This is starting to look much better now. It still needs a bit of tweaking here and there, but these are little things that *I* notice that probably nobody else will even see. I hit upon the idea of skywriting for the title only after I came up with the idea for the little plane with the semi transparent banner for the titles. I really like that too btw. It really works for me. I had to do the clouds at least four times before I made some I could stand. I need to reset my icon set. the gold does not match. I'll do that tomorrow though.
I know I've been behind responding to comments and not commenting so much on other people's stuff. Here are a couple of shoutouts.
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littlechemist01 I did get your email. I still have it, I've just been too busy to respond when I think of it or when I don't think of it when I have time.
composer99 I responded to your message last week, but I think you have not been on.
All you people who want cold summers... please don't live here where it's supposed to be warm. *raspberries*
I know a lot of you want updates on the new job. I just haven't had time. I'm still not used to my new schedule so as soon as I'm ready to settle down here with the computer it's bedtime (wail). Just in brief, training is going well. I like what I'm hearing about the company and the contract in particular. Our contract in particular is very into giving very good customer service and not cutting corners or just interested in call volume. That's very good. We'll see how it goes once I'm on the floor, but so far so good. The environment in the classroom is a little bit like a can of sardines, but the call room floor is actually quite nice, and individual work areas are fairly good sized and nicely arranged with corner cubicles instead of straight desks (i.e. L shaped desks with the work space arranged so that we're facing the corner of the cubical. That will cut down on ambient noise as those walls catch sound and damp it into the corners. We won't have set desks. There is a clean desk policy, which means nothing goes on the desk except the stuff that is already there. So it's a little generic, but it's a call center. That's to be expected. When I leave, someone else takes over my desk. I don't want them leaving crap on my desk, and they don't want me leaving crap on their desk. It's even. I don't want to get into too much detail for the simple sake of company privacy and so on. But suffice it to say that things are going fine.
I had planned to pay my mortgage with my first check from the new job. (We get paid semi monthly) that would have got it paid early, but I decided I'd better just wait and pay it on the 24th. I'll use this coming check to finish catching up on bills. I've only got two... three... and then everything is okay again, so I can catch up these three bills, then pay the mortgage a few days late, and then on the 9th I can pay the mortgage again, and all will be well. Phew. By that time I'll be on the call floor and hopefully besides my regular pay, I'll be making commissions. That was a very nice surprise to learn that we would get commissions on calls that we make a sale, or upgrade on. It's a nice incentive, but often a customer is calling for that purpose anyway, so it's just an added bonus to get a little something extra for doing my job.
Went to see the fireworks in Fairborn. It had been raining on and off all day, so I didn't really feel much like going down to West Carrollton where we usually view them, and walk all that way in the rain and stand out in the rain or sit on the wet levee... so we just went to Community park. The show wasn't as good as the one in West Carrollton.. but it was pretty decent. Why the hell is the pool closed though? There was no water in it. What's up with that crap? Now that I get off work early enough to actually go the pool is closed? DaMnIT! Not like it's been warm enough to go swimming, but I can hope that maybe I might eventually get some summer here.
Time for bed now. Wow is it ever past my bedtime.
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