I'm Gr8!

My place of employment has been closed to the general public for the past five days or so. Within that time period, a select crew of Retail employees have been working throughout the week to get a number of things completed: Inventory, various cleaning activities, and the opening of Gr8_space. I was told to arrive at 8 am on Wednesday morning, and when I got to work, I was told that I was going to be training for Gr8_space.

Let me see if I can actually explain what Gr8_space is. In our space (it's gotten annoying typing out Gr8_), only guests 10 (it might actually be 13?) and up can partake of the fun that our room offers. We have a counter where guests can buy candy and soda and various other tasty goodies. At the far end of the room, we have a station set up with 10-15 computers with internet access set up for recreational use. All along the walls there are twevlve 42" plasma screen TV's. There is a ridiculously large screen in the center of the room with a DLP projector. In front of the counter, there is a DJ booth equipped with the ability to pipe music videos into any of the TVs in the room (including the giant screen), a computer that enables light shows, a fog machine, and other assorted fun things. Just across from the DJ booth, we have a a technological smorgasbord of everything and anything that could possibly keep these little buggers busy: a dvd player, two wiis, two xbox 360s, two ps3s, and expansion slots for two directv ports. My job is basically to play music and check out this video game equipment for kids.

We're not quite up and running yet, so to give the blogosphere a better idea of what I'm talking about, this is a picture of Grapevine's Gr8_space. Myself and the two other employees down here also have to maintain a MySpace page for this tech center monstrosity. Keep on the look out. If you're cool, maybe you'll make Gr8_space's top friends???

The main point of this entry was to gloat a little about the fact that, for the next two weeks at least, I get to play music and video games and sing karaoke and get kids pumped up about having spent $15 for an 8 hour day in this room. Could be fun, right?