All posts by Benjamin Flessner

Very bad day

Bus Ramblings, Life Musings

Hmm, I shoul;d’ve posted yesterday. I had the topic line still set as "Today was good." Well… today wasn’t.

Um, bad typos are blamed on the bandaiud on my index finger. Anyway, let’s just talk about the whole day.

Morning. First thing… I realized I forgot I had like $6000 of stuff checked out from ITC, so I had to drag that over there before my exam ’cause I had to be to work right afterwards and then all day. So I got hot and sweaty doing that, and I got to my exam just as it was starting, so I had no chance to review anything. Then…. again since I had no time the night before, I just assumed the green route was coming by at 9:32, since I knew it came by at 9:52. So I left the exam ten minutes early to catch the bus so I wouldn’t be late to work. Well, they’re on 30 minute intervals in the morning…. so my bad. Missed 10 minutes of an exam I needed, and still had to walk to work.

Anyway, first 5 hours of work went mostly well, until I got really behind on a red trip because several genious drivers were turning left in a construction zone where they weren’t supposed to. Took me like 10 minutes to get from Beach to Elwood. Then at City hall, workers had fifth all blocked up; I couildn’t even go straight across on the irght side of the road. SO I was late, and then on top of that the dispatcher who was mobiling trying to help me kept cutting herself off, and then started gettingmad at me because I wasn’t responding. At least I got some sympathy from the other drivers that rode back to base with me ’cause they heard the whole thing.

Um kay. Did a brown extra. Fun. Relaxing actually. After that…. joy…. I had a chance to go get my car. Surprise…. last night’s hail totally shattered my back window. And of course this nice new car that I got last month only had liability. So I was really grumpy about that.

Go back to work. Cover one orange run for another driver who was running late. When I try to ask him what the trip code was (since he had it right in front of him) he said "look on the codes chart." I was like, "the last 4 times I’ve tried to do that my bus was missing it. Just wondered if you could tell me." But he said "well then go back to base and ask someone there." So I did. But ended up complaining to like 3 dispatchers, a supervisor, and a few coworkers. It wouldn’t have been so bad had I not been in such a lousy mood. I was not happy.

But then I did 4 hours of green and relaxed a little. That was good. Went out to Perkins with a friend afterwords. That was good. Duct-taped my back window and sliced my finger in the process. That wasn’t good.

But I just got a phone hug from Russ, so that was really cool. And now I’m going to go to bed becaujse I’m on-call in < 6 hours. Night….

Computer Woes

Computer Stuff

So I had some old games I couldn’t get to play under Windows XP (yes computer geeks, I tried compatibility mode) so I finally just installed Windows 98. Well, smart me. Then I couldn’t get back to Windows XP. Well it’s been a few days, and now I CAN get back to XP… but, um, well when I was running Outlook Express under 98 and checking my email…. I had it keep messages on the server, but delete them when I delted them from my trash. Except, uh, I never emptied my trash. So now I have like 200 spam messages to sort through. Well if you emailed me…. Good luck… hope I don’t miss it!

Fun in the music lab

Computer Stuff, School

So I have all these old tapes that my nieces and I made like 6 or 7 years ago. They were of this made-up radio show. It was fun … really dumb too. But we did a lot, and I figured it was about time to digitize them before they’re dead. So I’m using the nice high-quality lab to transfer these super-low quality cassettes. And subs on the mixer are cool ’cause I can map the tape deck through to the mac, while still listening to music through the big speakers. Woo hoo! Anyway, stupid mac fell asleep and I didn’t know how to wake it up so I lost a half hour of recording. Oh sweet. it’s done. Bye

The good, the bad, and the painful.

Computer Stuff, Life Musings, School

My laptop’s here!!!!!! I am going to get absolutely NO sleep tonight thinking about it. I’m kindof upset that I didn’t stop by and check on its status earlier today ’cause I could have picked it up…. but maybe this means I’ll get some studying done for physics….

Which brings us to the bad. Yeah, I have a physics exam tomorrow night at 8 which is not going to be pretty. I think I understand the general concepts…. but that always tends to blow up for me with physics. Oh well, let you know how I did tomorrow night…. NO! I’ll be playing with my new toy!

The Painful
So I lost a filling today. It hurts when I forget about it…. and it’s really weird to move my tongue around in my mouth and feel a gaping hole…. Anyway. I suppose I should get it fixed soon.

Ah, off to physics now I guess.

Christmas Tree light Surgery Complete!

Leisure

I *had* three strings of christmas lights encircling my room. When DPS came, they took down one of them to get to above-my-wardrobe. I couldn’t ever get the string to work again, so I just balled it up and put it in my closet. The other day though, half of a 2nd string went out… the part that was over my bed! The ambient light went way down in the room. Well this evening I bumped that string and suddently it came back on. Except the lights were rather bright. Extremely bright even. I counted 7 burned out bulbs, but when I counted again, there were 9…. so I figured I needed a transplant before the whole thing died!

I pulled out the string from the closet and just started replacing bulbs. Some would burn out as soon as I put them in the line…. shock I guess from too much current 🙂 But eventually I had them all in. 1 I had to re-replace ’cause it burned out when I was working on others. Anyway, I now have lights around 2/3 of my room so that’s something at least!

That was a long entry just about lights. I was going to complain about physics and life in general…. Perhaps another time.

Learning to cope

Life Musings

Well, I slept in past my alarm ’cause I forgot to actually set it last night. Er, I had it set but didn’t turn it on…. or something. Anyway, I needed to catch an 8:30 bus to get to a computer lab to do homework….. as I don’t have a computer of my own anymore… I woke up at 8:20 but then the bus didn’t come ’till 8:45 so I guess all was good. Kay that was rambling….

Anyway, the homework wasn’t bad… unlike physics will be tonight. It’s hard having to keep up classwork worrying about this whole situation.

…and being told I can’t talk about it. Even in places like this 🙁 Maybe I’ll actually start keeping a hard-copy journal.

Well I’m off to more exciting classes now…

Actually Happy!

School

Well, okay the first thing I’ll do is complain as it’s the last thing that happened before I wrote this.

GRR! I hate signs! I spent like an extra hour on one stupid circuit just because I had the sign wrong on ONE resistor. I redrew the circuit about 4 times before realizing my stupidity. Ah, oh well. At least it’s done.

It’s been weird…. I’ve been abnormally happy today. Weird especially after being really gloomy the last few days. But this morning I was just…. chipper while driving the bus. I got back home and got a parking spot in the 2nd row. I bought a slice of pizza for lunch and it was extra big. Starting last night I started to understand my physics…. that kindof unraveled today, but I got most of the homework done. A total of 3 hours put into that for a big 5 points out of 500 in that class…. Hmm oh well. Other good news about that was that the dumb pop quiz last week was a mistake and it’s now extra credit (I think I got the right answer at the last minute). And I think I did allright on this week’s quiz. Though I figure they’re only about 1.5 points a week out of that 500…. enh.

So I’m happy. At least for now.

The bad news is I may have lost my pocket pc…. though I’m trying not to think too much about that right now. That could make me very upset. even inasmuch as I haven’t been using it a lot lately…. Hrmm. Urg… not thinking!!!

🙂

Long Time no Post

Life Musings

Hey, it’s 2003. Maybe I could try this crazylife thing again. Heh…. maybe.

Well anyway, the last week has been pretty good. I’ve gotten to do a lot of things with friends, and, while I’m still bored a lot…. it’s been helping to curb the down times when I’m not working (most of the time).

Unfortunately my personal life is getting complicated. But I plead for more "thinking" time before I post that on here.