“I feel terrible” – Han Solo (Episode V)

Writing this early in the morning so my mood can change but I feel like I am off to a better start today. There is also sixteen hours until I’m done for the day as well. Although now I am left with only the difficult parts of my task at Statusfirm.

Well, this is a journal in progress as I am now at Dell. My time at Statusfirm was spent researching for several hours and then attempting to use that for my code. I didn’t feel as productive today as I was yesterday, and I don’t like leaving a coding project with an error on it either. So tomorrow I will have my work cut out for me as soon as I come in.

Six hours left at Dell and I am still in one piece, haven’t had my “crash”, but I will be going for coffee in over an hour so that should help my cause. *Update* In an hour I will be in bed and then running the marathon again. Perhaps the body was used to two back-to-back days, the third will be critical. I thought about calling sick to Dell tomorrow in order to get a long sleep one day early; but I will tough it out and have a great sleep on Thursday and Friday.

Running Total (Two Days):
Sleep: 10 1/2 hours
Tim Hortons: 2 coffees, 1 Iced Cap

As an added bonus I took a picture of myself shortly after the alarm went off, here is “Sean: In all his glory” expect more as the week progresses.

This is how it feels to be run over by a car and left on the street in the hot sun. Well, maybe not like that, but I feel pretty beat up right about now. 6 AM came very quick this morning. The alarm choice wasn’t an easy listening music station, but the annoying bell/tone that terrifies even the strongest men.

Each day I go into Statusfirm I will continue to look worse, a whole week of it, in the end I will appear to be a zombie. I was doing great until I got to Dell, and around 3:30 PM I started on the slide I’ve been on for the last few hours. Fortunately Tim Hortons is only a ten minute round trip so I have a second wind now.

While I am only one day into this I have a lot of respect for people who work two jobs, even if they do it on their weekends or days off. I am looking at twelve-straight days and will be with the walking wounded when I reach the end. I still have four hours at Dell and work at Statusfirm in less than twelve – this is a day I wish I couldn’t do simple math then at least I could lie to myself that I have plenty of time.

Running Total (One Day):
Sleep: 4 3/4 hours
Tim Hortons: 1 coffee, 1 Iced Cap

In other news, my web server seems to have problems with uptime. The last three days there have been times I went to the page and nothing came up. So if you encounter any “Page cannot be displayed”, just blame it on that and not me breaking code. As well, it appears as though there are a few dead images for links under the “Meta” section over to the right. I believe this is just an IE issue, as it works in Firefox. When I come out of my work-funk I will take a deeper look at it.

I have packed my clothes and food for my adventure. I will be getting half the sleep I am used to and working two jobs while I decide where my career will go next. I feel like I am going to be homeless for that time, ultimately living out of my car. A few things have come to mind:

• This will be the week I truly get addicted to coffee
• There should be a Tim Hortons loyalty card
• Sleep on Thursday will be good
• I ain’t no hollaback girl

On the way to work today I saw an advertisement on a car promoting Family Safe Movies that edits popular movies so there is no graphic violence, sex scenes, profanity or nudity. My first reaction was: What else is there to movies? To my amazement they have Pulp Fiction and Scarface, but no Showgirls. As well I did not see People Under the Stairs or Nightmare on Elm Street, both of those movies thoroughly corrupted my childhood, and terrified me to no end. And surprisingly enough both were made by Wes Craven. Although they do have E.T. which to this day I still avoid because of the emotional damage it did to me when I was younger. I will save that story for another day.

On another note, Chad and his Angry Mailbox linked me to his site as Gursky’s House of Pancakes. Chad must be a psychic or I’m easy to read because in addition to having dreams of running my own game show, I want to make a restaurant that serves nothing but KD and giant sized pancakes. I don’t know if there is a market for it, but the KD will be extra cheesy and pancakes full of chocolate chips and bananas.

That reminds me, if you are ever in Vancouver I highly recommend Elbow Room as it not only serves verbal abuse but massive pancakes. I was too scared to ask for water”

If I were to organize a game show, I would offer contestants a years supply of Q-Tips. It will be the biggest scam since the fall of 1950’s Twenty One. The players will be so pleased with the idea of a years supply of anything they will not realize that what I am giving out are massive double-packs, and should be enough for even the largest families. I will be rolling in the money and sleeping on a bed of cotton each night. The idea for the show or how I obtain sponsorship for it will come in time, but Ken Jennings will make a weekly appearance. I have a plan. A genius plan and it cannot fail!

A week ago I tripped and fell in a very dark and scary alley. There were racks of strangers staring back at me and when I got to my feet I ran. I ran for what seemed like hours, but in as much time as it takes to sing Happy Birthday I ran into the ringleader of the alley. After that my fate was sealed.

I have since joined a gang. This is not your usual bandana wearing, kitten-beating gang. This is one where they expect you to keep your nails trimmed, hair always done and know the latest acts on Broadway. The cloth that was best used on couches is now in a coat. The material that George Costanza would drape himself in is my ticket into the Mafia. That’s right, I now own a black velvet coat.