knee pads

The Gamesmaster Challenge at Neopets is almost over. It ends tomorrow. And here when it said to play 60 games today I did. I didn't know I only had to play an additional 15 more off the list. Well I guess tomorrow if it says to play 75 games I'll just play 15 extra. I guess now I know. So far I've beaten every challenge, with a little help via cheats. Like Hasee bounce, I'm fairly bad at that. And Meepit Juice Break, ugh, don't think I cheated with that so much as I connected pipes to of any color to any color goal without worrying about matching.

Work:
This year they mixed the Christmas music in with the regular. Oh, thank God. That still didn't prevent me from hearing The Christmas Song four times today. A lot of them seem to be instrumental, which is nice. I did break down a little when Rocking Around the Christmas Tree came on and it was the voice-crack version.

My back was really bothering me today.

I wore my knee pads for the first time today. And you know, years ago when we used to have a few girls on night crew I'd see them walking around with their knee pads down around their ankles and I used to shrug it off by saying that everyone on night crew's on drugs so who knows what they were thinking. Well, now I know. It must just be a difference in male vs female legs. I put them on, knelt down, and all was wonderful. I stood up and took two steps and they started slipping. The guys walk around in them without issue.  Huh. I'd just put velcro on except for when I'm not wearing them I'd look silly with velcro on my pants. I do need to work out a solution though. There were no women's knee pads available on the order guide. Maybe put on an extra strap at the bottom, like one to go around the top of the knee and one around the bottom. Right now there's just the one, around the top. Other than that they're working out great.

This morning I was late for work because I had to scrape ice off my windshield. I didn't know it was going to be icy, lately it's been light snow. And since I hadn't expected that I hadn't put on my coat or gloves before going out to start and brush the car. So when I went in I had snow in my hair and my fingers were cold and wet. My hair was icky all day due to that, it looked super greasy. Tomorrow I'll have to cake on the baby powder! Hair washing day is tomorrow, but not till after work.

Someone had already made a bale and the garbages weren't so full I had to dump them. So that was good. I also didn't end up seeing Zhaun. And it was just Deana today, and Mike, so overall it was a fairly good day.

I was listening to Deana and Mike (front end manager and csm) talking about their back and shoulder pain and how throwing freight for so many years will do that to you. And if I already have this pain what will it be like when I'm 50 if I keep this up? It's a good thing I'm not. If you work yourself to death you can at least afford a decent coffin.