Thursday's Work, and Tasks for the New Job

11:05am - I'm at the Tim Horton's right now. I thought I'd go to the library and work, but I realized that was pretty far from the Staples. I need to pick stuff up there, but they said not to just come, but to wait for an email. I think it would have been faster to just show up and not place a pick-up order. ^.^;;

Anyways I also wanted to treat myself a bit. I have been avoiding paying for anything, but I thought that a bit of food and a big tea would help me work and stay up.

While I wait to hear from Staples, I am going to work on the two important things for today. First, I have some stuff to do for my new job. If I have time and energy after that, I plan to work on my gamedev, or at least do that personal hype-raising I planned the other day.

I might do that part at the library, given how time works.

12:11pm - I've gotten the email, and finished the first safety document I have to read. It was 61 pages but most of it was short and straightforward, and though I gave it at least a resonable read it was mostly for jobs that are very different from mine.

I'm going to go to Staples, now, and get the stuff, then head to the library.

1:46pm - I'm at the library now. When I left the Tim Horton's, I was rearranging things in my car and noticed the bottle of Windex. I had been meaning to wash the windows of my car for a long, long time, and last winter I had a bottle of Windex freeze and leak in the car. It was a mess. I didn't want it to happen this year, but I also didn't want to take it out and forget about it. I decided to wash the windows right there in the parking lot. I washed a couple of them, decided to do the rest at the Staples, but only did a bit at the Staples while waiting for my purchases. Afterwards, I went to a parking lot near the library and got even more into it. I finished the windows, but I also had some car surface cleaning solution I bought a month or so ago. I used that to clean up the surfaces as best I could. They're way cleaner, now. The only one I couldn't get clean was the steering wheel. There was a lot of sweat and skin on both the steering wheel and the gear shift, and I got it off the gear shift, but once around with the steering wheel wasn't enough, and I ended up using the whole container of cleaner by then. I may get a bigger one another day, for the future. It worked really well.

Finally I've come into the library. I got text messages from my Dad. Apparently he's bought us a new van. We've been planning on it, and I saved up some money for it, but I didn't expect it to happen so suddenly. Now that's on my mind.

Still, I have a lot of reading and tests to do for my job. I didn't expect it to be so much. That first pdf 'booklet' as I said was 61 pages and it took over an hour.

3:52pm - I've finished all the work for work. It was mostly the same information in four documents and one film, and I had to do two multiple choice tests afterwards. So, it was pretty boring, and for me pretty obvious. Obey the law, be safe, that sort of thing. There were only a few specific rules to learn, like the regulation safe distance from rails. A lot of it was rules for the company hiring me, too, not just for me. Other stuff was for other contracted worker types that has nothing to do with what I'll be doing.

Well, it's over for now. I'm going home. Too tired to do any gamedev, and that was a lot anyways.