Random Ramblings Are Random

So, today I was talking to my best friend about posting a certain type of video to OF...rhymes with Lonely Cans. And I may end up going for it, but only if I can disguise myself so I will not be easily recognizable. Wigs and masks go a long way. It could make a a bit of money, I suppose, but I am a little bit of a exhibitionist at times. I will wait to see how I feel about this idea when I get my new toys in...I had to replace some of my older ones, and now that I'm feeling better about things I figured it was time to replace those toys. I suppose we'll just have to see what I get up to :P

So, new hot water tank was installed, but apparently it isn't working for some reason. Could just be a faulty unit, but it will mean a fight to get Home Hardware to take it back and do an exchange. And to help prove that it wasn't an issue with the breakers the landlord came into my apartment...and he was shocked at the state of it. I had warned him that it was bad, but that we were working on it now that we weren't as depressed as we had been. I've got a week to get it to a better state, because right now it is bordering on something you'd see on Hoarders. And I know it. My landlord has stated that he will haul any and all of the garbage out of the house for me. All I have to do is get it downstairs into the basement and let him know when it's all down there so he can haul it away. The sad thing is that there is a LOT of stuff to get rid of. Like way more than I actually realized. Considering that I pulled three big garbage bags full of crap out of the kitchen

Not overly impressed at the moment but such is life sometimes. My hot water tank isn't heating water at all, and has been like this since at least Saturday. At first I thought that maybe somebody had used up all the hot water, but even waiting an hour saw no change in the water temperature. Then I figured that maybe it was due to a breaker switch tripping, so I checked that and found that one of the switches in the panel had tripped. Flipped it back into position and waited several hours to see if that was the issue. Nope. I checked the tank yesterday after work to find out that there is no hot water being generated at all by the tank. So I texted the landlord. He messaged me back stating that he would swing by this morning to look at it. Cue me realizing that he would need to shut off the power to do this, meaning he would have to be in my apartment...and see the state it is currently in. I've been letting it go for a few reasons, one of which is being tired of being the only

I have successfully bleached my hair white blonde! And trimmed it up nicely after the butchering of the ponytail Tuesday morning. I splurged on purple shampoo and conditioner yesterday when I went shopping before work yesterday in the hopes that it would help my hair whiter. And today, after one final round of bleach, I used the new shampoo and conditioner. And it worked really well! I still have a bit of bit of darker colour on the ends, but it's not orange anymore. And I'm considering just running a bright colour through my hair to cover the darker bits with something exciting. Besides, I have four tubes, and multiple jars of wild colours I can use! Also, now that I have short hair again, it will be easier to stay on top of bleaching my roots once in a while. Until I get lazy and dump black back on my hair. Or go with a dark brown, which is my natural hair colour anyway :P I've had lots of compliments about my hair too, so that's always nice! And unlike the last time

Being in management means that I am guaranteed a minimum of 35 hours per week. I'd prefer 40, but such is life. Especially as we're waiting for life to return to some semblance of normalcy. But I've been beating my head against a bit of a wall when it comes to allowable hours. Myself and another person have moved up to management positions at the hotel. I run the front desk and he handles events as well as works the front desk with me. At one point he was a front desk supervisor but with COVID things have been shooken up quite a bit and there wasn't an official front desk manager until this week when I was given the position. So there is approximately 140-160 hours per pay period that is alloted to the two of us. And then we got a guy who was hired for marketing, which only requires 15 hours a week tops, who was promised full-time hours...which goes against the rest of the allowable hours that is then split between four housekeepers, and a p/t time front desk agent. And

This week has started out to be full of surprises and changes! I had Sunday off and because I didn't have to go anywhere I decided to start bleaching the black out of my hair to get it ready for a wild colour change - I've got four different Aveda colours sitting on my desk at home. Charcoal, Cobalt, Iris, and Emerald. The plan was to work on lightening my hair as pale as I could get it so that the bright colours would really pop and not look muddy. Well, two bleach jobs later my roots looked amazing, but the rest? Not so much. Black hair dye, even the professional stuff like I was using, is a bitch to get out. The length came out sort of copper/brown/yuck. But I knew if I did a third round Sunday night that I would end up with loads of breakage...more than I already had after two rounds of bleach. I toned the mess with some home-made purple conditioner, loaded it full of moroccan oil, and went to bed. Yesterday morning I was less than impressed with how my hair looked, but I d

At work as usual. I'm really not doing a whole lot right now because I'm just not feeling it. I've got at least two weeks of schedules done so I don't have to rush through that right now, and I've got most of a third week's schedule done. Watching the final season of Halt and Catch Fire , and remembering yet more of the technical advances I've witness. I remember well having to pay the overage on the amount of bandwidth we used, instead of there being no limit. I seem to recall that the overage issue ended when we switched to cable internet. I also meant the end of my phone line being utilized by the rest of my family so they could connect to the internet. These days I don't even have a landline although I know that if I had a regular phone I could plug it in to dial 911 if I had to. Instead, my daughter and I each have pay-as-you-go phones. This started back when neither of us were home a whole lot as we were both in university. And eventually, about ha

A week ago I managed to crack the screen of my gaming laptop. Thankfully it still works with a monitor - I test it at work, but as it's a new computer I knew that I would need a new monitor because the spares I have floating around do not have HDMI capabilities and my laptop does not have VGA capability. I'll be recycling those monitors or donating them somewhere that can actually make use of them...I have a habit of grabbing and holding onto old tech. Probably comes from my old tech geek years. Years that feel like a lifetime ago.