Wait, wait…
I have to get up every weekday, again?
And work all day, each day?
No more days off for a while?
WAAAAAAAHHHH!
(This post brought to you by the new year and the end of my sporadic but oh-so-enjoyable vacation time… Yes, I spoiled myself absolutely rotten. We should all do that from time to time.)
I’ll grant you that I’m not exactly the most well-versed person on the topics of religion, symbology, the occult or any of that mystic mumbo-jumbo. Even so, I’m pretty sure that what Dawn and I saw this afternoon is just plain sick and wrong on at least one level.
On the back window of a little old station wagon I spotted a sticker much like some I’ve seen before, just your average simple line-drawing pentagram.
In pink.
And then I noticed that the upper two points of the star were instead curves… which turned part of the star into a heart shape.
So, can someone enlighten me? Is this just plain absurd fluffy-bunny nonsense, or is that odd bit of symbology supposed to mean something? I’m completely bewildered, I don’t mind telling you. Who thinks up this stuff, huh?
I couldn’t resist not posting yesterday or most of today so I could enjoy the fact that the “posting frequency” indicator (down the left-side column a ways) read zeros for Week, Month and Year.
Yes, that’s the kind of geek I am. If I was the truly dedicated sort of geek, and by “dedicated” I mean “not lazy,” I’d have ensured that that the Month and Year indicators read 100%. But… I’m too lazy for that.
Hey, I couldn’t do this last year. The old version of the website code didn’t have the posting frequency indicator…
2004 was a better year than 2003, in most respects. That doesn’t mean I’m not happy to see it go, though.
I hope that ‘05 sees all of you happier, healthier, and successful in achieving your personal goals.
Did you know that the NCP utilities for Linux are capable of mounting Netware 5 server volumes via IP as well as IPX? Up until this morning, I didn’t. I’ve been jumping through hoops for years, setting things up so that my Linux machines can see the fileserver. As of now, I have a lot fewer hoops to jump through.
For what it’s worth, the trick is to use the “-A xx.xx.xx.xx” option (or the “ipserver=xx.xx.xx.xx” in /etc/fstab if you’re doing it like I am). That tells the ncp code to use UDP instead of IPX. You still have to supply the server name, though.
Nifty. Damned nifty. Removing complexity is a good thing.
So the boss took his department out to lunch today. Well, three quarters of his department. Lunch was good. Tried a place I hadn’t been before. Had lots of ribs on the company dime.
Cut to five hours later, and I’m getting ready to leave work. Backpack, check. Jacket, check. Wait, where the hell’s my liner?
Oh, crap. I must’ve left it at the restaurant.
Called the place. Got transferred a couple of times, only to (eventually) find out that nobody’s seen my fleece liner. Great. But they took my name and number and if the day shift happens to know where it went, they’ll call me. Hopefully.
Otherwise, someone made off with a well-worn, well-loved two-year-old Columbia Sportswear fleece liner. And my trip home from work was quite a bit colder for the loss of it.
Argh. I’d say “I can’t believe I did that,” but the problem is that I can. I’d literally forget my head if it wasn’t attached. Again I say, argh.
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