 pages of 625 in 30 minutes. not to bad. Time to head home. #
  • @swisstoni you might want to do a full restore to the 3.0 firmware as opposed to just a simple upgrade. It's supposed to be faster. in reply to swisstoni #
  • @daysies & @tombert: there's a difference between your plan & your contract. @dbferguson has a 2G iPhone & is eligible. My 3G is not in reply to daysies #
  • @daysies yes, each phone is separate depending on when they were upgraded. in reply to daysies #
  • @daysies don't know about 3G vs. 3GS data plans. in reply to daysies #
  • @Lord_Darkstar they never claimed that video, voice command & MMS made it unique or were original ideas. in reply to Lord_Darkstar #
  • Waiting @ a vendor to pick up a good imagePass M2 to swap with the bad one @ the copy center. #
  • Riding the train home, where redemption (hopefully) awaits. #
  • @MacTastic we're seeing X-Men: Wolverine. in reply to MacTastic #
  • Waiting to see X-Men: Wolverine w/ @dbferguson. Dinner @ Texas Roadhouse was great. #
  • Pre-movie BS has started. #
  • Movie was good. #
  • Got up @ 6 to feed Lance, & I see 3 people @ the pool across the street, each w/ their own bottle of champaign. #
  • I don't think they live there. #
  • @kissthedog since they're now gone, I'm guessing it was a continuation of the night before. in reply to kissthedog #
  • @JennywithaY The organizers are considering streaming it live. If they do, once I know the URL I'll share it with you. in reply to JennywithaY #
  • installing the backup to my warranty replaced iPhone 3G. #
  • @dbferguson so take off all your clothes… in reply to dbferguson #
  • well, crap, the replacement phone has 2.2 on it, and needs to be upgraded to 3.0 #
  • Saw a kid at a bus stop drop his bottle in the sidewalk. His mom picked it up, wiped it on his blanket & handed it to him. #
  • Setting up my iPhone. Again. #
  • @bikehugger Gov. Perry of Texas just vetoed a similar law, the bastard. in reply to bikehugger #
  • @glamtart nice frames in reply to glamtart #
  • trying to get our all-in-one printer/scanner/copier installed on a computer so @dbferguson can scan a document. 3rd try in progress now. #
  • @ignernt that looks nice. My HP is decent, but I just discovered that the scanner is fucked up. Wish I hadn't given away my old flatbed. in reply to ignernt #
  • The scanner part of the all-in-1 is borked. Not sure if it needs cleaning or what the deal is. #
  • @ignernt I'm wanting to pick up a Canon or HP wireless printer, since we have up to 4 computers that might need to print at any one time. in reply to ignernt #
  • @ignernt Brawndo, it's what plants crave! It's got electrolytes! in reply to ignernt #
  • @Lord_Darkstar fucker, now I've got the Mary Jane Girls stuck in my head. in reply to Lord_Darkstar #
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Yeah, so it’s been a while.

Posted By: monogodo on June 21, 2009.
Filed Under: Blogging, Life, Work, iPhone.

iPhone Home Screen I haven’t really been all that motivated to do much online lately other than play Kakuro. I think it’s because my job duties have changed since the first week of April.

Sales at the Copy Center had been dismally low, so my boss pulled me out of there and had me do odd projects for her around the Corporate Office. First I spent a week cleaning out our old warehouse so that we could vacate the building, thus saving the cost of the lease. I got to take a Sawzall to old desks & other large items in order to safely get them in the bed of a pickup & haul them to the dumpster. In the space of 4 days I hauled off 5 dumpster loads of trash.

After the warehouse was empty, she had me go to the Corporate Office to work on a spreadsheet listing of file boxes being stored. I had to color code them by type (Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, & Human Resources). I then had to calculate destroy dates based on how long we’re to retain them. Next I had to sort them by destroy date and assign a new box number to make it easier to find them. That took about 2 weeks, what with being interrupted with other little projects.

Once I got the spreadsheet & box numbers figured out, I generated labels and went to the warehouse to tag the boxes & organize them. There were between 3000 & 4000 boxes. I handled each of them at least twice. Some were stacked on shelves, some were on pallets. Some of the pallets were stacked in the middle of the floor, others were 10′+ off the floor. I used a riding forklift, a walk-behind forklift, and a pallet jack to move the pallets around. The whole job took 7.5 days to complete. There is actually quite a bit more room for box storage now than before, and nothing was disposed of, it’s just organized better. Now anyone can go in and find a specific box easily. What used to take them a day or longer can now be done in less than 5 minutes.

After that project was done, my boss had me doing all kinds of other things, from getting duplicate vehicle titles to researching a color laser printer that can handle envelopes to helping out other stores. I spent a day and a half at one store scanning binders to PDFs. They had 21 binders that came in at noon on a Wednesday that needed to be scanned & burned to CD by noon on the following Monday. Normally, they’d be finalizing the burn at 11:30am on Monday, and would have worked pretty much all weekend on it. I started scanning them at 3pm on Wednesday, and had 12 done by 6pm. I returned at 9am on Thursday and spent an hour correcting errors in some of the binders that had already been scanned. I’d initially been given incorrect instructions as to what had to be scanned. Once that was done, I finished the other 8 binders that I had left (someone else did the other binder). While I was working on those, another person was scanning the large format items that my machine couldn’t handle. I then had to insert those scans in the proper place in my scans. Including an hour lunch, I had everything complete & ready to be checked & burned to disc by 3pm. I ended up finishing up the day there by helping out on other jobs they had.

Earlier that morning, I was told that the store manager had asked one of the assistant managers why I was so much faster than they were. He was told that I was faster because I knew the machine better than they did. They’d been scanning pretty much every sheet as its own file, then combining the 150+ files together into one document at the end. I knew that by simply touching one button on screen while scanning the first page, that I could scan the entire binder as one PDF file, thus saving tons of time on the back end. Being the nice guy that I am, I was sure to show three of them how to do the same thing in the future.

I also learned how to do billing for my location, and how to close out the month. Sales have started to pick up, so I don’t know how much longer I’ll be helping out at Corporate. I’m kinda hoping that my boss will see the value in keeping me up there and will instead hire a new delivery guy for the Copy Center. She’d just have to convince her bosses that it would be a good idea to do so.

Another project I’ve been working on is scanning new account credit applications to PDF. I scanned 7 file boxes of apps, and discovered that two of them didn’t need to be scanned. Since I simply pulled the staples and scanned them as large 300+ page documents, I now have to go through the files and extract out each account’s documents & name them with their account number, account name, and the state where they’re located.

On the home front, I haven’t been bike riding as much as I’d like to, mainly because of my work schedule. Instead of walking 3 blocks to/from work every day, I have to take the DART Light Rail train 30 minutes each way. So instead of clocking out at 6pm and being home by 6:05pm, I get home between 6:45 & 7, depending on which train I catch. That pretty much kills any bike riding, mainly because I’d have no time to get changed & out the door to make it to the group. I know I could ride on my own, but that’s no fun. Plus I’m usually exhausted at the end of the day. Cynthia is now working 9-6 & getting home between 6:45 & 7, so we’re eating dinner later.

So everything is pretty much going well now. There were a couple hiccups earlier in the year, but they’ve been resolved in a manner that’s left us in an even better position than before, so that’s good.

Oh, I had to get my iPhone replaced again. It had been forgetting the settings for known WiFi hotspots, mainly the one at home. I’d go to connect with it, and it would ask for the password, which it should have in its memory. I’d key in the password, and would get a message telling me that it was incorrect. All our other WiFi devices (TiVo, MacBook, Netbook) connect to the network just fine, so I knew the issue was with the phone. The staff at the Genius Bar had me do a full reset last Sunday. That didn’t fix it. When the iPhone 3.0 update came out on Wednesday, I thought it might help. No such luck. So I went in this afternoon and they gave me a new phone. Here’s hoping it works at least until the end of September, before the year warranty runs out, or even better, another year or more.

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The Week That Was 2009-06-14

Posted By: monogodo on June 14, 2009.
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  • Heading off to bed. @dbferguson starts her new job in 8h 45m. Good luck, sweetie. bzzzzz #
  • This scanner is pissing me off. It lost 200 pages. #
  • @bikehugger no, but if I were on my laptop & not on my iPhone, I’d bobroll you. in reply to bikehugger #
  • Just got off the phone with my mother in the hospital. She’ll live. #
  • I second that. RT @tombert: It’s too early in the morning to be awake. #
  • So tired today. Got an OK amount of sleep, so I don’t know what’s up. #
  • In other news, mother’s in hospital w/ mystery ailment, maternal grandma is not doing well, & paternal grandma had a stroke. #
  • Just found out I spent the last 2 work days scanning files that didn’t need to be scanned. Oh, well. #
  • I’ve now had a half-liter of Mtn Dew, & I’m still sleepy. WTF is up w/ that? #
  • Someone in A/R entered a client’s street address as Natural Bridge Caveins Road, instead of Natural Bridge Caverns Road. #
  • That was a good lunch, even if the break room is noisy. #
  • Just pulled out 4 staples that were being used to hold 4 sheets of 20# paper together. Can you say overkill? #
  • I’m really starting to dislike pullin staples. #
  • @woofytexan set it up via the Apple online first. You won’t need text msgs for push. Only get them if you text a lot. in reply to woofytexan #
  • About to hit the hot tub with @dbferguson & my boss & her husband. #
  • back from pool. Boss & her husband are on their way home. @dbferguson is showering to get rid of chlorine. #
  • I think my iphone is dying. It keeps freezing for no reason. #
  • WTF is up with this train driver? I can walk faster than this. #
  • Bastard train operator went so slow that he added 3 minutes to my commute. Also, the woman next to me smelled drunk. #
  • More scanning today. There are a total of 4 file boxes to be scanned. I can probably do 2/day. I hope to do more. #
  • @daysies Nilla wafers are great when you dip them in Julie’s Organic Caramel Ice Cream. in reply to daysies #
  • @Lord_Darkstar the things my iPhone doesn’t do that the new one does are things I never did anyway. in reply to Lord_Darkstar #
  • Sitting in a too-fucking-loud Irish Pub waiting to order food. #
  • Within the realm of the arts no form reveals the magic of collaboration more beautifully than that of music. #
  • @jendraknet this is from The Weather Channel: http://twitpic.com/75wuz in reply to jendraknet #
  • @Lord_Darkstar I’ve got pic mail. I can email a pic to anyone w/ an email address & can receive them, too. in reply to Lord_Darkstar #
  • @jendraknet just saw that Radio Shack has a weather radio for $19.99. in reply to jendraknet #
  • @Lord_Darkstar I can send/receive email on my iPhone. Surely other 3G phones can do the same. Hell, my 2G Sony Ericsson could do that. in reply to Lord_Darkstar #
  • Just did billing for the 1st half of June. It’s not looking good. But they do have some large color jobs pending. #
  • @daysies if you had a C in you last name, you’d have my mom’s name. in reply to daysies #
  • There’s another progressive dinner Downtown. $65/person (+ tip). Limit 50 people. In the Arts District. We were still hungry after last 1. #
  • @tombert I knew that. in reply to tombert #
  • facebook.com/dan.bates #
  • g’night, all #
  • Based on the waiting passengers, if I didn’t know better I’d think this airline was Greyhound. #
  • Chillin’ @ Starbucks w/ @dbferguson in Euless. #
  • WTF is it with today’s youth? GET OFF MY LAWN! #
  • There’s another woman with no top on by the pool across the street. But she’s lying face-down & I can see the bikini straps next to her. #
  • @JennywithaY if she does I’m sure she’ll re-tie her bra straps before doing so. in reply to JennywithaY #
  • @lnorthrup The next flight out isn’t until tomorrow, and runs $400, so it’s out of the under-$100 budget. Sorry. in reply to lnorthrup #
  • Pho has been consumed: http://twitpic.com/7c80c #
  • Just finished eating french toast & fried eggs. #
  • Waiting at the Genius Bar for my iPhone appt. #
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The Week That Was 2009-06-07

Posted By: monogodo on June 7, 2009.
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