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[Tellemurius]

Good things to learn, maybe, if you were planning to become a music critic or some such. I can't imagine a situation in which I'll need to use/identify syncopation or pentatonic scales. I can't back out now though; I dropped nearly 100 bucks for the textbook and earlier today an additional $16 for an access code which I was supposed to have already. Now I'm laboring my way through a 51-question quiz and I have a concert to attend Monday.

Fake Edit: It's called "Exploring Music", and yeah it's essentially a theory class, concentrating on classical Western music. Part of our first assignment was to identify the composer of a piece of music (it was Beethoven).

My answer to Music Theory classes
*pukes behind him*
Never had to learn any of that while playing music.

[TherosPherae]

Life is pretty damn confusing. I would elaborate, but that would mean admitting some things to myself that I don't think I'm quite willing to admit yet, even though I know they're true. Gosh, sometimes I just love living in my own little web of deceit and trickery, showing as too naive to know anything, but yet subtly pulling strings to get people to do what I want them to do. I'm becoming my sister, only I'm less of a blunt asshole about it. And I don't like it. I just had a birthday, I should be getting older, better, more mature, grow more of a spine, but yet here I am. Sitting. Waiting. Watching. Giving a subtle tug every now and then to make sure that my life doesn't go in a direction I don't want, but still not knowing what I want it to actually do.

That, and there's all the wonderful emotional crap (or lack thereof) regarding my grandfather being in the hospital, my voluntarily missing religious services which I would usually want to attend, my not-bothering-to-get-off-my-ass-and-exercise habit....

It's kind of hard to steer your life when the only direction you care about is 'not down'.

[Heron TSG]

Maybe it was because you use words like solar plexus instead of stomach.

Hadn't considered that.

@Music Theory: I've played the Baritone Horn for 7 years now, and I still can't play more than a few major scales from memory. The circle of fifths has been ineffectually explained to me over and over. What I've found is that you don't actually need those. If you can play your part of the music, you're good.

[buckets]

Maybe it was because you use words like solar plexus instead of stomach.

Hadn't considered that.

It makes you sound like you know kung foo. If you actualy said solar plexus to the guy then stories of judo chaps and quivering palms will spread, and before you have time to make ready, mighty warriors from the four corners of the earth will be challenging you to great and thunderous combat.

In other news, feeling kinda demotivated, like my life's hit a wall or something, no where to grow. I've got other things going on, like working on my showreel, or going to Uni (Still haven't made my mind up about that one). But I just can't shake that feel.

[SirAaronIII]

My bed smells of oil. Not the black expensive kind, or the yellowish clear cooking kind, it smells like the kind that comes from skin. Eugh.

obvious answer = i sleep too much

[Rose]

Ugh, had to kick a bunch of people out of an IRC channel cus of a shitfest.

[blackmagechill]

We lost every game at an academic bowl tournament yesterday. I scored all the points we had, and, if not for the last game, I would've been in the top twelve scorers. Fuck the JV team.

[Cthulhu]

Still playing Devil May Cry 4.  Fuck, Dante is really hard compared to Nero. 

[Criptfeind]

One of my internet devices has stopped working. I am now running on only one computer with internet, the other one I have bent back into working, but who knows how long that will last? It would not solder.

[Greiger]

I think my boss may have lost his mind.

Don't get me wrong, he taught me almost everything I know about computers that actually has a real life use.  And he's the only person I know that manages to start a marginally successful business that actually cares about the clients and honestly wants to solve their problems while charging as little as possible.  On top of that, if the problem isn't completely solved we don't charge again.  Every other place I've seen charges at least a small surcharge if the problem isn't completely solved and the computer needs worked on again.  I worked with him before at a previous store and think he's a pretty stand up guy.

However, this company is now 3 months old.  The company consists of me, him, and our CFO who is at the store only once a week (he contributes financially though).   My boss is now going on tour, he's also a Jazz Guitarist.  He will be gone for 3 months.  Leaving me to run the entire business by myself.  We have 2 big clients one of which we just replaced the server for on the other side of the state, there is bound to be problems, which I don't really think I'm qualified to handle.  There is also one more buisness client that wants us to set up the same thing for them.  Up until now he has been handling it, and I have no idea what is going on with it other than that some time in the future we will get a new server to configure and install for them.   I don't know how it needs to be configured, but I guess I'll need to figure it out in the dark.

During all this, the store is also a housecall shop.  And we are still advertising as such.  Yet I don't see how I'm going to both be doing housecalls and being in the store during operating hours. Especially when I'm likely going to need to make multiple 4+ hour drives back and fourth across the state.  There is no-one else available to watch the store with him gone, it's me or no-one.  The only time someone else is available would be on saturdays, and that someone won't always be available, and doesn't know the first thing about doing what we do.

There is also a lawsuit in progress where our company is suing another for refusing to pay for services rendered.  Which with him gone I'm also probably going to be the one the lawyers speak to.  And that happened before I came on.  I don't know the first thing about the suit or even who it's against.

I'm getting depressed about it.  I loved this job, but it's looking like it's going to go down the tubes.  Because the owner (and only actually certified technician) just seems to be abandoning it.  He claims he isn't and says he's just a phonecall away if I have any problems.  Am I wrong to think he's out of his mind for leaving the store for such a long time so shortly after it opens?  We seem to be in the black for the moment, but we don't exactly have much of a buffer to work with, and there are about a hundred things that could go wrong and put us pretty deep into the red.

Oh well, just throwing that out there.  Feel a little better I guess.  I think all I've really been doing lately on this board is complain and whine about things lately.

[Heron TSG]

Well, he may have other commitments. Ask your boss if you can drop the housecalls for a bit, so that you can do everything else?

[Greiger]

It's on my list of things to ask him before he leaves tomorrow morning.  But I'm not too happy about the likely response.  The housecalls account for probably about 30% of the store's income.  Drop those and we will definitely be in the red by the end of the month, let alone three months from now.  And that's still not removing the on site visits I'll likely have to do with the business clients which are both across the state.  (Good news, the new site I'll be setting up is only halfway across the state in orlando.)

Either way I really think we'll be losing huge amounts of money and probably the entire business on this decision.  Either losing housecalls while the company is still trying to get it's name out there, or the business managed services clients suffering, which might happen either way anyway.  We're still fixing problems with our first managed services client 2 months after we set them up.  Thank god they signed up for remote computer access.  I'll only need to physically go there if things really go to hell.

I can almost guarantee the lawsuit at least won't go well, I'm not sure of the actual legal deal with it but it can't be good for a case when the plaintiff doesn't show up for the trial.

P.S And as I understand it he decided to go on tour a week before he hired me on here.(two months ago) He just only decided to tell me about it a week ago. It's not like he wasn't expecting to be running a business or anything.

[Vector]

Just... in a bad mood.  Yeah...

I'm so goddamn tired of school, and it's only been the first week back.

EDIT: Also, all the copyright crap that's going on is making me honest-to-goodness scared of watching Youtube videos.  I'm kinda miserable.

[MaximumZero]

@Grieger: Perhaps he can hire some more techs? At least one specifically for the server install, since it seems to be such a big job?

[Greiger]

@Grieger: Perhaps he can hire some more techs? At least one specifically for the server install, since it seems to be such a big job?

That's a thought.  I think I know somebody who wants a job doing what we do that seems reasonably capable.  But I don't really know them very well and that would be a lot of trust and responsibility to throw on somebody immediately. 

My boss leaves tomarrow morning and hasn't expressed much interest in hiring any more techs right now. He took a few walk in resumes but I never saw him so much as glance at them.  I haven't really pressed him on the matter though, and that combined with some of my other concerns I've already been voicing may convince him to let me get another tech on staff.  Or at the very least somebody to answer phones and take in computers while I'm out.