It's been a long week. Since Friday of last week I've been doing the operations work pretty much solo. Kevin my boss/operations manager went to Cancun.. I had guys help out, but I've been stuck in the office from opening at 7am til the last of the reports go out around 5. On top of that it can get pretty stressful. Our clients are traders. Traders who are risking sums of money greater than the total sum of money I've ever had any part of. And they only call up here when they need things, which usually means somethings wrong, which means they're none to happy. LIke I said it's been a long week. (and yes, or clientle at RISC were also traders, but it was a smaller base, and by the time I Was doing this I was a lot more knowledgable on our system. ) I had one major glitch in dealing with all this. It wasn't good, and was totally my fault and cost the company money. It was, however, also received about as well as something like that could have been, which I guess is a good sign.

When I left Risc Jesse, the owner/boss, pretty much said he wasn't going to run the system anymore. One of the clients decided to buy it off him. They're contacting me for consulting work in regards to it. Extra money would be nice, but I didn't perticularly enjoy working with the software, and I don't know how much more time I want to spend doing stuff like that. Guess we'll see, right now it's just supposed to be on a temporary basis while I help them learn the system, so that's ok so far.

I think I'm going to get a Christmas tree for the apartment. It's a pretty big investment, as I have no christmas stuff to speak of of my own, but still.. I want one. We put up ours last Sunday. Went home, watched the Bears choke, ate some 'fried' (really baked) chicken, did a christmas tree. Good times.

Thanksgiving was pretty good. Pretty much a lot of the usual. Left early and went with Bryan to go see a movie. It had been a long time since we'd gotten to hang out and the Tenatious D movie had come out, and he's a fan so yeah. It was ok, there were funny parts. The only thing about Thanksgiving is that it's also time for Chrismas/Birthday lists to be given out. I've never been a fan of lists. Well, at least for some time I haven't. Especially now where I can pretty much go out and get something if I want it bad enough, (see FFXII and GUitar hero II in the last post) ::shrug:: the physical possession thing isn't that big of a deal anymore. Sure, I like to get stuff, but having a list, and pretty much knowing what on there I'm going to get kinda takes some of the surprise/fun out of it. I like the unexpected stuff better I guys.

Oh, it went from very nice, to pretty shitty very fast. That wasn't good.

Guitar Hero II kicks so much more ass in two player mode, I brought it home a few weekends ago and was supposed to go do errands and stuff but instead spent the day rocking out with the family. good times.

anyway, there could be more, but time to run late reports and get on the train.