Merry Christmas everybody (after the fact), here’s a nice photo of the work gang at Express:

From the left: Dean (the boss), Rhea (the freak), Sumali (the best), Alfred (the legal alien).

Hi Peeps,

Back online once more! adsl2+ is sweet…. We have actually had it back for a week now, but haven’t got around to blogging till now. Things to do, ya know.

Work has changed a bit, i now start at 7:30 till 4:30, instead of 6:30 till 3:30. Traffic is heavier, but i carve through it okay. I have also been signed on to do 1 saturday out of 4. Sucky i know, but they have amended my wages so for the 4 hours im there im basically getting paid 2.5x normal rate. That seems fair to me… My off sider still hasn’t been finallized. Hopefully it will soon as im so busy at work im getting over whelmed.

My Games adminning is going well. I’ll get full access to the servers once i sorte out my linux system at home. its one of those thingst that take time. The forums are back up also which is great games.exetel.com.au if your interested.

We are having a games night on saturday. poker, 8ball, uno and jenga. Should be good!

Anyways, i have some games to invest time in, so ttfn!

Andy

Goood Morning ppl,

Another Friday morning already! Amazing! Time really is flying! Must be having fun!

Plans for this weekend… Pay for billiards table… finish setting up the apartment…. bring the last of Sumali’s furniture from her parents place… that’s the stuff out of the ordinary!

Ooh, my assistant has got the job at Parramatta, but the area manager won’t approve it until he trains a new person in the receivable section of the store. I’m getting a new assistant which is sweet. He’s guy who has been in the receivable section for about a year now, his my age, married, got a kid. Much more mature and responsible. I think we’ll make some really good progress!

Well its 5:30am now, I had best get some brekkie and head off to work!

TTYL

3 Comments:

• Dad looks great in the beanie you got him, he has worn it everyday since receiving it. His arm is slowly getting better, but his car is getting worse. Hopefully nothing else will go wrong with it. Once the Harmonic Balance and a few more new tyres the 4wd should be good as new.
  Wayne was in Bordertown this weekend so sell some more tractor gear. They still have’nt had anyone look at the house. Although the guy that has the junk place across the road from the swimming pool still wants to buy it. But if he buys it no one will want to buy the house.
  Nothing much more has changed, the little kittens are so cute especially the grey one.
  Buy for now, luv ya.

  Comment by dana — September 2, 2007 @ 3:49 pm

• oooh! Peppy had her kittens?!?! how many?!?!

  Comment by andy — September 2, 2007 @ 6:10 pm

• Hi I didn’t know you could comment on my comment. Peppy had 3 kittens, 2 Boys. The second kitten was breech, got stuck coming out, so I had to pull it out. I tried resus on it but it was dead, so I flushed it down the toilet. The grey one is a little smaller than the black and white one, may be because he was born a day later. Dad goes into hospital next Wed 12th and the operation on the 13th. We will be staying in Adelaide for a week or so, I hope to take some holidays in a weeks time. Catch you later. luv ya

  Comment by dana — September 7, 2007 @ 11:19 am

Hello Hello,

Sorry guys, i have been tardy again with the posting. Last time i said to myself i’d never let it go two days without blogging. Ha…

Annnyways, lets see…. Ooh, work is heaps different now, the guy who interviewed and hired me has been forced to resign… The business still wasn’t making budget so…. Lol must make sure i never become a branch manager…. Also my assistant never got his CPM role, so now his go to an interview to be transfered to the Parramatta branch. So sad, too bad :-p Also, the plumbing warehouse dude has also applied to be transfered the Marrylands  store. This is a shame as he’s a good worker and friend. But to be fair, marry lands is walking distance to his home, and he’d get paid the same for a lot less physical work….

I’m still doing well at my work, the area manager has been spending a lot of time at my store as we have been without senior management. He offered me a position in Darwin to work for 2 weeks as they are going to be in need of an experianced branch assistant up there in October. I’m not really right for that as i have spent less than 10minute on the front counter and its a purely plumbing store, so insteading of  drowning i turned it down. A shame, as i could have caught up with Ray with free travel and accommodation, but yeah still nice to be offered…

Me and smily are alone! our room mate has moved out! we have been a bit bad… Today we put a deposit on a $3998.00 billiard table at B&B Billards… We haggled them down to $3600 and upgraded accessory pack… We’ll get it delivered within two weeks… I know, were bad… Its flash as… Just uploaded a pic of the style. We are getting a 7′ table, so it’ll have 4 legs, not 6, burgandy felt and dark walnut stain. Its the most upmarket 7′ table they make…

Okay, time for bed! chat latter peeps!

Andy

2 Comments:

• Just to prove i’ve had a look btw happy birthday S. Had Japaniese monday night at Gouger st for jims birthday.

  Comment by NUDGE — August 30, 2007 @ 9:48 pm

• Thanks Nigel! Hehe i was going to ask you on the phone if you’d checked out the blog recently and if you hadn’t i was going to bug you about it :p

  Comment by smily — September 1, 2007 @ 9:05 pm

Hey everybody,

I’m writing this on my lunch break at work.  For those who don’t already know i’ve finally quit Myer! Woohoo! Working 7 days a week at times was getting a bit much and I felt that not being around on weekdays made me less efficient.

Hi Amila! Nice to see you visited the site (and left a comment in the shoutbox). We need to sort out that wireless router for Dad. Have you picked one yet?

Dana there’s a Craft Depot near our place, we’ll go check it out on the weekend.

Rhea just linked me to Kevin Rudds myspace account. Weird….Vote K-Rudd! That should get me some interesting comments…

Rays visit was fun, playing pool on Friday was fun when I beat Ray once. Shouldn’t have agreed to the rematch during which I was slaughtered…for dinner, driving a slightly tipsy Andy and Ray (ok Ray didnt seem drunk at all) to KFC was a dodgy experience. I have a feeling Andy was being extra crazy in the car just to freak me out beacause as soon as he got in front of the counter to order he was alright.

On the Saturday night I left the two boys to play on their own and went to Ribs and Rumbs Grill and Seafood in Gordon for Khristines birthday. They don’t seem to be reviewing too well over at eatability.com but our food was ok. The lamb chops that Mal got were the best, I loved the ribs i got but the steam was defintiely overcooked but I didn’t really mind. The steak knives were pretty crapola tho, didn’t cut through the steak very well at all. Overall the food wasn’t too bad and the ambience was warm and friendly, i’ll probably go again until I get that bad service people keep talking about.

Speaking of steaks, on Tuesday night instead of our usual steak night at the Pennant Hills Inn, Andy invited  Andrea and Rhyl around for a steak dinner at our place. It was fabulous, the Corn was delish and I didn’t mind the steamed vegetables too much. Thanks Andy for a lovely dinner.

Me and Mal went to the Trent Tree Marsh Beauty Boutique in Castle Hill on Thursday night to cash in our beaty vouchers that my Mum had given us for Christmas. I got a "Classique Indulgence – A combination of a Swedish Back Massage and a Classique Facial. Highly beneficial to skin, body and mind." It was really nice and relaxing (the massage was good) but it would have worked out to be $1 a minute and considering i was left alone for ten minutes (with the cucumbers on my eyes) i’m not sure if I would actually pay to repeat the experience…she gave me some samples which was nice.

Our lease expires in August, Annabelle will be leaving the week after it expires. The inspection went fine, apparently all the lady did was walk around. Anyways, back to work. Toodles!

~smily

1 Comments:

• Hi thanks for checking out the craft store, hope there is some interesting things there. You guys must be busy, you don’t write as ofter as before. Peppy is pregnant, poor little thing she is so hard around the tummy. I don’t know when she is due.
  Alison had a baby girl, Jasmin 7lb 13 oz.
  Bye for now, luv ya

  Comment by dana — July 20, 2007 @ 11:24 pm

While Andy was off in South Australia over the long weekend I spent some time with the fam, did Malisha’s Myer shifts on Saturday and Sunday so she could study and then had the Monday off which will be my only day off for the next 3 weeks. Poor Andy is going to have to entertain himself (won’t be a challenge for him at all i’m betting). On Monday before Andy arrived (flight delayed by an hour), the fam went out for Yum Cha in Carlingford which has myteriously lost a lot of its usual customers…we contemplated why over chinese tea, rice noodles, dimsims, calamari, prawn dumplings, chicken rice, beef and pork noodle, fish balls, green veg (the nice type), soya bean pudding with syrup…there’s so much more variety when you go with a big group, we ended up having a lot of stuff. I took pics with their camera, will upload in due time…

~smily

1 Comments:

• wah! what pics ?! there were no pics! or was there..?? -ponder-

  Comment by Mal — June 13, 2007 @ 5:45 pm

hello hello!

Big news everyone! my gaming server isn’t being shut down! now i’ll remain an admin until they get sick of me! whippeee!

Also, im heading back to btown this weekend. i need to fix dana’s puter cos she fluffed it up, and im in dire need of a hair cut :-p

No news on my promotion yet, im guessing it’ll be from july 1st… maybe?

Toodles for now!

Andy

1 Comments:

• Hi we’ll miss sumali this weekend, hope you mouth is feeling better. Luv ya both, Mum

  Comment by dana — June 6, 2007 @ 8:14 pm

Hello Hello Hello,

I had an interesting discussion with my store manager today. He was going off to Lidcombe to organize next financial years budget with all the company big wigs and wanted to know if I’d be interested in a particular promotion.

Primary differences from my current role include:
-12k more a year.
-3 hours less work per week.
-I’d have an assistant/someone to mentor.
-Going from a wage to salary

Naturally I said I was interested. Not too bad seeing as I haven’t been there for 3 months yet, and they have a 6month probation period.

It will be interesting to see what is actually in the final job proposal compared to what his baited/indicated me with.

Will keep you posted;)

Andy.

P.S. Apparently ppl high up (regional manager and above) in the company know who I am, and have been talking about Andy Carter. I’m choosing to take that as a compliment. Teeheehee.