Work stuff

Sometime this week, we're getting a new manager. Wick (current manager) is going to a store closer to his house that needs a good manager, so we're getting one of the managers from another store in his place. We don't really know anything about the guy coming in to replace Wick, but we're worried that he might be a jerk or whatever. I'm worried the new guy will come in and take some of the fun out of working nights. The night crew tends to be a little more laid back and relaxed, largely because Wick isn't around after 1800 most of the time. I'm also kinda worried about this because the new guy won't have personally seen me being totally awesome at all that I have to do, so I'll sort of have to re-establish my reputation.

I've occasionally considered asking to be bumped up to cashier, but I realized something that will keep me away from that for a while. If I'm cashier, I'll be tied to the same register for most of my shift (unless I'm floater), which will bore the crap out of me. As a bagger, I get to work on most of the registers during one shift and work elsewhere, too. I think that freedom is worth not getting an extra $0.10/hour (a total of an extra $3 or so per paycheck). If I go any higher, I'm going to aim for at least front-end manager.

If I do go for front-end manager, I'm going to try to continue working primarily closing shifts. I think they'd let me. I know the managers all love it when I'm the closing bagger, and I think Terri would probably be willing to push Kathy towards continuing my tradition of closing if I were to become FEM.

More guitar

http://www.mediafire.com/?dk444sywv3j

That's an attempt at tapping. There are 3 "sections" because I altered some of the settings on my guitar between each one. The first section is me playing with only the bridge pickup, the second with only the neck pickup, and finally back to only the bridge pickup. I like how I get more volume out of the neck pickup when tapping, but I prefer the scream I can get out of the high E string with the bridge pickup.

Anyone think I should just create a filter for these kinds of posts so not everyone has to scroll past my ramblings?

Oh yeah, some of that extra noise comes from the software amp pulling raw data off the soundcard before the soundcard can clean it up some. Guitar Rig 3 (the software amp I use) is supposed to be used in conjunction with a pedal the company makes, but I don't have that. All that noise gets worse once I add in a fuzz box, a gain booster, etc.