After doing my banking last night I got home about 9:30pm and I wanted to find out how well the Oiler’s were doing with the Wild in town. I caught the finale minute as the Oiler’s won 5-2. Wow. Penner and Brule each got goals. Wow. At the rate Penner is going he’s going to become a 30 goal scorer he’s already got 5 so far and Brule at least 3. Anne came home immediately after and gave me shit because I took out $200. That was supposed to go towards the cable bill. So now I’ve got to go back to the bank on my way in and re deposit that so she can pay our cable/internet bill this afternoon. I screwed up. I’ll get off at Central and quickly run up and deposit the cash and then head down to Tim’s and get a bite to eat.
I went to bed about 12:45am and then listened to a bit of Coast. I got maybe an hour sleep but couldn’t sleep after that. I went back to sleep about 5am and the alarm woke me for 6am. I got 2 hours or so of sleep. I don’t feel too bad but Anne doesn’t want me to work a full afternoon. The extra 2 hours won’t make much of a difference.
Last night wow. I ended up getting my paycheck no bonus money (through out the office actually) I’ve seen this happen before when management pays out too much bonus money. Also some people are going to have their wages reduced. What? But I had a fairly good night anyway. Last night I got 6 cards for $375 on cards and $565 on total. And our office is last and we’re paying out too much bonus money? Already just me working part time this week I’ve pulled in $655 in credit cards.
Anyway, I’m going in for my 4 hours. Nothing more nothing less. Actually Steve from Vancouver was in today. I wonder if this had anything to do with the lack of bonus money and wage rollbacks?
The good news is the Esks won 22-19 (Argos came close) and the Oilers won here 5-2. Last year the Wild’s record against the Oiler’s was 4-2. It’s been a good short week what with it being Thanksgiving on Monday, Thursday off for the emergent meeting, it’s been a nice week.
This morning, I’m at my bank down to Tim’s and get some breakfast and then put my 4 hours in and then home get my Max ticket and have a bite to eat and a little nap then dig into “The Space Wolf.” This weekend is mostly going to be a reading weekend. I’ve had enough TV.
On Coast last night Richard Hoagland was talking about Nasa’s Moon mission. I didn’t listen to a lot of the details but it looked like a good show. And of course they talked about the balloon boy episode of a couple of days ago.
I’m looking at the markets and the DJIA is down from breaking over 10,000 points. Nice to see that going strong. But what bothers me is why are we in a recession here in Alberta when Oil is sitting at $75 in October? I have an answer. It’s based upon bad policy Stelmach received last year to increase oil revenues. What was he smoking? More on this later.
Anyway gang, that’s about all for now
Jim
Showing posts with label Sleep trouble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sleep trouble. Show all posts
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
I'm having trouble sleeping lately
I got to bed about 3:30am and listened to a bit of Coast. I slept a little bit until about 5am or so and tried to get back to sleep. It was around 6am I figured I’d get up and do a bit of reading from “The Space Wolf” omnibus. I’m really enjoying this book. I like how King is using the Space Wolves as a quasi military religious order in a SFF setting. I read for an hour and tried going back to bed. I think I did about 7:30am or so.
I kept on waking and dozing off and on. This is the kind of mornings I need the morning shift because as tired as I was I couldn't sleep. I’d be home now tired enough for an afternoon nap and Anne could use the bus pass. Doing a few split shifts are going to be hard on me and the all day Saturday afternoon is as well. But I get off at 4:30pm and I can rush over to Audrey’s before they close at 5pm on a Saturday or if we get half an hour for lunch I can run over on my lunch break. We’ll be doing this new Schedule next weekend right after the Thanksgiving weekend. That 6.5 hour shift is going to be brutal. But I can use the extra hours. The Saturday just keeps me at my current hours. I’d probably do the split shift, Monday and Tuesday that way it’s just mornings off Wed, Thur, Fri. having Friday nights off will be a lot better for me as well. Anne works Wed, Fri and Saturday so for Saturday she’d have to get an extra ticket. I’ll do the splits when there is no Oiler game on. Speaking of which they won a game in a shootout at Rexall Place last night. Good stuff. Penner scored his 2nd goal. The next game is Thursday.
Anne and I were talking here about getting Boots fixed up because we don’t want him to spend another winter out there and playing revolving doors with the other cats. Boots wont travel a bus well so we’re going to take him down to one of the vets near us. It’ll cost us $175. We can barely afford our rent as we’re behind on that this month as it is.
Since this time yesterday we received a 10 degree drop in temperature. We barely got it +1 with a minus 4 wind chill. I haven’t seen the long range forecast yet so hopefully by the weekend it’ll warm up to the high single digits again.
I’ve had 2 awkward days in a row sleeping wise and tomorrow Pat and Berry want to take us out for breakfast Thursday morning. That’s ok they seem like nice people. I don’t mind getting up early again. The great thing about working the morning shifts is that I can watch the new shows when they come on. I haven’t seen Flash Forward or even the new Stargate Universe yet.
Last night on the job Jerry had me move to taps (retention). We were doing Cops for Kids, again. I was surprised even though I had a slow start at least I got a few cards. I ended up with $345 by break. I got 3 more cards for 5 and a $100 card. I was flying. I’ve been using a slightly different tap pitch by mentioning the charity in their Province. As soon as the customer asks “Where are you calling out from?” The sale is lost right there 90% of the time. They get pissed off when they ask that here in Edmonton and area because they know they can’t use the tired old “We only give locally.” I usually get about 6 of those a night. The other thing I’ve been saying in my pitch is asking to confirm their current address. Get them to say “Yes” a lot. That seems to work. I ended up with an $835 total a bunch of empties and a $10 bonus on my next pay-check. That’s what I call a great night. Unfortunately, we’re only going to run CFK for 3 weeks. The high tap numbers will drop off by Friday or Saturday. By Friday I’ll be getting about $600 totals then next week about $400-500 totals and the last week about $150-200 totals. Then we go onto Magic n Miracles. Jerry’s got all the campaigns listed out in order how we do them so we know what’s coming up next. We lost Block Parents though.
Anyhow, it’s time to double check this, post and update my Facebook page and ready for dinner.
Anyway gang, that’s about all for now
Jim
I kept on waking and dozing off and on. This is the kind of mornings I need the morning shift because as tired as I was I couldn't sleep. I’d be home now tired enough for an afternoon nap and Anne could use the bus pass. Doing a few split shifts are going to be hard on me and the all day Saturday afternoon is as well. But I get off at 4:30pm and I can rush over to Audrey’s before they close at 5pm on a Saturday or if we get half an hour for lunch I can run over on my lunch break. We’ll be doing this new Schedule next weekend right after the Thanksgiving weekend. That 6.5 hour shift is going to be brutal. But I can use the extra hours. The Saturday just keeps me at my current hours. I’d probably do the split shift, Monday and Tuesday that way it’s just mornings off Wed, Thur, Fri. having Friday nights off will be a lot better for me as well. Anne works Wed, Fri and Saturday so for Saturday she’d have to get an extra ticket. I’ll do the splits when there is no Oiler game on. Speaking of which they won a game in a shootout at Rexall Place last night. Good stuff. Penner scored his 2nd goal. The next game is Thursday.
Anne and I were talking here about getting Boots fixed up because we don’t want him to spend another winter out there and playing revolving doors with the other cats. Boots wont travel a bus well so we’re going to take him down to one of the vets near us. It’ll cost us $175. We can barely afford our rent as we’re behind on that this month as it is.
Since this time yesterday we received a 10 degree drop in temperature. We barely got it +1 with a minus 4 wind chill. I haven’t seen the long range forecast yet so hopefully by the weekend it’ll warm up to the high single digits again.
I’ve had 2 awkward days in a row sleeping wise and tomorrow Pat and Berry want to take us out for breakfast Thursday morning. That’s ok they seem like nice people. I don’t mind getting up early again. The great thing about working the morning shifts is that I can watch the new shows when they come on. I haven’t seen Flash Forward or even the new Stargate Universe yet.
Last night on the job Jerry had me move to taps (retention). We were doing Cops for Kids, again. I was surprised even though I had a slow start at least I got a few cards. I ended up with $345 by break. I got 3 more cards for 5 and a $100 card. I was flying. I’ve been using a slightly different tap pitch by mentioning the charity in their Province. As soon as the customer asks “Where are you calling out from?” The sale is lost right there 90% of the time. They get pissed off when they ask that here in Edmonton and area because they know they can’t use the tired old “We only give locally.” I usually get about 6 of those a night. The other thing I’ve been saying in my pitch is asking to confirm their current address. Get them to say “Yes” a lot. That seems to work. I ended up with an $835 total a bunch of empties and a $10 bonus on my next pay-check. That’s what I call a great night. Unfortunately, we’re only going to run CFK for 3 weeks. The high tap numbers will drop off by Friday or Saturday. By Friday I’ll be getting about $600 totals then next week about $400-500 totals and the last week about $150-200 totals. Then we go onto Magic n Miracles. Jerry’s got all the campaigns listed out in order how we do them so we know what’s coming up next. We lost Block Parents though.
Anyhow, it’s time to double check this, post and update my Facebook page and ready for dinner.
Anyway gang, that’s about all for now
Jim
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