Domestic Geek

Happy Festivus, Everybody!!!!

(feel free to air your grievances in the comments)

Here's my grievance for the day: I've been complaining to management about the front door being broken since mid-June. It's been getting worse and worse the last month or so. I complained to the newest manager a couple of weeks ago. Even the owner commented on how much of a pain the lock is yesterday. Does anybody call a door repairman? NO! Just as I predicted, a day would come when the food delivery guys wouldn't be able to get the door open and they would just leave. Today was that day. When the company came back for a second time and explained why the delivery was so late, did that manager get off his ass and call in a repairman? NO! I'm so tired of this kind of crap.

I hate my pizza job. I want to quit. Bad. I should be there now, but I don't want to go. So, I was sitting here doing a search for some freelance work I might be able to do on the side to replace the pizza income (now that I have procured a full time job) and I found this ad for an Apple Retail Creative on craigslist. Look at where the location is. Flatiron Crossing.

Yes, there is going to be another Colorado Apple Store, this time in Broomfield. Excellent. I was doing a bunch of searches trying to find the opening date. No luck. You can be assured that Marcus and Mike (and me) will attend the Grand Opening. I have to have another t-shirt for my collection. I already have the Aspen Grove and Cherry Creek ones. I assume that since they are hiring for all positions on the Apple Jobs site, it can't be too far off in the future!

It's been a Christmas movie marathon at my house today. I started off by watching The Polar Express, followed by A Christmas Story and finished up by Jim Carrey's How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

A heard something interesting on the radio the other day and as par for me, I don't believe anything I hear unless I research it for myself. I had always heard that denoting Christmas as Xmas was the way secular people tried to take away the religious aspects of the holiday. It turns out that Christmas has been denoted in this fashion for over a thousand years. If you're curious of the origins, read this wikipedia entry on Xmas.

Well, I was offically hired as a graphic designer today. I start on January 2nd. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

More proof that 2006 is going to be my year (since my lucky number is 6).

So, I keep hearing this one song that I really like playing at stores. It has a realy cool horn riff in it. The problem is that with all the other background noise and how fast the singer speaks, I can never hear the specific lyrics so that I can google them. Well, I was standing right under a speaker at King Soopers today and I caught enough words. I googled them as soon as I got home and I find that it is a song by The Waitresses ("I Know What Boys Like", "Square Pegs") called "Christmas Wrapping". I've seen people mock this song on blogs and such and had no idea they were ridiculing a song I really liked. *hmph* Anyway, my $10 iTunes gift certificate came from Blingo a couple of days ago, so I purchased it!

I saw an infomercial last weekend for a CD collection that I wouldn't mind owning from Time Life called 70s Music Explostion. It's too bad the 10 disc collection costs $120! Even if I had money, I'd have a hard time shelling out that much at once for CDs.