Screwed Up

This morning I gave a short demo presentation of an online form that people at my place of work will soon use. I’d given the same presentation to a smaller group last week. They were impressed enough to ask me to present it to a committee meeting of administrators today. When I was given the [...]

Energizer does NOT keep you going

At work we were given wireless Bluetooth keyboards and mice. Thing is they are battery driven, obviously, so when your batteries die, so does your keyboard or mouse. To counter that they gave us Engergizer rechargeable batteries with a handy dandy little charger.
Well my office-mate(?) (guy I share my office with) his batteries died on [...]

Napkins

This should come out on Tara’s restaurant review page or something.
Today a co-worker and I decided to go to a nearby Mexican-ish restaurant for lunch. We ordered, got our cups to fill up at the soda fountain, and sat down at a table. After several minutes a lady came and delivered my co-worker’s plate and [...]

Midmorning Update

WARNING: Includes programming/IT content. 
Ok so I’ve spent the last two hours combing over a short program that essentially creates a text file with a small “Hello” message and saves it in a previously created directory. The whole thing is probably 20 lines of code. Not that big. This is not for an assignment [...]

SNAFU

This morning I was awakened at the ungodly hour of 4am (more or less) by the sound of an alarm. It was more of a gradual awakening because I think I somehow incorporated the alarm into the dream I was having at the time. Funny thing is I don’t remember the dream at all. But [...]

“Use your hate.”

I’ve given in to the Dark Side …. of wireless carriers at least (aka Sprint).
There is a t-shirt on ThinkGeek that comes to mind. Its a black shirt with the phrase:
“Come to the dark side, we have cookies …”
                                                                -V
See it here
My monthly phone bill has been pretty high the last few months, primarily due to [...]

What the crap?

Earlier today I did something I have never done and really don’t understand why. I went to the ATM on the first floor of the building I work at. It is just outside a set of double-doors. When I finished at the ATM I reached the doors a few steps ahead of an attractive young [...]

Hazards of S.M.T.O.T.S.E.

To quote a good friend and use his naming convention of a traveling drama group; the Scary Man’s Totally Original Traveling Salvation Extravaganza (SMTOTSE) has come to town. The events of last night’s performance prompted, nay mandated, a retelling of said events (If nothing more than for entertainment/historical purposes).

Fire Alarms – Just like High School

Please excuse the “split post” use again. This post got longer than I thought it would be.
I left work yesterday without sharing the high light event that took place Tuesday morning. We had a good old fashioned Fire Alarm. I was listening to a CD with my head phones when I heard this god awful [...]

Thanksgiving Recap

I had two Thanksgiving meals today. Lunch was at my sister-in-law’s mother’s house. Let’s call her Mrs. X to make the story easier and for privacy sake. So I drive over to Mrs. X’s house and we have a nice meal with my sister-in-law’s family. The conversation over the table was the typical family gathering kind of stuff. Some [...]