Steampunk Landon

I thought the world deserved to see my new Rock Band steampunk self.

Or maybe he deserves to see the world?

Largely Overdue

So besides the fact that Ash wrote the last 3 entries, our blog hasn't been touched in something like 20 days. I guess there's been lots going on since then, and we just haven't made the time to write.

So here's my post to get us back on track! We're re-railing, here and now.

We didn't post about this one when it went up, but I've completed and submitted 4 designs to threadless in the past 2 or 3 weeks. Essentials of Punctuation was my highest score ever and then UPPER/lower scored even higher 2 weeks later. It's still pretty low as far as getting printed goes, but I'm looking forward to making designs that'll score even higher. I'm planning on staying away from the type designs for a little while as well.

Since we last wrote, both Ashley and I finished our training at Convergys. Both of us were hired on the DirecTV project where we take all kinds of calls (we're sort of the all-purpose customer service department, it's called ACE, specifically advancing the customer experience). Ashley has actually quit and found a job that she likes more, where she's been working almost a week already. She's waitressing for a Mexican restaurant again and it's going much better for her than taking phone calls for DTV. I'm still working at Convergys, but it's wearing me thin. I'm going to talk to my team leader about trying 30 hours a week instead of 40. If I can be productive with my extra time, I intend to cut my hours further to 20 or 25. We'll see. The calls aren't SO bad, I'm just not built for 40-hour workweeks.

I'm doing well at the job too. Last I checked (before I sluffed a day and a quarter), I was ranked 7th out of the 180 on the call floor. We are ranked based on quality, accuracy, call length, percentage of worktime spent on the phone, et cetera.

My laptop died. It was a bad hard drive. Right now we're trying to decide if getting a good desktop for both of us would be a better option than repairing the laptop. Either way, I'm hoping GeekSquad will be able to get my files off my hard drive.

I recently went off my meds (Cymbalta) due initially to having misplaced them. Things weren't going well so momma had to call me today. I'll get back on them. My mind welcomes the robotic landscape. Time to shut up those feelings again, they were getting noisy.

Boy, that sounded bitter. :)

We've also got a car that is fully ours. I've been intending to get a picture up here for a while now for a naming contest of sorts. I guess I'll do that later because now it's way too late and way too dark to get a picture.

We're going to go to General Conference live for the Saturday morning session, so that's sort of exciting.