Uh, Colonel?

Hubby and I just went to see Hope Springs. We've been wanting to see it since it came out but just couldn't fit it in. Then we saw the little local theater is showing it and we promised ourselves we'd get there and we did, today, the last day. What a great movie! Lots of it, little bits here and there, "hit home" and, each time, he or I snuggled a little bit closer together. Dear Hollywood, please make more movies and shows with stories like this!

I've been cleaning up my email archives, which is oh so boringly tedious! I came across an email from 2004 regarding work stuff that I'd sent from home. It was a "note to self" thing all full of programming gobbledygook.  I barely remember what any of it means. Sad or glad? A little of both.

I guess I did a good job of breaking my fall. I don't have anything hurting too bad. My neck and right shoulder do a little bit. Yay!

My PC at work went through some automatic Windows XP updates today.  I know, big honkin' whoop dee doo!  It was the kind that require a reboot and if you don't reboot it nags reminds you constantly.  Right, so I wasn't in the mood to play dialog box tag all day so I let it reboot and have been going about my work and now it's time to go home.  I just glanced at the taskbar clock.  Gee, it's tomorrow.  Shouldn't I just be getting to work about now?  Odd, I could swear I've been here all day already.  I guess the update did that?  What else could it be?  Oh look, all of the emails that I've sent today have tomorrow's date on them.  That's real good.  Replies are before the originals.  Okay!  Gotta love Windoze. 

Still working way too many hours of overtime. The extra money is nice.  I was able to add some new devices to my home network: huge NAS drive and a switch box.  WooHoo!  I have another external drive but it's not NAS so I had to keep it on a computer as well as my HP printer. So they got bogged down, or maybe bogged down the computer serving them.  It's an old computer anyway, something like 7 years or about?  Snail of a CPU, 233 MHz, but good enough for serving my P2P needs. And now the extra peripherals are totally free-standing. Way cool! 

All of my free time has been spent on making the latest video. I'm not so good at showing humor, but I hope it gives any of you shippers a giggle or two.  If not, do comment for me as to why.  I would like to get better at having fun with the videos.  Probably will have to step outside of the S/J box for that though.  Not a lot of funny stuff in that area. 

At work they are moving one of our servers to the inside of the company network. It currently resides outside of the company network, between two firewalls.  Anyway, that customer doesn't need access anymore so we want to move it into the company network.  Big deal?  Not really, just that when they do I'll be able to access the applications from my VPN connection at home. Now for me to run apps I have to remote log into my work computer and run them through that. Oh yeah, terriblly slow.  Anyway, I've been the last couple of nights trying to find an opensource X window utility that will do it.  I tried Xming.  Works for most of the apps but some of the older ones crap out because of the fonts.  I hate fonts!!!!!  And the Xming app must assume that anyone using it is a unix admin.  Well, I'm not.  So I gave up on Xming.  Now I'm going to try Cygwin.   I'm waiting for it to download now. 

Well that's been my life these past weeks.  I'm going to try and read backwards to see what I've been missing. 

I changed my page theme.  I like it better than before.  It's simple, easier to read.  Do you think so? Or is it miserably boring?

Well I'm being a gabby one this week.  I've been commenting like crazy on my friends' pages.  I'm posting here again.  Yay!  I'm also posting over at my Yahoo 360, so if you get a chance or have an interest, jump over there, the link is here on the page in the links section.

I'm learning more about organizing things here and on my blog.  I finally learned what tags are.  Don't laugh!  I think I'll also use my LJ for comments on my videos.  So I'll be spamming my page soon with a post for each one that'll link to the video page on Tripod which will have a link back to the LJ post for any comments.  I love comments.  Comments make me want to keep making videos.

I won't be making videos for at least month though.  I have two huge projects at work and I'm on full overtime.  But I'll be destressing by posting here or on my Yahoo blog.

Oh!  I figured out the music I need right now.  Big band, swing, jazz from the 40's and 50's.

Haven't wanted to work for several days now. I really do need to get my butt into bed earlier. Okay, I'll go do work right after I do this...

Got this from almost everyone on my Friends Page...
Hurray for Geeks!


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Okay, someone tell me what I'm doing wrong please. Why is the Geek thing shifted left? Guess this is why I'm only 59%.
I figured it out. Always learning.  Maybe now I'm 60% geek?

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Makes a body shiver, don’t it? The buzz is on. Just heard it today. The catch? Get new jobs in-house and the WFR won’t come around our division. Huh?!?! Am I going completely insane? I have enough work for two, no three of me and now they’re telling me we need more work or some of us is gonna get the axe. Did I not just say something about the bosses being out of touch with the real world? God, please swing that axe my way! Please? Because I don’t have enough sense to tender my own resignation.

I’m in a catch-22. I need two more years at my job so I can keep my son in the same school with the kids he’s grown to love his whole life. I don’t want to uproot him. I had it done to me; I became a fracking hermit. I did it to my daughter; she keeps a safe distance with all things emotional right now. I don’t want to be responsible for ruining another young heart. So I put up with the poop-ola I get every day at work. Because I only have to put up with it for two more years. (Gina, go ahead and yell at me to practice what I preach, I love you hon, I can take it.) Responsibilities and Sacrifices. A very fine line. And if that axe does swing my way, I’ll find a solution because I have to.

Okay, so it's been a gazillion days since I logged in, so I'll forgive myself. But if I'd been allowed to make it something memorable I wouldn't have forgotten it. But I guess "memorable" also means "hackable" doesnt' it? Like I give a hoot if someone hacks my LiveJournal password. Can anyone explain to me why it has to be harder to set up a password on this place than it is on my bank's web site? Yoiks! That thought should scare me!

Where've I been?

I've been working my tail feathers off to the point of insanity and the only consolation is my performance review. Yup, got that the other day and guess what? I'm a "key contributor." Well, hell, I better damn well be with all of the friggin time I put in there. You'd think I have something vested in the place. Oh, wait, I do have something vested; my job!! Ugh!

Anyhoo....

I'm so completely sickened that I can't get my butt over to the Stargate Intel forum and pal around with my Intelite friends. Next week. I'll be free next week. Maybe. I've only been saying this for the past week. I have to do it. I will do it.

As you can tell, nothing is happening with me.

Love and Hugs!!