Here I was, wondering what under the goddesses’ bright blue heavens I was going to write about today, when my son came to the rescue by sending me the following link in an email. So, enjoy, won’t you?
(Thanks, Spud!)
Month: June 2005
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Never a dull moment.
Have you ever noticed that no matter how far you’ve come, how well things may be going, there’s always something that has to complicate things, or make them unpleasant? I admit I’m understating the issue somewhat… usually there are several somethings competing for the chance to bring you down, throw a wrench into the works, or what-have-you. Apparently, life is just a series of crises; usually the interval between them is either brief or nonexistent.
The absolute worst part is when you realize that there’s probably nothing at all you can do that’ll actually make things genuinely better.
But, what the hell. Life is all about keeping at it even when things look dire, right? At least, it’s gotten me this far…
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Saturday: The good, the bad, and the smelly.
Good: Dawn arrived in town! Yay!
Bad: Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade interfering with transit downtown to meet Dawn.
Good: Breadsticks dipped in alfredo sauce at Pizza Schmizza.
Bad: Lousy service at same.
Smelly: Urine-soaked bus interior on the way out to Molly’s for birthday BBQ.
Bad: Forgetting about lack of allergy meds until arrival.
Good: Molly’s cooking.
Also Good: Hanging out with cool people at the BBQ.
Bad: Having unsolicited amateur chiropractic work done, resulting in hours of back pain.
Good: Howl’s Moving Castle.
Also Good: Dinner at Kells afterward.
And now, even more Good: Going to bed at the end of a long and interesting day…
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Birthdays galore…
Psssst. Don’t make a big fuss about it, but today is somebody’s birthday…
No, wait, I take that back. Go right ahead and make a fuss about it. Heh. (Love you, dear heart!)
And tomorrow? Tomorrow is not only another day, but another birthday…
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Creepy and wrong!
(Found via ‘collision detection’): Now, you wouldn’t think that an American Marketing Association survey page would be the place to find truly disturbing visuals, but… well, just go see for yourself.
No, really. Disturbing. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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An example of why today sucked.
At 5:20 I was just about to grab my bag and go, but was stopped by one of the production guys across the hall complaining of trouble with their GP computer. As I was asking him for details, the guy in the production room next door also complained about the machine in his room… with the same symptoms.
Oh, joy.
At first it looked like a server problem, only those two computers were the only ones experiencing problems. (One of the machines was causing a problem on the server, but once I figured that out I was able to remedy it fairly quickly… albeit not without some frustration.) Full comprehension of the problem came when I realized that those two specific machines are identical vintage-and-model IBM desktop computers, the only two of their kind in the building. Coincidence? I think not!
Now, here’s how this is all my fault in the first place. I rebuilt my software update server a while back, and since the new version of Microsoft’s product allowed me to add “device drivers” to the list of things I could offer, I went ahead and told it to grab available drivers and install them for machines that have the Intel graphics chipsets.
I’ll bet you can already guess which are the only two computers in the building that have Intel 865G video hardware, huh?
Repairing the damage involved hooking up my handy-dandy USB “swiss-army-drive” (loaded with Intel’s motherboard and networking drivers) to both computers, reinstalling both drivers on both machines, and rebooting copiously. Oh, and I told my updater server to never again fiddle with device drivers…
Now I just need to wait for the 7:08pm bus so I can go home at last. Whee!