Archive for 21st June 2004
“I know what most to fhte m do”
Funny how tangled up ones fingers can get while typing. That should read “most of them do”
I am possibly the worst typinst I have ever met. At least for accuracy. As for speed, I’ve seen some regular tortises.
A quick summary: I fifth grade, we sent time capsules to ourselves to be opened after we graduated. I have the ones from people who moved away.
Mrs. Frenter gave me several time capsules last week, as somehow they had been delivered to her. It turns out (Sarah), that after they were handed out at walkthrough on Thurs, the people’s who moved away were sent to her, and she gave them to me. I am trying to track them down, but the school records didn’t have anything for people who moved a long time ago. If anyone is in contact with the people on the following list, please contact me yourself, or have them contact me. The best way to reach me is e-mail: {Hidden Email Address}. (That address gets a lot of spam, so if I don’t respond, just leave a comment here.)
[Updated 8/25/2005]
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If you know any more than I do, please contact me, via e-mail ({Hidden Email Address}), comment on this blog, or via my cell– 503 334 7998. I may be optimistic, but I would like to return all of them.
Today was my first day as a checker at A&J select, and now whenever I look at a tomato, I think “520″. (We have codes for the produce, that’s the large tomato code.) Other than that, the experience wasn’t all that bad. I goofed up one transaction really bad, but Lorraine was able to fix it in a few minutes. Luckily, most people are pretty nice about trainees.
The most intimidating part of the job is actually calling for more checkers/courtesies. I never feel like it is important enough to call a courtesy, but I guess it is faster with one. I just don’t want to irritate them too much. I remember how annoyed I got when I was called up for a sequence of small courtesies.
(To those unfamiliar with the lingo, a Courtesy Clerk is the one who bags groceries, among other tasks. When you get a call, it is like “Courtesy to 3 please”. Thus, the calls and the bagging jobs are collectively referred to as courtesies.)
Tomorrow, I learn the rest of the job, and Lorraine said she will be a little further away, so I get to see how much I still remember, and how much I have yet to learn.
More on this topic then
–Nathan
I am trying to see if I can e-post from Yahoo! e-mail.
As long as I’ve got a box open, I may as well write for a while. My website is in need of some more work, I just noticed (and fixed) today that my Governor’s Ball gallery page didn’t have any pictures on it, because of a coding error. And I thought it was because I hadn’t loaded all the pictures to my new server. It took all of three miutes of troubleshooting to get the gallery online, and another five to transfer most of the pics.
And any budding webmaster out there, DON’T use GeoCities. I transfered five (admittedly large) pictures from their server, and I maxed out my bandwith for an hour. GeoCities looks good at first, but take the plunge and find a slightly better host. May I recommend aloofhosting? (Look where I’m at.)
[EDIT 11/10/2004: AloofHosting closes it's doors Dec 15. Other hosts that seem decent are SiteSled and 100Webspace.]
OKay, enough technical stuff. Now I get to test this darn e-mail system again.
Well, the e-mail bounced back as undeliverable, so I guess I will be posting manually.
Tim Jackson — Has been passed on to his mother.
Ciara Hopkins — No leads here