>Today proved to be more interesting then usual:

I was working 9-6:30 today, backroom stuff @ GAP — unloading shipment & prepping the new summer line for the floor.

It was lunch that was interesting. I had walked over to UNOs to get a beer and a steak and watch the game on the bigscreen. I sat down, ordered my beer to a decidedly slow bartender. I mean: she was horrible. I struck up a conversation along the way about my T-Mobile service with a guy at the bar. A large Slavic fellow with a rough accent, he mismatched words in a fully understandable fashion and was quite knowledgeable about his service and the features available VS Europe. He had some European (specifically Poland) friends with the service there. Apparently T-Mobile is a German-based company.

The bartender wasn’t the usual, she was absent most of the time, and bitter. Everyone asked where the usual was — she was even heard to say how she never gets any money on a Sunday. I don’t think she’d have an issue with that if she was mildly competent.

Besides the point: I got into quite the discussion with this guy, it was a good feeling. I’ve seen it done, haven’t been able to do it. I gave him my card and everything (for CGSystems.biz), mainly so that he could refer me to his friend who does Dish Network installs. They’re independent contractors, almost all of them — and I could do the internet facet of the dish installs, even be able to set up the actual computer as I’m *ahem* A+ certified. .:beams:.

(step 1 of many, I’ve been a slacker since)

So that’s a possibility — he said he’d text me, we’ll see what happens.

I’ve had good luck of late, so maybe this is another opportunity, everything about today just seemed to fit. The day was beautiful, there was a new person at work who knew about graphic arts stuff, and was a bit embarrassed about their love of techno, the game was on at the bar (makes for interesting people)… oh! I almost forgot — someone swiped my pizza, 35 minutes later I’m looking for my 15 minute pizza and the bumbling bartender says ‘someone swiped it’. Doesn’t matter — gimme pizzza asap. I got the pizza 15 min before I had to be back, took it to go, got it for free, and got out of there with a beer and a pizza for $6 (incl tip). Beaming from that, I remembered a friend’s advice.

Today was a good day. I had to work, I’m tired as shit, it’s 11:30 — and I’m going to bed, but I feel good. =]