Me:Ok what do you want me to make your password?
A User Named Brandy:HMMMM I cant think of anything.
Me:I like using meat for passwords how about "hotdog42", is a hotdog considered meat...I think so.
A User Named Brandy:No I wont be able to remember that.
Me:How about your husbands name?
A User Named Brandy:No Ill never be able to remember that either.
Me:um how about your birthday...I need day month and year to make it long enough,
A User Named Brandy:Nah...I wont be able to remember that either.
Me: err...um...
A User Named Brandy:Make it "brandy9" I can remember that.
Me(under my breath):I would hope so...

Well, I moved all the essentials into my new cube yesterday. Its so sweet, I got a corner. Not 1 but 2 windows. Hopefully it will help me maintain a better outlook on work. I havent actually got to work there yet as Ive been in another building all week. But when I do, Ill be looking out the windows. THe only slightly depressing thing is I had a bird feeder in a tree at work and when I went to move it yesterday I realized the tree was cut down and my birdfeeder gone.

Oh well, you cant win 'em all.

:^)

Brrrrr...A little chilly in my neck of the woods this morning, 55 on my way to work.

I thought it was July?

In other news I dont recommend eating a bunch of Ramen noodle mixed with broccoli/cheese soup and then following it up in 12 hours with a bean dip and some meatballs.

Smelly.

And another thing why does bloggers spellchecker not contain the word "meatball"?

Thats silly.

Why do they have "Monk" commercials on "Monk", I dont usually watch that show but last night it was on right before I went to bed and like 50 % of the commercials on during it were for "Monk"...It really doesnt make much advertising sense. Obviously I know about "Monk" if Im watching it.

"Dear Fox,

I could do without the "Monk" blitz, thank you.

-R"

Man what a weak rant huh? I should have talked about my neighbors kiddie pool again.

Well I went tubin on Friday. It was nice, Leisurely...Took about 4 hours. Then my wife left for the weekend and I video gamed my brains out for the next 36 hours. It was great but I think I might be bleeding from my eyes.

:^)

Wow...

All happiness in my post. A rarity.

I hate updating my blog in the afternoon, because then no one comments.

Prove me wrong. I dare you.

And in other news I lost my lighter. Its a black bic. If you see it please return it to me.

Robert Schultz
07/18/2005 04:50 PM
To: Tony cc:
Subject: Re: Dress to Impress Day

Just what it says "Dress to impress GAY"

The straits like to fight the general decline of western civilization by wearing business suits and fancy old time dresses on the second wed after lent, immaculate conception day, arbor day, boxer revolution day, the summer and winter solstices and the spring and fall equinoxes.

Just ignore it. Unless you want to dress like the amish on the day in question.

-R



Tony 07/18/2005 04:44 PM
To: Robert cc:
Subject: Dress to Impress Day

What is the meaning of this?

Tony
----- Forwarded by Tony on 07/18/2005 04:42 PM -----
Kate
07/18/2005 11:40 AM

To: All
cc:
Subject: Dress to Impress Day

As a reminder, Wednesday, July 20th is "Dress to Impress" day for those who would like to participate. Dress to Impress Day will occur the third Wednesday of every month.

You know, I shouldnt get so upset over the things here at work. I need to start thinking of things differently. Normally I get all bent out of shape by the company's inability to manage itself and I get way too frustrated with not being able to save the world and fix everybody's problems. Or the unthinking backlash I get hit by working here.

So from now on Im going to start having a new outlook. Instead of thinking of all the people who use computers here as customers. Im going to start veiwing them as a renewable resource, one that I harvest to pay my bills. I might not be able to fix all their problems. But I can get paid. And that should be satisfying enough. Maybe someday things will get ironed out and run smoothly around here. But Im not going to hope for that anymore(because its unlikely). Honestly those people are not my customers, they are my coworkers at a corporation that has screwed everything up for all of us. And if they cant unbderstand that thats why I cant fix their problems then screw them. Thats what they get for working here, disorganization and inefficiency.

Just like them Im doing the best job I can working for an unorganised, overly thrifty organization(a bad combination for sure).

And also I want to say that anyone who stumbles in here and reads my posts shouldnt take them too seriously...I dont really want all the rich people to burn in Hell. I am not a communist. And I generally like all the people I work with (management included) its just that they are trapped in the same mind bending corporation as I am. I need to try and remember that.

Man, Im torn about to what to post about.

On the one(good)hand, I bough my wife a Bird feeder and put it up on its little pole and stuck it in the yard on Friday (On another side of the house than my neighbors kiddy pool which is still collecting water/mosquito larvae.) and over the weekend we had a few birds at it (confirmed spottings of 3 birds).

Then as we descend into less goodness I could talk about my mother in laws back surgery and her call to our house yesterday asking for us to send the 13 year old(and primary babysitter for the littler kids) to her house for 2 weeks to be her manservant(I prefer the term slave). Thusly depriving me of my babysitter and causing numerous scheduling problems between my and my spouses calendars.

To continue into things that are NOT GOOD and pissing me off. I have 39 hours of PTO(let alone 29 hours of vacation) remaining and management tells me today I cant use any of it to take half the day off because a bunch of big wigs are in town visiting from an assortment of eastern offices. Well guess what? I dont give a fucking shit. I dont really see what a bunch of the stockholder's puppets being here has to do with me not being able to leave. Let alone the fact that my PTO time is supposed to be just that. Personal Time Off. Im not even supposed to have to schedule it. But its fine. Dont let me take half the day when I come ask for it (And I could understand if there were production issues about me leaving, if there was stuff I absolutely had to do, or responsibilities of mine to handle. But theres not.).

I told them too. "Thats fine, I just wont be productive". Stick that in your fucking pipe and smoke it. Goddamned Bourgeois, burn in Hell. Next time I'll call in sick. Bastards.

MMMM, I guess Ill just post about all of it.

Hooray! Today is the absolute last day of my boss's vacation. Generally while he is away I have more things to worry. I dont like worrying. So Im glad he comes back on Monday.

Also today is payday! Woot!

Grrr. My wife worked at 6 or 5 or some such obscene hour this morning.

Well she reset the alarm clock for 8 AM. I work at 8 AM. Good thing my alarm clock is 10 minutes fast. Because I was freaking out to get to work on time at 7:50.

I run up the stairs to get up our one kid who still has summer school and whos bus arrives approximately at 7:50....

"Johnny, wake up, we are running very late!" I yelled as I ran into his room.

Wait...

Hes not here.

That little schmuck just left without waking me up!

Grrrrr. My family is gonna get it tonight when I get home.

Clayton(a friend of mine) pointed me to this justcurio.us place yesterday and I have to admit I love it! Basically it allows you to anonymously ask a question or anonymously answer questions.

Check my question.

Leave an answer.

Cool.

Lets see I had one of these.

And one of these.

And one of these.

And one of these

And one of these

And one of these

And one of these

And one of these

Thats not to mention all the -86 stuff Ive owned....Wow...I get around...Oh and not in that order.

Well Chad was right. No smooth sailing for me. I came down with a nasty cold on Friday. Still came in to work. Still have the cold. Still came into work.

Sniffle Sniffle.

I would have called in but our support staff is like mega short with people out on scheduled vacations so if Im not here the end users would be screwed.

Sniffle.

I work the 7-4 shift today. This makes me happy.
I have training for 4 hours today for something that has nothing to do with me or my job. This makes me unhappy.

Well at least I didnt get bombed on my way to work...and not in a good way.

Im thinking my luck is turning around. Im thinking things are going to start going my way again. I can feel a change coming and I think its for the better.

Just a few more hurdles to go.

Tonight I work late, cleaning up and putting away a ton of computer crapola.

The mother in law goes in for surgery on the 12th.

After that it should be stress free, smooth sailing.

:^)

think good thoughts...think good thoughts...think good thoughts...

Well...I had a really crappy weekend.

I could go into details-36 people at my house, that horrible parade, ashes in my eye.

But why bother?

Well big weekend coming up. I need to find more contraband (fireworks etc.) for it. The mother in law will be here all weekend so I expect it to be pretty hellish...Mostly. The old lady goes in for back surgery this month so this is kinda her last hullabalu before that all goes down. I hope to skip the parade and just goto the fireworks on Monday.

I hope you all have a great weekend.

On the plus side I took 1/2 of today off so Im gone at 1! YAY ME!