BrainWyrms

• Just finished the movie version of Bourne Ultimatum. Ignoring the originals, I liked this one and could almost see how a 4th would be fun. #
• I think i’ll watch the commentary track after a nice nap. Hopefully I’ll wake up before Monday. #
• Messing around with FriendFeed - looking for the widgets. #
• Having a grumble grumble day. #
• What happened to the feed and files for the Podholes podcast? I’m getting a total fail here. #
• Decided I was bored with the (useless) commentary on Bourne Ultimatum and am now listening to Dragons Landing 91 instead. #
• Listening to @CASizemore on Dragons Landing. Heh. #
• Why is Dasani water so hard to find here? I don’t think checking 3 or 4 stores is fun. Bugger. #
• Uh… That’s a first. I just hit my head on the top of the car as I got in. [shakes brains back in] #
• @jchutchins I second @philippajane on Black Sheep. #

• @goraths_ghost That weekend job I applied for is concerned about the legality of "making" me work 7 days a week. … [grumble] … #
• No DSS for me this weekend. I just realized that my car registration expired. Last month. #
• IMAP options for gmail disappear when I go into basic HTML version on the website? Odd. #
• Chatting with my baby brother’s girlfriend… Trying to get her on twitter. She says no… She only writes on paper! So archiac… Xp #
• Playing DTD and getting kicked by the fliers, as usual. Looking at a 4000 score. #
• Introducing myself to the Critical Myth podcast by starting from the beginning. #
• Listening to Fear the Boot #29 from hella long ago. Someday I’ll catch up but I’m savoring these back episodes for now. #
• @casizemore Dragons Inn is really good too. #
• Playing around with my Tilt, tried installing a stupid app from the WM6 Owner’s Circle. Of course, on exiting the app… my Kaizer hung. #
• @goraths_ghost We’re looking at the Blackberry Pearl as a likely replacement for Jade when it comes time to upgrade. I like it as a phone. #
• On the otherside is the Samsung Blackjack… Which I thought felt like a plastic bag ‘o cheap. I’d be concerned with durability there. #
• I personally wanted the Tilt for the qwerty keyboard. I rarely use my phone to make calls. I use it as a mobile data recorder & memory aid. #
• @goraths_ghost I think you have to go online to find the refurbs. #
• Just watched ‘Black Sheep’. I haven’t laughed this hard in quite a while. And New Zealand is gorgeous. #

I thought that I had a lock on a weekend job, one that sounded like it was going to be absolutely wonderful for me.  I submitted my resume with a cover letter (my first ever) and got a call back in just a few hours.  Of course, then I was off on a cloud, dreaming my eyes out.  So the next morning, bright and early, I returned the call.  Only to find out that the agency was rather concerned with the legality of hiring me to work a job that would have me working a full seven days per week.

I’ve never heard anything about this before.  In fact, I have personally worked a seven day work week before.  So I highly doubt that it can be against the law for them to knowingly engage me.  But I couldn’t say for certain…  so I’ve been doing some research.

How many hours per day or per week can an employee work?

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not limit the number of hours per day or per week that employees aged 16 years and older can be required to work.

http://www.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/013.htm
http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/screen6.asp

A workweek is a fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 hours, or seven consecutive 24-hour periods. It may begin on any day of the week and at any hour of the day. An employee’s frequency of pay (e.g., bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly) has no impact on this fixed workweek. Each workweek stands alone; averaging hours worked over two or more workweeks is not permitted by the FLSA.

http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/otcalc/i2.asp

So I am can say with pretty good certainty that it is NOT against the law to be employed to work every day of the week.  What is less clear is what happens when my personal work hours per week exceeds 40, while employed by more than one employer.  I would like to think that it is obvious that each employer is only responsible for the hours that I put in for them… but I cannot find that clearly stated anywhere.

Whee.

• Ack. I left my thumb drive at home today. This stinks. Am I actually going to have to -work- today? Pardon me, I need to go cry… snert #
• While reaching into the [machine], I sliced the end of my pinkie. Hmmm… Cuticle cuts feel very strange. I don’t like it. #
• All done with the PM and shutdown so I’m headed home. Hopefully Jade’s interview and my return call will go swimmingly today. #
• Okay… Why is my paycheck short? I think this calls for an AARGH! #
• [ attempts goofy dance ] [ fails ] #
• Trying to print a gDoc via Portable Apps Firefox - and failing for some reason. #
• Quick work around - download as PDF, open in Acrobat, hit the print icon. #
• So tell me, since when is there some legality preventing me from working 7 days a week if I so choose, assuming that I can find the work? #

Scott is 6-foot-10, can juggle four kittens and can hop on one leg for, like, over 10 minutes without falling over. That’s rad. Don’t lie to me, you know it’s rad, you just don’t want to look uncool in front of your friends. Fine, Mister Cool Guy, go ahead and act disinterested.

Heh.  I like this guy, even if his book makes me itchy.

Oh, and you can get a free PFD of Scott Sigler’s Infected before it hits stores in hardcover on April Fools.  Hey, that makes Sigler & Gaiman  practically twins.  Just imagine an infected Sandman…  oh.  Nevermind.

• @goraths_ghost give it a year… I’m sure you’ll fel even older then. mwuhahahaha #
• @casizemore No! Don’t do it… Enchanted is too sachrine for humans. Blech! #
• Pretty rough today. We’re running 3 lines and everyone is all mixed up. Toss in the bad raw material and I’m running all over. #
• Very sad. No money to blow on today’s addictive w00t-off. #
• I just got a call back for a weekend job that I applied for today. Awesome. Hopefully this time it’ll work out for all involved. #
• @goraths_ghost Do you want in? From what I’ve seen so far, we’re over qualified. #

• Just realizing that I totally don’t understand the 700Mhz auction. It is "open" but Verizon paid for it? Huh? Why? Where is their benefit? #
• Eating the last cocoa bunny Peep. Worried about consequences #
• I’m worried about my ability to learn to two thumb my TyTN II keyboard. I can’t seem to feel the individual keys. This does not make me #
• Rom is home with me for the day. I think he was a bit disappointed when the movie that I put on was actually the commentary track. #
• @acedtect TMI? Close but no cigar. Try again? #
• I finally got the chance to try out the stereo bluetooth headphones I got from w00t! Sometime last year. Wow, nifty! #
• Listening to DragonPage Cover 2 Cover - @casizemore bandsawing books! Awesome. #

• To hungry to sleep quite yet. I guess I should have stopped for Taco Bell on the way home. Instead I’m going to have a bowl of oatmeal. #
• Showing @goraths_ghost my Tilt. He’s not impressed. #
• I just found myself or rather my BrainWyrms listed on ThotMarket. Except I didn’t put it up. Xeno did. Who is Xeno? I don’t know… Yet.r #
• Oh gah. Cold. C’mon car heat up! Brrrr. #
• Sitting in the car waiting for Jade, reading up on CIE/World College. And listening to another NewsGang Live. Which flies over my head. #
• I use the track feature of Twitter via SMS on my phone. Except when I forget how to use it. #

Hey, look! It is me… but fancy. [ nodnodnod ]

This is the “original” picture. Notice the spooky eyes? I had just returned from an eye exam and thought that the dilated pupils were too much to pass up on. And I almost always have an ear bud dangling from my head, ‘cuz I’m a wannabe cyberpunk.

• I think I’m getting old. After an hour with Smash Bros Brawl, I have no clue what I am doing and my wrists hurt. #
• I’m driving along listening to LugRadio when I realize I know Jono Bacon from an article I read 3 years ago. Small world? #
• Trying to overcome my stupid phobia… and use the phone. The information simply isn’t available online. …drat. #
• I was unable to work myself up to making the call. Disappointed. #
• @elizasea jumping jacks work good for a quick wake up. Effect lasts for about a half hour. (road trip tricks) #
• xA has spanking new tires. So now I can go to bed. Only four hours late. #