Okay...phew. Hours later, I have done it. Most (yeah, only most, sue me, I'm tired) of my new personal section is done. When it is done, there will be poetry, writings, art, etc. plus info about me and such there. Some's already up. Need to filter through my bad art and bad ramblings to find ones to go up still but eh, that's another night.
Yes it's sorta a holiday (good friday I think if you're christian) and while many offices are either closed or closing early, mine is not one of those. *sighs* What's the point of all these holiday's if I can't milk a day (or even a half-day!) out of 'em? lol One of these days I'm going to demand Pagan holiday's off. Just think, I could have had a day off last week for the Equinox. Aren't employee's requests for days off based on religious holiday protected? Doesn't your boss have to grant you at least a portion of them? Hrm. Something to look into. Not that I'm ritualistic in my faith, but dammit, I deserve a day off once in awhile too, right?
Just peeking in at my referal stats and I saw one for this: http://pega_rant.blogspot.com/ The blog is called ShadowRunes and is run by Pegasong. It's a really nifty design (with a wicked cool looking succubus). Anyway, she said some nice things about my site and added me to her links. I always try to do the same, so look for it as my newest link. :) Thanks for the nice things you said. I look forward to reading your blogger in greater detail.
Ok, lunch is already over and it's still been a busy and hectic day today (having decided to completely reprogram the way the phone calls are answered since no one could figure out the concept of "Park" in lieu of "Hold." That took up a significant portion of the morning, not to mention needing about a thousand things from Office Depot that somehow became my day to do the shopping). I'm just looking forward to a nice weekend. Ah...weekend. How I love thee, let me count the ways....
Hu? Oh, nevermind. Everyone already knows how great they are. But you know then how limited they are too - especially when you've got both days booked already and can only seriously daydream about going to bed at 10pm on Friday. (no really, I'm damn tired. Sleeping sounds like more fun then anything right about now) Tomorrow we're heading off to the Renn Faire again. (mmm...Renn Faire....) so that means getting up early, lots of walking, and being in the hot sun all day. Not exactly restful. (fun, yes. Restful no.) And of course, Sunday is Easter Sunday and that means running across 60-odd miles to get to one family for a 10am breakfast and then in the complete opposite direction to get to the other fora 2pm lunch. Arg. Bad damn thing about holiday's - there's no time to rest.
I've been tinkering with some ideas for having a full-fledged personal section of the domain for my poetry, art, and etc. to go along with my journal. Been wanting to make it its own little subdomain sorta for months now. Got a little bit done last night - some colors and some images - but that still needs a lot to finish flushing out the layout. Additionally, Chris and I are working on The New Project and since I'm doing all the design/art for it, I need to get on that as well. Haven't quite visualized a layout yet, but got some ideas I want to play around with. Give us a couple weeks to get it all finished and you'll hear about it here. *grin* My personal section on the other hand, should be done this weekend. (it's small - not at all like a full domain worth of work!) More news as I have it.
Ok, well I've managed to babble on quite a bit more then was intended, so I'm off. More if I've got time tonight, otherwise, expect a second recap sometime tomorrow eve. :)
Arg. So it's one of those days today. Boss is out of town (yesterday and today) and of course, rather then a nice, easy couple days, it's been psycho hell. Yesterday one of the installers van's broke down on the side of a bridge. So it was all how do we get it towed/how do we pay for it/theres no money in petty cash/boss is out of town/do we have a place to get it fixed/this sucks kinda thing. We sorta kinda figured it all out.
Then today, the van's still at the place we towed it and they're all like yeah, fuel pump's bad/it's like $750 for part and labor/there's no other option kinda thing. And of course, then it's calling my boss' cell to relay the info to calling the place back to get the deatails to calling the local dealership to compare the pricing to calling the place back to arrange the authorization and figuring out how we can pay $750 when we didn't even have the money for the tow
Ok, so if that's not enough, it's now Hey, another installer's on a customer site and shatteres their sliding glass door and um, who can we call to get it done, call the boss to get a contact who tells you to call the yellow pages and price match and call around and get the info on the door to get the quotes and then call the boss back to get the ok and to arrange the payment and then when the glass company calls for directions for how to get there have to run around to get the files - TWICE - because the glass guy doesn't know where it is or how to call them or what their address is or anything but I've never been there so how do I know where it is and would you just please call them directly and get directions please??
Then, it's hey we're really busy today so let's get lunch ordered in which is like ok, so who wants what and call in the order and then it's like talk SLOWER, you're giving the order too fast but we're not, we're wasting time and the phones are being transfered to our T-1 today so we've only got the one little 4-line single phone that's got all the calls ringing and there's another call coming in and then we can't answer it 'cause the lady's got us on hold and we're like HURRY UP and then finally we're off but now it's screaming across the whole building to tell someone there's a call and have them run to one of the only two working phones (up front and at my desk) and taking messages and trying to explain to people as quickly as possible how you need to get them off the phone 'cause the phones are being upgraded now and it's not like normal and we can't be on all these lines at once like normal so please just let me get your name and number and we'll get back with you, but they don't understand that so they keep talking and keep calling back asking if they can talk to the person yet but NO you can't 'cause when you can, they'll call you like I told you the first two times.
And the T-1's not even cut over yet. That's at 2pm. For now, it's just the system upgrade to allow the T-1 and sheesh, it's been crazy and hectic I have so much yet to do. (let's not even get into the how do I do a mail merge again in word this morning, which I did amongst all this chaos.)
ARG.
So, now I'm desperatly trying to scarf my food, not have my head explode from this headache and still keep things running around here. WHAT A DAY! (and you're telling me tomorrow's NOT saturday? Ugh. I need a vaaction!)
I've been informed there's a correction to the post below. ;)
memory dream 22 (10:32:48 PM): {provides link to journal entry} a teaser zer0 n0de (10:33:22 PM): ahahah I love it! zer0 n0de (10:33:39 PM): just one correction memory dream 22 (10:33:42 PM): hrm? zer0 n0de (10:33:42 PM): I didn't start it. zer0 n0de (10:33:47 PM): *WE* started it :-)
Ok, Chris. It's a joint project. One he came up with and one that I'm happy to have been involved in since the domain name discussion. :) More coming soon.
So, Chris has a new project he's started. Actually, it's a new project that he's started and asked if I'd join him on helping. Me? Help with a new domain? Rock on. So...anyway, I've just gotten my very first peek of where the behind-the-scenes scripting is going. Very cool. Now I just gotta get my ass in gear with some graphics and we'll be rocking.
Think no-holds-barred commentary on life, the state of the union, people, companies, etc. Smartass, sarcastic, and honest. There's your tease. More will come soon. :)
Have a good night all, I've got some work to do and then off to bed with me.
What? You think I can go a whole day without a quiz? lol (Actually, I took it last night but there was some problem logging into blogger and I couldn't post it then)
Lunch time. I need to find some food for comsuption - mm....food - but I can't think of what I want. Hrm. Also, I'm feeling really lazy about it all. Got to bed about midnight or so last night. Went over to see my friend Joolo's new apt yesterday (finally, he's been in there a couple weeks already) and promptly got tackled by my goddaughter. She's over his place for the week because she's on Spring Break from school. (she's 5 1/2) As soon as I walked in the door she came running up to me, hugging me, and asking me to play with her. She's so cute. We spent the next 2 hours playing hide-and-seek, coloring, and just being silly. Fun was had by all, but sheesh, I can't keep up with her! lol
But, by the time we left, we had been there far more hours then we had intended. It was about 11pm by the time we got home. (we left with the intention of stopping by, getting some dinner and heading home. so much for that. Or dinner). Luckily enough, we had just bought some cereal the other night and even had fresh milk in the fridge. So we chowed down on Fruity Pebbles.
Mmmmm...sugary goodness.
It's been so long since I've had them. They are still as absolutly yummy as they were when I was a kid. Why don't I eat kids cereal more often again? Damn, I mean I'm finally at an age where I can pick the one I want not to mention dig to the bottom to get the toy right away, and I never get any. This has got to change. I also bought some Corn Pops but I haven't opened those yet. Mmmm....I see more cereal in my future. This stuff rocks.
Anyway, off to get some food. Cam's on today. I've got stuff to do in and away from my desk so if I'm not there, well, I'm not at my desk. lol
Ok, so it's 11:10pm, I'm freaking tired and I have to go take my shower before bed still. *cries* All I want is to go to sleep. And sleep. And sleep. Preferably something in the 10-12 hour range would be nice, but at this point, best I can hope for is about seven. /me whimpers
These 12+ hour days away from my house for work (between drive there and back and long days every day) are killing me. I'm getting so burnt out. My health is taking a dive from it and that only makes things worse. Finally made my 6-month follow up with my hematologist at 13 months after treatment. *sighs* Hopefully, it's not my iron levels getting low again - I really don't want to redo all those injections let alone the long-term effects on needing iron injections to survive the rest of my life. :( I'm hoping it's just stress. Harder to fix, but less likely to kill me like the anemia tried to do all those years.
So, I'm off to the shower then straight into bed to sleep. I'm so worn and tired and just beat on the inside I feel like I'll never feel good, healthy, strong, or even normal again. I hate moments like these...
Ok, really. I'm not kidding this time. (so I just added a couple new things to the journal like my personal rant on my faith and my old, but more detailed bio that I've been meaning to add for like, um a year...)
I'm going to bed! (damn internet...you think you're free but then it sucks you right back in!)
I just remembered the pretty sunset pic I took the other day. (it was from the balcony of my apt believe it or not)
I liked it so much I made it my desktop. I thought others might like to do the same, so I've put it in a zip file. Problem is that it's 1.7 megs in size zipped. Ugh. It's set up for a 1024x768 resolution. (sorry, but that's what I use, and considering the pic's orginally twice that size, I already had to shrink it significantly). It's in bitmap format for those who don't use active desktops. Anyway, just thought I'd throw it out there since I thought it was pretty.
Got back from the Lightning vs. Bruins game a little while ago, completely deaf and mostly pissed. Oh sure, the game itself was good - the Bolts put up a tough fight but still losing in a 4-3 OT final to Boston (yeah) - but the people behind us were so fucking obnoxious I wanted to kill them slowly with my bare hands. They literally screamed everything to each other, across about six seats directly behind us. Then they started in on bullshit about how bad the Bruins suck (oh yeah, so bad, they're in first place) and crap like that. Not just normal yelling or cheering that you expect to find, but cursing, drunken frat-boy mentality, and screaming for the sake of being loud. They fucking sucked and ruined it for everyone in a 10 row radius. Arg. I don't get to see many live hockey games a year, so when I do, I like to make sure a good time is had...I like to soak it in and hold on to it since it's infrequent. Those shits just about made me have a terrible night and that's just plain wrong. They were pissing off everyone. Gods do I hate people.
Anyway, that's about it for now. It's after midnight already so time for me to wander off to bed. It's already monday tomorrow (the sheer overwhelming dread that threatens to choke me as I write that is probably a very unhealthy thing) so I need to get some sleep. So, a quiz to close off the night and I'm going to bed.
You are Spaceman Spiff! Zounds! You are the intrepid Spaceman Spiff, the engaging explorer ensconsed in an unending universe of exotic and evil extraterrestrials! You're brave, but you should give that dictionary a rest. Take the What Calvin are You? Quiz by contessina_2000@yahoo.com!
Yeah! Finally got all my Renissance Festival pictures up! :) They look cool. Warning, the images are still rather large in size (despite my best attempts at compressing them) because to compress them anymore would be to lose the detail. Even these are paltry compared to the 2048x1536 orginals! lol (see why I love my friend Rand's cam and why I want the same one?)
The last page has a shot of the black wings I bought plus one with me wearing them. :) They're so cool, I need to get some better shots of them at a later date.
Enjoy! :)
{ps: If anyone is in need of larger uncompressed images for promotional materials for the fair, for the fair website, etc. please contact me at webmaster (at) drinkdeeplyanddream.com I also have additional ones I did not post.}
