Sneak Peak

I haven’t been neglecting my online activities entirely. Shadowed Beauty would have been up and running fully today except I’ve run into a snag which has slowed my progress. My ftp isn’t freaking working. Hostcolor, my host, has been trying to help me figure out what it is and I think we’re both thinking it’s my ISP. Which means, I gotta go tackle their tech support and rub their face in the ground.

I haven’t done it yet. I almost don’t want to deal with it at all. There’s still a chance it could be with my host… but I almost want to say not a chance because I’ve never had any problems with them before.

Enough about my ftp woes, what’s been happening?

Work was easier this week. I could actually pick something up and work on it without getting instructions. We mostly have been doing asphalt mix designs. Smelly, smelly stuff. To do an asphalt mix design, we mix various material combinations together, combine it with oil and then test to find which is optimal. My feet were killing me these last few days from walking back and forth, back and forth across a concrete floor. It’s painful when you’re not use to it.

We gained a new engineer (I think she’s an engineer). She’s from Russia and she’s so cool to talk to. She taught herself english on her own and speaks it pretty darn good. We help her periodically when she spins her words backwards or can’t find the right word.

The work problem of the week is that I haven’t gotten my fucking paycheck yet. So, I was suppose to get paid on tuesday, right? The DAY OF, Rox’s sends out a new pay schedule and says we aren’t getting paid today, we’re getting paid on friday. Wtf? Why couldn’t she had sent this notice out like a week prior?? I’m so glad, I didn’t decide to go write some large check only to have it bounce because of the malfunction of our financial department.

So, friday has come and I didn’t have any money show up in my accounts. I’m trying to keep my cool about this. Mostely because I have my paycheck split to go up to my account in Ak and then the rest into another account I opened here. So if I don’t have any money on monday, Rox is going to fit in a box.

In other news, Joe made it successfully through PRC once more. And he’s not even sick this time. He heads to Ranger School once more in probably about two weeks. I really wanted to see him this weekend, but booking now is like taking a loan out for a car. Seriously. It was $2000 to fly this weekend.

Which is frustrating. The purpose of me coming back to the 48 was to be closer to him, thus, shrinking the cost of flights. It’s totally turned out to be opposite of that.

Anyways, I did get my refund for staying in a hotel the first week of getting here. So now I’m off to buy a computer desk because sitting on the floor with a keyboard across your knees gets old after a while, not to mention it’s killing my wrists.