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  • Sunday Morning Bits Of Random

    I woke up to a phone call from The Imperial Princess of Cute. (I was sleeping in, okay?) We may get together for lunch or something this afternoon. Yay! My assigned task is to phone up Lilith to see if she’s available to join us. Double yay!

    Suddenly appearing on the Top 30 list of search queries, it seems that a dozen people have found this site by searching on the phrase “we hate ryo ohki.” I hasten to point out that nobody affiliated with greyduck.net hates Ryo-ohki. Who could possibly have a black enough heart not to love such a cute, fuzzy, adorable battleship?

    The Lupin III series has its moments, but I don’t think I’m going to make a point of recording them anymore. Wow. 70’s-style anime. *shudder*

    On the flip side, I’m afraid that Wendi and I are now devoted InuYasha fans. (Great, Mari and I can have InuYasha v. Ranma 1/2 arguments. At least they’re both Rumiko Takahashi stories.) “Yes, big sit.” Mwahahaha! It’s sort of amusing to hear how many voices from the Gundam Wing dub are involved in the InuYasha dub, I might add.

    There’s a big square hole in the ceiling of the kids’ room. We have no idea when the repair will be done. Neat, huh? Turns out the roof has a big crack in it, so not only does the ceiling need to be repaired but the roof over it also. At times like this I’m glad we rent instead of own this house.

    Hmm. I guess that’s about it. See you tomorrow, folks!

  • Friday Five Where You Work

    • Where do you currently work? – I wonder how many of my fellow “bloggers” will answer this question, given the recent publicized firings of people who write about their workplace in their journals. Anyway… I work for the Entercom radio stations in Portland, Oregon.
    • How many other jobs have you had and where? – Surprisingly few. My first job was at the Burgerville in St. Johns (right at the end of the bridge… I love that bridge…), then I worked at the Radio Shack on Division near I-205, then at the now-closed Oregon Stamp & Stationery. Yes, it’s a short resume. I like to think that it shows a willingness to stick with a job through thick and thin. Positive spin, baby.
    • What do you like best about your job? – I’m lord of my own domain, within certain limitations. I have almost complete autonomy, the trust from most of my superiors that I know what the hell I’m doing so they leave me alone while I do it. I also have plenty of time to tinker, experiment and otherwise expand my horizons. And working in radio means that it’s never boring. Frustrating at times, but all jobs are that way, aren’t they?
    • What do you like least about your job? – Radio is made up of egos and “beautiful people.” I am not powerful, famous or beautiful, therefore I have nobody to talk to most days. It’s absolutely amazing how alone I feel most days. Mind you, I like solitude and being left to my own devices most of the time, but then there are the times when I want to actually socialize (gasp!) with my coworkers and find myself ignored or actively snubbed. It takes some of the shine off of an otherwise-splendid job. Maybe if I took up drinking and/or watched a lot of sports on television… no, sorry, I don’t think so!
    • What is your dream job? – I have a hard time imagining what it could be, since what I have is pretty close to a dream job already. Even on the worst days I have to thank whatever powers drive the cosmos that I have this job. I know full well that there are thousands of people in the Portland Metro area alone who would gleefully slit throats to get a job like this one.

    Friday Five

  • The feeling of a job well done

    Yesterday afternoon I shipped out the last two streaming servers for the PD Streaming project. The project itself won’t be completed until all of the markets are online, but the biggest part of my involvement is now over.

    Halleluiah. I can now commence rolling out the Compaq WinXP machines just as fast as I can.

    And yes, I got to shake hands with the Big Boss Man a few minutes ago. He thanked me for all of my hard work on the aforementioned project, then insisted he was pressed for time and couldn’t chat. *shrug* I get that a lot…

  • Can’t hide any longer, Celina

    All secret-like, Celina (the young woman formerly known as “Mononoke” in the old KNRK chat channel) went and started up a journal thingie. (Yes, I’m using Mari‘s lingo. Your point?)

    Go forth, read, and encourage. She’s good people.
    Moody in the Rain

  • Thank God It’s Tuesday

    Today I’m getting things done. I completed the next-to-last of the PD Streaming machines. I did some administrivia and maintenance. I even have plans to do some more… things.

    Yesterday, not so much. It was one of those crazy, never a moment’s rest kind of days. Only small fires, but there were an awful lot of them.

    And that was just at work.

    The hard drive in what we call The Big Computer at home went click-of-death Sunday night, so I went home yesterday to face the task of completely rebuilding the box. No stress, it’s only the sole Internet access computer in the house. This time I went with Windows 2000 Pro instead of the venerable (and finicky) Windows 98 SE. In the process I discovered that the DVD-ROM drive and the (crappy Acer) CD-RW drive refuse to peacefully coexist. So we’ve gone from two hard drives and two CD drives in that computer to one of each. Bleah.

    Oh yeah, and half an hour into the process my back went out. It went out in a big, bad, hurtful way. It’s now 18 hours later and my shoulder’s still twinging. Ouch.

    So I’m glad it’s Tuesday and not Monday The Thirteenth anymore. The only good to come out of yesterday was dinner at Chang’s with Wendi. Yum.

    On a completely unrelated note, I’ve picked out my camera. It’s only a month away…

  • More, much more, than you want to know.

    So once again I am bowing to peer pressure. What can I say? I’m weak. And Lil’ told me to. I quote: “You should post your answers on your journal, too. No, really.”

    If you want to read my snarky answers to the longest, silliest survey to worm its way around the Internet in months, here you go.

    And just because I’m evil, I “asked” Andrew Wolfe (from my NaNoWriMo novel) to “answer” the “survey” (whoops, got carried away with quote marks…) as well. Here’s his version.

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