No Problem

This is me at work for the last 4 weeks. We're migrating to a whole new computer system and the transition has been ROUGH. We're 6 weeks away from going live with the new system and I haven't used it at all yet. I've barely been able to keep up with all the extra work involved with getting the old system to talk to the new one. Ugh.

I guess there's a silver lining, if I get fired or quit I'll have way more time for blogging.

Via James of No Trades

Donezo

Christmas Wish List: More Time to Blog

Every day in December (work schedule permitting) I plan on posting one thing from my official DevilDinosaur Christmas Wish List (patent pending). Why? Because I can.

Man do I have a time management problem. Specifically my job in lower management doesn't afford me with all the free time I want to blog. But it's not just at work, it's at home too. With everything that I feel like I have to do I rarely find the time to do the things I want to do. On a good weeknight I have about 2 hours to spend with the kids before their off to bed and once they're in bed I'm done. On a real productive night, when I'm full of energy, I'm lucky if I can get a load of laundry done. Then when the weekends roll around I spend most of it catching up on all the stuff I should have been doing during the week.

It's awful, someone invent a day with like 30 hours in it.

Hey, wha?????

This is me right now, trying to kill shit with a sweet ass throwing star and then some damn bird swoops in and snatches it right out of the gdamn air.

I'll Never Have to Work Again

Christmas Wish List: More Time

Every day in December (newborn baby schedule permitting) I plan on posting one thing from my official DevilDinosaur Christmas Wish List (patent pending). Why? Because I can.

One of the things you become keenly aware of when you have kids is how you have zero time for anything anymore. This last weekend I had 4 things on my to do list. Grocery shopping, Laundry, put together a calendar on shutterfly.com for a Christmas gift and put all the boxes I took out of the crawlspace to get to the Christmas decorations back into the crawlspace. And that's the short realistic to do list. The real to do list includes things like picking up all the rotten apples that fell from my trees and washing the bird crap off my car.

So what did we get accomplished this weekend? Laundry and Grocery shopping. To be fair we also made a quick trip to Fred Meyer to pick up my son a new pair of jeans. So I guess we got 3 things done.

Long story short, I need a time machine so that I can do important things with it like Christmas Shopping and cleaning up my basement. I promise I won't try to kill Hitler with it or anything.

edit: That makes it sound like I'm pro Hitler or something. I'm totes not. I'm just pro-time space continuum. I don't need a Tardis landing on my roof, I just really need to get those rotten apples picked up.

Christmas Wish List: Serenity Now!

Every day in December (newborn baby schedule permitting) I plan on posting one thing from my official DevilDinosaur Christmas Wish List (patent pending). Why? Because I can.

I think this one is pretty self explanatory.

Here's my counter offer

I haven't had to interview for a new job in quite a while but I think this could work. The cartoon bird just needs to add a couple more cartoon bags of money.

8-Bit annoying person remover

Man could I use this thing. If there was some sort of lightgun/taser attachment it would be darn near perfect.

We fixed it!

Sorry for the lack of posts. The real world is really interfering with my internet life. Here's a funny cartoon while I try and catch up.

The Job You Want

This is good advice. Tomorrow I'm wearing my utility belt to work.

Christmas Wish List: My own Comic Book Shop

Every day in December I plan on posting one thing from my official DevilDinosaur Christmas Wish List (patent pending). Why? Because I can.

While the thought of actually owning my own business scares the stuffing out of me, the idea that I'm going to play office monkey for the next 20 years at a job I'm quickly hating is far far scarier.

Which brings us to my dream of someday owning my own comic book shop. I recently switched shops and while getting to know the owner of the new one, I learned that he more or less stumbled into owning his store. He started selling comics by setting up tables at swap meets on weekends and when a shop in his area closed down he just kind of absorbed their customer base and turned it into a brick and mortar store.

He blew my mind when he told me that someone with a collection my size could probably make a living selling comics on line and at shows and swap meets. Maybe one day he'll retire and then I'll live my dream of selling low margin goods in a dying industry to geeks and nerds. Who needs things like health care and 401ks?

Best Worst Tetris Ever

This rigged game of tetris is a pretty good representation of how my week has gone. I feel like I've been set up to fail at work, have been dealing with some health and money problems and then on the first morning of my four day weekend I find out my son's daycare is closing. Seriously life, where did the stick go?

Facebook might sue that guy that didn't hire you

"I notice you were listening to Avril Lavigne on spotify yesterday"
I posted something a while ago about how a growing number of employers use Facebook to weed out applicants, or maybe I didn't. I can't find the post to link to, so maybe it's something I just meant to post. Either way corporate America just took turned that shit up to 11. Take it away ars technica:

Facebook has taken a stand against what it calls a "distressing increase" in reports of employers demanding the Facebook passwords of employees and job applicants.

One such report came from the Associated Press this week, which detailed cases of interviewers asking applicants for Facebook usernames and passwords, a clear invasion of privacy if we've ever heard of one. Employers examining applicants' and employees' activity on social media networks isn't new—but typically it is restricted to what information users have made publicly available to everyone. Facebook said it could seek policy changes or file lawsuits to prevent employers from demanding passwords.

via ars technia

Now I'm not a fancy law er but it seems like there is no way this is legal. Once upon a time I was in a position where I had to hire and fire people (pro tip: if you cry while I'm trying to fire you, I will totally cave) and there were all these rules about what you could ask and what you couldn't say when you were interviewing someone. What kind of giant Michael bay's Devastator's brass balls does someone have to have to ask for your Facebook password on an interview? Why stop there? Why not ask for your e-mail password, your ATM pin or your wife's favorite drink?


I'm implying they want the password to your wife's pants...

never mind.

The X-Men Disappoint Magneto

You know there's some huge Dazzler fan out there that just thinks this is crap. They're all like "Back in Uncanny X-Men issue #285 Dazzler beat the Juggernaut single handedly, so she is quite the formidable foe. She certainly would have more chance doing damage to Magneto that Wolverine or Nightcrawler would"... Nerds.

Story Time: Thanks in part to the numerous arcade emulators available, I beat the X-Men Arcade game just a couple years ago one slow Friday at work. I'm guessing the people in my office thought I was really killing those TPS reports that day.

Sucker MC's better call me sire

LOL, that dog thinks it's people.

If you've been paying attention, and I don't know why you would, you've probably noticed a significant lack of activity here. Last week during snowpocalypsemaggedeon 2012 my house lost power for about 4 days. Then, the day after we got it restored, I had to report for federal jury duty.

I didn't get sellected for a jury because I'm super racist against white people but I still lost precious blogging hours. It will probably take me a couple of days to get back into the swing of things. I mean all these TPS reports aren't going to file themselves.

Humpday Linkday

Alex Rodriguez and Torrie Wilson spent New Years together. Every time Alex Rodriguez comes back to play in Seattle the fans boo the crap out of him. I just don't get it, he went to a team that offered him a quarter of a Billion dollars. How is anyone supposed to turn that down?

If you want to boo him for something, boo him for dating Torrie Wilson. Seriously, f that guy. BOOOOOO!

9 quirky things every cool workplace is required to have. If I ever get the chance to run an office there will be some quirky shit going on. Constant loops of Hard Ticket to Hawaii will be playing. Monkey waiters riding minibikes would be delivering drinks. Ben would be giving everyone Can Jobs. It would put all those Google slides to shame.

The absolute very worst movies of 2011. I saw Bridesmaids this weekend and while I didn't hate it, I think it was the most overrated movie of the year. Why didn't anyone warn me it was a total chick flick?

The first ever Kissing Suzy Kolber Fantasy Football Awards. My Fantasy Football championship game was last week and I just found out I won the league. I was something like 30 points down going into last Monday nights game so I never looked back at the standings. Clearly Jesus respected my decision to start Tim Tebow and helped Jordy Nelson score 3 touchdowns.

Captain America's best friend

Today the entire state of Washington got together and voted to make my job harder. This Corgi is the only thing keeping me from an aneurysm.

Awwwww

Last Friday I took the day off to take my family to the Puyallup fair (stick to the elephant ears, avoid the earthquake burger at all costs). I came back to over 100 e-mails in my inbox, each more inane than the last. I've got 3 things lined up to post about but there's no way I'm going to get them up before the end of the day. yeah I know, 1st world problems.

I guess what I'm saying is enjoy this kitty. I've got to go figure out why there's a mini fridge in my office now.

I'd say this is priceless

My car didn't start this morning so I'm probably not going to be bloggin much today. Here's something from my tumblr, which you should really be checking out more.