2.18.2004

Well, tonight went much better than I had anticipated. The shipment was HYOOGE, but rather than bring a bunch of other people in for small shifts, they just used all of our on-call shifts, extending them to full shifts. The truck was late, so that makes for a nice "fall back" excuse if we don't get all of shipment done, but we certainly didn't need it tonight. Four of us were staying until close, and we got shipment done a half-hour early. That's 2 hours off the DPP and CJ was more than pleased. Plus with the truck being late, our shifts were all kinda truncated when it came to actual time spent processing shipment, so by the end of the night we ended up with a 290UPH. (that's very good, approx. 25% above goal) Had the truck been on time, we would've been done an hour and a half early and had boku hours to use on Thursday's shipment. As it is, we'll probably be short and all of tonight's work will have been in vain. However, I'm not going to let that drag me down.

We also appear to have stumbled across a random intelligent newbie that wandered into chat tonight. The only info we can get on our mystery date is that he/she's a "chuushin supporter." If you thought "intelligent newbie" was an oxymoron, prepare to be utterly floored. S/he is also on AOL! I'll give everyone a second to rebound from that.
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Yes, a random newbie that has an IQ greater than their shoe size and sits on an AOL connection. There's hope for the world yet.

On the Zelda front: All of the dungeons are finished (Except Ganon's tower) and now I'm running around frantically gathering fundage and triforce charts so that bastard Tingle can charge me an arm and a leg deciphering them for me. But I'll show that little asshat, I'm going to go back into each dungeon using the tingle tuner (and the strategy guide) and get all of the tingle statues. I should make back about 75% of whatever I'm paying him to decipher the Triforce charts. My inventory is full now, having finished the merchant sidequest and picking up the bottles I was missing. I now have a magic shield that I'll never use and three empty bottles that I haven't gotten around to filling yet. Elixir soup needs to go in one, one already has a fairy, and I figure I'll go to the forest haven and get blue potion in the third. Maybe i'll fill the fourth with forest water and start the tree-growing sidequest. I played hide-and-seek with the lame kids on Windfall today, cashed in my Joy Pendants and got my own private island and the triforce chart that lay within it. While I was gone today chelle did all the slide puzzles for me, too, which is great since I can't stand slide puzzles. I have off tomorrow, so I think I'll be hitting up that tingle statue sidequest i mentioned earlier. Fuck that green-suited fairy wannabe.
posted at 01:54

Lies were told instead.