musings from the sleep deprived

Relief from the long hours and stresses of work appears to be on the way, both in terms of manpower and hours. Read more

Well, work came through. After several months of forms and approvals and waiting for order fulfillment, I finally got my new powerbook. Read more

This was something I was intending to post in my long term wish list, but my wife beat me to it, bless her heart. Read more

Its pretty much setup now. Lights are on, sump is running and doing its thing, and so we’re just waiting for the water to ‘age’ properly and stabilize with the right chemical makeup and salinity. Read more

So occasionally, I find myself embroiled in some whacked out, attitude driven political discussion at work. This is usually the result of an email thread someone, somewhere sends that ignotes the fires underneath me, forcing me to respond. Read more

Remind me not to install anything that has a release date of ‘Today’ ever. Again. Read more

Once again, I’m redesigning the desktop graphics/samurize stuff to fit my new configuration. Read more

So one of the reasons I’ve been so lax in posting is that my schedule switched over and I’ve not adjusted well.
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So, with a tiny little bit of financial windfall love coming from ye olde employer, I treated myself to a new monitor.
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So I’ve been in this job now for nearly 7 months. Almost 8 now, in fact. I think i’m now fairly accustomed to the rigors of the job, what it entails, and where my ‘talents’, such as they are, come into the most use.
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After nearly 3 months of effort, I finally got my epic mount in World of Warcraft. Not sure if any of the images are small enough to throw inline, so I’ll just link to the Gallery album. Phew.

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I can’t possibly not share this. Read more

So the very first game the guy gets in for the season opener and he ends up getting a puck in the face. Injured list for 4-6 weeks. You know, I should buy the $30 face shield and send it to him myself. Crapola. I was hoping for some solid performance from this guy right out the gate. Ah well, I picked up Marc Chouinard for the interim. We’ll see if he can continue his opening game trend.

So with the ordering of digital cable, and the eventual addition of NHL Center Ice, we have to move the entertainment center out of the way so the guy can come in and “install” the digital cable box. Read more