yawn part VII

too damn early on a saturday, but when you get up at 6:15 every morning, then 7:30 is about as good as it gets on the weekend. Did my consultant's duty in firing of the latest weeks report and the whole timesheet thing. I am hoping to get a spot of spodding in today :-)

warning, all hands to pants

ok, so that subject line makes no sense at all. It's just a weird day. Got mucho sleep last night. Didn't wake up once, which makes me a happy camper. It's pay day, and we're all taken care of. Good drive in - KDOT seems to be messing with peoples minds as to which lane they close on 435 at Midland. Today it was the right lane. I have yet to see ANY roadwork going on, but we live in hope. Yesterday was a bad one - too much bad juju arrived, not enough good news. Having said that, I think today will be ok. I'm on top of most things, and the big problems should be sorted out by 1500 today. Yay. This weekend should be reasonably quiet. Have a couple of familial appearances to make, and I'm sure we'll be painting or something as well. My Evil Plan (tm) is coming together to get computing sorted at Casa De Saundo. Heh. Heh. Heh.

damn, I don't recall eating that...

with the amount of stuff I have been asked to pull out of my arse at the last minute, I don't remember eating any of it. Oh well, the less PCBs, SDRAM and 550MHz CPU's the better I guess. My head hurts. I came out of back to back meetings this morning where the Bad Stuff came out. Big, Bad, Evil, Evil Stuff came out. And lo, the little Dark Cloud Of Doom settled on the project, and the timelines just don't seem to ever move. Bah. It's been a day of "not enoughs". Ok, I have had enough of HP being stupid, but that's the only excess I have - not enough time, not enough info, not enough people, not enough brainpower. But I had lasagna, which is good. And it's Thursday, which means tomorrow is ok.

gah

morning. too early. It's 0750 and I'm in the office. Good nights sleep last night. I was just so tired last night that I dropped off at 9pm, and didn't resurface until 3am, when nature called. Good drive into work, though Big GMC Truck Man obviously doesn't drive 435 enough, cuz that roadwork has been there for 2 weeks, along with it's 55 mph speed restriction. Not too bad a day outside, a little grey, a little cold and there's the promise of rain today, and for the rest of the week. Oh well. Things move along apace. We're finally caught up on bills (cellphones, paying for weekenders, redecorating), so the last couple of things we really need are a PC for me, a couch downstairs, and some extra payments on the Focus. Yay us. The day begins. My Nifty Little Whiteboard (tm) is full of things I need to do, so off I go.

arugh

Little sleep again. Bugger. In other news, it's rainy outside. Rain == cheap car wash. The idiots were out in force at Midland Road again - KDOT closed the left lane for road works, but I saw 2 minivans zoom up and cut in front of the same semi. In heavy rain. At 65mph. If I was the semi, I wouldn't have slammed on my brakes. 2 new belly tanks. Apart from that, the drive in was fine. I like it when it rains, it's very soothing.

ick

kill vendor, die die die scum. And now, I go home. The rest of the server engineering crew have been at an all hands meeting this afternoon, that we contractorscum don't get to attend. Which is weird, because they keep preaching the "OneVBC" message, and I work for VBC, just a different bit. Weirdness abounds, and I don't care cuz I'm out of here.

then again..

the more things change, the more they stay the same. There's a strong core group of people who I work with, across the company, who are just good solid people, all on the same page, all of the same mind. It almost balances out the stupidity... almost. In other news, I see I'm not the only one having One Of Those Days. Cheer up. It could be worse, you could be a small piece of cheese which has ended up under the fridge. Smelly, hot and rotting. Ok, that didn't work at all. Did I mention I hate our web developers?

ya know...

is it just me, or is today "stupid people day". The vendor has just told me I need to find 16GB more disk, add that volume to the serviceguard config, oh, and by the way, here's another NFS mount that you have to serviceguard. The web developers I had to talk to on the conference call about a certain application were >< close to me driving over to their building and slapping the fuck out of them for BEING STUPID. Just because we use IP to get to it doesn't mean that the application needs to be on the INTERNET, you CLUELESS FUCKS. Don't you ever question what Engineering or Security tells you again, or else I will personally wire you to the line-power that Catalysts can provide and give you voltage across the space where your balls used to be, rather than through the vacuum that is OBVIOUSLY IN YOUR EMPTY HEADS. Not happy. Not happy at all.

i'm a simple man

I don't like complexity. I really don't like vendors who seem to want to make things harder than they need to be. And just think, if I stuck around in .au, I could be a mid-level engineering manager by now. Whee! Not a bad night - Chinese for dinner, caught up on some of my technical reading and generally putted around. Decent night's sleep - crappy documentaries on Egypt seem to have a soporific effect on my lovely bride. good drive into work, except for the morons who a) cannot read the 55mph speed limit sign, b) cannot read "left lane ends 1/2 mile" sign. I can only presume it's because their heads are shoved so far up their arses. In other news, it's 9am. Ew. That means I've been up for almost 3 hours, and there are 8 work hours to go, plus 1 hour of travel. Ick.

quick note

doo de doo - and along we go. Project managers should die. Horribly. With lots of pointy things jabbing into them. Mt Dew is good. Very good. It's pay week. Yay. I need a Unix box at home. the Orb kicks ass as a 40 minute mix. Conference calls are my most productive times.

yawn part VI

too damn tired, and I didn't do much at all on the weekend. my lovely bride was a little worried about her test this morning, so she tossed and turned all night. Which meant I tossed and turned all night. Watched "Gone in 60 seconds". Pretty good movie, if entirely predictable. Watched the Oscars. Boo Gladiator, yay Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. And Joan Rivers needs to be shot for saying 'enema' on national TV. Not much on the agenda for today. Need to review all the servers we bought, and I really REALLY need to start playing with Unix at home again. I am beginning to forget the joys of X. Help. (pointers to cheap sparc-5's gratefully accepted)

doh

Saturday, the day of rest, and I'm wide awake at 6:30. Argh. Doing the whole "catch-up-on-office-email" thing, as I'm consulting out with another firm, and I've already done a whole days work by the time I get home. I should just get that other network port activated. Hmmmm. Cold day out today - I darn near froze my nuts off getting the paper, despite the sunshine. Don't know what's on the agenda for today - probably decorating. And away I go!

Ah Friday...

Yes, it's Friday! yay Friday! Another night of bad sleep - my lovely bride is ill, and it means she's tossing and turning and has the tv on to try and sleep, which does not bode well for me. Made it out of the house a little late - I was waiting for the fog/mist to burn off a little before i left, but even so, it was evil. Visibility for the first 15 miles of my trip was like 100 feet - I do not like merging onto interstates when I can't see squat. Apart from that, the drive was nice except for the psychotic Kansas drivers who seem to think that doing 80+mph when you can't see that far ahead to stop if there's some kind of problem. That and the weird traffic light incident. I pulled up to 95th St stopped traffic, the first 3 cars go through, then the light goes yellow. So I slow down to stop and the lights go green again! Weird. Anyhoo, status report time, so I zoom. Yes, I have Van Halen stuck in my head - it's just how the CD turns out - some 40 minutes into the CD and I'm at work :-)

mmmmm

caesar salad. Crunchy big croutons. Coke. Getting your way in meetings. Depositing big checks. Nice day outside. Cold coke. Van Halen.

suckage

the lovelace scale is getting a bit of a workout around here now, thanks to our delightful software vendor. In other news, gads I'm tired. I was out of the house for 15 hours yesterday, and I feel it this morning. My back is also beginning to bother me a little. I think it's from the laptop bag I have to carry, but it's also probably the Escort, being 6'4" and a soft bed to sleep in. I like a firm mattress. The B&B we stayed in in St Louis had a great mattress. Anyhoo, there are meetings-a-foot, so I go now.

doo doo doo doo doo doo (scooby mix)

another day of fun and frivolity. Capacity Planning and I seem to be of one mind with the project I'm working on - it sucks, and we have no real data to assert or not assert the suckiness. Dropped off the planet at 9:30 or so last night, but another night of interrupted sleep. Up at 4:45am, dozed until 6, good drive in. Off to a meeting now where I will beat my head against another wall. Dinner with the in-laws tonight, which should be ok. I get to brave 35, 635 and 29 in rush hour - yay me.

zoom

out of here - got to get to the store and find something to eat and then get on home. Reports to write, web to surf, girl to spend time with.

in other news to hand...

HA-NFS inside MC/ServiceGuard hurts my brain, especially when the vendor persists in not giving me the information I need in a readily digestible form. It's interesting to note how email becomes a corporate memory and a method of documenting things when you don't expect it to. It seems that only those who have worked inside an organisation that runs on email in order to facilitate decision making truly understand why keeping email is so important. I think it's a really good habit to have - disk is cheap, your ass is not, so keep your email! Elsewhere today, my left contact is bugging me. This is normally a sign I'm dehydrated ro that I have been staring at a screen too long. I hate 17" monitors - 21" has spoiled me. It's one of those things that contact lens wearers (especially hard lens) find out right quick - if you can see the entire screen by staring, your contacts will hurt because you don't have to move your eyes and thus keep the tears moving. Ow. Ow ow ow. Coke. bbq chips. Net. Completed documentation. All is ok right now.

awooga!

beware, I'm running on small amounts of sleep. After a minor crisis last night, I experienced fractured sleep due to tossing and turning of both parties. At work by 7:30, which is bad, because it means that I work long hours. But good because it means I have good traffic on the way in. Pretty good drive in - only cop I saw was on Renner, sitting at the 4 way intersection there watching people zoom on by. I saw him way early (black and whites are easy to see), so no problem. Ok, time for morning mt dew and to finish the emails. La dee da.

update for today

You know, it's the little things in life. Getting all green lights down the road you're driving, finding the store you have to go return on the first try, laughing with the store clerk, the price of gas going down just before you get to the gas station, Mt Dew. I have no more meetings on the schedule, I have minor documentation to do that is coming together, a happy car, and a quart of Mt Dew.

yawn part V

It's too damn early. That's about all I have to say. I fell asleep at around 9 last night, was woken up at 1, fell asleep at 1:10, woke up at 6. Fractured sleep does odd things to me. So I got up at 6 and was out of the house by 6:45. Drive in was pretty darn good for a monday morning. Little traffic, only bad part was evil sonoma driver on 152 who decided that going 50mph was the right thing to do... on a single lane highway. Boo hiss. St Louis was a blast, even though we stayed away from the mad crowds celebrating St Pat's Day. The Van Gogh exhibit was pretty damn cool, and i got to see more water lillies :-) No Budweiser brewery for us - that's being saved for the next trip during the summer. Anyhoo, the day looks ok so far - need to chase up some documentation, need to go to a few meetings, head out for lunch and then gas up to head home. All in all, not too shabby.

alive, and returned

Excellent weekend in St Louis, marred only by a headache last night. Much fun was had, much good food and good art imbibed, and now I'm pooped so off to bed with me. I have to work tomorrow, you know.

strange fruit

off to st louis this weekend. Therefore I am at work early, so I can get all the little ducks in a row and then leave them for others to knock down. Need to complete 3 sets of documentation, update my storage allocations, attend 3 meetings and then, just for kicks, miss the staff meeting. I'm not that broken up about the last one - talk about a pointless waste of time. Anyhoo, must zoom. Have a good weekend all.

gads

it's almost 2pm! meetings meetings meetings. too many meetings, not enough people at these meetings. We need more more more more MORE PEOPLE! MORE MEETINGS FOR EVERYONE! $!@$#@!#$!@!!!! *ahem* I'm better. In other news, my left foot is asleep. More news as it develops. And yes, 'Hot for teacher' is stuck in my head. Actually, that's not quite true, it's vying with 'Addicted to Love' at the moment. It makes for an interesting mix, I can tell you. Maybe I can get the left hemisphere to have one and the right to have the other. No wait, I might have my head implode if that happened.

doo be doo be do *klonk*

Another day, another couple of dollars. It's wednesday, if you didn't know it already. I have my watch on, after being without it since Sunday. It was being held hostage in the beside dresser after The Great Painting on Sunday, and was freed after a long battle with the box that was holding the drawer shut yesterday. Yesterday was a bit of a long day. Work, visit with a family friend in hospital, dinner with the in-laws, long drive home, fall into bed, sleep. At least there was no crappy remake of 'Monkey' on TV last night. Today will be long and arduous. I just checked my calendar, and there are 6 meetings in it, with a grand total of 2 hours during the day when I'm not in a meeting. Bugger. Toodle-oo.

yawn part IV

too early. Way too early. I wasn't ready to get up at all this morning. Grind grind grind.

YAWN

Oh god, time to go home. I'm knackered. I need to touch up walls, check my email and then BED.

still tired..

yeah yeah yeah - I know - no sleep, still tired. It hasn't been too bad this morning, though I started to get a little distracted during the meeting I was just in. Then again, I could have just been bored stupid thanks to the moron who ran it. It looks like a nice day outside, but I know it's windy and cold out there, so I'll gladly stay inside here. Of course, if the Sexchange server would come back up, that would help. Oh well.

TIRED

I'm tired and I ache. Mind out of the gutter, perverts. So, around midday yesterday, my lovely bride says "let's paint the bedroom so I can finish decorating". 9 hours later, I have a bruised knee, I am SORE all over, there is paint in my hair and I couldn't sleep because of the fumes and the heat in the house. APART from that, the bedroom looks good. My beautiful bride will be doing the fourth wall today, when she arises. Did I mention she's on Spring Break? She mentions it to me a lot. Anyhoo, I'm going to try and hobble through the day without screaming in pain too often. Toodle pip.

doo doo doo

time to get back on usenet. Am working on it right now. Survived the gem and mineral show yesterday, a visit to the parents-in-law, and a very tired beautiful bride. Today is icky, nasty, rainy and windy and cold outside, so I think we'll be in all day.

ah yes

solving big problems is always fun. Good last meeting for the day fixing a whole bunch of performance, backup and functionality problems by picking the right tool for the right task. Yay team! Off home in 40 minutes or so - I need an early night of uninterrupted sleep and I'll be feeling better. Right now, only Mt Dew is keeping me conscious.

ah yes

solving big problems is always fun. Good last meeting for the day fixing a whole bunch of performance, backup and functionality problems by picking the right tool for the right task. Yay team!

Off home in 40 minutes or so - I need an early night of uninterrupted sleep and I'll be feeling better. Right now, only Mt Dew is keeping me conscious.

friday!

Yay Friday! Looks like it's not going to be too bad. The ducks are lining up ready to be in a row to be knocked over, the calendar isn't too full of crap meetings, and it's FRIDAY! The only 2 ways this could be better is if it was a pay day and I was writing this at 1645 on my way out the door. I'm tired today. My beautiful bride is keeping me awake during the night again, which I *really* don't mind, but it does make me a little odd during the day. Sleep deprivation has this evil way of messing with your higher thinking, but I'm used to it. More caffeine I say!

chinese coma

Made it home, via China Express. Nearly had arm holding crab rangoon taken off by my beautiful bride, who had not eaten for the whole day in expectation of chinese take out. Now I am full of crab rangoon, mt dew and sesame chicken. my back is killing me for some reason - bad posture is inevitable at 6'4" and $TOO_MANY lbs. Cramming myself into an escort is also not conducive - there are times when I appear likely to exit via the moon roof. OTOH, beats walking to work. Rusty resigned from linuxcare today. Interesting that. Off to bed, having completed the requisite check of the old email account. I can't do my timesheet cuz I forgot there is scheduled maintenance going on on our servers at The Place. Duh me. Guten nacht.

chinese!

it's chinese night tonight - survivor and crab rangoon. There's something deeply satisfying about stuffing yourself full of food as idiots on TV starve in the name of the almighty dollar. An hour or so and I'm picking it up on the way home, plonking myself in front of the TV and laughing myself senseless.

thursday. Thursday? THURSDAY?!

Good god, where did the week go? It's Thursday everyone. Everyone put your pens down, it's THURSDAY! It feels like Tuesday. Actually, it feels more like a Monday, but that's just the "it's-early-on-a-workday" feeling that I seem to have endlessly. My beautiful bride has the joy of sleeping in until 10 or so, which meant she was up late last night. Which meant I was up late last night, but that's no problem. I'm an admin - sleep deprivation is an old and trusted friend. In other news, dinner last night went pretty well. My father-in-law is a good guy to talk to, and once I'd been banished from the table to the garage with him, the night motored along nicely. Back to the daily grind - my troublesome project has been a little quiet today, which is... troublesome.

Once again, good night.

The time has come to turn the computers off, take the contact lenses out and fall asleep in the arms of my beautiful bride. There are few things in life sweeter than cuddling with that one person who understands you more than anyone else - ANYONE ELSE - in the world. Removing yourself from the virtual world to the real world is a really good thing to do. I recommend it.

home time

short and sweet - off to tackle rush hour and then out to dinner. Is there a sweeter time than this, not counting friday hometime?

doo dee doo

made it through the day almost. It was hell wednesday. 6 Meetings today, 5 down 1 to go. 1 "ohmigod we need it now" documentation project, and no lunch. And then to top it all off, dinner at the parents-in-law tonight. This won't be bad, as I'll get my oil changed, but I really wanted to get home and veg. I'm a good son-in-law, aren't I? Ok, last meeting is 8 minutes away, so I zoom now.

yawn part III

you know that hangover you get in the morning after a long day and a good solid night's sleep? I have that right now, and I hate it. It's bringing back all the bad memories of being on-call, paged out, working like a maniac for 12-18 hours straight, struggling home after leaving a voicemail for the boss saying "i'm not going to be in until late", sleeping, and then waking up feeling like you're dead. Yes, it feels like that. Last night went ok - it was interesting to hear the direction of the company and how excited the execs are. I just need to find the right project to be a star in. Go me. Made it home at around 10, and dropped right off the planet for 8 hours. My compadre was asleep but her eyes were open when I got home, and i think she slept ok. Having a schedule that is 3 days of 9am starts and 2 days of 11am starts is not good. It's tough to keep up your motivation. Anyhoo, time to wade through the email before the meetings start. Toodle pip.

gads I'm tired...

It's been a really long day that kicked off at 0620 and is continuing way past my normal bedtime. It's not over yet. After another thoroughly boring day at the coalface, I get to go have dinner with people I don't know and listen to the rah-rah for the Company. Whee. Then drive home another 45 minutes. Wah. That sucks. It really does. I understand why it is being done, but it still sucks. Oh well. Oh, and to top it off - I have 6 meetings tomorrow, one of which is 4 hours long in the middle of the day. THAT sucks.

meeting 2 down

you know, I never considered how much time is just lost in meetings. Though the one I just went to was valuable. I have attained my insight for the day. In other news, lunch has now Officially Finished. Pizza and Mt Dew, food of the gods. Back to the documentation, oh my!

even bigger yawn

god, does time drag when you're tired. it's only 10:22 and it feels like 4pm already. Ick. Mt Dew only keeps away so much.

tired. Oh how I'm tired

got about 4 hours sleep last night. First, I got home at 6, went and got dinner (the pizza mentioned last night), and then futzed around reading mail and updating my timesheers. Watched a really interesting couple of documentaries on the History Channel about battleships and war trains. Then my compadre decided she needed to insert some images into her paper. Uh-oh. the 160kb file turned into a 12M file. Ow. So I, in the absence of a network to just print the damn thing out, or even better, store on a samba share and work on anywhere there is a network, got to use winzip and that early 80's technology of floppy disk to move that puppy over to her desktop. Whee. In the meantime, i sent pictures to my folks and updated bits of her PC and did laundry. Lots of laundry. 4 machine loads for the two of us. Ok, so the last one wasn't all that full. Got to bed at 11:30 or so, and then my poor compadre tossed and turned all night. I slept ok, but my back aches a lot today. Got out of the house at 7:20 or so, at work by 8:06, so that's not too bad. It's going to be a long day though. There's a kick off meeting for the consulting company I work for from 5:30 til 8:30 tonight, which then means I won't be home until 10 or so. Ick.

mmmm pizza

Mmmmm. Pizza from the little pizza place just up the road. Just up the road with the MASSIVE pothole in the middle of the driveway, and the scary guy who sits, smokes, washes kitchen towels and generally is freaky. Ew. In other news, the drive home was REALLY good. I hit a purple patch on the interstate - the on-ramp of doom didn't attempt to kill me this time, rather I got on in a huge patch of no traffic. Rule. So my compadre and I had dinner, and now she's writing a formal analysis on a statue and watching trashy MSNBC "Busted in the Big Easy" on teevee. I, on the other hand, will be updating this and then turning my laptop off. Laundry calls, you see, and when you have no shirts to wear it's a call that must be heeded. Toodle pip.

tra la la

so it goes. Not a bad day - got a lot of things straightened out, went to all the meetings I had to, was generally happy with the day. Now it is time to go home and see whether my compadre got over her writer's block. Hopefully news will be in my nights activities, as I feel the severe lack of USENET in my system. Ah, hometime. Is there any time sweeter, other than a Friday quitting time?

yawn part II

and away we go - phone conference number 3. You know, all this sitting around doing nothing makes me sleepy. Hence the can of Dr Pepper sitting next to my keyboard, within easy reach for refreshment and a wet nose should I fall asleep. Meanwhile, I listen to cheezy hold music, wonder what the scrawls on my whiteboard were supposed to mean, and kill time until I can get out of here. Life is... good. yeah, that's it.

meanwhile, on the other side of town....

survived meeting 2. Conference calls rule because I can sit and web surf without appearing to be inattentive. I, of course, am inattentive, but noone knows that. Plus, if I feel so inclined, I can actually do some work. Yay me. In other news, my back hurts. Oh how it hurts. I have an ongoing problem with my L1 and L2 lumbars, and after we flipped the mattress, it's firmer on my side which means my back is being pulled out of alignment. Ow.

1 down...

at least 4 to go. First meeting of the day down. Yay me. In other news, I have Mt Dew. The vending machines in the galley get an awful lot of $$ out of me, I should just buy more at home. Though we did pick up 24 24oz bottles yesterday before the Great Shelf Installation. All I wanted to do was nap, but alas, no. Actually, what I wanted to do was catch up on news and email and netsurf a while, but no. sigh. Oh well, back to the conference calls.

yawn

bits and pieces on a monday morning. spent way too long yesterday with my father-in-law doing house-stuff. Putting up shelves, assembling the living room fan, chipping ice off the driveway. He's a great guy and I like him a lot, but sometimes too much is too much. The drive in today was very good, despite the Choteau Bridge being closed due to stupidity by truck drivers loading up 435. I left the house at 0705, and was at work by 0747, which is pretty damn good. Now if only the network would respond like that. Too many meetings today, too many things to keep track of, too many important people out or late or whatever. And then on top of all that, NT 4.0 doesn't do infrared, which means I need to either shell out for a cradle or 3rd party software to sync it. Booo Microsoft. Slowly getting into a groove, and hopefully the bank balance will stabilise a little after this month. This is really the last weird month - had to pay for our PCS phones as well as a bunch of other stuff that is once off kind of things. Linux box, here we come. Oh, and if you're wondering why I always have "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" by the Propellorheads in my head? It's because I love to play it as I blast down 113th St towards the parking lot at work. Pathetic? Yeah. Amusing? Pretty.

yawn

Early. Too early. Have been woken up too often during the night by my compadre. When she eats certain foods, she gets sick. When she's sick, she's up and down all night, and tossing and turning. This means that I'm up and down all night and tossing and turning. Yuck. But that's ok. Love is a perfect panacea for lack of sleep. I get to go see one of my niece's basketball games today. That will be fun - little kids playing basketball is always amusing.

zoom.

Off home now for the weekend. Timesheets are done, and now I get ready for the silliness that will be next week. Hardware, storage and documentation, oh my! Haben sie einen gut weekend.

mountain dew, mmmmm

so, "duh" moment for the day. I go get my shiny new tecra, and promptly leave the PSU in the office. DUH. So now I get to go on back to the office and pick it up. A side trip or two as well, probably, and I wish I didn't bring lunch today so I could go eat. Oh Well. And it's pay day too! My power to stun and amaze my fellow workers by asking dumb questions hasn't waned. I asked "why are we doing when we are already tracking it in the database?" and the project manager almost fell off his chair in delight. I'm reminded of Charles Babbage's quote on his adding machine and parliament being able to produce the right answer from the wrong numbers. Parliament is still fucked in the head. Caffeine can beat sleeplessness only for so long. The PropellorHeads should do the next Bond theme. I am not me, you are not they, we are not us. Yip. Yip. Yip.

At work again. Since I am contractor scum, I don't get to go work on my personal development objectives off site. Wah. On the upside, my trusty (if ignored) Tecra needs to be refreshed with a nice new Tecra 8100. Whee. This weekend while the girlie is studying, I think I'll be playing with eRAS so I can actually, you know, get my email and stuff? In other news, drive into work today was pretty good. Averaged 72mph for pretty much the whole 39 miles from home to here. This is not normally the case, as there are far too many people who don't know that the speed limit is 70 on the interstate, rather than 62mph. Anyhoo. Didn't sleep much last night. My compadre was having an attack of insomnia, which pretty much means I have insomnia too. But I'm an admin in an engineers body, so I can deal with it.

almost time to leave...

Very long day. Too long for my liking. Still, the conslutting company makes a lot of $$ from me. The drive home tonight will probably suck, but then I have tunes to drive to. Having a CD burner rules, especially as my MP3 collection can be returned to CDDA at a click of a button. yay. In other news, my back hurts. I should get up and move around more. I'm sure there's a lesson here for young players, I just don't know what it is. Toodle whom.

blaugh

It's been a long day so far. Ever notice how work builds up like a dam that's about to burst? You go along with a little trickle at the cute little village at the foot of the dam (that's you), and then the dam bursts and you're up to your nipples in water (which is work). Force 10 all over again. In other news, I made it to work alive no thanks to the freezing rain or shitty weather lately. The drive in today wasn't too bad, though the insane person on Renner that was doing like 20mph in a 45 zone needs to be killed. Grotesquely. In a box.