diary of a crumpler

when your client asks for a Kleenex, they are not asking for a branded tissue.

they’re telling you they need to blow their nose.

i wish i brought a book to reg today.  it is time to learn something new. 

i’m hungry for growth and my brain has felt incredibly stagnant over the last few days.  must be all the booze. 

i can’t wait to get home and be productive.

i’ve got a PC (or three) that i want to finish building. 

1) AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 4200+ (2.2×2).  I’ve purchased a couple gigs of RAM and a 200GB hard drive for this machine.   It will probably end up with at  least three partitions and dual booting 2K and XP.

2) AMD Athlon XP 1800+.  Found this guy while I was cleaning out the closet.  Hmmmm.  Media player?  Don’t know yet.  I should have a couple of gigs of RAM laying around, but I’ll need a new hard drive.

3)Dell PowerEdge 1400 Server Dual Pentium III @ 900MHz each, 2GB ECC RAM, 3x 74GB 10K RPM SCSI drives…  Maybe I’ll run 2K and SQL offa this guy…

i need a better KVM as the cheesy one i have is only for 2 pcs instead of 4 or more…

anyway, the point to all this?

1.  i want to be able to pull all my media (songs, videos, pics, etc) off my laptop and siobhan’s.  Stored in a central location that gets backed up.

 2.  to really LEARN MSSQL.  i get a lot of it.  i do.  but i’m going to start developing in it.

3.  i want to run an mp3 jukebox throughout my house 

i want to go home. 

universal studios tonight. 

downtown tomorrow.

close and pack up thursday afternoon/evening.

fly home friday morning.

i hate orlando.

wednesday

event: dinner @ Tu Tu Tango

alcohol consumption: moderate

repercussion(s): none

thursday

event: dinner @ Front Row Fridays

alcohol consumption: moderately high

repercussion(s): $60 tab

friday

event: dinner @ Don Pablo’s

alcohol consumption: moderate

repercussion(s): $25 tab

event: drinking in room w/ Swistikat, the Aristocrat

alcohol consumption: light

repercussion(s): none

saturday

event: staff dinner @ vito’s

alcohol consumption: extremely heavy

repercussion(s): talked shit about co-worker(s) to co-worker(s), totally blacked out in room, did not set alarm, awoke late, approximately 1 1/2 hour late to work.  still hungover.

i am not going out tonight

reasons i stayed home from work today:

reasons i didn’t stay home from work: (wait, fuck.  no.  that isn’t what i wanted.  that implies that i did not stay home from work today.  but i did.  how about negative factors not taken into consideration RE: my absence from work today.  gads, that’s only marginally better.)

1.  no ability to spend the day mobile or even relocating, hourly for a place more fit.  inability to run errands outside of the small town of remington.  my car is at the dealership in frederickburg being fixxered.  the girl, took her car to work. 

2.  lack of sufficient stash of tasty vittles.  we were very hesitant to buy groceries last week and this weekend.  and by hesitant i mean, everytime we thought about going to a grocery store we ended up in a bar.  like, three times in the last six days.  i leave town on wednesday, she leaves town on thursday, each gone for a week or more.  this translates to an unwillingness to spend beer money on groceries that would only spoil before either of our returns home.  looks like i’m eating canned tuna and microwave popcorn for lunch.

 3. lack of quality programming on television.  daytime tv is the absolute worst, and while there are college basketball games on, there are not any i would like to see.  court tv, trashy talk shows, anna nicole, and the like will not suck me in.  and no.  rachel ray is not good television.

here are the actual reason i actually stayed home from actual work today, actually.

Actually! 

1. to prevent the bic lighter that was accidentally left in pants pocket from incinerating in the dryer, thus burning down the house and ruining all for everyone.  someonein my household occasionally forgets to check pants pocket to ensure that she/he has removed any and all igniting materials prior to beginning the wash/dry cycle.  i’m not going to name and names here…

2. to blog about the frustration of finding the “automobile of your dreams” only to learn it is only available in automatic transmission (a topic assigned to me by Siobhan, as I already own the bestest car evar!)  It has become increasingly apparent that american people are lazy slobs.  i was befuddled recently with conversing with co-workers regarding the inability to drive the standard transmission.  our domestic car makers are rewarding this by significantly reducing the production numbers of standard transmissions.  the true shock and horror occurred recently when we discovered a popular american sports car we both were fond of is not being made with a manual option.  we’d planned on replacing her car with that one, in a couple years.  back to the dealerships… 

3. to solve the Zodiac killings (possible movie spoiler below).  after watching the movie yesterday i felt conflicted – while i liked the movie a great deal, it’s as much fiction as fact.  well, maybe that’s not accurate, but arthur leigh allen didn’t do it.

the movie was based on the book of the same title, written by Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal’s character).  Graysmith’s book is widely criticized for exaggerating, jumping to conclusions and at times just flat out lying.  Again, I liked the movie.  I think it was well done, but it’s one obsessed man’s fight for closure, regardless of accuracy then filtered through Hollywood.  I came up with a better title, after researching some of the Zodiac websites.

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