Offseason Camblings, part 1 of ???

Hmmm, using a new app for this post and it seems to have…a not small number of options immediately available to me and is auto saving like every 10 seconds (which is nice). Unfortunately my old app I was using likes to shut down after like 20 seconds of being active since I updated to the latest iOS, so that was frustrating for like 5 minutes ’til I googled “app for blogger” and found this one. So far so good, it’s actually got a large typing section so I can follow my own progress more readily without having to scroll back up.

 

ANYWHO: So it’s now officially the slow season and I haven’t seen or talked to anyone in like an hour+ on a weekday. Could be due to rain, could be due to just slowness in general. Either way, time for typing. Speaking of, schedule shift incoming for me since we’ve been told we are now required to open on Sundays because a so-called “competitor” is also open on Sundays, which means I’m working Sundays through Wednesday/Thursdays now (it’s still a little up in the air, we’ll see how it pans out). Not the worst outcome but it was nice to have actual weekends off even if it was only for a couple of weeks. Oh, right, I made myself some sort of hot beverage, I should go actually fix it up and drink it.

 

Tea. It was tea, specifically Earl Grey (a common but understandable favorite). I do enjoy me some earl grey every once and again… or actually quite frequently, ’cause it’s definitely my go-to at work. If you are what you ingest then I’m like 50% tea at this point… and like 35% sandwiches (I do include burgers as a type of sandwich, ’cause they totally are). Huh? Oh, right, whatever I was rambling about. Topics I thought about discussing: “Am I the weirdest person I know”, “Thoughts on being a mind-reader”, “Why I cry” and other miscellaneous things. Respective short answers: “Yes but everyone’s the weirdest person they know (Thanks for that, Jord)”, “I don’t wanna read minds my own is weird enough”, “I don’t normally”. So that basically defeats the potential of those blog topics. So with that in mind I press onward, casually not knowing where this is going.

 

Unrelated, I think I need to find a job that pays better. I mean, this one’s alright what with the solid amounts of time I can allot to doing my own thang and the pay is alright as is evident by my saving steadily increasing…actually the job and pay is probably adequate for what it involves, but I’m actually just kinda getting sick of it. Paint isn’t really interesting and can just cause problems for painters which comes back to me even if I had nothing to do with it.  Like the times when I get yelled at for orders I literally wasn’t around for, that’s always a fun time… Frankly I’m mildly surprised at how long I’ve stuck it out, then I remember that job hunting is probably less fun and I’m not a big fan of change, at which point the surprise disappears as I go “Oh yeah, that sucked pretty bad.” So I’ll probably stick it out for a while, added bonus of friends and family getting my discount which is actually pretty nuts. I do like helping people, and I’ve learned more about paint and/or architectural coatings than I ever thought I would (what with the not thinking that paint is where I’d end up even if I didn’t have any idea where I’d end up).

 

Alright, so begrudging my work and lack of productivity aside, what’s new in the Camiverse? Honestly, not much. I live a very stable, consistent life that I enjoy so I’m not really looking to change it… which entirely counters the previous thought on wanting a different job… but I digress. I get up, I work, I go home, I pretend to be productive. Maybe I should actually decorate some Christmas-y stuffs this year, I entirely didn’t last year so that’d be a new thing. I mean there are now pictures on the walls so that’s a step in the “this place is actually lived in” direction. Heck, even if I just got some cozy LED Christmas lights to go around some windows…I dunno, just tossing ideas out there. Regardless, the first step I need to take towards being more than a hermit is getting an actual usable drivers license. I’ve gone 28 years without doing it so far, I guess it’s about time to get that part of supposedly being a person done. One of these days… At least I’m supposedly good company. I heard that from friends recently and that warmed my heart. I like that others like being around me.

 

 

——Round 2: Sunday Addition—–

 

 

Alright, so back after a three day break and working on a Sunday now. Currently half-way through the day and the only reason I didn’t start this up sooner is ’cause I had things that needed organizing/doing leftover from the saturday shift. That’s all done now though, so time for blogging. 

 

 

Current estimation of sales today: $0. Literally nothing. Well, that’s not completely true, one of our big companies that buys from us took some product but requires Purchase Order numbers on every bill and we won’t be getting that ’til at least tomorrow. So net daily sales for $0 currently, which is fun. If this keeps up over the next few weeks they may actually stop us from being open on Sundays. I’m even being good and having the OPEN sign on (I was contemplating not doing that but my obedient nature got the better of me…) and still no one. At least it’s a short shift, that helps alleviate the tedium. Anywho, less work talk seems good so let’s do that.

 

 

Alright, so what to talk about… Um… Let’s see… I guess I could talk about why I don’t really ever talk about more-different things. Short answer: I’m very consistent. Long answer: I’m a person who doesn’t like change in large quantities, so I tend to live a life that doesn’t change much, resulting in a lack of new things to talk about and a very consistent daily routine/life. I’m totally fine with that, personally, but that could just be apathy coming into play, I dunno for sure. What I do know is that I get very good at what I do, what with the doing it regularly for extended periods of time. Apparently I’ve got a lot of… I wanted to say latent talent but I’m not sure that’s exactly it.  I think it’s more of a an aptitude for learning and improving, like, I’m good at just focusing on one thing at a time for extended periods of time, which helps develop skills and knowledge at a fairly high rate. The problem is that when I get distracted from it I get distracted HARD, like I delve full bore into this shiny new thing and just go friggin’ nuts in exactly the same way, focusing on this one thing for quite a while until I can do it at least decently. Then a new thing comes along and I go chasing the shiny blue chicken again until I catch it, then another one comes by and I let that one I caught go in order to chase this new one. Ah, the shiny blue chicken analogy, thanks Raz and Q for that long running analogy… not that they’ll see this, but it’s the sentiment that counts. ANYWHO, yeah, good at focusing but getting distracted means re-focusing on a new thing and kind of entirely abandoning the previous thing. 

 

 

Well whatever, I’m pretty content, I’ve got good family and good friends even if I am a loner for the most part. Loner by choice though, which negates potential “loneliness” that I don’t really ever experience. I’m good at keeping myself occupied where a lot of others would be bored, which actually makes me really good at working by myself… I should try to get a job where I work by myself and/or with computers, I’d probably be very good at it. Note to self, start looking for something like that, I’m gettin’ kinda sick of retail. Alright, that’s enough for this post, time to geek out/write some FFXIV short story (which I guess is kinda fan-fiction? Boy howdy do I not like that term, it’s got a lot of stigma in my head). So yeah, catch ya later, probably next Sunday.

 

 

Cheers ~Cam

 

E: Formatting on the new app, had to figure out how to do the paragraph breaks properly…