Bum, bum...BUMMMM!!! The Hammer Drops at TV Guide...

Well, The TV Guide is getting rid of all of there national digest size (small books) and making one full size color book for hth whole country. I thought that would happen. I created the templates that the ads would go in. Well today they announced that they were going to start with that in October. The Hammer, the hammer is that most of my department is not needed, me included.

Oct 3 is my date. I get two weeks severance for each year so that should be 10 weeks (5 paychecks basicly). I assume that I have to stay to the end to get that money. So the game will be to have a job start after the 3rd...To get a phat paycheck and have a decent job.
I wondered how I would feel if I ever got layed off.... Well, its odd. It's sort of a no feeling. Its nobodys fault really. It's not like they did it based on performance. It was more just job based and my main job delt with the color ads going into the digest book, no book no job, done.I If i am said about anything its that my revitalized skateboarding will also probably be gone in Oct. I guess I'll hold off on getting another board...really that's the worst part about it.

netStuff:
slickdeals.net-I have been watching some people trying to take advantage of a 50$ of $50 coupon from staples. It looks like Staples got wise to it and started adding an additional charge to peoples credit cards. Some people might get away with it, it always seems like its worth a try to get in on these deals. The deal was dead by the time i tried it.
kent.com- We bought a 12 bike for my son last weekend. It was a kent and I wanted to check out their web site so I just guessed kent.com. Wow, kent dot com is cool but it's not about bikes. This guy has his whole freaking house wired with a capitol W! I'm green with envy. I was happy just to get my PC hooked up to my stereo.

myPC:
Once in a while I look for firm ware/ driver updates for my hardware. Today I have been looking for updates for my Sony CRX 140. I found a page with some firmware but, there were no explanations for them so Ill look around a bit more.

vc++:
I wrote this code today, I still have to finish a function and put it through a compiler at home. Its just an exercise from our book:

void getPep(String *&, double &);
void calcAdmission(double, double &);
void showRun(double , double, double);

int main()
{
String *compName="";
String *answer="Y";
double numPep=0.0;
double totalPep=0.0;
double compCharge=0.0;
double avgCharge=0.0;

do
{
numPep=0.0;
showRun(totalPep,
totalCharge, avgCharge);
getPep(compName, numPep);
calcAdmission(numPep, compCharge);
totalPep=totalPep+numPep;
avgCharge=(totalCharge/ totalPep);
totalCharge=(totalCharge+
compCharge);
Console::Right("Would you like to enter another company?(Y or N) ");
answer=Convert::ToUpper (Console::ReadLine());
}
while(answer!="N");
//end do

//functions

void getPep(String *&co, double &np)
{
Console::Write("Please enter the company name: ");
co=Console::ReadLine();
Console::Write("How many people from {0} will be attending?" ,co);
np=Convert::ToDouble (Console::ReadLine());
}


workStuff:
I work at TV Guide. They are changing over to a electronic time sheet next week. Kronos. I was happy to find out that I was exempt and didn't have to punch in and out daily.
We are going to be moving to OSX (finally) by next month and also getting new iMacs. They only have 17inch flat screens....ugh. Right now we have g3's with a nice 19 inch monitor...

otherStuff:
The Microcenter near us has some dvd-r spindles of 25 for 15 bucks. I bought one and burned about 5 so far with no problems. They are only 2x but I am in no rush.