i'm just a regular joe with a regular job, i'm your average white, suburbanite slob

So they offered me the job!  Whoo!  (Apparently I was one of their favorites from the whole of their interviews too, which is cool.)  Unfortunately, it'll be the 3:30 to midnight shift, so let's wave bye-bye to what little of a social life I had left anyway, but I'll be making an extra buck an hour which is nice, plus the class I'm in is the one they tend to pick from first when looking for more permanent hires, plus they liked me a lot so... yeah.  Good news on the work front.  On top of that, they moved up the training classes a week, so I'm now 11 days out from that.  Summer vacation's coming to an end, mi amigos.

So that means getting my car back on the road, which is gonna be interesting.  I already paid off an extremely old parking ticket (that was preventing me from renewing my license and registration), so that's step one I guess. Gotta get new brake pads, now that I can afford them.  Lotsa steps.

It's time to grow up a little bit, friends.  Getting a job, check.  Getting my car to work again, check.  Doing an honest-to-god grocery run, check.  I spent $200.42 today on various groceries and home supplies.  Hoo.  Gotta do a lot of cleaning, but for now at least, the fridge is stocked and we've got light bulbs and paper products and all that good stuff.  How do I celebrate?  By having a breakfast of Java Monster and yogurt.  I am a man, god dammit.

Oh and hey, my first "real" episode in Open Lounge came out today.  I've been on there before, but they were mini-episodes for the Gen Con series we did, so it was a bit different.  We went down some... interesting roads. Check them out:

Open Lounge - "Gen Con: The Prologue" (August 5, 2010)
Open Lounge - "Gen Con: The Epilogue" (August 11, 2010)
Open Lounge - "Episode 21: Squat Dogs" (September 4, 2010)

And uh, stay tuned.  I got a mysterious package the other day.  (I think I know who sent it, though.)  It contained a DVD and a cassette tape (who mails a cassette tape?).  The DVD had what looked like people singing in Vietnam.  So... yeah.  Gonna check out the cassette later, but this is... weird.  I dunno, I'll keep y'all posted if it turns up something interesting.

Hey Earl, rain on this,
  rickie-d