Brian Fields

The month has pretty much blown by! Seems like just a few weeks ago it was cold and the sky was spitting out a mix of snow and freezing rain… probably because it was, but yeah. We’ve hit 70-80 degree weather already and everything outside is turning nice and pretty!

St. Patty’s day was a blast. Aunt Reenie and Uncle Brian rented out the upstairs room at the Crow’s Nest and had the whole family up for a good time. The E-Men all came along, Lindsey and Danielle joined me with their manfriends as well as Rachel dropped by too. Pictures are in the gallery, of course!

Which brings me to my next item of news… I switched to a new gallery script that allows users to add comments, post pictures of their own and vote on picture, it also lets me add captions to pictures and a whole bunch more.

This past weekend was Stephanie’s birthday and Myself, Joe and Mike accompanied her and some of her/our other friends to the Mt. Lookout area. It was definately a fun time. I drove everyone, so I didn’t drink, but the band that was playing made it worth the time. I didn’t really feel like drinking, partially because I just didn’t want to and partially because I didn’t want to spend money at the bar, but they paid my cover and bought me a slice of delicious pizza on our way out, so all in all, I was happy happy!

Work has slowed down a little bit, but we also haven’t gotten much of the big display pieces from P&G in the past couple weeks. We’ve had some, but not 40 piece jobs. Unfortunately, I think we’re about due for one of the jobs. UDF has been long and drawn out this month. The signs were actually supposed to be to their stores TODAY… but I did not have the pricing for some stuff until I was walking out the door Friday. Sorry about your luck, but I’m not hanging around on Friday because I couldn’t get that pricing until the end of the day. Just like the P&G work, I just know that i’m going to have a new sign list in only a week or two. That sucks. Otherwise, we’re moving pretty steadily. We have a table in our room that holds all the folders of work that need to be done, and we’re doing good enough that for at least a few minutes out of the day, the folder racks are clear. As good as having them clear all the time and only have a little bit of work to do all day sounds, I’m glad the work is coming in steadily. It makes the days go faster and right now it’s moving at a pace that we can keep up with.

So. Pretty run of the mill with me.

I guess that’s all I have for now. I’ll think of other things later.

See ya.

Seriously.  I’m so sick of it being ugly and depressing outside.  Freak snowstorms yesterday that were crapping out tons of snow for a whole 5 minutes just weren’t awesome.

Anyway.

Work has been busy.  Partially because I’m making it that way.  The comment was made that our department is apparently not working at capacity because nobody is getting overtime.  At any job I’ve ever had, it’s always been expressed to me that overtime should only be given/taken/earned when it was expressly told to be done by anyone with the authority to say so.   Some of us have families, some of us just don’t want to spend their life at their computers, so if they aren’t telling us to take overtime, we’re going to leave at 5 o’clock.  So with that said, if to prove to the higher-ups and people making these comments that we are, in fact, staying busy and working at or close to capacity, I racked up the overtime this week.  I topped out at nearly 60 hours and I didn’t even stay late everyday this week.

They’ve been doing interviews to find a new person for our department, but I think they are jumping the gun here.  At this point, all of our workstations are tied up.  They CAN’T add anyone without purchasing more equipment.  So whatever.  It’s Sunday.  No more talk about work.

I’m working myself out of my funk.  Still can’t explain it.  I think I just need some attention or something.  I need to try some new things.  Change things up a bit.  I wish I had some vacation time or something so I could take a short  trip somewhere, change things up a bit… you know.

C’est la vie.

See ya.