Be Glad There’s One Place in the World Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Today was pretty fun. A little before noon my boss brought Namon (I think?) over to upgrade both my and Manjot's installs of Office 2000 to Office XP/2007/whatever. Works fine on her machine, she's running XP. Seems to work fine on my NT machine, but.. I reboot like the installer wants me to and go to open the Access Database we use and... error city. OK, close Access, try to open the database again... wait, why are you searching for msaccess.exe? Why do the shortcuts to Access no longer work? Why is msaccess.exe GONE? What? Oh, great. How did this happen? Alright, reinstall Office... Nope, Access doesn't even isntall this time. ...OK, let's put the old Office on... er.. installer exited prematurely due to an unexpected error? Cool! Not only can I now not access the database, I don't have Outlook anymore either! Basically, I can't really do anything at the moment. The dude said he was gonna go find the CD 'cause that might help (he was doing a network install before), but he never came back. ...
Because this whole fiasco took about three hours or so, I wasn't able to get lunch... So here I am starving with forty minutes left on the clock... I am going straight to Chipotle after work and getting another big-as-my-head burrito. It will be delicious and filling.
I definitely have a lot more money in my bank account than I thought, so I can totally justify buying this burrito. I might also be able to justify a new keyboard.. After using the laptop for the weekend, I realized how shit my five year old keyboard is. The space bar only works in the middle, a lot of keys either don't hit or hit multiple times.. It's annoying. I found a neat keyboard on newegg that's about $50, same exact key layout as my current one (which is great, I love this layout), glows just the same, but looks to be of higher quality than mine. Thing is, a wired Apple keyboard is also $50, and that thing is sexy. I have heard of some issues with the Apple keyboard and Linux, but I'd have to do more research.
Half an hour..
I've been spending my free time doing a lot of... nothing. Well, nothing social or interesting, just playing around with my computers.. I got Skype working on the laptop, full webcam and front mic support too! Tested it with David last night, works pretty well. Someone Skype me at sugar_death sometime :(((
A while back Nicole linked me to a Youtube of some dude who took a picture of himself once per day for like.. a couple of years? I'm thinking about doing something like that. It'd be pretty neat. I look like shit in one of the test pictures I took Sunday morning after I installed Cheese.
I can totally camwhore now that I've got the mic working too.. <_<
I really hope my boss gets me a new machine... an XP machine. How many of our clients are really using NT still, anyway? How many of our apps are web based? The majority of them, right? That's OS independent there. Give me an XP machine already!
I feel so disconnected without email. It's pretty awesome. I can't see if I'm supposed to test these three work requests in production that I've been working on. I can't... see anything. I can't send my boss a Daily Status Report.. Haha, that'll be fun to explain tomorrow. "Yeah, he said he was coming back, but he didn't."
I should have quite a bit more money come this Friday, too. And then two weeks after that... and two weeks from that... I won't be broke-ass for some time! It'll be.. exciting. What will I do with that money? Buy food.
Ah! I forgot to grab my Costco card while at home... :/
I wonder if I should be saving these to my desktop as I type them? I haven't deleted any yet, I've got two for yesterday and one for today. I can really delete them after I post them.. Laziness will fuck me over, watch.
Twenty minutes.. Go me for getting into work fifteen minutes late, thus leaving fifteen minutes late.
My timesheet has three hours unallocated to any Work Request. That's a fair amount of time that I was watching Mr. Dude play around on my computer.
The AutoTester script that I was working on screws up massively when I make it start searching... It's a pain in the ass. Actually, no, what it is is that the developers set the address for a 'Terms of Use' link on this ONE page to $CURRENT_ADDRESS + "#" instead of linux-ts/test/apweb/terms.cfm. Ugh. I should email Melanie about it so she could fix it quickly..
OH WAIT
Gay.
Fifteen minutes.
When leaning forward, my bangs (can they really be called bangs at this length? I part my hair and they're mostly off to the side) fall forward and hit me on the mustache area. I can almost get them in my mouth if I try (well that sounded dirty).
Twelve.
I like how I can write and write while bored at work but I can't arse myself to even open WordPress to begin writing while bored at home.
I really should have left Dude Man at my computer and gone to get lunch anyway. The hunger pains were pretty bad for a while there... but they're gone now for some reason. I don't understand it.
Man I love the YTMND soundtracks. Number eight has The Lonely Man Theme, which some of you may recognize as the end credits music for the old Incredible Hulk TV show.
ALSO AXEL F. I think I may have mentioned this before?
Four.
Lights off in the server room.
Lots of TV themes.. Cheers, Flintstones, Bill Nye, MacGuyver, The Price is Right, and a few others?
Out of here. Big ass burrito time!