I feel like Mr. Popular today

My cell phone never rings this much in one day. It's actually kinda fun. You know, feeling wanted and all. In addition to the phone calls I now have a pager for work. The number is... Do you really think I'd be dumb enough to tell you my work pager number? You know it's going to be right next to my head at all hours of the night so I can be awake if it goes off. I know someone would decide to be an asshole and page me at like 4 am just for fun.

It's not too bad from the sound of it. They said things don't go down all that often. So basically I'm being paid an extra $70 a check to wear this every other week. Not too shabby. It makes me feel like I have some power/responsibility or something. No, I'm not on a power trip. I can't stop playing with this stupid thing. And I keep checking it for no reason whatsoever. Well, maybe there is a reason after all... It's there.

I decided that I'm going to buy a wireless adapter for the TiVo I soon plan on purchasing. I know, I keep finding new things to buy or that I want to buy. It happens. I can't help it. At least the wireless serves a practical purpose. It allows me to have the channel guide on the TiVo without having to run wires all over the place. See, now that's useful. I figure as long as I can justify a purchase and will be able to use it whether I'm at home or at school then I should be good as long as I have the money and can afford it. Sounds reasonable enough to me. So I'll probably be buying most if not all of my list this summer... (I can justify anything).

Two of the new guys started today. They don't seem too bad. Hopefully they'll make for a better work environment, especially if we're all stuck doing stuff we didn't think we were signing on for. The guy that's supposed to be carrying the pager this week never showed up for our meeting so I got it this week even though I wasn't supposed to take a shift till next week. Who knows what happened to that guy. I can't do everything I'm supposed to yet because I don't have a computer account at Bucknell yet (I was lucky enough to talk to the right person about getting the WEP key so I could get on the wireless).

I need to make a note to remember to call the eye doctor to schedule an appointment to get my contacts looked at again so they'll let me order more of this new prescription. I keep forgetting about it. I guess I should take the number to work with me and call over my lunch break and schedule something for sometime after work this week so that can be out of the way. I haven't been wearing my contacts since I've been home because they are almost to the point of needing replaced so I'm rationing them so as not to have cloudy contacts when I go in to have them checked out.

Got my tax return today. My dad had made it sound like I wasn't going to be getting much of anything back. I consider $45 getting more than just a couple of bucks back. That's only because they didn't listen to me when I told them not to take out taxes in the first place. I don't see the sense in letting the government hold your money for you without giving you any interest just so you can get it all back at tax time. So instead I tell them not to take any taxes out and that way I either get a little back or I only have to pay in a couple of dollars. It's nice to have my money when I get paid rather than to wait till may to get a refund check.

Guess I need to go to bed a few min early so I can be up a few min early to check on Bucknell's system.

Hope the pager doesn't go off tonight,

Eric