Archive for the 'Geekdom' Category

Courtesy of Paul and Storm

I discovered these guys through my newest musical crush Jonathan Coulton (that second link is where he serenades my current author crush Wil Wheaton who’s books are excellent but his annuated audiobooks are AWESOME).
This was posted on their website this morning.
Happy Monday

Birthday moments

Yesterday was my 43rd birthday. I celebrated by kidnapping best friend from her family, dragging us out to Galena to meet with my favorite daughter and son-in-law. It’s a day that’s best written about by it’s defining moments, so here goes:
Best moment with my best friend: aside from discussing the hotty, straight off the boat [...]

Wiiiiiii!!

I spent the majority of my Christmas cash on the way home today. I LOVE spending other people’s money .  I’m fortunate to be in a job where I help a lot of people and around the holidays, they occasionally reward me. This year I got 3 different gift cards that I could use [...]

Making progress

It’s been a really long week. I’m off the sleeping drug that was causing the depression, but the result of that is about 3 -4 hours of sleep a night. I was going to try and stick it out and let my body adjust for longer, but being this exhausted is affecting every aspect of [...]

Getting my confidence back, little by little.

The project at work is mostly done.  I spent the last 7 days straight manipulating an enormous amount of data and got through it, so far, with only 2 small, fixable, mostly harmless mistakes. Literally, there were 350,000 cells on each of multiple worksheets, and in the end, I only screwed up 2 things. That [...]

The ultimate in people watching

What do a group of 25-30 year olds do when the power that runs everything that their job is dependent on goes out?  It’s kind of interesting to watch. I’m one of the elders on a team of “kids”.
 At my day job we are dependent on technology. Computers and phones, instant messanger, and e-mail.  Very little work [...]

Welcome Back (again)

I’m back, I hope for good.
There are always bumps moving to a new host.  I think I have most of it worked out. 
Hang with me. I’m getting to be a pro at installing wordpress but every time I do I have to reimport everything and recustomize my template.
This site is a lot bigger than a blog, [...]

Under Construction again

I’m moving hosts and doing a few things (that I have no clue how to do ) .
Hang tight while I clean up the mess..