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[vik_thor]

Well, 3 more days till I am officially jobless... Most of the people left at the Scottsdale office will be having a sort of 'dead dog' party after we are kicked out on Friday...
I need to clear out my cube tomorrow and Thursday. (It is amazing the amount of stuff I've accumulated!) Including 3 plants.

Thanks to my hubby, I now have a new battery for my iBook! :) my current one will only hold about 18% of it's original charge. http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/index.html is a handy little program. The scary thing is the rapid dropoff the battery has had. As of 11 sept. it still had 47% of original capacity... My iBook is just about 2 years old now, and from what I've read, that is about the normal life for the batteries... It is just odd with the rapid drop off...

Birthday weekend was fun. We went to see the current Bond film, because I wanted to go see it. I haven't always been that much of a Bond fan, but I really enjoyed this one!
Then this past Suanday, we went to see TransSiberian Orchestra. WONDERFULL!!!!! I am going to have to get some of their CDs.

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[xoagray.livejournal.com]

I'll admit that I'm a bit out of the loop, as I don't get to read these things anywhere near as much as I might like to, but what happened to your job? If I remember right, (and this may have changed) weren't you at that job like forever?
And yeah, I had that same problem with the battery in my HP, it was good for about an hour, then within the span of maybe two or three months, it got so I could barely unplug it, and dart to a different room to plug it in again. Though, I got pretty lucky with that battery, I had it for about 3 or so years. There seems to be a bit of a gray area as far as what's best for the batteries too, like some people will say to use them to near exhaustion before charging them, some that it doesn't matter, just charge them whenever. I guess $200 every 2 years isn't such a bad price to pay, to be able to move a computer around from room to room without having to carry five different things around eh?
TSO is the bomb, I've got some of their stuff myself, wonderfull the way they put rock and orchestrial insturments togeather. Ever hear of a band called Manheim Steemroller? If you like TSO, you might like them as well.

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[vik_thor]

Yeah, It does seem like I've been with this company forever, even though it has been only 13 years.
Started with Osco (American Stores Company) in 1993. ASC merged with Albertsons in 1999. Albertsons was split between 3 different companies in June 2006. (CVS got all the freestanding drug stores (Osco and Sav-On), SuperValu got most of the grocery stores and combos, and a private equity firm got the 'underperforming' grocery and combo stores, including all the stores in Arizona.) CVS put their own systems in the drugstores, so the only stores that use the system I work with are the Jewel-Oscos in Chicago-Milwaukee area. SuperValu decided to centralize all the support for the Jewel-Oscos to the Melrose Park, IL office. I posted for a few of the jobs there, but they didn't want me... :( (A lot of it is they decided they weren't going to pay relocation for hourly workers, after they said earlier they would... I did not want to pay my own move again...) So, we've been training the people in Melrose over the past few weeks, and we get severed on Friday...
*shrugs* oh well, I will find something.

I was hoping that my battery would be one of the ones in the Sony recall, but nope. It was good for about 4 hours originally, down to about 2 hours as of Sept. now about 50 minutes. Still good for most of what I use it for unplugged. (and yeah, I do enjoy being able to go out on the porch with it, and smoke and browse. :)

Yeah, Mannheim is great too! I've got a lot of their CDs too.

[xoagray.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but still, 13 years is a long time to work for someone, especially now a days. Best of luck in your job search, I hope that something comes to you soon, and it's something that works well for you.
I didn't know that Sony made batteries for the iBook? Interesting. *laughs* And it blows one of the things a friend of mine said a few months back out of the water. He told me that Sony, and Apple disliked each other, and didn't work together on anything. It'd be hard to make a battery for a laptop without it's specs.

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