Second Wind

So, after being told that laptops create infertility risk, I hit up a search for "laptop sperm" (using Mamma, though, not Google, so it doesn't reach their archives) and I found out that... it's true: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/17664.php

Well, that's horrifying.

Anyway, here's a couple of pics of my new beard and suit: http://gryphonsgallery.blogspot.com/2010/11/suited-me.html

So, yesterday I kind of hit the wall regarding work. Today I got my second wind, and it just flew by. Everything all of a sudden seems tolerable.

Although I entered my last cheque into a machine because I didn't want to wait until the bank opened after I already waited for the temp agency to open to get my cheque, and it was Friday and I wanted it to clear before the weekend, but now I realize it will probably take like, a week for it to clear because I didn't just see a teller on the coming Monday, and it probably won't even clear, because I forgot to sign it!

And not only that, but I thought I had four timecards. I used one last week, then I gave two away to people who forgot their timecards, but now I can't find my last one, and I need one tonight!

It feels like actually receiving money for my work is out of reach right now...

Although I'm still not in as bad shape today as I was yesterday. Yesterday I really hit the wall, but today I got my second wind.

Turns out, the reason we keep being put on these parts is because we broke a company record! Turns out, we're the company's team of elites! For Night Shift, there is no Mission Impossible!

I don't think I need to worry about getting fired. They'd put me on Afternoons, with the semi-hardcore if I couldn't cut it with Nights, and then they'd stick me on the wimpy Days before they fired me.

There's one guy on my team who works two full-time jobs. He worked 22 hours in a row and got three hours sleep last I talked to him. He makes the 12-hour people look like slackers.

There's another guy on my team who sticks two springs in one shot. I'm fast enough to make a person cry for mercy if I wanted, but this guy's almost twice my speed!

After I learned how we broke a record, I volunteered for the tougher job. It's not financial stimuli that motivates me. Greed isn't very high up on my list of Sins. But Pride is.

One thing I hate about my job is, there's clocks everywhere. You keep looking at them, and it makes the time crawl! You count it down by percentage... half a day left, one quarter, one eighth, one sixteenth, one thirty-secondth...

I think that guy found out my name's not Jason. He didn't refer to me by name all day, even though we talked... Awkward.