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Jun. 15th, 2004
Monday Retrospective
Jun. 15th, 2004 08:29 amI enjoy the Party Shuffle that iTunes offers me. It is a week and I have become a hearty ibook enthusiast. The quality of this laptop is fantastic. I only hope that when I get my ram installed, I don't blow it up. :-)
Yesterday work was...odd. It's mostly odd due to the cloud of anticipation that hangs over some of our heads, as visions of streets of London dance about in our brains. We must wait what shall seem like endless days(5-8) to get our interview and be considered. And then, the waiting shall be no more.
Whatever happens, I'm happy with the outcome. The trite yet often profound phrase, "It's the journey, not the destination," does not apply to waiting for jobs that feature the prospect of world travel. Gimme the goddammed destination.
In the meantime, the practical still gets in the way of my dreaming. Note to self: kitties need more moist cat food or they will love you less, and possibly eat your throat out while you sleep.
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taogrl and I saw a Rivercats game. It's a pleasant evening. Sitting, chatting, watching people. I ran into a coworker there, and we chit chatted on various items. I saw a really unattractive fellow and got in a quick game of "Yours and Mine"* with taogrl. I believe I remained unscathed last night.
I talked to my Mother. As many problems I have with her, it's nice to know she actually does swing back to the rational, occasionally. I think she understands that she does freak out and put a little too much onto me. Since she had issues with her mother, she's trying not to perpetuate the entire cycle. Some of it is just knee-jerk for her. She was recounting a scene she saw from a preview of "The Stepford Wives". Bette Midler plays a writer of self-help books. Her latest book was, "I love you Mother;Now Die." My mother found this particularly amusing.
I hope everyone has a good day!
*The rules are simple. Assuming you and your friend are attracted to the same gender, you "call" all the cute people yours, and all the ugly, freakish people you see are your dearest friend's. Bonding, laughter, and occasional blindness ensue. **
**Warning: there may be bad Karma for behaving in such a shallow and quietly catty fashion.
David Gray - Say Hello Wave Goodbye
Yesterday work was...odd. It's mostly odd due to the cloud of anticipation that hangs over some of our heads, as visions of streets of London dance about in our brains. We must wait what shall seem like endless days(5-8) to get our interview and be considered. And then, the waiting shall be no more.
Whatever happens, I'm happy with the outcome. The trite yet often profound phrase, "It's the journey, not the destination," does not apply to waiting for jobs that feature the prospect of world travel. Gimme the goddammed destination.
In the meantime, the practical still gets in the way of my dreaming. Note to self: kitties need more moist cat food or they will love you less, and possibly eat your throat out while you sleep.
After work,
taogrl and I saw a Rivercats game. It's a pleasant evening. Sitting, chatting, watching people. I ran into a coworker there, and we chit chatted on various items. I saw a really unattractive fellow and got in a quick game of "Yours and Mine"* with taogrl. I believe I remained unscathed last night.I talked to my Mother. As many problems I have with her, it's nice to know she actually does swing back to the rational, occasionally. I think she understands that she does freak out and put a little too much onto me. Since she had issues with her mother, she's trying not to perpetuate the entire cycle. Some of it is just knee-jerk for her. She was recounting a scene she saw from a preview of "The Stepford Wives". Bette Midler plays a writer of self-help books. Her latest book was, "I love you Mother;Now Die." My mother found this particularly amusing.
I hope everyone has a good day!
*The rules are simple. Assuming you and your friend are attracted to the same gender, you "call" all the cute people yours, and all the ugly, freakish people you see are your dearest friend's. Bonding, laughter, and occasional blindness ensue. **
**Warning: there may be bad Karma for behaving in such a shallow and quietly catty fashion.
David Gray - Say Hello Wave Goodbye*geeky grunt of contentment*
Jun. 15th, 2004 01:50 pmMy RAM has been acquired and installed.
Now to test it out!
But first I must do my real job.
Now to test it out!
But first I must do my real job.
Phew! Close call!
Jun. 15th, 2004 10:39 pmTonight was quasi productive. I went to the gym, ran my errands, and proceeded to race home to use the restroom. Drinking water at the gym and running errands after work spells tense times for the bladder.
I brought in my errand purchases: some gifts for a friend I'm visiting tomorrow night and some cat food for my little predators. If you must know (and you must!), those little predators are currently wrestling each other. No, wait, Sascha decided to groom Max for a bit. Oh..yeah...now they are back to wrestling. Oops. They didn't appreciate it when I threw a dollar at them and started cheering and shouting odds.
Anyway, I do my housely chores, then fire up Pepsi, the new ibook. Pepsi couldn't see my network. For those of you who don't own ibooks, in order to install new RAM, which I did earlier, you need to remove the airport extreme card first, which I also did. I also had a hard time getting it in and out, so I was concerned I might have damaged something.
But no, I refuse to panic. So I reseated the card, and still got no network. Then I rebooted my wireless access point. And I got some network connectivity, but nowhere near the performance of the past week. So I reseated the ibook again. This time was most effective.
Phew. The lesson is, folks: be firm but fair with your ibook innerds. They need a little extra push in those slots.
Warren Zevon - Hasten Down the Wind
I brought in my errand purchases: some gifts for a friend I'm visiting tomorrow night and some cat food for my little predators. If you must know (and you must!), those little predators are currently wrestling each other. No, wait, Sascha decided to groom Max for a bit. Oh..yeah...now they are back to wrestling. Oops. They didn't appreciate it when I threw a dollar at them and started cheering and shouting odds.
Anyway, I do my housely chores, then fire up Pepsi, the new ibook. Pepsi couldn't see my network. For those of you who don't own ibooks, in order to install new RAM, which I did earlier, you need to remove the airport extreme card first, which I also did. I also had a hard time getting it in and out, so I was concerned I might have damaged something.
But no, I refuse to panic. So I reseated the card, and still got no network. Then I rebooted my wireless access point. And I got some network connectivity, but nowhere near the performance of the past week. So I reseated the ibook again. This time was most effective.
Phew. The lesson is, folks: be firm but fair with your ibook innerds. They need a little extra push in those slots.
Warren Zevon - Hasten Down the Wind