January 23, 2008 at 11:48 pm · Filed under uncategorized
I remember years ago when I first started chasing memes around… there weren’t many interesting enough to keep me following.
I’ve been browsing around on some tonight, and I fell in love with the idea of the Thursday Thirteen. You must make a list of 13 things, whatever it be, and post it, and then the networking begins. There are some brilliant people doing it. I thought I’d take a whack at it.
Without further ado:
Thursday Thirteen (129)
13 Things Sitting with me at the Computer Desk
- A multi-jointed black lamp that you can position in just about any way imaginable, equipped with a color changing LED lightbulb that you can control by remote. I bought the bulb for photo purposes, but I haven’t used it for that yet. It just entertains me in my lamp for now.
- My mail sorter, which is decorated with:
- a sticker stating, “Your sticker may say princess, but your face says troll.
- a sticker stating,
RIAA, think, giant red circle and cross line over the acronym
- magnetic poetry pieces stating, “random is hot” which is the slogan of a website of a pal, and is also a cool idea
- My STFU mug (black bold text on white mug, it was a Christmas present from Dad) which is holding all of my loose metal hair sticks
- What I call the “Ninjamote”; a tiny universal television remote. I haven’t met a television it can’t mute and turn off yet.
- My handcrafted piggy bank whom I fondly call Pig. He is older than I am, inherited from family. I need to post a photo of him one day, he’s quite adorable. <3
- A Galileo thermometer, something I longed after for many moons until friend Calthas was sweet enough to purchase me one.
- A tube of JASON Aloe Vera body lotion. In my opinion, it’s the best lotion ever.
- A tall slim dusky plum-purple vase, with two fake but well crafted black roses in it. The roses have dustings of plum purple on their inner petals. They were a gift from my boyfriend over a year ago. I love them. They’re so sexy. Also, hanging from the vase lip is a tiny Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figure, Donatello of course as he is my favorite. He’s barely two inches tall and his hand was curled into the perfect shape for him to latch onto the vase rim.
- My dual monitors. That’s right, two nineteen inchers. But some part of the positioning mechanism is failing in both of them so that the screens are slowly leaning forward from the top off of their supports. The left one is so bad I crammed a flat-sided vitamin bottle between the back of the screen and the support to hold it up. The right one is going to need its own vitamin bottle soon.
- A round glass dish, containing a handful of butterscotch candies, a Nene Thomas fairy keychain, three pins from the Westport Flea Market Bar & Grill in Kansas City, and my titanium spork (also a gift from Calthas)!
- A bottle of Prestone Power Steering Fluid. From when I was having to put power steering fluid in my old car weekly…. and I’ve had my new car for two months now. I guess it’s time to clean off my desk, heh.
- Several packages of glow sticks. I found them at the dollar store, and it had been so long since I’d seen any for purchase, I snapped a few up.
- Several packages of Astronaut Ice Cream, one of my stocking-stuffers from Christmas. I still haven’t had the balls to open them up and try them.
That’s my Thirteen. What’s yours?
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January 22, 2008 at 5:39 pm · Filed under uncategorized
There is a small war going on over me at Facebook.
Apparently, as of this moment, I’m worth $1,581, which is quite flattering.
Battle, commence! Somebody bring me some ice to munch on! This is amusing!
Hee hee.
January 18, 2008 at 10:56 pm · Filed under uncategorized
I stole this idea from a friend of mine who blogs on Myspace. I thought it would be difficult, but it was quite surprisingly easy.
1 - List 21 things that you want to say to people
2 - Don’t say who they are.
3 - Please do not assume that anything is about you.
4 - If you are not 100% convinced… it’s probably not you.
1. I forgive you. For it all. Every last moment.
2. I wish she’d never married you.
3. It’s going to be okay.
4. You’re absolutely beautiful. Don’t let them tell you otherwise. Stop hiding your face from me.
5. I wish you’d open the doors to your cage. You have so much to offer, if you’d only come out of there. Stop hiding behind your fear.
6. I love you. I’ve never said it, but I think you know, that I love who you are, even if I disagree with some choices you have made, and I think you’re crazy.
7. Your version of reality is in juxtaposition with the real deal. Pull your head out of your ass.
8. I wish you the best, but I’m glad you’re out of my life, as it is better for us both.
9. I’m glad you’re out of my life, and I find it really hard to wish you well. I hope karma deals with you.
10. You are nice and shiny, but you are too superficial for him. Don’t get comfortable.
11. You are so brilliant and so beautiful it hurts my head to look at you. You’re young and you struggle with yourself, but I know, you’re going to rise like a phoenix from the ash of what the world demands of you and instead be something exquisite. And I love you for it.
12. I wish we had met during different times in our lives. Who knows what might have happened.
13. I wish you didn’t live so far away. You and I still have so much in common. I’d give a lot to see you over a meal for a chat like the old days, but I know it will never happen.
14. You have so little self-esteem, but you have every reason in the world to have tons. I love you, because you’re beautiful in a quiet way, like the ocean at night; in the same way, you are so powerful. You just don’t know it yet.
15. Stop letting your anger rule your life. Yes, the world sucks, and yes, people are idiots. But that doesn’t make them less valuable. All you’re doing is stressing yourself out. You’re here to enjoy the ride.
16. Thank you. You’ll never understand what you have done for me. I’m in your debt, and I’ll probably never have a chance to properly repay you.
17. Someday, I’m hope I get to fire someone like you, for behavior like yours. And it’s going to remind me of you. And I’d be a liar if I denied that a little part of me is going to enjoy it.
18. I adore you, but you creep me out just a little. Stop it.
19. I’m sorry I ruined your version of my life. I just disagree with pretty much everything it was going to be. That doesn’t make me a failure, no matter what you say.
20. You have mental health problems, and you need therapy. And that’s okay. I’ll always be here for you, and I’ll always love you.
21. You, sir, could use a swift kick in the ass. Why? Because your behavior makes you seem half your age. No one in your position has any reason to act so childish. You have the emotional maturity of an apple.
January 16, 2008 at 8:23 pm · Filed under uncategorized
There’s a funny quote somewhere, I think it’s been attributed to Einstein or something, about how doing the same thing multiple times and getting different results each time is a cause of insanity.
That is what my job is on occasion.
We got new computers for one of our departments. I made a master hard drive containing most of the stuff each staff member would be needing to do their jobs, and used an awesome piece of software to clone the drive a bunch of times (it’s called Acronis True Image, in case you ever need some, and it does a lot more than drive cloning). Nearly instant new desktops for the staff. It’s been a breeze, really. Just some minor user-related config to do after the drive has been cloned and then the physical installation of it at their desks… and then dealing with the aftermath when they realize they’ve lost their desktop arrangement. Sheesh. But I digress.
One of the new desktoppers emails me today to tell me that two of her pieces of software that are supposed to play nicely with each other and allow interaction are in fact, not.
I hop back to that department. All five of the other new machines I have already put into use have had no such problem, not even once.
????!!!?!?!?!?!??!!
Can you say WTF?!?
After doing all the things I could think of to troubleshoot, I ended up doing a full uninstall/reinstall of one of the programs, and then the bastards worked just fine.
It makes me feel a little nuts, to be honest.
