Skin Flute Symphony

Timekillers...

Working a 12 hour shift at a place where there isn't a hell of a lot of after hours work to do is great in some parts. Penalty rates make it all worthwhile, and I have been able to get a majority of my assignments for uni done on work time in the past...but the hours do drag on and tedium can settle in if you let it quite easily, therefore there is always a need for time killers...

A guy at work emailed around tetris and Pac man a couple of weeks ago...fair to say this has gottena afair bashing by all and sundry. Up until 5pm today, I was flying high ontop of the heap with 96 lines in tetris, but then someone got 97...I am currently warming up for a shot to regain my crown. Along with this, online games are also a big favourite...for instance, on the Fox sports website at present, they have stick cricket, which is helpful to see the minutes fly by. The only downside with these is that the company doesn't think they should be paying me to play games online, so it is only a matter of time till they bar that site...the bastards.

There is always emailing, which is no doubt number one on the list...but not too many people are willing to hang around on a saturday or sunday and amuse some loser who works all weekend with funny anecdotes and double entendres...when they are available, it is happy days!

Blogging is great as you can get rid of a lot of angst and frustration at the world, but after a while, you just come off like a whiny bastard (maybe that is just me...I tend to be somewhat pessimistic). Checking other things on the net are also great time killers, although after a while, you havce seen all you really want to and then you start flirting with the line between work safe and not work safe...a fine line indeed.

Which brings me to DVD viewing...or indeed viewing of any type. For instance, You tube has episodes of Scrubs on there, amongst other things, so you don't always have to bring your stuff in from home. However I always come to work armed with a selection ranging from TV series, to films, to 'miscellaneous'...needless to say, they have saved my sanity on many an occasion.

Time killing is your friend when you work after hours...for instance, this little rant just killed 6 minutes...one tenth of an hour...at around $45 an hour right now, thats $4.50 for this rant...and I think it is worth every cent!

posted by SkinFluteSymphony @ 7:47 PM