Alright! Time for my second week in review! Again, thanks for reading this. <3 It encourages me when I get visitors, of course, so just someone looking makes me happy.
Work was, mostly, the same old schtik. Because the university signed a contract with a new food service provider, we’ve been busy. At the end of the semester, way back in May, our old provider was moving stuff out but they did most of it by themselves. Our new provider, however, is using normal UPS/FedEx shipments to get their stuff in – that means I’m responsable for them, since all normal UPS/FedEx packages pass through my hands. It’s kind of a pain, but hey, it’s to be expected. On top of the new food service provider getting stuff in to get ready to operate, IT has been blowing their leftover budget before the end of the fiscal year happens at the end of this month. So we’ve been getting a lot of new hardware for them, too.
The biggest event happened between Thursday and today (Friday). Since the postal rates changed back in May, we’ve been having trouble processing international mail. It’s not so much a problem, IMO, but just a few extra steps. Pitney Bowes (yes, the people I railed against in an earlier post) finally released an update to us that was supposed to let us process international mail normally again yesterday morning. Guess what happened? The update completely FUBAR-ed the mail meter. It erased all the rates, it erased all our preset modes, it even stopped the meter from communicating with the computer. So our mail processing ability was absolutely nil until they finally got it fixed around noon today, and by then we had a whole day and a half worth of mail stacked up waiting to get meter stamped. I love Pitney Bowes. <3 In case you didn’t know, the meter stamp is the stamp a machine gives an envelope. When you get your junk mail and the postage is in red ink up in the upper right corner? That’s the meter stamp.
Lets see here. I’m still reading Negima, I finished two volumes over the week. The Mahora Festival is just crazy, and some of the stuff that happened made me laugh like crazy. Especailly the costume contest. Fanservice FTW. The fight between Mana and Fu was full of win. The fight between Negi and Takamichi was good, but to me it wasn’t as good as the fight between Mana and Fu. I’m looking forward to the fight between Asuna and Setsuna, it’s always intersting to watch two friends ending up having to fight eachother. You know they’re going to have to go all-out and find a way to remain friends while they’re at it. I know they will, but I’m sure it’ll be fun (and hopefuly with a lot of fanservice too. keh, keh, keh).
I finished watching Full Metal Panic! this week. Stupid Netflix was missing Disc 6, so the major events happening during that disk was pretty lost to me and the people I’m spending my weeknights with. Oh, well, it was still a nice ending. I’m pretty darn tolerant of swearing, but I believe in moderation. Swearing is meant to give oomph and emphisis to a situation, I think, so overuse ends up completely ruining that. Why this tangent? At the last episode, when Sousuke said ‘YOU SHITHEAD!”, it was a lot more of a ‘woah..’ moment than if Sousuke was tossing those words left and right. And when the villian said ‘I love you~!’ right before he exploded, it made me laugh. A lot. He was the most villianous, mess-with-your-head and rub-your-spirit-in-the-ground sort of guy, he was almost awesome. The older son of the family I stay with is kinda wierd, and has chosen him as his role-model.
I watched the first few episodes of Cardcaptors. I was dissapointed because apparently Netflix just has the Americanized version, or the family just had the American version in their queue, or something. I’m kinda ashamed of what American dubbers have done to anime, especailly in earlier animes such as Sailor Moon and CCS.
I’ve also watched around 20 episodes of Slayers. Lina is pretty cool, heh heh. Gourry is just comic relief as far as I’m concerned, because he’s so thick-headed. Amelia is just.. ugh.. she was funny and cute when you first meet her, then it just gets annoying pretty quick. I was somewhat surprised that Zelgadis was actually an ally, just misinformation – as well as Zelgadis’s pride not sharing information – kept Lina/Gourry and Zelgadis battling. After the first major fight, after Zelgadis and Lina/Gourry finally get on the same page, I started to get annoyed. Villains don’t seem to be going away. They seem to die several times, or might as well be dead, but they keep popping up. It stops being a decent plot twist pretty darn quick. When it’s finally explained, it was almost a let-down. I thought it was pretty lame.
A few funny things that happened. Me and the family I stay with were eating at Cheddar’s. For simplicity’s sake, the mother is Kim, the younger son is Kyle, the older son is Caleb. They were talking about Caleb and another friend’s tendancy to get in trouble and Caleb’s ability to talk his way out of things. We were supposing that some day they’ll wind up in jail.
Kim: With your luck, Caleb, you’ll wind up getting off the hook.
Kyle: Yeah, and you’ll get her off too.
Me: *snerk*
And we all had a good laugh. Kyle’s a pretty pure guy, so he was a little slow in the pervert uptake, but he eventually figured it out. And another thing, me and my boss were out delivering our loads of packages to the new food service provider. Usually they’ll keep a front door unlocked so we can easily get in without having to disturb the kitchen crew. However, we found out too late that they didn’t have one unlocked. So here we were, getting back in our cart with an armload of packages. I was keeping the packages steady with one arm, while my other hand was steering the cart – trying to pull it around to the kitchen enterance. Needless to say, it was tough..
Me: Ugh! I can’t do this with one hand!
Boss: … That’s what she said.
Heheheh. I almost crashed the cart because I was laughing so hard. Good times, good times.
