LOL – I also wrote one about this oil nonsense, for anyone who’s interested. Maybe one of these days I’ll get that website done that I’ve been talking about… 😛
hurricane relief
I’ve kept quiet on this one for most of the week because it’s really just too much to take in – haven’t really watched much tv, so all I’ve seen are the newspapers and some pictures online:
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/080304tropicalweathe
http://www.digitalglobe.com/katrina_gallery.html
http://video.freevideoblog.com/neworleans/index.htm
Plain and simple, these folks need all the help that they can get – I wrote a column about it (below), so I’ll leave it at that, but if you haven’t already made a contribution or three, please consider forgoing pizza or the latest DVD releases this week … they could use the money a lot more than you can…
So who was responsible for TEACHING the Internet generation, anyways???
In a completely unrelated task, I stumbled across a whole lot of bandwidth stealing from Just Laugh when I was going through server logs earlier this evening. Apparently that’s not something taught in your average middle school web design class – host your own images!!!
Fortunately, cPanel makes it quite easy to take care of that – as of earlier this evening, several hundred MySpace and Xanga pages will now be sporting a nice, little message from the editors until their owners catch on and wise up…
bad storm, pretty picture
A la the wonderful digg.com, here’s a spectacular view of Hurricane Katrina from this morning…
http://www.anthonymontalbano.com/Katrina1615z-050829-1kg12.jpg
Mundays
If you ask me, I don’t know why we even have Mondays – I don’t think I’ve ever been productive on a Monday, so why not just abolish the damn things from the calendar altogether…
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Hmmm, if we did get rid of Mondays permanently, would Tuesday become the new Monday or do you think things might flow freely after all???
checklists
Sunday:
- got somewhat of a grip on where I stand with the writing
- played entirely too much Lego Star Wars to prevent any real “progress”from being made on said writing
- baked gingerbread cookies – swear at self for trying to keep dough in line in the summer heats of Florida
- watched new episode of Entourage when it first airs instead of relying on HBO on Demand…which has been down consistently when I wanted to watch it for the past three weeks 😛
- grimaced with frustration as I realized that at the rate I’m going (about three pieces per day), the new photo mosaic puzzle that I bought is going to take roughly 47 weeksto finish…closer to 66 if I take weekends off… 🙁
- …sighed and was just happy that at least I got some stuff done yesterday…Monday:
- mail very, very late Christmas package to Uncle Robert
- exercise as soon as I get home because according to the calendar, I only went oncelast week…oops…
- spend some quality time cleaning up the atrocity that I left in the kitchen after cooking yesterday…including the stove top and the inside of the microwave, which gets cleaned maybetwice a year…
- write columns that I’ve made myself a note for and proceed on to next batch to be tackled, striving to complete my backlog and get this website back online before the end of time
- balance finances if 401k people actually update their website on-time for a change
- break out some of that chicken for dinner that I bought last week, but somehow slid to the back of the fridge … barbecue, maybe?
Also…
My checkout experience was almost comical…at least, it would’ve been if she hadn’t been completely serious:
Cashier: Are you interested in getting a Target Red Card?
Me: No thanks.
Cashier: Teeheehee … ummm, can I ask why?
Me: *glares* Because I don’t want one?
Cashier: Is it because it’s a credit card?
Me: Yep.
Cashier: What’s wrong with credit cards? I don’t see what the big deal is…
Me: *getting pissed* Spend the next six years of your life paying off $20,000 worth of credit card debt and you’ll figure it out.
Cashier: *blank look* Will that be credit or debit?
Me: …debit…
The girl couldn’t have been more than sixteen…at best…and for some reason, I see distinct financial problems in her future. Sad, really – I wish I’d have been more educated about handling money when I was a teenager…it would’ve saved me a whole lot of grief on down the road! 😛
Super, SUPER Target…
The new Target that I went shopping at tonight had its own three-level parking garage:
http://ssevener.textamerica.com/?r=3167740
http://ssevener.textamerica.com/?r=3167731
Oddly enough, it wasn’t any bigger than your average, run of the mill Target – the lower level of the building had a Linens ‘n Things or something. Interesting…
…STILL more DHCP problems…
Ok, so I’ve been playing computer all weekend, trying to bring things up to speed and fix every last little bother that I’ve been putting off lately. Address book entries from laptop have finally been copied over to my desktop, Google Earth, backup and other software previously disabled by the plethora of system restores are back to normal, but the same thorn in my side that I’ve been hating for three months now – DHCP – is still causing problems.
Now my laptop has no problems getting an IP that will connect it to the network (i.e. all shares are available), but it still can’t go online…which is weird because it was online just fine last night. I up’ed the number of available IPs within DHCP last night, even though that doesn’t make sense at all, but at this point I’m stuck just hoping that wiping the laptop and doing a fresh install will fix everything.
(Note that last night, DHCP assigned it an address automatically and it worked fine; today I had to manually request one and it gets to my network, but no Internet in sight. Any ideas??? Because I will father the children of anyone who can fix this damn thing once and for all and remove “DHCP” from my list of words that drive me insane…)
See, kids – this is why you’re supposed to keep your receipts for any electronics purchases! If I had, this thing would’ve so been back in Best Buy’s hands, like, two and a half months ago…
dance your cares away…
- Tonight was the first night I’ve exercised since the weekend…my legs feel like they’ve declared war on the rest of my body! I finished up my evening by watching an episode of Fraggle Rock that I got from my sister and putting together some legos from Mom. Also, I remembered why I’m not ready to give up hope just yet, and that makes me feel just a little bit better…
- Tomorrow I have little plans for my birthday – probably just homemade pizza and a movie when I get home from work. I don’t expect anything else to happen, but if it does, I will certainly welcome the change…
- And as for Friday, well, we haven’t gotten quite that far yet. One day at a time is my mantra for the time being – just get me through the day without feeling like I did earlier and the rest is icing on the cake. Let’s eat.