Friday, April 28, 2006

April Update.

Update:

Work: f'ing tax season. This year was way worse than last year despite the fact I now know what I'm doing. *grumble* We also had two people working through the whole season as opposed to last year when I was left all alone three quarters of the way through. There were just so many new clients and so much time wasted. I cannot believe that I have to go in tomorrow. Deadline's monday, if clients are still bringing stuff in, why can't we tell them to just f*ck the hell off? Jerks. Taxes are a fact of life, people, get with it!! I hope all of you have done your taxes, and if you haven't, please don't tell me.

Everything else: What everything else?? No time for anything in the past two or three weeks. *grumble* Wake up, go to work, work OT, go home, eat dinner, do nothing, shower, go to sleep. I honestly don't know how you tech people do it. Working from 9am to 7 or 8pm every nite. How do you not go crazy?? Actually, if my time at work was used efficiently (ie. no long-winded stories repeated over and over, no useless meetings and less procrastination from others), I wouldn't mind it much if I had to do OT for a few weeks. Work has to be done, my style is to work quickly and get things done. When others slow me down, I just think, "what's the point?" and draaaaaaaaaaag things on.

Anyway. Enough about work. Curse you all, damn time-wasters!! Ok ok, enough.

Edward was originally supposed to come back on May 6th.. but alas, he needs to stay in Boston to do his rotations. So Angry Panda, Babychai and I will take a little road trip there during the long weekend in May. Me so excited. I foresee lots of shopping, good food and sightseeing. And I get to see Edward, so that's a bonus. Oops.. uhm. I meant the shopping will be a bonus. Yeah. Yup yup, that's what I meant.

Speaking of a road trip... I should get my car checked before we go. I was driving around last Saturday when people in my car noticed a weird rattling noise emitting from somewhere in the back. I inspected it, thought it was stuff in my trunk, removed everything and the noise was still there. So I took to a Mazda dealership (Avante, I love them), and lo and behold, my right rear wheel was missing 2 out of 5 lug nuts. Lug nuts are the things that basically secure your wheel to your tire and without which your wheel will FALL OFF!! I was also informed that the three lug nuts left in the tire were not at all secure, meaning my whole wheel was loose. *insert wtf face* I had taken my car to this tire place to change back to my summer tires. I guess the guy did a shoddy job. I knew there was something I didn't like about that old guy. Grr.. I want to go yell at them since this was highly negligent on their part but I need to think about how to yell in chinese. So are there any volunteers?? I need someone who can yell in chinese. Where are my parents?!?!

Right, parents. Off on a 7 week trip. Don't ask me where. I can tell you which continent, but that's about it. (Europe). Been cooking and packing lunch every single day. You'd think I would go out a lot, but I'm trying to be good. It's been salad everyday for lunch for the past 7 days. It's getting rather boring, but I'm determined to stick with it for a while. Incidentally, the PC blue menu mango vinaigrette is really tasty.

Enough rambling. I will ramble again soon. I think.

time for: dishes. sigh. downside of making own dinner.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

OMG! The loose wheel thing happened to one of my co-workers too. Apparently a different tool is required to do the nuts for aluminum wheels and the car guy forgot to do it. The nuts were just finger tight.

It is Saturday and I have been at work since 9:30am. Feel better now? :)

babychai said...

well, after they put the lug nuts back on (with their hands) they are supposed to use the torque wrench (aka "the tool") to put it on....

so the guy is supposed to know how much torque (or force or tension..whatever, i hate physics) your car requires, adjusts the torque wrench, and then uses it to tighten ur lug nuts so that it can only be tightened to the max of what your car requires.

by the way, it's not the first time green bay tire has had that problem. once, a customer had his entire wheel flown off the car...

i can't find the thread right now, but it's been posted on all the car forums and stuff... sucky.

ROAD TRIP!

babychai said...

after lots of trial and error, i found it! http://forums.c7performance.com/showthread.php?t=3928

Anonymous said...

i'm up for some yelling ... since i can't help you w/ the physics or the accounting parts of your life.. he h heh...

i'm so disappointed that you didn't think of me first thing when you need someone to be a bitch... sigh...