I ate a muffin yesterday and must have been allergic to something in it, it was a cranberry-apple muffin, and once I ate it my eyes immediately got that "fuzzy" feeling and my throat and mouth swelled up. Nothing life threatening but definitely uncomfortable.

Lets see in other news...

Everyones good friend Asa is in town on leave from the navy and Im going to hang out with him this evening.

oh and

My wife told me last night, "There is no way you are playing that goddamned video game all night with your head all stuck in your goddamn computer", well then I didnt play all night and the whole time she is sitting there like this:

"Do you want to play your game? Im sorry, I shouldnt tell you are not allowed to do something, its really not fare of me"

And me saying,

"no honey, its perfectly alright, if you dont want me to do something or you feel you need more of my time I respect that."

And her saying,

"Im sorry, Go play your game, its ok."

Well, Im no fool, I waited until she was sleeping to play. Heh.

Why are women so complicated? Maybe its just my wife is wishy washy.

And

I am bringing some left over taco shells to the mailroom potluck. I had a bunch of leftover shells that I grabbed when we had the IT taco potluck so I figured they would be of good use over there instead of sitting on my giant mess of a desk.(Maybe Ill clean it today)

I cant stay and eat them tho. I have to go see a man about a horse.

Oh and one last thing:

I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH PVCS!!! STOP! I MEAN IT! STOP! STOP SENDING ME PAPERWORK FOR RIGHTS IN IT!!!!! That crap has to goto the other office! and I am not routing your paperwork for you! :^P

And now...

I blogged too much and there is this long boring post that nobody will read...Its all Skeletors fault everyone.

Well Blogger removed that annoying anti robot thing off my posting page.

Thank you blogger.

Let us pray

Dear Lord, we pray that you will aid robert in repairing his server which is currently down and beeping when we provide it with power.

Dear Lord, We pray that the 40 gb's of ISO's and the 20 gb's of mp3's will be recoverable and through your divinity all data loss will be preventable.

In Lord Jesus's name we pray.

Amen.

Smoother sailing so far today.

I am going to have a good day.

fuel cost calculator Tells you how much gas will cost you for your trip. Pretty useful. But totally unrelated to anything im talking about.

and once again if the people from blogger actually come to check, I AM NOT A ROBOT!

I am having a bad day.

First, I get woke up at 5:30 because my wife has the alarm set for then, I elbowed her and said, "5:30, WHY 5:30, WHY, WHY, WHY" And she reset it and we went back to sleep.

Well she set the alarm for 8 AM, I need to be up at 7 to take the kids to school (yes even in the summer), well good thing I got up at 7:30 without the alarm clock so I had time to swear and growl about it.

Then I get to work, and we arent staffed at 7 AM today, so Im the first one here....

mmmm 18 voicemails, 18 people with problems that need fixed ASAP. Wonderful.

Then people start paging me overhead, by 8:15 it was 5 times...15 minutes, 5 overhead pages, that makes 23 people. The ones paging me obviously wont wait.

Ugh.

And now! To top everything off...Blogger thinks im a robot and I have to do word verification to post things?!

Ugh!

Just because my corporation treats me like a robot doesnt mean blogger needs to too.

Hey if you see this person on instant messenger, do me a favor and call them an idiot.

[15:11] sports10294: hi
[15:11] sports10294: Who Is This
[15:12] canopenno: I give up who is it?
[15:12] sports10294: who is this??
[15:12] canopenno: I dont know, thats what I just said, who is this?
[15:12] sports10294: WHO R U?
[15:13] canopenno: who am I? some guy, midwest american...Why am I on your contact list if you dont know who I am? You are the one who added me genius.
[15:13] sports10294: idc im blokin u
[15:13] canopenno: ok bye!

Weekend Local Weather Forecast for Brainerd, MN (56401) - weather.com

Weekend Local Weather Forecast for Brainerd, MN (56401) - weather.com

Looks like mostly not rain for the camping weekend me and the guys from work have planned, hope all goes well.

Well, everything is set for my camping trip with the guys from work come friday.

I need to go play some DDO Now.

Stupid ISP went down last night, was down from 10 PM until 7 AM this morning.

That sucks.

Im going to play the DDO I should have played last night now.

Suffering from DDODD (dungeons and dragons online deficit disorder)

Done Camping. For now.



Deet

This is it.

This is the last day before I have 6 days off.

Im aquiver with anticipation.

Google video of a bird that can sound like anything, including a chainsaw

Yeah, Im sure that just accidentally evolved that way...


Oh btw, ONLY ONE MORE DAY OF WORK LEFT AFTER TODAY! Did I mention my 6 days off?

I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...I just have to make it until friday...

6 days off...

Sometimes I want to commit suicide.

Good thing I dont have the balls.

I took a survey about the IT dept (I am a part of) at my corporation, they wanted honesty, so thats what they got.

Q: When you have been assigned to a role on a project/helpdesk item, do you understand the process you are responsible for in that role?

A: Since Ive been working at -corporations name- I have not been "trained" on any piece of software or hardware going into production. What I always get is "Youre smart, figure it out". And that does not please me. There is a constant influx of applications and processes that I have never heard of. My first exposure to these apps is when the users start having problems with them. Wouldnt it be wise to control the enviroment and train IT staff on upcoming business applications and their support?

Q: How can -company name- I.T. best communicate / educate the business user on new application enhancements that are being developed and deployed?

A:It would be nice if -company name- IT communicated/trained -company name- IT on things being developed and deployed, start with that and then look to the user enviroment.


Q: If you could change one thing about -company name- I.T., what would it be and why?

A: It would be that it wasnt run on the most bare boned, stripped down staff in the industry. I am currently wearing no less and probably more than 11 "IT hats" and it gets frustrating when there are constantly undone projects, users suffering with problems and an overall cacophony of chaos that can never be addressed given current staffing. Beyond that, try training a new associate whos been hired to replace exiting IT staff to do 11 jobs. Let me tell you it doesnt go well and takes months if not years, this is not the way things are supposed to be run, at least I sure hope its not.


Q: What is your biggest frustration/challenge with I.T.?

A: making production management wait for fixes, they all insist that their problems are the most important, yet we do not have staff to address them all in a timely manner, seems IT management doesnt take this seriously and Im told by my direct management "Just do what you can 8-5 thats all we ask.", Well I ask for more job satisfaction, I ask to be able to do a good job for everyone, I asked to not be rushed through everything because there are dozens of people waiting for support, I feel IT is -company name-'s redheaded stepchild and is treated accordingly by the corporation.

Q: What suggestions do you have to improve the service from the I.T. group?

A: quit making cuts and start adding staff?

Oh wait that costs money. I guess its never going happen. Well short of that, You could try to curb the overwhelming feeling of helplessness and insufficiency felt by the boy who has his finger in the dike.

I havent called my cousin back yet. I suck.

In my defense my inlaws are at my house now. As we speak they are probably costing me money.

Gotta go, busy day, working late.

I still need to call my cousin back, God, Im horrible at that.

In other news one of my kids hosed the family room computer up with spyware, surfing porn. That little Jerk. This is the 3rd time, and I will punish him severely.

How should I punish him?

Im thinking beating.

Too much work! I have to build about 5 XP boxes users, Create a disaster recovery image for workstations, get a new printer set up, fix all kinds of lotus notes issues and generally field anything else that comes my way.

Ugh, how did I get into this computer support mess?

Also I still have to call my cousin back.

Had a busy weekend. I havent seen so many flies in awhile, helped some friends clean up an old house they have so they can rent it out-

Dead things. A few of them. :^P Blech

My cousin called while I was not home...I have to call her back tonight.

Didnt get a chance to go swimming, it was 5 PM by the time we were ready to go and not that warm anymore.

I fell asleep at like 10 PM last night, it was such an exhausting weekend.

Sometimes, when life gets me down. And it feels like Im patiently waiting for death, I like to see how bad things could really be.

Like two-headed Boy of Bengal bad.

Check out this guys blog. I read it for hours yesterday.

the human marvels

Me: Honey, snooze button.
Wife: Do you have gas out there?
Me: Snooze button.
Wife: Honey, I need to know if you have gas out at the pump.
Me: Maybe in your little dream world I do. We are in bed and its 6:45 in the morning. Can you hit the snooze button please? I promise I dont have any gas on the pump.
Wife: Sigh