Sunday, December 9, 2007

ugh...
hey folks. sorry i didnt post or comment much on other peoples post this past week. i've been so damned busy at work that i get home really late and cant be bothered, or i've been having to get up super-early (5:40 am anyone?) for work. luckily the 5:40 am wake-ups were only twice this week cuz we had to be in the store by 7:30 am for deliveries. the rest of the week i've had to be in the store by 9 am and finish at 6 pm, although we have overrun a few times this week.

the other reason i havent posted or commented much this week is that i have a major headcold thing going on and i feel like a pile of bantha poodoo. thumping headache, blocked nose, sore throat, the works. luckily i think i sweated the worst of it out last night, so fingrs crossed its all uphill from here. last night was seriously the worst though. i felt like the denizens of hell were having a college-scale party in my head and i wasnt invited... ~_~

anyways, apart from work this week has been pretty slow...heck, even work has been pretty slow. we've been setting up the store to get it ready for the opening date, which is next friday. what this means is that we get deliveries in (twice this week) where we have to shove alot of boxes around, and then usually we have to security tag EVERYTHING. its quite boring and monotonous work.
we also had a footwear delivery this week where again we had to move several tonnes worth of boxes downstairs to the footwear department, and then arrange the footwear in a particular pattern on the shelves (boots first, then casual shoes, and then are more fine intracasies that i wont go into) and then try to find space in out shoe store room to put the extra foot wear thats not going on the shelves. not so bad for womens footwear, we dont have a huge selection of that yet. but mens footwear...dayum. i wish our store room was a little bigger.



anyways, enough about work.




this week on friday was the second to last snorkelling club night of the year. the last one is next week but i wont be able to go cuz im working -_-;
but the reason last night was special to me was beacuse its the last time i'll get to use the old Eltham Swimming Baths (its a swimming pool, but its pretty old, so it was called Eltham Baths when it first opened back decades ago) as our club swimming place.

Eltham (the town where i live) and on a larger scale Greenwich (the london borough where eltham is located) have decided that eltham needs a new community centre, so they tore down most of the old library (apart from the facade, which i believe is listed) and built this new community/spots complex on the site. the new complex has a library, a gym, some other stuff, and a new pool.

whoopee, you would think. except for one thing: we (the snorkelling club) are getting SERIOUSLY screwed over by being forced into the new pool. the new pool is about two thirds smaller then the old pool, and about half as deep (the old pool was almost 4 metres deep). obviously there's nothing we can do about that. but whats even WORSE is that we have to share the pool, during OUR club time, with the public.

so we get HALF the depth, four lanes of the new pool (about a third of our current area of play), we have to SHARE with the public, who get the other half of the pool and probably wont hesitate to complain/bother/annoy us, and yet we still have to pay the SAME amount that we're paying now. WTH people? has the world gone stark raving mad? im going up to the new pool today with our club leader Stefan to have a meeting with the new centre manager. this is just one meeting of many that stefan's been to, and it probably wont be the last either.

im really gonna miss the old pool too. its been really neglected over the last decade or so, so it looks kinda crappy and its really filthy at the bottom of the pool, but i've been going there for thirteen and a half years now, most fridays to snorkel. i learned how to snorkel there. i wore my first wetsuit there. i tried SCUBA for the first time there. i learned knot tying, life-saving, blacked out mask training there. i became a snorkel instructor there. there's a f*ck load of memories there. and the building itself is really cool and old, nothing like the modern sports centres that be a direct clone of any other in the country.
and now they're gonna knock it down and builf apartments there instead. great. another eyesore. makes me sick.


anyway, there's my sentimental rant and moan over for the day. im angry cuz we're getting shortchanged by this shitty new pool (who the hell can learn snorkelling in two metres of water?) and a shitty deal and im angry cuz we're losing a real character of a building so that the government can keep up with its new housing agenda. pff. like anyone is going to be able to afford the new apartments anyway, other then fat cats like the dipshit who thought up the whole new pool idea in the first place...



yah. uhm. so...


this week i've been watching Macross Dynamite 7 OVA. its the sequal to the Macross 7 series. its ok. the animation is pretty good, considering its about 15 years old now, but the story was kinda confusing. the thing i liked most about the OVA was the OP and the ED sequences. the OP is pretty standard, but very catchy. but the ED: well, see for yourself...





this youtube version is a bit fuzzy, but come on! isnt that the best ED sequence ever? its even better than the Haruhi ending sequence. oh yes it is. you can try to tell me it isnt, but your heart will be full of LIES and DISSENT.


no comic today. i had an idea for one, but its hard to focus on a comic when the world is spinning in a different direction to you...


have a great week y'all. see ya later!


"how to tell the difference between a cold and the flu: if there's a £50 note in the middle of the field and you can get to it, you haven't got the flu." - Diana Wainman

"a doctor is the only man without a guaranteed cure for a cold." - Dominic Cleary

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