Whoa. I've got a pretty busy work-week coming up. Today I'm working eleven and a half hours, tomorrow I'll work a normal shift [thank god!!], but Wednesday, Thurdsay, Friday, Saturday and Sunday I'll be working eleven hour shifts. I'll end up with just enough hours to make up what I missed, and enough overtime to make the downpayment on the new car.

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Wow. For the entire 12 hours I was at work yesterday, that is all I was able to write. I took 96 calls yesterday. Mostly between 10 A.M. and 8 P.M. That was no fun at all because all of the calls were back to back. I took abt a second to breath and write a letter on my paper and I got another call. To put it in perspective, on a day that I see as busy, I take about 50-60 calls/day, even when I work the extra hours. Today will be better though, so far I'm having anywhere from one to two minutes between calls in which I can write and breath. I've gotten twice as much done in one hour today than I did in 12 yesterday. I think I like writing during the time between breaks, everything just goes on a notepad, and I type it down on my breaks. Speaking of which, this one is over. I'll be back on around 6:00 or 7:00 P.M. See ya then!

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Well, I just got word that I'm not eligible for the loyalty bonus until I get off of my final written warning. I had to miss a lot of work because I had no gas. My boss told me about a service that will pick you up at your house and drive you to work if you are low income. She said it's a free service, but even if it's just a discount taxi service, that will help more than anything we could do right now. Other than that I found out that last paycheck I was shortpayed by 4 dollars, so I'll get that next paycheck.

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Wow, I just found out from my boss that there is a chance that I can get that loyalty bonus, as long as I don't miss anymore days to being sick or absent. It's an extra 125.00 to help with the new cars down payment. The next item on the agenda: Learn how to drive so I can go get a drivers license.

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Well, I can't really think of anything else to write about here today. I guess after I get done typing this entry I'll go feed Waka and browse nuTangland for a while. See ya around!!

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axl

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Cool, my schedule change just got approved.
My current schedule is as follows:
Sunday: 10:00 A.M. to 6:30 P.M.
Monday: 1:30 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.
Tuesday: 1:30 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.
Wednesday: OFF
Thursday: OFF
Friday: 1:30 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.
Saturday:10:00 A.M. to 6:30 P.M.

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Now I'll be working:
Sunday: 8:00 A.M. to 6:30 P.M.
Monday: 11:30 A.M. to 10:00 P.M.
Tuesday: OFF
Wednesday: OFF
Thursday: OFF
Friday: 11:30 A.M. to 10:00 P.M.
Saturday:10:00 A.M. to 6:30 P.M.
That should allow me a lot more chances to get some really good overtime. I'll be making about 1,000/paycheck If I can get the overtime I want on this schedule. I'll be going for a lot of overtime coming up so I can get my debts paid off to wells fargo [lol, only like 200.00], get the pmts on the new car taken care of. Get the new stove and fridge [using a hotplate, and drink cooler now] and get new glasses [baby sister broke the puny metallic frames of my old glasses, I'm using rubber cement to keep them together right now, but they are crooked...] Yeah other than that, it's about to rain right now, I like storms in texas, they're so violent sometimes... If anyone here is from Brooklyn, hope everything is okay, Tornadoes can be pretty crazy sometimes. Good luck to anyone affected by the tornado.
Well, lunch is almost over, I'll write more later maybe!

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axl

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This is a pic of my sister Willow. Shes the best XD

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Well today was meant to be a pretty productive day where I would spend the entire day programming and listening to my Pandora.com radio station. Needless to say that is not what happened. My anti-virus software found a virus, so I spent quite a while looking for fixes. I found none, so I'm using a temporary fix of signing into a different account that is still functional... Its the JS: Agent-AV trojan apparently, and I've had it since at least the 14th of november since that's when it started showing up in my anti virus logs. It's broken my antivirus program so that when the virus is detected it immediately crashes. I usually run my scans while I'm asleep, then have my computer shut off after the scan, so my antivirus quit, and the computer shut off, I took it as no problems detected... Guess not. Well, I'm off for the night now, about to eat supper, I'm having burritos :D See everyone tomorrow ^^

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Axl

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Hey I haven't been on here in a while, but I decided I'd say hi to everyone and come back on :P It's been quite a while since I've been here... Life is going in a completely different direction than what I intended it to be when I was planning things out. I have yet to go to college, but things are really looking up for me being able to afford it within the year. I've also started planning out a little home based computer repair business right now, but I've got some training to do with removing viruses and things like that. Well, I'm going to get back to work, I started out my time on the computer today wanting to begin learning C++ and I need to get to it or I won't do anything :P Hopefully I'll write something in here again soon :)

Update:

Decided to go with python instead of c++ as I know absolutely nothing about programming right now, and python was recommended as a good starter language to get the basics of programming down in :P

I'd just say I'm indecisive...

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Well, the last time I updated was two days ago. Those were two pretty crazy days. The first day, I had lost all motivation to do anything, and just came home and went to sleep. Hopefully that won't happen again. "I'VE STILL GOT STUFF TO DO, BUT I DON'T CARE" is pretty much what went through my head. I've got a list of 13 things to do every single day that I normally get done between waking up and going back to sleep.

1. Wake up Early
2. Brush Teeth
3. Exercise
4. Shower
5. Read Whatever is on my bible reading plan
6. Read Devotional
7. Pray
8. Consume some kind of Japanese Media for listening/reading practice
9. Read a chapter of my Japanese Textbook
10. Study any flashcards that I have due for Japanese
11. Learn something about programming
12. Learn something on Khan Academy
13. Log all food eaten that day on MyFitnessPal

A pretty jam packed list if you also consider that I have to work and travel 9.5 hours per day and sleep an additional 6-7 hours per day, but if I don't track each of these items on The Daily Practice then I'm prone to forget all about it.

The problem with not logging my activity in any day, is that I break my chain if I don't log. I had chains that where two weeks long at least on each of these until the day before yesterday. When I stopped doing anything, including logging my activities, on Tuesday the 7th, it made me have a break in my chains. Now, at least for the next week, I'll have to see the break in my routine that happened on Tuesday. It kind of hurts my motivation, but I think the point of this kind of thing is that it forces you to rebuild. If you care enough about the things your tracking to actually write them down and force yourself to track them every day, then you care enough to rebuild your broken chains after you mess up.

As for yesterday, I was feeling all demotivated because I broke my promises to myself about always getting this stuff done. I realized at that point that I can allow myself to make mistakes. It's the only way to learn. I think that not having the motivation to do one thing on my list shouldn't force me anymore to not work on all the other items. I lost the motivation to exercise for one day, and let that drag me into doing nothing but playing "Path of Exile" all night on my computer.

I'm going to have a lot of trouble with that game I think. It's very engaging, about as engaging as WoW was when I first started. It's a kind of clone of Diablo 2, which is another game I really liked. I found myself not concentrating during training class yesterday because I wanted to play my game. I am very sure that I'm going to to uninstall the game so that I don't have that temptation anymore. I've got more than enough stuff to do every day, and I cannot allow a game to steal any of my precious 9 to 11 hours of the day in which I am at home and not doing anything else.

This was a fun entry to write, but it's also taking up some time. I might have to add a "Blog on Nutang at least 4 times per week" goal on TDP. This really helped me to focus and motivate myself. I'm glad to see that a lot of people on Nutang are coming back. I wonder what brought all of us back at the same time like this?

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Things are still getting better. I finished writing my sisters essay today. The last one I had to write to earn the money she gave me. I don't mind helping her out, she's family, and she's raising an energetic little 6 year old. I know I would have appreciated any help I could get while I was still in school. I didn't do very much today, in terms of studying Japanese or Programming. Hell, I haven't done very much in a few months. I still beat myself up over it though. I keep telling myself, "This is why you won't ever amount to anything, you won't even do the things you love doing!" I tell myself those things, but it never changes. I tell myself that I'm lost, so I can't start if I don't know where to go, how to increase my skill. I need to just stop planning and start doing. I'll let you know where I go with that. For now, I need to just figure out what I'm going to do.

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