Redundancy

Hello my oddball  friends.

Well, we could all see it coming. It's been made official. There was a meeting last week  officially announcing that we are closing down and everyone i work with is being made redundant. From 20th April, i will be unemployed. Unless i can find another job of course.

Now we all have to go looking for jobs. I've been looking and i've applied to a few places, especially today. I'll let you now what happens of course. If anyone out there who reads this blog wants to employ me, and is in the north of Birmingham, UK, there are plenty of ways to contact me, there's a link to my Google Sites website on the title page of my blog. I'm quite good with computers and i love gadgets and technology.

One decision I made early on in life is that I don't want to work in a supermarket. And so far I haven't. I've only had the one job and it's quite sad that I'm losing it. It makes you appreciate the job you do have. It was good pay for not very much work. Especially nowadays since we've been getting a lot less calls. At times, I'm sitting there for 15 minutes between calls. A lot of time is spent just talking to each other, or the past couple of days, looking for jobs.

It even managed to get a news article in a local newspaper. The article is here.

Ah well, such is life I suppose. I'll sort something out. At least it gave me the push to start the job search I've been wanting to do for ages anyway.

Oh, one more thing. Recently I've been waking up fairly early. Around 8 or 9ish. That's early for me anyway. That's always good. Ok that's all for now. Toodle Maybe my body clock is actually sorting itself out.

Deja Vu

So it's that time of the rota again where I have to do early shifts. There was a point where I asked one of my supervisors to change as many as my shifts to lates, which she did for a few months, but then she got injured and was unable to do them for a while.

So now I have to be up at 5.30 for work most days this week. And we all know how hard it is for me to get to sleep at night. I worry about things. Money, Tracey having fibromyalgia and not getting enough sleep and being in pain, ironically knowing I have to be up early keeps me awake. Stupid body. I had a splitting headache last night as well so I had to pop a couple of pills, which slowly worked. And things aren't helped by my dad's constantly beeping hearing aid. By constant I mean constant. Not beep beep beep. I mean beeeeeeeeeeeeeep. All night.

So now it's 7.20am at the time of writing. And even though I only got about 4 hours or so of sleep, I'm not feeling as tired as you might think. I'm actually quite awake. And no, I haven't had any caffeinated drinks. Except Dr pepper, but I was feeling awake before I started drinking that.

On another note, I've more or less finished building my computer. I've got it working.  I just want to put more RAM in it. But I've got windows installed on it, I've got the blu-ray drive working, a DVD rewriter, the old IDE hard drive and two solid state drives. There's a CD rewriter that doesn't work because there's no more IDE connectors, but I can live with that. But other than that everything works. I just want a DVI to VGA cable to connect my small monitor for when I'm using the PS3. And oh yeah, my windows product key has stopped working so I only have a couple of days to activate it before... Something happens

Anyway, back to the grind. Adios amigos