So, other stuff going on, besides the purchase of a new car…
I start my new job today. Well, it’s sort of a job, anyway. I’m to be a supervisor at Silvia d’Italia Gelato Cafe. I’m doing this mainly as a favor for Sylvia, the owner. She’s not had a single day off since she opened the place six months ago and I agreed to work a couple days a week to give her a break. This will be entertaining – it’s been about 20 years since I last worked retail food service, and now I get to be a big, nasty boss. Yay. It’s less than a hundred bucks a week, but hey – every little bit helps. I’m working 5-11 PM tonight, and 9-5 on Saturday.
Of course, once I committed to that, something else came up. No, not an actual job in my field (wouldn’t that be a wacky thought), but another part-time job. takaza‘s employer is looking for someone to work two days per week, about 6 hours a day, to fill in for their warehouse guy during football season. It’s all of eight bucks an hour, but that won’t hurt either. I limited it to two days a week so the other three days of the work week I can focus on getting work done for the classes I’m taking. I expect that the income from the two jobs put together will be right around the allowance that I can make before they start to deduct from my unemployment benefits, but I can hope that if they do actually deduct, they’ll just extend the length of time they pay benefits (since it’s based not on time but the total amount of money they pay out).
So today: work on classes, mainly. Read over the manual for Silvia’s so I can actually look like I know stuff when I go in to work tonight. And now I’m going to get my butt in gear…
Hey, I clicked on your radio link to Wolf108…Where the heck are you getting a feed from? From everything I saw on the website, they don’t actually have one running, yet…
Heh. You have to dig for the link a little bit, since they’re still working on the licensing. The streams are for “testing” only. Uh, yeah.
I’ll give a nudge. take a look in the Forums under General Howls; there you will find a thread titled Internet Streaming Change. You should have broadband for this since the best you’ll get with a dialup will be 32Kbps. It’s still better music than you’ll find anywhere else on the radio though.
The biggest problem for you will be the fact that it currently only works with Windows Media Player 9 at this point. It really is just a tech test and I have problems with the stream slowing down as I listen to it for some reason. I don’t know how you’ll manage to play this with your Mac – maybe WM9 will work under VirtualPC, I don’t know.
Actually!
They have a windows media player for Mac (how messed up is that?) that works with wolf108.
Good Luck!
Wroof! good luck on the new job(s) Duncan! Lest us know if they have any gelato in um, um, milkbone flavors?
Wow, you know what? You look more like Robert Zemekis than I do.
Just a random thought after seeing your photo icon.
— Duncan
Hey work is work….and I know you really like both Sylvia and her gelato (how many times did we go that weekend?)…so hey might as well make a little income on the side. Just don’t overdose on that creamy crack….murrrrrr.
Congrats on the new truck as well guys.