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!
Well, bugger
I had a huge scare last night as I was trying to fall asleep. The hosting and domain for this site expire on the 24th unless I make the appropriate payments. Well, I've been going with the two year payment for hosting which is something along the lines of $190. The yearly payment is $110. :neutral: The monthly payment is $10.95. Looks like I'll be on the monthly plan for a while because of the month of no work and that these payments are due the DAY BEFORE direct deposit goes through. Thankfully, the decision to not only host with Dreamhost but also register my domain through them as well gets me a free domain registration until I cancel hosting. Which only saves me $9.95 a year, but that means I won't be paying ~$21 by the 24th, just ~$11. I can handle $11. I just have to pay another $11 the next month... and the next month and the next month... Eventually I should have enough money to pay the difference between what I've paid and the total for the two (maybe I'll go one?) year plan.
I missed work Tuesday morning, but went in Tuesday afternoon. Erika had Victor and I putting up table tents (the little foldy guys you see on the tables in the cafeteria) advertising that if you register early you could win one of two iPod Touches. I arrived at work thirty minutes past three, but I'm going to give myself an extra thirty minutes because SSV is warm as hell on a clear day. Stupid people building buildings with glass all over the place. It's like a greenhouse, only for melting people instead. Especially the fifth floor. Psych is cancelled tomorrow, so that's even more time I can work. I should hopefully be able to get up early enough to work from 9-11:15, go to Software Engineering, get lunch, then work anywhere from one to two until five. That'll make up Tuesday quite nicely.
Odd: IIT hasn't cashed the check I gave them for the second part of the housing deposit.
I need to check out the Dreamhost Panel more often! Apparently I can install four different Google apps onto sugardeath.net as well as use Gmail for all hosted email accounts. Like, actually have a gmail interface, but at mail.sugardeath.net instead of gmail.com. :shock: I dunno if I'd do the gmail thing, at least not for the main sugardeath domain, but it's still pretty cool. I'm gonna play around with the calendar now. Hm. I did the calendar thing and it looks like it's gonna install all of it. But it looks like I can easily disable a bunch of them if need be. I even get Google Docs! WTF Awesome!
Anyway, I feel better now that I've discovered how little the monthly payments will ream me (even if I don't get a discount like I do with the one year and two year payments). This means that I can also take out money to payback Health Services and hopefully not overdraw / cause the housing check to bounce.
The psych make-up is gonna be emailed to me at 1:30 on Friday. I'm taking an extra hour of lunch from work to take this exam. I should really get to studying tomorrow (today). I slept a lot today, kinda missed most (all) of my classes. It was such a nice day, too! 70 degrees fahrenheit!
I have $119 in bonus points remaining on my account. This is because I rarely visited Global Grounds or went got extra food above the meal plan from Center Court (or even just visited Center Court beyond the two transferrable (lunch?) meals per week). I think I will get a salad or something in addition to two hamburgers and a pop from Center Court tomorrow. Stick the salad in the fridge, eat it when I get hungry again around eleven or twelve at night.
I have two more breakfasts this week. Because I slept through both lunch and dinner on Sunday and lunch today, I get a total of three extra meals during the week. I used one breakfast Monday morning, and will try to use the remaining on Thursday and Friday.
Update faster DNS! I wanna play with my calendar and other things!
I really need to start looking up sources for my com paper and figure out what the hell is expected of me for my precalc paper. Seriously, wtf? Papers in math class? The topic I chose for my com paper is basically "email and its effects on other forms of communication in the workplace." "Other forms of communcation" being memos, bulletins, gossip at the watercooler / at lunch. Also the (in)formality of email and whether the in(formality) of other forms of communication have changed as a result of the introduction of email. Seven pages. I think we need eight sources or so, half of them have to be hard sources (i.e. non-internet sources). That'll be fun. This will be an insanely dry topic that I will have to somehow stretch out into seven pages. Are there even that many sources that discuss this? I should really start working on this.
Also, what the hell is up with my CS487 group project? I emailed the defacto leader of the group about when we can get together to work on the next deliverable and he never replied to me. OK, cool. Shouldn't we be coding by now? I am still confused as to how/why we're going to interface PHP with Java. Also, why Java for a game? Let's just go C++. Cross-platform hoo haa, that's what. I appreciate it, but... Java? For a game? The prof sent out our current grades on the group stuff. He also mentioned that a member or two has indicated that another member is not pulling his weight. Excuse me for being sick. At least I emailed the group to let them know about it. Perhaps I should do those self-evals o_O They just seem dumb, though. Do a self-eval on your contribution to this plan of the design of your game. What. "I contributed these sections. I wrote words. Perhaps I could have chosen better words in certain parts of the text, perhaps I could have phrased things differently." Sure, OK. No? I also need to do a self-eval for the last group presentation in com. I understand those kind of self-evals: "I talked to fast, I didn't look at the audience enough, I tripped over this phrase."
Speaking of com. Supposedly we're going to start presenting on our papers next Wednesday, despite the fact that he extended the deadline for the proposal of the paper topic to last Friday. Meaning, most people haven't even started their papers (perhaps even their research?) because the majority of the class turned in their proposal's ON FRIDAY. We are kinda behind in the class, though, so maybe he'll give us some extra time. Gehrs is usually pretty cool. He basically gave me a free A for ITM460 last semester. I approved of that.
Bauer called at 1:37PM on Tuesday, despite our agreement that 1PM was the time for the conference. He did most of the talking and I did a lot of "mmhmm, ok, yeah." He's recommending the CIS degree because then, if I choose to do so later on, I can go into a Master's program for the full CS program. With an ITM major I would only be able to go into a Master's for ITM. CIS requires a minor, which will be ITM. He says that I should have enough electives to take a second minor, but I think I'd rather not take two minors. He gave me a recommended schedule for Fall semester, but said nothing about Summer. He did email me a list of the ITM minors (which are slightly different than the ITM Major specializations), so I guess I'll be choosing my summer classes from those, seeing as how I only need to take one more specified CS class for CIS. There are about two CS electives and three or so CS Technical electives. He suggested I talk to the Career Management Center and give them my resume because I said that I was interested in a summer job. I should do that soon.
Why do I feel like I've already this? I haven't. The last mention I made was on Sunday.
Anyway, with CIS I have to take Physics 1 and Chem 1, but they shouldn't be too terrible. I can take Physics 1 with Corey next semester if our schedules line up.
Maybe I talked to someone about this? Incredibly in depth? Not like me...
The 'wake' light on my alarm clock is flickering.
Figuring out how I am going to pay for my website has actually relieved me a lot more than it should have. I should be relieved by doing the important things, like studying for my Psych exam, working on my papers, not sleeping through classes, clearing my holds so I can register for Summer semester and soon Fall, getting out more, working more so that I have money to spend on the important things: like the soap and shampoo that I am running out of; balls, I am going to be incredibly tight on money until my next paycheck comes in... Looks like I won't be paying Health Services their $10 until I get paid. They can wait. It's only $10. Now, if they accepted credit card, I would have paid when they handed me the freaking pills. But alas.
The Google Apps site says that Google Email is being "updated" and that it'll take up to an hour. I click on 'Email' and there is a button labeled "Disable Email on this domain." That does not sit well with me because of the Dreamhost warning:
IMPORTANT: You need to register at Google Apps for your Domain, then re-create all your email accounts with them first, or your current email will break.
Seeing as how I did not choose to install Google Email, though, I should be fine, correct? We'll find out come the morning.
Practically all of swads is going to the Spring Formal this Saturday. Money and lack of interest have prevented me from buying a ticket. I went last year. Dances really aren't my thing. Also, I've got no one to go with. I'm sure that if there were someone that wanted to go with me and I were slightly interested in them, I would jump up and buy a ticket. But as it is, I shouldn't be spending the money anyway. I'll just play video games or research while everyone else is out... having fun... :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:
Nah, it'll be cool. I play grindan gaems on PSO with Paul S. Douchebag. It'll be fun. Like old times on when we played online on the Gamecube. Fuck, I love PSO. Especially when it's free :cool:
Besides, I'd need to borrow another fancy pants jacket thinger. I borrowed one from Noah for the formal last year, but I'm nearly 100% sure that Noah is going with his girl this year (hey, if I were dating her and she wanted to go, I wouldn't say no; also, rhyming).
Enjoy yet another huge ass post (what's an ass post?).