You know what beauty is.

A McDonald's Breakfast borrito. True beaty, eggs, sausage, peppers...Oh and that yummy salsa in the packets.

Breakfast borrito I love you!

I gotta goto the bathroom now.

What a bad fricken day.

Ugh.

Dear friends, I know I complain about alot of crap here. But preventing lawsuits is the absolute worst thing in the world. It really sucks when an end user calls in a problem with a 48 hour lawsuit limit on it.

At the end of 48 hours we are in contract violation.

Oh and by the way we need this, this and this from IT in order to meet our contract obligation.

WTF!!!

Thanks for giving me 2 days to do the impossible! Ill get right on that!

This time it was,"yeah we need a PAS database created for a new group."

I replied, "wow, thats a tough one because the last person who knew PAS was cut about a month ago."

But between me and an NA at the sister site we got everything working within 24 hours of the ticket being put in.

There was other fire fighting going on too. All a pain. I hate firefighting.

And then I get home and the GF has taken the kids and gone out for the evening. Ditching me. I have to restrain myself to not call her nasty names. Grrrr GRRRR GRRRRR!!! I guess Ill be skipping Dinner. GRRRRR!

Robert Schultz
06/28/04 10:25 AM

To: Cheryl L
cc: Dan M
Subject: Re: Could you help?

I try not to to work on stuff in my spare time, However that doesn't usually work out for me because I have 3 machines waiting at home for me to fix them.

Sounds like what you need is adapter to hook up your laptop's hard drive to a "normal" computer.

I just happen to know of someone that is as shy as me when it comes to taking on outside of work problems. He also has the adapter required(which I dont have) to remove the data from your hard drive(I believe). It is my friend Dan M. Im copying him in on the reply. So he should be appraised of your situation. Additionally his extension is 55217. I believe him to be very affordable and more importantly reliable.

Ill ask him personally about it when I see him, however Im at NSC this week so It might be later today or tomorrow before I see him.

Does that work for you? Just get the goods back from best buy. I also think that is very "bunk" that they dont have the adapter required. AND If you want to the sony laptop to work again I would guess that would entail a very expensive part (Laptop parts are almost always very spendy). So you might just want him to retrieve the data you need off it and burn it to CD. Im sure he will be able to give you cost analysis on repair vs. new equipment.

Yours in service,
-Robert




To: Robert Schultz
cc:
Subject: Could you help?

Robert,
Ginny is over here working on my Microsoft issues so I asked if she knew anyone in IT that dabbles in computers on the side, she suggested you.

I have a SONY Vaio laptop that stopped powering up about 1 1/2 weeks. It's been over at Best Buy for about a week and they called us yesterday to say that they couldn't back up the hard drive because it wouldn't even power up.

Could you help or do you know anyone that may be able to help? My boyfriend has a lot of .dxf files for his business on there that he did not get a chance to back up before it fried.

Me: You need to send your weekly happenings so the VP can see what we have done.
TC: I didn't do anything important.
Me: Send them anyway.
TC: But I have nothing to say.
Me: You need to do it otherwise he will think you did nothing and you will get cut.
TC: I dont care, Im not doin it.
Me: No you need to. We need you!
TC: No you dont.
Me: yes we do, your an integral part of our team!
TC: Whatever, Ha ha
Me: I need everyone I can get.
TC: alright. Fine.

I love TC and all but geez!

Sorry I have nothing important to say today. (Much like TC)

I hate it when I'm gone from work and I come back to bad equipment on my desk.

This time it was:

A projector
A display phone

What will my next vacation bring? Besides being behind on what I need to do? The world may never know.

-Sigh-

Melissa's Surgery went fine. Her anus was positioned perfectly. They still had to take a tissue sample for biopsy though. In effect they had to turn her butt inside out to do that, and get a piece from the inside.

-shudder-

But I am glad nothing more severe than that had to go on. She is gonna be sore for a few days and we get the results from the biopsy on thurs. The doctor said he expected everything to come back normal though, so she is probably just chronically constipated.

It was all still very stressful on the GF and I though. Mostly because of the anesthetic, GF had known a girl when she was 13 who went under and came back all retarded. And then there's the people who never wake up all. Thank God none of that was the case with Melissa she came out fine. And was just a little crabby and sleepy yesterday because they had given her morphine. What's up with giving a 7 year old morphine? That's screwed up.

If anybody is looking for some heavy reading to do I recommend learning about the ring of gyges. I think it pertains pretty heavily to internet. Check it out:

Plato's Republic - Gyges' ring

Pupae! Go ants go!

Mystery package!

Give it a chance. I did and am so pleased. I have like 16 times this much too.

3.rar

Try it. You might like it!

Heh.

Nothing like a lunch of honey and cut up earthworm. If you're an ant anyway. I hope they like. I never fed them nightcrawlers before. They dont seem to upset about the chunks moving around in there though. They would swarm the crickets...They seem pretty laxidazical(SP?) about eating these.

Hrm.

Strangeresque

Strangeresque

I threw up this blog of pictures of people I dont know.

Enjoy.

My GF had bought me a welcome home balloon when I returned from my trip. The kids and I just attached a note with my email address asking to have the found location written to us.

I wonder if it will work?

I made the ants a fruit fly trap and put it outside. I had talked to Fleecy about it. I dont know if it worked for her. But you put a funnel in a coffee can with some banana. Fruit flys check in, but they dont check out.

I hope to replace the crickets as a food source with them because they dont kick as hard...

Also I put some honey in and the ants are pretty happy about it. Its much better than the rasberry jam toast.

I took this pic with $49.99 digital camera binoculars from my room while I was in philly.

Cool huh?

I just climbed out of bed. I couldn't sleep at all last night-Im too excited to get home to my house, my family, my town and most importantly my GF. Im supposed to wait for Dave(my boss) to call me so we can go sightseeing(we fly out at 2), but I think Im just going to call him myself in a few minutes. Heh.

DR went fine, My portion went especially well. 0 problems. Just goes to show that good planning and "hard" work pay off. Woo-hoo!
Heh. Well thats all for now. Stay turned to this channel for the pics to get posted.

Say a prayer I make it home safe. And that I dont stink to bad. I ran out of clean clothes today(I never said I was a good travel planner, the GF usually takes care of those things.)

So tomorrow is the big day. DR starts. I think my group will be ok, we only need to build 20 or so workstations.

Its amazing the amount of money the company is willing to spend on me.

Tonight for dinner I had lamb. YEAH! Lamb! let me tell you it was soooooo yummy, I was calling it the "lamb of God". YUM!

The room I have now is on floor 12, downtown Philly, with a balcony. It rules!

The more I hang out with our VP the more he makes me think that maybe not everyone in a position of power is a complete ass. Yesterday the guy was talking about the face of evil. I like that in a VP, to recognize evil. I'm so impressed. So either the guy did some serious homework on how to impress or he really is a decent, God fearing, do-gooder.

And that's cool.

There's too much evil in the world and not enough people even admit its exists. Let alone fight it. This guy seems to think that if you do what you think is right and maintain your integrity then things will be OK. I whole-heartedly agree.

Word to the VP!

Wish me luck tomorrow.

Im here. I got some pictures, but Im not posting them yet. You'll all have to wait until I get home. Since I dont have my cableses. They are too trixie.


So anyway, my boss and I were looking for a liquor store here in Philli, We found one. It was next door to a sushi place.

The liquor store was closed but it was only 9, so we were alittle confused, just then a guy came out of the sushi joint and we ask him, "is this liquor store closed?" He smiled and said (In broken english)

"Ya, they take care of you in there tho." and gestured towards the sushi joint.

We figured-what the hell! and went into the place.

DAVE:You have saki?
WAITRESS: We no serve alcohol. No.
DAVE:You have this brand of beer tho? (Gesturing towards the card on the table featuring some exotic brew)
WAITRESS:No, next time you bring your own. OK?

So yeah no buzz.

That sucks so Im going to bed.

I think I may have also got food poisoning from called "spider" that I split with Dave. Ick.

Well(there I go starting a post with well again) I leave on the big Disaster Recovery trip today. In about an hour and a half. :^(

I hate trusting my life to equipment. Hopefully no bolts have fallen off the plane recently, the pilot is sober, and my prayers to the almighty dont go unanswered. I dont want to die in a fiery planecrash. I want to go in my sleep. I suppose I could just try and take a nap on the plane.

Ugh.

I bought some nicotine gum for the flight. To help my stress. Ugh.

Ill try and post while Im away but I dunno if Ill be able to activate internet from the hotels.(Im hoping to but im not sure of pricing/availibility)

The plus side is Ill be photographing as much of everything as possible. So some of that should trickle down to here.

ugh.

Email from the receptionist-type admin in my building:

An Associate discovered 4 slices of pizza stashed in one of the cabinets above the sink in the UTC cafeteria. If it is yours, please remove them. If they are not removed within an hour, I will instruct Irene to trash them tonight. In the future, if you wish to store any type of food, it should be stored in the refrigerator and NOT in the cabinet. Thank you.

Thank goodness I store all my food in my desk drawers.

I like to collect hardened pastries and confectionaries.

I wonder who the pizza collector is...I should mention to them that they should move their hobby closer to home. That way the establishment cant stamp the life out of it.

I put a tomato in with the ants. The ant's colony is on the left hand side of the terrarium and they were pretty much leaving anything on the right hand side unmolested(IE. Crickets). And I was reading that tomatoes carry aphids and everybody knows how ants will "farm" aphids to eat their shit (Honeydew), so I figured I could plant a tomato on the left side in cricketville. Well after about a day the ants started patroling the tomato plant HEAVY. All crickets that come near the tomato must die. I watched them kill 4 last night (Leaving from what I could count 1). I think that means my tomato plant experiment was a success. The ants seem to like it enough to protect it and scour it constantly. They even excavated the roots (I read there were also aphids that infected the plant there).

If your wondering where I got the aphid infested tomato plant it was from Walmart, I picked through about 50 of them before I found one I was happy with(Walmart does really have everything). The other shoppers must have thought me crazy because I was discarding good looking plants and putting nasty ones in a pile.

In other ant news, Ive seen the queen about a half dozen times in the past week(She is HUGE) and I have multiple larva. And it stormed last night so I used about 2 squirt bottles full of water on the terrarium.

ANTS ARE SO FUN!

Cop-Out post as Tiff would say:


Mouth Full Of Shit

Chumbawamba - Mouthful Of Shit Lyrics

I can't hear you 'cos your mouth's full of shit
Do something about it
Well I'm really back to basics right beside a bar
Choke the double trouble big one to the joker with card
Good call
What's the crack what's the damage done today
From the commons to the common a banana skin away
Knock it back knock it out
Chuck a nightmare dart
Quiet
Compere on the mic turns turning to the court
Putting beef vol-au-vents across the union jack
Bolinger and bitter says the colonies are back
I can't hear you 'cos your mouth's full of shit
Do something about it
You think you're god's gift
You're liar
I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire
Up yer ronson
Take a tab
With a flash of zippo light
Catch the hip parade passing the polaroids right
Check the manic little rebel with a bottle in his hand
A rhyming manifesto and a butty from his mam
Local lad made bad with cowboy charm
Claims he doesn't really mean every screw-'em-all barb
Pass the mic
Karaoke with the yesteryear stars
Time to weep into your beer til the fireworks start
I can't hear you 'cos your mouth's full of shit
Do something about it
You think you're god's gift
You're liar
I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire

I begin way to many posts with well...I need to work on that.

I'm going to try and take it easy today...Maybe go buy a screen for the ant farm topper...That cardboard is starting to warp.

I also migh go fly some kites if the weather ever clears up.

Im thinking of making a website full of pictures ive taken of people I dont know. How's that sound?

eh?

Well Jenifer (The GF) and I are taking the smallest to Minneapolis/St. Paul to see a "Butt specialist". The doctors here think she has a misplaced anus, So the specialist will take a peak and a poke and let us know if it requires surgery.

The fun never ends.

Go download free chumbawamba while Im away

I have a meeting with my boss and some counterpart of mine from PA named Ross regarding disaster recovery today.

For those of you who didn't know I ship out to Sungard to rebuild the company in 3 days to prove it can be done under real and true disaster conditions. (OOOOO FUN!)

After the nuclear holocost me and the other nerds at sungard will rebuild the world.

I plan on having a nice fiefdom after its all said and done.

Im willing to take applications for serfs now(Use comment box).

Everyone loved the atari 2600 in its day. I know I did.

Ants and robots are continuing to be well. GF is continuing to be crabby. Kids are continuing to be bratty.

I am 1st line (Fones) until 12 or so when I have to go wire in the fones I built in the PBX yesterday. Also I forgot to pay rent yesterday.

I need to do that. In the meantime I think Ill play kaboom:

..::: Groovz :::.. Play | Kaboom!

Well I have to build like 20 fones today. I dont want to. The plus side is that the communications analyst is doing something in the PBX until noon so I cant do it this morning. Maybe if I play my cards right I can not do it until 2morrow.

I doubt it.

Other than that Im just sitting around on the slow side of the company (Corp and UTC buildings) being 2nd line (Fixing broken stuff people call in with) taking an occasional call for Ginny Hays while she is smoking.

Ants are well, Robots are well, everything is well...well!

Heh. Im going to go take some of the company provided speed for a buzz. Should make the day go faster.

:^P