I've been having a lame week of work so far. Ugh. For the record, my job is now almost 100% speech recognition, which means that I'm getting paid two-thirds what I used to for essentially the same amount of work. Plus I don't have overtime anymore. Plus the new software is slower than the old software which means I couldn't do the same amount of work I used to do even if I wanted to. Essentially, I'm working about 25% harder than I was 2 years ago and making only about 40% as much money.
In the evening Epril and I went over to Mike Bird's house and hung out for a while. We're going to try opening a little pizza stand out front of our house to bring in a bit of spare cash in these lean times. If that goes well, maybe next Spring when I get my tax refuned, we'll move to a proper storefront location.
Mike loaned me a movie tonight called "Knowing" with Nicolas Cage. I had never heard of it. (Being in The Philippines, there are no movies advertised on TV — or at least I never see them — so even blockbusters can slip by completely unnoticed.) I enjoy it when I watch a decent movie with absolutely no idea beforehand what it will be about.
I enjoyed the movie quite a bit, although the plane crash scene was simply the most awful thing to watch. There are gruesome and gory scenes in movies, which just make you cringe and say ewww, and then there are accurate depictions of awfulness and suffering which will actually give you nightmares. Anyway, I thought the end of the movie was cool, but obviously the scientists give it a thumbs down.
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