phillipdrawbridge

I've had a domain with Easyspace for a few years now and today I got an email saying it was up for renewal again. This time it's going to cost $50 to renew. Which seems a bit steep. So i've shifted to godaddy, which is at least half that. BUT they can't transfer a .org.uk domain, so I've created a new domain phillipdrawbridge.com which kinda makes sense now that I don't live inthe UK.

So email and website have both changed to phillipdrawbridge.com

Kentucky

Sorry about the previous few posts. I'm crap at keeping this blog updated, so thought I'd play catch up.

Kentucky

I'm back from helping out at the Sir Barton store. I'd like to say what an amazing experience it was. but I can't. It was hard dull work. Normally, at our store, we get two pallettes of books. At Sir Barton, we had 25! Then most of the rest of the first day was spent putting shelves together. The second day was spent sorting, pricing and reboxing books for each section. Dull!

The hotel was FREE, which makes it hard to find problems. but I will. It was souless. The walls of my room were just painted. no wallpaper. Which gave the room a strange echo. The bed and furniture were fine, but mass market produced dullness. There was nothing special about the hotel at all. just a place to sleep.

The drive was fine. Pretty simple drive down and teh hotel is really near the interstate. Even I didn't get lost.

Accents: I've just got used to the Indiana accent and I think indy has just got used to mine and then I'm thrust into Kentucky, which is a whole new ball game. It was quite a job to order a beer in the first place we went to...
"Do you have Stella?"
"Doowhat?"
"Stella?!, Or Kronenbourg?"
"Kronenwhat?"
"DO YOU HAVE ANY IMPORTS."
"We got some hiney-kin."
Then had to have a conversation about where I was from. The guy probably had never heard of England, let alone met anyone from europe.

One of the temps was an artist and a photographer, so we had something in common. He told me he was going to take a course at the U.K. which surprised me. I asked where abouts in the UK, but he actually meant the Univeristy of Kentucky. So we had a chuckle about that.

Hey, it's all fun. Just glad I was only there for two days.

August 26th

blah, didn't get it. :-( But I have no issues at all with the newly appointed shift leader and my alliance with her will carry on.

There's always next time.

August 25th

The Promotion

Puts on a deep Hollywood announcer voice
There is a place, where books are sold and people who sell them. For this group of people, this day would be like no other. For one of these colleagues will be given.... The Promotion.
cough

Sorry. So yeah, the interviews are done, the questions answered, the speculation started and finished and the day has arrived.
Today we find out who the new shift leader will be. I was pretty confident after the interview. I think my experience in management put me in good stead. But now I'm not so confident. I was asked if I was still interested in going to another store to help with the opening and I'm almost positive that shift leaders don't go to those things. Why would Madhavi ask me if I'm still interested to leave the store less than a week after getting promoted? BUT maybe I'm wrong. At this point I think it's 99 percent certain that I haven't got it.

So who should get it? Who knows? It was quite an extensive field and I'm, sure they had to think long and hard. I'm sure they made the right decision for the store and I'll resepct that and I'll, although be sad, will be happy for the new shiftleader and I'll do whatever I can to help their new role.

There's always next time after all

August 20th

IMDB is THE website, so if you're in it, does that mean in some small way that you're IT?


My IMDB Entry

August 17th

A blog should be inner most thoughts, but people that read this probably shouldn't be reading my inner most thoughts.

I REALLY want the promotion at work, but I want to not want it so much since I don't think I'm going to get it. I think I should get it. I've been a manager before and I think I have the maturity and nature to make a good shiftleader. But, there are a lot of qualified people, and even though I think I'm up there, it's pretty likely that someone else will get it. I guess the thing to do is not worry about it. If I don't get it, then things won't really change. But if I do, the extra little money alone will sort out a lot of problems for me. Not that I want it from a financial point of view, I want it since it's a progression and that's a good thing. I'll never run my own store if I don't start progressing.

Nothing to do but wait for the interview, do the best I can and see.


Previous Blog -

Idol

Tonight we're going to go see the American Idol concert. Right now, I'm not excited. Gale booked the tickets in the middle of the hype and now I'm not even sure she's too wound up about it. But we'll go and who knows, maybe we'll have a good time in amongst the thousands of screaming teenagers.

I'll let you know tomorrow.

Personal - 15th August

A blog should be inner most thoughts, but people that read this probably shouldn't be reading my inner most thoughts.

I REALLY want the promotion at work, but I want to not want it so much since I don't think I'm going to get it. I think I should get it. I've been a manager before and I think I have the maturity and nature to make a good shiftleader. But, there are a lot of qualified people, and even though I think I'm up there, it's pretty likely that someone else will get it. I guess the thing to do is not worry about it. If I don't get it, then things won't really change. But if I do, the extra little money alone will sort out a lot of problems for me. Not that I want it from a financial point of view, I want it since it's a progression and that's a good thing. I'll never run my own store if I don't start progressing.

Nothing to do but wait for the interview, do the best I can and see.