Brand New Day

Okay, I think I seriously need to adjust the goals for my every-3-days-posting-schedule. There are a few things about it. First of all, I mainly just work a lot, and in between working days I'm usually watching movies with the guys at home, sleeping, or being around town, doing groceries, shopping for other things, or just doing nothing behind my computer. Every now and then, there's a nice little change in that pattern. Every now and then, something worth mentioning happens, and when that does, I'll describe it nicely.

Last week, I had been working for on all days except for wednesday and saturday. I was supposed to be off on sunday, but Pierre wanted to switch, and as I had nothing else standing in the way, I accepted. Even though that meant I was about to start working morning shifts. That wasn't actually the worst thing, since last monday and tuesday (yesterday) I was scheduled for morning shifts as well. And doing a closing shift (getting home after midnight) followed by a morning shift (waking up at 6) isn't really the best thing ever. I never really have trouble waking up, there's a certain discipline to that. But after I drove my bike to work and changed, there is a little something in my body that does start to notice the lack of sleep. I mean, I am used to my evening shifts, meaning I get to sleep at 2AM or so, and I'll be waking up between 9 and 10 in the morning, usually. Try to get from that rhythm and start going to bed at 11PM, while trying to get up at 6. I didn't take it too well (but I'm still here). Usually things get better after 9AM though, when I've been around for a bit, had my chance to drink some tea and have had some proper time to use my brain during talks with colleagues and customers, as well as doing some chores. For today, I'm back to my evening shifts, and I talked to Pierre about it. They want him to work more morning shifts (as most of the managers are there during that time, so they can discuss things and help eachother out etc.) and he didn't see a big problem in letting me keep my evening shifts overall. But since mornings and evenings are so different he wants to make sure I don't lose touch with what's going on during the early hours. Can't blame him for that. Today I'll even start at 4PM by the way.

Which brings me to the following. I can now spend my time on my newly acquired PS3. Last Friday was Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving (during which I worked, I only ate a small piece of turkey and didn't notice anything else of the day, in case anyone wondered). During this Friday, a lot of things have special discounts (sometimes related to the time of day; more discounts during morning hours etc). I've had people in stores, helping me, who had been working since 3AM. That's how it is, apparently.
I got myself that PS3 with Guitar Hero 3 and Guitar Hero World Tour. With the drum kit and microphone. Total of 2 guitars, a drumkit and a microphone. Four people living in this house. You do the math!
Bart and I have been playing songs together for quite a bit now. It's a lot of fun. Yatha still needs some practice, and Georgi hasn't attempted anything yet.
Next to the games (I also bought Need For Speed ProStreet for 18 bucks last week), I love the network feature. I installed the PS3 on the network, and I can now watch the series that I have on my laptop, over the network, through the PS3, on the big TV in the living room. Wonderful stuff!

In other news, they also granted my request for days off, which means I will be going snowboarding in Colorado from January 15 to 20. Also, I purchased my tickets for this saturday's mini-festival in West Palm Beach. I'll be seeing Anberlin, Jack's Mannequin, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Shinedown and 7 other bands that day. I'll be on a chair for the entire day, in an amphitheatre setting. No idea how that's going to be, but we'll find out! I'll bring two memory cards for my camera so I'll be sure to catch some songs on video.

It might be ten days again, who knows. Keep checking back, as I definately won't give up on this completely.

Here's The Drama Club with Brand New Day (just a still, no video, but it's for the music).