It actually started a month ago. It's been pretty good so far. All I do really is load and unload 150mm silicon wafers from furnaces, and measure the thickness of the oxide grown on them (so far).

I work 4 days in one week, then I have 4 days off, then I work 3 days, then I have 3 days off. It looks like this (mine are the gray days);
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b.....e528/hours.jpg

12 hour shifts too, so I get boo-koo overtime, still only ends up being ~$300-$400 per week :/

Well, I finally watched this thing again.

I couldn't help but notice that the music that plays during the end credits sound like a direct rip-off of John Williams music for E.T., only with slightly differing melodies. The themes and timing sounds identical.

Maybe I'll do a proper comparison.

Having had worked for a security company, one of the places we installed security cameras at was a porno store. The guy threw in a couple of free porno dvd's before I left.

I tried watching one of them last night, and it was about what I expected. BORING!
BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I might have watched a whole five minutes of it before I turned it off.


I just don't get it. I get much more enjoyment reading stories and viewing artwork from here.

Just uploaded it, finally.

Timelapse 4 - The Snow;
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EYb6SBOmWuk&fmt=18


Older one's;
3: The Storm: http://youtube.com/watch?v=UQ9ZuwEkRPI&fmt=18

2: The Funeral: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vxi-xkFYRd4&fmt=18

1: The Test: http://youtube.com/watch?v=TF1i3vDqAz0&fmt=18


Add &fmt=18 to the youtube string of video's you watch to get higher quality (if available)

So I've been in Texas now since January 15th (2008). Been looking for work, saw an ad in the local paper for 'job fair' at the workcenter. Went there, turned out to be "Volt' hiring for TI. Did their application, took their test. A week later they called me and told me to go to the TI place on a Tuesday for another test.

Went to the TI place for their test, which was almost the same as the paper one at the workforce center, just longer, and on PC. I was in the first group of six to complete it, and the lady took us out and said we all passed and to come back on Thursday for a 'smock-up' test.

Went back and they made us wear cleanroom garments for two or three hours. The guy said we all passed and to come back the following Tuesday for the real hard part.......INTERVIEWS.

So I came back and there were seven of us. Seven out of I think 30. I clearly did well on the interview, because they hired me. I'll be making ten dollars an hour, 12 hours a day. Three days on, four off, four on, three off.

Now I just have to wait till they decide we are starting, which won't be till the end of April at least, I think.

I'll be working in the cleanroom doing microchip fabrication.

Yup. I made this video. See the comments.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=m91uIFvWEBI

I guess they think scribbling meaningless garbage on other peoples property is more important than having a life and a job. I really don't get them.

Believe it or not, I showed the video to the kid, HIS FATHER, and the property manager in person. The kid/dad were speechless.

Preview----thing....
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sknrz_IKssc

The Commercial of EPIC proportions!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=anLqu77uTH0

Need I say more? Haha that was great!

Most likely. This weekend my mom is going there for an interview to transfur within the company. If all goes well, then I am going to moe with her, in January. Housing is a lot LOT cheaper there than anywhere in California. I pay 500 dollars a month to sleep on a couch at a friends house, and she pays 900 or so for a tiny one room apartment. She will be paid the same amount from the same company.

Things to do before I move:
Go to Further Confusion. Looks like all the rooms are sold out, so I'll need to either find a hotel further away, or room with someone? maybe?
Fix shocks on car.

I can't think of anything else, seriously. I have a pretty empty plate most of the time.

This MeMe STOLEN from  flinters

1 - Post these rules
2 - Each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves
3 - Tags should write a journal of these facts
4 - At the end of the post 8 more peeps tagged and named
5 - Go to their page and leave a comment telling them they’ve been ‘tagged’

---

1) I pay $500 a month to sleep on a couch.

2) I have a picture of myself as a kid, with a soldering iron and a box of electronics, taking it all apart.

3) I have a wart, that started on my palm, went away for a couple of years after I cut it out, came back on my thumb, froze/cut/acid' it off, then it came back again, but it's gone now (till next time.)

4) 26 and still a virgin.

5) Drank more booze than in my whole life combined in the year I was in Egypt (2005)

6) I love the smell of brand new Magic cards. I remember in the early days, being in a room full of people playing a constructed deck tourney with lots of new cards being opened.

7) My domain name is lordshadowstar.com , but I currently have no website.

8) I used to have movie nights on the weekend at my old apartment, when my dad was at his parents. Brought friends over from the game store (All Ways Gaming) and watched movies not yet shelved from Blockbuster (because I used to work there too.)

---

I hearby officially tag the following:

 zairiza

 arakaraath

 arrowtibbs

 KaeMantis

 picklejuice

 starfig

 swatcher

 themadcatter


Have fun!!!! :D

Speaking of pageviews, I haven't even thought about it till just now since people are talking about it, and I'm at 999. I looked and I seen and I thought OMG!

WHAT EVER WILL I DO?!?!???!!!?????????11

So you hate your computer? I'll take it free of charge!

Ship via your preferred method (USPS) to......my address.....
ask and it shall be given.

(yes I am serious. No, I don't actually NEED computer or computer parts, but I like to collect them anyways).

Also if anyone has keys or locks, I collect those too.

First week is done, finally. They let us go at noon today for mothers day.

This is another bull crap annual training in my opinion. We are doing home-base inventory for ANOTHER change of command. Seems like every other drill there is a change of command, and it gets very old very fast! I have nothing against inventory. What makes it so irritating is the fact that literally half the stuff we have can't be inventoried without help from other people from maintainance who are coming tomorrow to help us with the mechanics tools and things (since our motorpool/mechanics all got moved). The only thing we have going for us is the fact that we seem to have accounted for almost every piece of stuff we have, which not a lot of other guard units can say, from what I hear.

Today and yesterday we did preventative maintainance checks and services on our vehicles (HMMWV's) and generators. Lots of things are wrong with the stuff, and none of it looks like it will ever get fixed because we have no people who have the authorization or training to properly diagnose and fix the problems.

I've got some pictures coming up here, and maybe if I'm lucky I can get a decent time-lapse video of a few hours of our working at the armory.

(Stolen from KushrenadaT)

The job: United Parcel Service

I had worked there for just over six months, and I started as a Pre-loader. Pre-loaders load the 'delivery cars' (trucks) so the driver can deliver the stuff. I was never really assigned a route of 4 trucks, instead I was moved around all the time. I never was able to get really fast because of this, and the seemingly clueless supervisors couldn't see that. They moved me to unload, where they unload the big semi-trailers, which is like 5 months after I started.

Not long after working in unload they get a new in-house labeling system installed, which UPS uses to route packages around. There's a computer, barcode scanner, and label printer at each unload door. A person stands there and scans each package as it goes by and slaps the label on the box.

One morning I opened a command prompt on one of these computers and typed NET SEND * BLAH!

I looked and all the computers had the message window and thought "ha ha that was funny" and carried on with what I was doing. About three or four hours later 2 guys wearing suits walked up to me with the local stupidvisor and started asking me if I was working at a specific location at around a time. I knew right away what I was in for, but what I didn't know was that the suits had come from NORTHERN CALIFORNIA to SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA to chew my ass out and fire me. They told me that the message window popped up on computers up north, so I can only imagine that it went to at least every computer in the country. They even said stuff about pressing charges or whatever, terrorism, that kind of thing. Fortunately in the end they just said we can fire you or you can quit.

I chose to quit. I was tired of being treated like trash all the time, and working from 1 to 5 in the morning really screws up your life. I was under a lot of stress. Not three weeks later I found a job at Fry's electronics. Even though I was making minimum wage compared to the 10.50 at UPS, I was working full time and was having a lot more fun. I ended up making nearly or more than twice the cash.

If everything goes the way I hope it will, it will be the first fur-type convention I've ever been to.

kickass!

So yeah, I was in San Luis Obispo and spontaneously decided to climb a mountain that I hadn't climbed in over ten years. I'll post one pic on FA, the rest are on photobucket.

Here are pictures on PB:
http://s22.photobucket.com/albums/b.....ill/?start=all

Here's a link for Google Earth:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.....?Number=838236

This month was seriously, the strangest drill I have ever been to. When you think "ARMY", I'm sure you think "A lot of guys in uniform doing army training things with guns and stuff."

Well, normally we have at least 15 people show up for drill, not that it's an option not to. A lot of our guys have been mobilized on different missions like Iraq, the border mission, school, etc. It's something the army has been doing a lot of since Iraq rolled around. Instead of deploying a unit as a whole, which is ideal, they'll pick and choose soldiers and send them. It's really a pain in the ass and it destroys unit readiness. This drill only 9 people were around!!! We didn't even have to put on our BDU's, we spent the weekend in our PT's.

And a lot of bull crap fell on our shoulders. We had to do inventory, which is a pain because everything is spread out and names for things are in the crazy army language. The most human unfriendly inventory sheet I have ever seen.

We didn't do any of the classes that were on the schedule. We didn't even do PMCS for any of our equipment! And since I'm such a failure when it comes to physical training, I had to do a lot of push-ups, sit-ups and other various excercizes, I was destroyed on Sunday and Monday (not complaining, I need to do it and pass the test before I can go to school in June.)

As expected, there wasn't much worth taking a picture of, so I'll post a pic of our day room and a couple of sleepers.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/447488/

This months drill with the army national guard is not going to be any fun. I'll have to get up really early on Saturday to waste time with PT, then we get to do a whole lot of bull crap for the rest of the weekend. The schedule seems to be focusing on "access control to a military installation" and "searching vehicles."

The we get to cut grass, pull weeds, and paint rocks. What a shitload of fuck. I doubt I'll get any decent photographs this weekend.

I guess I can't post ways you can't get into Mordor on here anymore, but I can link to them from journals.

So that's what I'll do when i make new ones.

GENERAL

(001) Your gender: male
(002) Sexual orientation: straight
(003) Single? yes
(004) Do you want to be? for now
(005) Your birthday: 6/22/81
(006) Age you wish you were: 16
(007) Your height: 6'4"
(008) The color of your eyes: hazel
(009) The color of your hair: dark brown
(010) Piercings: used to be one in my ear
(011) Tattoos: none.

(012) Smoke? no.
(013) Do drugs? no
(014) Read the newspaper? rarely
(015) Pray? out of desperation
(016) Talk to strangers who IM you? I'll humor them, sometimes.
(017) Take walks in the rain? Only if it's not freezing outside.
(018) Drive? A lot
(019) Like to drive fast? yes, but only if it is safe.
(020) Hurt yourself? I haven't for a long time.

HAVE YOU EVER

(021) Been out of the country? Yes, 1 year in Egypt/
(022) Been in love? I can only say I've loved Stith, but never IRL.
(023) Done drugs? once.
(024) Gone skinny dipping? not yet.
(025) Had any type of surgery? wisdom teeth, molars.
(026) Ran away from home? no
(027) Played strip poker? no
(028) Gotten beaten up? yes
(029) Been picked on? Constantly
(030) Been on stage? Yes, but I stay hidden!
(031) Slept outdoors? camp outs.
(032) Thought about suicide? no.
(033) Pulled an all-nighter? Yes.
(034) If yes, what is your record? 48 probably
(035) Talked on the phone all night? no
(036) Slept with the opposite sex without having sex? yes. (mother)
(037) Slept all day? yes
(038) Killed someone? no
(039) Made out with a stranger? no
(041) Had sex with a stranger? Still a virgin
(042) Kissed the same sex? No.
(043) Done anything sexual with the same sex? No.
(044) Been betrayed? Yes.
(045) Broken the law? Yes.
(046) Met a famous person? Henry Rollins came to Egypt to hang out with us.
(047) Been on radio/TV? for seconds
(048) Been in a mosh-pit? no
(049) Had a nervous breakdown? Not yet.
(050) Been criticized about your sexual performance? Na.
(051) Had a dream that kept coming back? Not that I remember.

APPAREL

(052) Shoe brand - new balance, Belleville, Hush Puppies.
(053) What are you normally wearing to school/work? Black Dickies pants, the ones with the l33t cell phone pocket and double layer knees, dark shirts if I can help it.
(054) Wear hats? Only to work/army.
(055) Are you guilty of judging other people by their clothing? .....yes....
(056) Do you wear make-up daily? Make up is the devil, indeed!
(057) Favorite place to shop: Ebay, newegg, amazon, radio shack, home depot, Fry's Electronics.
(058) Favorite article of clothing: Black Dickies pants.
(059) Are you trendy: What?

DO YOU BELIEVE IN


(060) Life on other planets: yes
(061) Miracles? yes
(062) Astrology? Not really, but it's fun
(063) Magic? Yes.
(064) God? Yes.
(065) Satan? Yes.
(066) Santa? No.
(067) Ghosts? maybe
(068) Luck? yes
(069) Love at first sight? When it happens it will.
(070) Yin and Yang? Yeah.
(071) Witches? It's a legit religion.
(072) Easter bunny? No.
(073) Fidelity? Huh?
(074) A pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Naa

LOVE

(075) Did you get frightened or uncomfortable seeing that as a section title? mildly
(076) Do you remember your first love? No.
(077) Still love him/her? No.
(078) Do you consider love a mistake? It can be.
(079) What do you find romantic? not much.
(080) Turn-on: regular, honest, and someone who will listen and understand.
(081) Turn-off: stupid.
(082) Do you base your judgment on looks alone? no
(083) Have you ever wished it was more "socially acceptable" for a girl to ask a guy out? sure
(084) Have you ever been romantically attracted to someone physically unattractive? no
(085) Do you think the opposite sex finds you good looking? So says my mom.
(086) What's the last present someone gave you? I don't remember.
(087) Are you in love? no.

WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON...

(088) That you laughed at? I don't remember
(089) That laughed at you? I have no idea
(090) That turned you on? None Available
(091) You went shopping with? mom
(092) To disappoint you? Dad
(093) To ask you out? Hasn't happened
(094) To make you cry? Don't remember.
(095) To brighten up your day? Nobody
(096) That you thought about? Parents.
(097) You saw a movie with? mom
(098) You talked to on the phone? mom
(099) You talked to through IM? A friend from dalnet
(100) You saw? mom
(101) You turned down? N/A

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU

(104) Smiled? during work today.
(105) Laughed? earlier today
(106) Cried? Don't remember.
(107) Bought something? Today, food.
(108) Danced? dunno
(109) Were sarcastic? today
(110) Hugged/kissed someone? More parent stuff
(111) Talked to an enemy? Don't have any that I can think of.
(112) Watched your favorite movie? Too many to count.
(113) Talked on the phone? hours ago.
(114) Listened to the radio? hours ago.
(115) Watched TV? this morning
(116) Went out? What?
(117) Helped someone? Today
(118) Sang? In my car.
(119) Said "I love you"? on the phone earlier.
(120) Got drunk? Maybe three weeks ago?

1. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A MEMBER OF FA?
I think May or June 2005.

2. WHAT MAKES YOU GAG?
My finger down my throat (only if I want to get rid of booze and go to sleep)

3. DOES YOUR MOM SMOKE?
NO Fway.

4. WHO'S PROFILE DO YOU LIKE THE MOST ON FA?
I have no absolute favorite.

5. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY CAR WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Ford Taurus SHO's are cool, or a 68 Pontiac Firebird.

6. HAVE YOU KISSED/HOOKED UP WITH ANYONE IN YOUR WATCH LIST?
Not yet?

7. DO YOU GET ALONG WITH YOUR BF/GF's PARENTS?
Never had a GF/BF.

8. DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY?
okay.

9. HOW OLD WILL YOU BE ON YOUR NEXT BIRTHDAY?
26 in June.

10. ARE YOU A LIKEABLE PERSON?
I hope so!

11. WOULD YOU PREFER FRIENDS THAT ARE GIRLS OR GUYS?
Guys. If girls are hitting on me, I just feel like I want to get out of wherever I am as fast as I can.

12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE THING TO DO ON A MONDAY NIGHT?
Internet.

13. ARE YOU AFRAID OF HEIGHTS?
No. It is part of my job to work in the grid sometimes, even more so from the control booth of teh theatre, which is pretty high up.

14. WHICH WOULD YOU LIKE BEST: A DIAMOND RING OR A DIAMOND BRACELET?
Bracelet, it will sell for more in the future.

15. WHAT IS THE MOST PAINFUL THING THAT YOU'VE EVER ENDURED?
Physically......+...+++.......hrmmmmm.........oh yeah, I twisted my ankle a couple of times in my life. haven't broken any bones yet though.

16. WHAT IS ONE THING THAT YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT?
Mountain Dew (I'll get off it someday, I SWEAR!)

17. WOULD YOU SAY THAT YOUR GLASS IS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL?
I drank it.

18. HAVE YOU EVER TALKED TO A GRAVE WHERE SOMEONE WAS BURIED?
No.

19. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WENT TO THE DOCTOR?
Maybe three month ago?

20. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM?
Don't watch sports either.

21. DO YOU PREFER SHOES, SOCKS, OR BARE FEET?
bare feet or my combat boots. Once I put those on, I won't take them off unless I'm at the airport or go to sleep for the night.

22. WOULD YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A SOCIAL DRINKER?
I drink alone more often than with others, but when with others I drink in moderation, so yeah.

23. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR EX!
Haven't had one yet.

24.WHEN YOU GO TO A BAR DO YOU TRY TO GET FREE DRINKS?
Don't go to bars, but if I did, no.

25. DO YOU LIKE YOUR JOB?
All three of them!

26. HOW MANY TIMES A DAY DO YOU TELL SOMEONE YOU LOVE THEM?
Only if I'm responding to a) my mom, b) my dad, c) grandparents.

27. IF YOU COULD BE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW WHERE WOULD YOU BE?
Australia, or in the control booth of some theatre with thousands of flashy lights!

28. WHEN YOU NEED SOME ALONE TIME WHERE DO YOU GO?
My room.

29. WHO DO YOU THINK WILL DO THIS SURVEY?
Many, many ,many people.

30. WHO DO YOU TAG?
say again, over?

Well, My first job for those who don't know, is this; I work as an on call stage tech at a local performing arts center. they pay 17 dollars an hour, but I don't work more than a few days in a month (so far).

The second job, which came as a complete surprise, is working IT. I got a call from a staffing company in Ohio that contracts for IBM and Dell, and they call me and I go and install or upgrade point of sale systems in big stores. Today and tomorrow and a day last week I installed a bunch of new IBM registers at a Kohls that is opening in three weeks. They pay between 15 and 17 an hour so far.

My third most recent job is at Papa Johns Pizza, for which I get the most hours now. This is the third time I've worked for PJ's, this time as a driver. I had no idea that drivers made so much on tips! In two days I've made 75 dollars in cash! Papa Johns Pizza is a really fun place to work if the people aren't dicks like they were the last time I worked there, in Orange County. It's also really easy to get work there. In the three times I've applied, they hired me that day or the next day without even an interview.

So now I work three jobs, it's weird.

[A is for age]
25.

[B is for booze of choice]
I usually go for the hard stuff like Knob Creek Bourbon if I want to get plastered fast. Otherwise, Yellowtail wine is very good.

[C is for career of choice]
Either Stage Technician or Computer/Network related work.

[D is for your drug of choice]
Now, Caffiene.
They aren't kidding when they say Oxycodone is the most addictive prescription drug. They gave me some in December 2004 when I had 8 teeth removed, and it took me months to forget the happyland feeling it gives, and I only had 1 week supply.

[E is for one essential item you use everyday]
Computer, the bathroom.

[F is for favorite song at the moment]
I thought that said food. It would have been Wonton soup.
Song is 'Goodnight and Thank You' from EVITA.

[G is for favorite game]
Magic: The Gathering.

[H is for Hometown]
born Thousand Oaks, California. Live: Arroyo Grande, California

[I is for instruments you play]
The keyboard (computer) :D
will eventually learn piano.

[J is for favorite juice]
Mango.

[K is for kids]
None

[L is for last hug]
I can't remember.

[M is for marriage?]
None

[N is for nickname]
Starlite528 was the first nickname I ever used online. I used Lrd_Shadowstar for a while on Dalnet in #Dragonseye*keep, but have been sticking with ^Gecko^ for the last several years.

[O is for number of overnight hospital stays]
Twice, both in Basic Combat Training in Fort Jackson, South Carolina

[P is for phobias]
Runaway Linesets.

[Q is for quote]
"Despite millions of dollars of research, Death continues to be our nations number one killer."
Henry Gibson

[R is for biggest regret]
Now, blowing ten grand.

[S is for singing]
Never.

[T is for time you woke up]
around 830 today, then 1030, then noon, then 130.

[U is for underwear]
whitey tighties (or brown army issued)

[V is for vegetable you love]
Peanut.

[W is for worst habit]
Same as Arrowtibbs, Being a lazy bum.

[X is for number of x-rays you've got]
again, Several for my teeth, but also a chest x-ray, and left hand x-ray, and one of my arms iirc.

[Y is for yummy food you make]
Pizza.

[Z is for zodiac sign]
Cancer.

Well, this turned out to be a really cool night!

I did the lights for the show, here in California, and I got 10 hours in! Fox11 news was there doing a live webcast of the event, and if you want, some of the clips are still on their site.

http://www.myfox11.com/mediacenter/.....x?videoId=4631

There are some other video's there - the only ones that were from tonights show are the ones labelled "Final Three" and "Final Ten".

Well I got paid a good amount from the Army.........Finally!! Back pay from all of last year.

I've spent more money today than I have in a good long time. I can finally breathe again!