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[winduko]

I just got my schedule for the next school year today.

I am internally doing maniacal laughs because I'm not taking an exam because my final exam period of the year (not semester, but year) is planned at this point (but can change) to be able to be spent not taking an exam because the period that covers is my study hall period.

[Bella]

unrelated to everything else going on, but i think it was mentioned outside the site once or twice. is anyone else watching Halt and Catch Fire, on AMC? i'm really enjoying it thus far. :0

I am! It's pretty good although I get really twitchy every time they talk about DEC stuff for some reason. Probably because they keep pronouncing DEC (deck) as DEE EEE CEE. C'mon writers you couldn't have asked like, any ex-DEC worker on earth how to pronounce that? Or made a call to the Computer History Museum?

This is almost as infuriating as seeing Multics spelled MULTIX for like a whole chapter in Steven Levy's Hackers.

[Chocofreak13]

huh, i never knew it was pronounced that way. The More You Know~*
i watched episode 5 yesterday, and might try to sneak another episode in tonight. i want to steal half of Cameron's wardrobe.

[Nichi]

@Bella: ...It's always been pronounced as "deck"? I always assumed it was pronounced by letters, like Japanese counterpart N-E-C :\
Granted, at least "deck" is a word. Not like the new-age retrogamers who insist that "SNES" should be pronounced as "Snezz"; which makes me want to rip their vocal chords out >_>;

@Duko: Sounds good :3

So, since I'm rested and have finally gathered all of my thoughts together, here's a rundown of work yesterday:

Work. Work never changes: ShowHide

Phase 1: Pizza USA
After sleeping in as late as I possibly could, I finally got up at 10AM, did a few things online, and then went over to Pizza Hut for the first round. Was thankfully super-slow all day; spent most of my time talking to my coworkers about having bought the new Weird Al album, among other things. Was a decent start to the day, and I got off a little early since it was so slow and I had everything finished.

Phase 2: Break Break Breakdance
I return home to relax and do some stuff online; since everyone was busy, I watched the newest Blockbuster Buster, lurked Tumblr, and other typical things. Mom left to obtain more garage sale leftovers (This haul is, to be honest, not that great; mostly junk this time around, without any nice clothes for me to try on in secret >w>; ).

Phase 3: Electric Eye
Now, it was time to venture into Wal-Mart. Upon arrival, with plenty of time to spare, I walked over to Redbox; noticing the sign saying they finally have the Lego Movie. So, I rented it, and then walked to the back to put everything in my locker before I clock in. At the start, it seemed like it was going to be a pretty good day; joking around with one of my coworkers about Minecraft while we were trying to reorganize the DVD shelves, with only one problem customer (Some older woman throwing a fit about not being able to buy a Net10 refill card that only has the minutes; even though it's bundled together and we cannot sell her one without including the others. Thankfully, I passed it over to a more knowledgeable and respected coworker, whom defused the situation).

That is, until it got about time for me to take my 15-minute break (My only break at all that day).

A customer calls me over to the case to get a game out for him...and before I can walk down to the register with him, another person jumps in and is wanting Grand Theft Auto V, after some random kids were looking at it. After a headache with that (He didn't seem to understand that GTA5 and Grand Theft Auto V are the same game; so he had to call up whomever was wanting him to get the game and I talked to them to explain that we do have the game in stock), I check out the two customers...when about 5 minutes later, the guy who bought GTA5 came back, saying something about his camera, which he left in his cart, being stolen. He claims it was those kids who were looking at GTA5 before him that took his camera, but honestly I don't know as I never saw him with a camera at all at any point, or even a cart for that matter. I kept trying to tell him to go to the Customer Service desk as they'd be of more help to him, but he didn't seem to understand; he just kept repeating the same bit of info (Camera stolen, while getting game, he claims it was the kids who were looking at said game before he bought it) until he finally caught on to go down there (I mean, they have the ability to pull up the security camera footage to track down whomever stole his camera).

With that out of the way, I was about to go on break...when one of the people from the customer service desk came back over with that guy, as she gathered info from him and also as much info as I was able to provide (As I didn't get a good look at them). I was told to wait as a manager was supposed to come by to sweep the area and again gather info from me, which delayed my break...but said manager never showed up, so by the time one of my coworkers got back from her break, I went to take mine.

Phase 4: Eat It
With only a 15-minute break, I went down to McDonald's (At the front of the store) to get something cheap and quick to eat; since I was starving. Unfortunately for me, everyone capable of running the registers were away for unknown reasons, including managers; leaving a single cook whom didn't know how to use the register by themselves. I honestly didn't have time to wait, so I decided to walk to the back of the store to get some chicken from the deli instead.

They had the chicken I love so very much (General Tso's Chicken)...but unfortunately, I wasn't able to have it; there was only one employee over there, and she was tied up with a large order for another customer (Lots and lots of freshly-sliced turkey). So, I grab a premade chicken wrap and a bottle of Coke, walk back to the front of the store, check out, walk to the break room at the back of the store, quickly eat, and then quickly return to my department; having this gut feeling I was running late.

Phase 5: Foil
Things seemed relaxed now; it has begun to calm down in our department, as I help with stocking the shelves with both new items and stuff retrieved from the returns bucket (Which, apparently a particular iPod sync cable shows in our system to go to the Hardware department; which was one of the strangest things I've seen to date). Everything was good...until I ran into this one really creepy customer; whom was very much a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist (Of the likes that Weird Al mentioned in his new song, Foil.

He was looking at SD Cards for his phone (A phone that can't use an SD card, for the record), when he began to ask weird questions like if an SD card would prevent someone from getting into his phone unauthorized or hold a dump of everything done on a phone (Call list, text messages, and such), and if there's a way to setup a phone to dump data like that or use it to lock her out. He then began to rattle on about his wife or ex-wife apparently cheating on him, she's somehow locking him out of his phones as soon as he gets them, apparently she ran over his leg with a truck, and whatnot; I'm just standing there thinking to myself why is he spilling out all of this information to just some random Wal-Mart employee instead of a lawyer.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity, he checked out and left; which I was so thankful for. The rest of the night went decently, aside from me being so tired that I was about to collapse. Thankfully, the nightshift guy told me I could go home once I finished reorganizing the $8 BluRay bin; which I was nearly finished with when he told me that.

I got home, drank lots of water, talked with Bella for a while, and then went to bed; sleeping nicely.

[Chocofreak13]

i'm glad things are smoothing out a little. as creepy as that guy was, at least you can laugh about it now, right?

[Nichi]

True. My sister thinks maybe he was a meth addict; given how he sounds very similar to the ex-husband of a coworker of mine from Pizza Hut (It's be so fucking weird if this was the same guy .__.; )

[Bella]

huh, i never knew it was pronounced that way. The More You Know~*

@Bella: ...It's always been pronounced as "deck"? I always assumed it was pronounced by letters, like Japanese counterpart N-E-C :\
Granted, at least "deck" is a word. Not like the new-age retrogamers who insist that "SNES" should be pronounced as "Snezz"; which makes me want to rip their vocal chords out >_>;

Dad asked me about this also — to the effect of "are you sure 'deck' isn't just an aberrant pronunciation?" Going by personal experience the DEC alumni I've talked to have all pronounced it "deck". DECnet was pronounced "decknet" and DECUS is "deck-us", and there were various wordplays involving the initialism (for instance, "If you don't have 36 bits you aren't playing with a full DEC"), all of which point to that being the right pronunciation. Finally the Jargon File says so, and that's really all the evidence I need to believe it's 100% true. (Though as it notes, by the 1980s DEC had ceased to be the proper shorthand for Digital Equipment Corporation — it was "Digital" by then. Though that may have been limited to the folks in marketing since a lot of people still call it DEC to this day.)

Also, Pent, I've heard people pronounce it both "S-N-E-S" and "Snes" so I'm honestly not sure what the right way is. ^^;

i watched episode 5 yesterday, and might try to sneak another episode in tonight. i want to steal half of Cameron's wardrobe.

I know right? :O

Also I can't shake the feeling Cameron could quite possibly be circa-1980s-ITS-tan's spirit animal.

Although she'd never be caught working with microcomputers. Or sleeping with IBM employees.

[Nichi]

@Bella: Interesting :3
Also, the correct (As in, during that console's era) pronunciation for SNES is by letters, although most people either called it Super Nintendo, while most marketing material called it the Super NES.

Also also, I might need to see if I can find a download of the first few episodes of that show. I want to see it ;_;

[Chocofreak13]

@pronunciations: S-N-E-S is how i've always said it, since the other consoles in the line were the N-E-S and the N-64, just like the D-S is the D-S now. :\
@HaCF: here pent, i found it for you.
@walmart guy: yeeeaaah, meth addiction would make sense. i just had this mental image of a 50-something alien chaser with a stained wifebeater and possibly a ratty old army trench coat, but given that you live in the small-town midwest, if he was in his teens-30's, meth addiction makes WAY more sense.


hoping to go to the doctor doctor tomorrow in addition to the loony doctor. my throat isn't really sore anymore, but my cough has gotten much worse, to the point where i'll have coughing fits for 3 minutes straight. and since this illness is over a week old by now, yeahhhh.....

*gets paid today*
*has plan for cash like responsible adult*
*goes to christmas tree shop, gets shampoo*
*spots bin of discount tea, and box of non-decaf darjeeling*
*decides on minor impulse buy, still feeling like responsible adult*
*goes to sister's for dinner*
*sis mentions that it's tee fury grab bag day*
*.......*
*......*
*spends $10 on shirt instead of paying people back like responsible adult*
*HERP DERP IM A GROWNUP*

[Nichi]

Thanks :3
Although IDK if it's ok to link to a torrent of a fairly recent TV series :\

Also, I know that feel. I'm cutting back on unnecessary spending as much as possible so I can afford a decent car; something that can get me back and forth to Tyler so I can get a job there.

[Pitkin]

I've never heard SNES being pronounced letter by letter. ^^;; Back in time when some of my friends had those contemporary machines, they were either "Super Nes", "Snes" or "Super Nintendo". S-N-E-S could've happened in an SBAE: Spelling Bee - the Abbreviation Edition.

In any case, I find it most amusing that there's a "correct" way to pronounce a product name. There's a Finnish proverb saying that everything valuable will end up with multiple names as different people call it whatever to them is convenient.

[Nichi]

To me, actually pronouncing "SNES" as a word is like nails on a chalkboard; it makes no sense to force a pronunciation onto it :\

Then again, I live in a region that pretends "ain't" is a real word published in a valid dictionary that didn't also change the meaning of "literally" because of people not knowing how to properly use that word, and also calls any carbonated beverage a "Coke" even if it's clearly not (7-Up, orange soda, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, etc. etc.)

[Chocofreak13]

that's how language always works, with dialects and grammar rules and the like. -w-;

@pent: idk either, but it's there if you want it. after all, you basically went through all the legal channels already outside of paying 2 bucks a fucking episode on the idiocy that is google play. :\

also, that's reeeeeally weird on the soda....and ain't is technically in the dictionary. :0

[Nichi]

Still hate that word :\

Looking forward to Thursday; as I'll finally have a day off from both jobs. I intend to do absolutely nothing that day if I can avoid it

[Chocofreak13]

SLEEEEP IIIIIIN

also, gah, i've been up for less than 2 hours and i already want to go back to sleep.