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March 17, 2009

I declare this week officially a wash…

Filed under: Guinness,random crap,work crap — Niekon @ 7:02 am

*there is an edit to this post with additional reading*

In the immortal words of Chef Ramsey… “shut it the fuck down now!!!”

1) keg tapped out on Sunday evening so I called the keg place Monday morning to see about a delivery that afternoon. They called back six hours later near time for them to close up for the day. Nice customer service there. So new keg is now to be delivered on Saturday… that’s five days of no alcohol since I refuse to fill up my fridge with cans and/or bottles. Should be fun and exciting to be around me…

2) seems I’m not getting my new fridge this weekend now. Apparently the guy fucked up when he entered it into the system and marked the color as “white” not “stainless steel”. And guess which color they were out of? Now the current expectation is maybe on the 28th for delivery. Needless to say I’m less than thrilled with the current experience.
“The Aliso Viejo store has it in stock”… great, get it from them and deliver it to me at the time I designated. You now have my money… and I am to be inconvenienced because someone entered the wrong part number? I set aside time from my weekend to accept the delivery. Now I have to adjust for another weekend? Fuck you…

3) when you are at work and you set up work orders/production orders in a certain manner you expect them to be followed, right? Well, what happens when someone who’s last name is similar to that of the owner goes and makes changes? You no longer have the authority of that project. And what happens when someone else with the same last name starts questioning you about why certain things are being done that are not on the work order? Then you’re caught in quite a spot. Welcome to every bloody day here at work. Seriously, I cannot avoid getting annoyed and aggravated because someone who is supposed to be a “salesperson” is stepping in and taking over my accounts. How am I supposed to do my job when someone is stepping over me and not discussing with me first so that I can issue the changes? And when something does end up go wrong who is to blame? Me of course because I’m the Project Manager… never mind that changes were made without my knowledge.
If it weren’t such a crappy time to be trying to find a job I’d be gone… seriously. I’m getting sick of this crap.

4) while at Disneyland this past weekend we stopped by Disneyana to see what was interesting and whatnot. And while we were there we were looking at the D23 charter membership certificate frames. But you have to have your D23 membership card in order to buy it… slight problem… this just launched this past week. They have not had time to send out the membership cards. So how are you supposed to show that you are a member? Apparently they expect you to have a printout of the transaction if you did it online.
Disney… one of the premier tourist destination does not have the technology to input a name into a database to pull up whether or not you are a D23 member or not. Complete clusterfuckery… this CM I was dealing with just expected me to be able to produce my payment receipt on the spot. I saw nothing on the site that stipulated I had to bring it in to show proof of membership.
Here’s an idea… it might be a bit slower but it’s forward thinking. At midnight the night before the event consider that the cutoff for new memberships that don’t need to show “proof of receipt”. Print out the list of members and match it against state issued ID’s. Yes… it’s going to be long but guess what? The alphabet works for a reason. Anyone who joins after midnight will have a message pop up stating that in order to show proof at the time of the event, they will need to provide a printed out copy of their payment receipt.
Customer service as it should be…

today is going to a lot of nothing hopefully… did the corned beef and cabbage thing on Sunday already. And no Guinness to enjoy it with… so no need to celebrate tonight.

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April 9, 2008

just a few things today…

Filed under: Anaheim Ducks,Guinness,random crap — Niekon @ 10:13 am

1) tomorrow is Game 1 of the first round for the Anaheim Ducks… 7pm… FSN Primeticket
In fact… here is the entire schedule:



Game Date (All times PDT) Site TV
1 Thursday, April 10 at 7 p.m. Honda Center FSN PRIME TICKET HD
2 Saturday, April 12 at 7 p.m. Honda Center FSN PRIME TICKET HD
3 Tuesday, April 15 at 5:30 p.m. American Airlines Center KDOC
4 Thursday, April 17 at 5 p.m. American Airlines Center FSN PRIME TICKET
5* Friday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. Honda Center FSN PRIME TICKET
6* Sunday, April 20 (Time TBD) American Airlines Center FSN PRIME TICKET
7* Tuesday, April 22 (Time TBD) Honda Center FSN PRIME TICKET
* If necessary

2) painting this weekend is optional from the sounds of it. Cache might have to work on Saturday… and while we could paint the majority of it while he’s at work, we would need to coordinate buying the paint (Autumn Fog) for most of the apartment. That is up to those who are assisting.

3) if you are coming over to watch the games… be warned: the keg is dry right now. I am needing to order up a new one shortly… just a matter of finding the time. And also know that soon after the games are over… I need to sleep. I am running myself ragged as of late and trying to get as much sleep as possible at night now days… :P

4) if you manage to score tickets to the game… congrats. Tell me afterwards… and maybe grab us a program and “fowl towel”. Other than that… I’ll be watching from home. It’s cheaper that way and can ensure that I actually get to sleep at a decent hour prior to my 5am wake-up call.

5) anyone in Florida want to be a driver for a day from WDW to Titusville? I’ll buy the gas… looking to jump at 15,000 feet here

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March 11, 2008

last minute notice…

Filed under: Guinness — Niekon @ 8:22 am

Okay… since the 17th happens to fall on a Monday this year and it has somehow become a tradition of sorts for my place to be the place for food and Guinness… Milady and I have decided at the last minute that we shall be opening up our doors a couple of days early this year since she and I will probably be working late on the 17th at our respective jobs.

Saturday, 15 March: corned beef… cabbage… potatoes… Guinness… and who knows what else we can wrangle up. Be warned… there is a Ducks game that evening as well at 7pm PDT. I’d probably say 5ish at the earliest… and the corned beef does seem to disappear rather quickly no matter how many briskets we cook up.

If you are interested in coming over just drop me a line here or via the many other means one can get hold of me… AIM, YIM, email, text message, cellphone, telegraph, mental telepathy, smoke signals, semaphore, et cetera.
The sooner I know the better I can plan for the amount of food I’m about to buy ^_^

* yes, this is being cross-posted to a couple of places… if you are getting this via the LJ feed or other feeds you might be seeing this announcement a couple of times *

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February 11, 2008

meh…

Filed under: Anaheim Ducks,Guinness,Hockey,Me!!!,random crap — Niekon @ 1:04 pm

Weekend of World of Warcraft stuff… running instances with the guild of four/five… doing various reputation quests… and then realizing on Sunday afternoon/evening that my RDS had kicked back in at some point over the weekend as I noticed my right foot was rather swollen and upon closer inspection my calf region too was swollen. Leg is still swollen… but no over-the-top amount of pain except from that caused by the swelling. If this continues to persist then I’ll be forced to go seek out medical attention.
Overnight had a leg cramp that managed to stick with me for the rest of the night (thus making it extremely difficult to sleep) and all morning. It just recently subsided which makes me happy finally because it’s one less thing/pain to worry about. Still a bit stiff and sore when walking around though.

Moving on…

How about them Ducks? Even though the last game with Detroit was controversial for both teams… phantom calls… bullshit goalie interference calls on both teams… Anaheim managed to win their fourth straight game on the road. Ryan Carter is turning into a scorer now too… I think we were all shocked to see him score not once but twice on Martin Brodeur on Friday night.

So the final game on this rather long roadtrip comes a close on Tuesday night against the Colorado Avalanche… can Anaheim got for five straight on the road before coming back home?

For those living under a rock in the past day or so… or totally ignoring all sorts of news, especially when it pertains to hockey… there was a rather freakish accident that took place yesterday in the game between the Florida Panthers and Buffalo Sabres. As soon as it was known what was going on it was reminiscent of a similar accident that had taken place nineteen years prior in the same building.
If you are curious enough… go to YouTube.com and type in “Zednick” for the accident yesterday… and “Malarchuk” for the accident nineteen years ago. I’m not going to post up video because that’s just not right for me to do.

Anyway, kudos to the medical staff at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo for their quick work to stabilize Zednick… and kudos to the fans for their standing ovation when it was announced that Zednick was in stable condition and being transported to the hospital.
Now for those who are not going to get kudos from me today… the NHL and the referees. Instead of doing the obvious and proper thing of calling the game and rescheduling it at a later date… within fifteen minutes of the incident the zambonis had cleaned the ice and play was resumed. Neither team would have been that in focus to the game to play again… their minds would have been on Zednick. And it showed… they were just going through the motions for the remainder of the game.
In 2005 when Jiri Fischer collapsed unconscious on the Detroit bench that game was delayed… trying to find something on the game in which Malarchuk was injured but not seeing anything… and nothing about the game in which Trent McCleary was struck in the throat from a slapshot that collapsed his airway.
Colin Campbell was in attendance at that game… and he had the right to postpone the game and yet they continued.

Shame on the NHL office… and shame on the referees. You control the game… you can call it over at any time. And with something like this those in attendance would have understood completely.

In completely randomness, it seems that there was a worldwide march/protest by those wacky folks from the internet on the Church of Scientology. Several interesting posts about the various marches/protests… some quite humorous. Definitely worth checking out…

New keg was delivered on Saturday. ^_^
In fact, that’s when we think I might have twisted my knee or ankle in helping to carry the thing up the stairs. Go RSD for being a pain in my ass… not literally… O_o

well… back to work… got things to do… and try to get home at a decent hour so that I might be able to soak in the tub for a bit to see if I can possibly ease some of that swelling and muscle tightness in my leg.

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November 9, 2007

Guinness FTW!!!

Filed under: Guinness — Niekon @ 11:45 am

Sorry, I had to post this up… it’s tipping things over and Guinness. What more do you want?

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April 27, 2007

Vehicular woes…

Filed under: Anaheim Ducks,Guinness,car stuff — Niekon @ 5:53 am

So it definitely sounds like it is the water pump… but they are going to have to remove the timing belt to verify for sure. All in all… about a $200 expense on a car that doesn’t go into the shop very often… if sort of maintained… and is just used for short trips to the store and work. It’s not a long-haul kind of vehicle.

Took an earlier bus this morning to work… got in to the office about ten after six which I’m sure will be a shocker to my supervisor who looks at the online timeclock of when I clocked in. Bus coming to work… nice and quiet. Bus leaving work going home… O_o
A whole different ballgame depending on the direction one is traveling. I had a family… two parents and three or four kids get on at one stop and the kids were extremely noisy and the father was not helping the situation either. Was so fuckin’ happy when they got off… I was getting ready to blow a fuckin’ gasket and rage on this asshole that no one else wanted to listen to his annoying fuckin’ brats yelling and screaming on an enclosed bus.
But on my trips… I’ve been able to sit down and get further into my Pokemon game. That seems to be a bright spot… a decent reason to stay on the bus solution. The cost factor is another possible savings.

Bear with me on this one…
Current gas prices around the corner from me were $3.17 per gallon when I filled up the Honda on Monday. I think they were $3.19 this morning. It cost me about $25 to fill up the tank. That tank will last me at least two weeks… sometimes a bit longer than that depending on any other sidetrips I might or might not take during that two week period of time.
So for one month it would cost me at least $50 for filling up the gas tank. This is not including any sort of future repairs needed on the vehicle.

Current monthly bus passes are $45. I can leave my place at 5:30am… go to the AM-PM on the corner to pick-up my two 1-liter bottles of Mtn Dew and the walk down Harbor to Chapman and wait for my 5:47 bus to arrive. Granted, I am losing thirty minutes of sleep doing it this way but oh well.
In my time on the bus I can work on whatever book I happen to be reading at the time… I can catch-up on my pile of magazines… I can play some of my handheld video games… I can just rest and relax.

Drive time to and from work about 15 minutes
Time to and from work via bus about 20 minutes not including the walking to and from the bus stops.

Walking is good for me… sitting on my ass all day every day is not good for me. Maybe once I get the Honda back I’ll still do the OCTA thing. No harm, no foul. If I happen to be running late one day I can drive in… but I could just take the bus too.
And even simpler? With a bus pass, I could take the bus from Orangewood & Harbor the couple of blocks to the Chapman & Harbor stop… but that would take the fun out of the walking. Wouldn’t it? ^_~

Do not forget the Canucks versus the Ducks… Game 2… tonight at 7pm. For those with cable or satellite television is it on FSN West. Dish Network folks it should be 417. DirecTV subscribers it should be 652. Everyone else, you’re on your own… except for all one of you in Germany, you can watch the games apparently on NASN. Who knew that there was a sports station that is all American games in Europe? I didn’t. Everyone else can just figure out your own channels otherwise… :P
My door is open to folks to those who wish to watch the game. Guinness is on tap… hopefully will not run out.

Speaking of which… those who wish to watch any of the upcoming games at my place are more than welcome to do so… but if you are going to want Guinness, then you will need to start pitching in for a new keg. Especially if the Ducks hit the Stanley Cup… you don’t think I won’t have a keg on tap for that? If I see a Duck player hoisting the Stanley Cup I will be pulling out that keg and tapping it right then and there… creating a massive fountain of Guinness out my front window onto the street below… ^_~

that is all for now… hopefully I’ll hear from the auto shop today that it is all ready to go so I can at least take my car home this weekend. And I’ll see whomever decides to pop by this evening later on then…

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March 12, 2007

a random update on stuff…

Filed under: Guinness,Hockey — Niekon @ 3:55 pm

a) 17 March is set to go… I have the keg of Guinness. We currently have six briskets of corned beef… cabbage to be bought closer to the end of the week. And apparently downstairs neighbor is going to do up a Guinness stew (which I informed him that it would most likely use Guinness Stout… not Guinness Draught). I’d recommend nothing earlier than 2pm…
And just as an FYI for folks… Milady does have to work the next day so it won’t be a late night. Nothing past 10pm I’d suggest.

b) last week I was talking about the NHL not taking appropriate action in past incidents over the past few weeks. Well the NHL has stepped up and said enough is enough… they dished out a minimum 25-game suspension over his hatchet chop to Hollweg in last Thursday game. Simon has accepted his punishment and apologized to Hollweg personally and publicly as well as apologizing to his fellow teammates and the Islander fans. So if the Islanders sink fast in the playoffs or don’t make the playoffs, Simon will be suspended into the 2007-2008 season for the balance of the 25 games.

c) and speaking of hockey… guess who is the proud owner of an autographed hockey stick?

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March 6, 2007

last one for today… seriously…

Filed under: Guinness — Niekon @ 1:41 pm

next time I’ll just edit the post… but I blame Milady for the previous one ^_~

Here we go folks…
new Guinness coupler for the tap = $60 + tax
keg of Guinness + delivery = about $210 + tax
possible new tank of NOS = $20

Keg + coupler to be delivered on Saturday morning… and will be good to go for the following Saturday for those who choose to show up.

Guinness Monster is hungry for Guinness… and donations…

to WrathGlory: which job did you leave? Do I still have to fill out the giant scantron?

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