Tag: Mac

One MILLION!

So today I’ve sat around some more…

And that’s my life!

Well, actually. I was awaken this morning at 10 by some crazy woman calling my cell phone and asking for Peggy. I didn’t know who she was, but she sounded oddly familiar, so I figured it was someone on my mom’s side, who had been given my cell phone number and accidentially dialed it when calling my mother. So I was giving her my home phone and when she asked what the area code was… I was like, “This isn’t right.” So I asked her who she was… And she said… “Blah blaher” I don’t remember what it was, it was something crazy and definitally NOT relaitves. So I was like, who are you calling for again, and she was like, “Peggy Blaher”. And I was like, “Ohhh, you hvae the wrong number.” And then she was like, “Oh, so you’re NOT my grandson.” It was so random!

Anyways, after that I played Sim City for most of the day. I have a couple cities that have a lot of R$$$-Level 8 buildings in them, so that’s exciting… FYI, it’s the highest level building you can get. My region has nearly 1,000,000 people in it. I should hit that by tonight. I’m really amazed by this because I’ve only played 7 cities out of the like 20 or so there are, and my goal was to have 200,000 by last night… I had 500,000. So that’s exciting.

I’ve also been to the gym and worked out. I’m a bit sore from that because I wanted to try some new machines, as I was getting bored with my normal ones. I think I pulled something, or worked something to hard. Cause as I said, I’m a bit sore.

After that I came home and played more Sim City, and also cleaned. My apartment is now nice and clean. I’ve also started to put together all the stuff that I need to take home, I have a SHIT load of laundry to do… I haven’t done it in like 3 weeks!

It really doesn’t seem like christmas around here. I mean, I know that it is. But it just doesn’t seem like it’s already christmas… It seems to early. Maybe I’m just not int he mood because I’ve been so depressed lately, but still. It doesn’t seem like it’s already christmas!

Tomorrow I’m going to head home at some point. I was told to be home early. I guess we’re opening presents tomorrow night. That should be exciting, I really want to know what I got.

Then Thursday we go to the G&G’s house for MUCHO food, and then stockings. Which I’m not all that excited for… I can already tell you most everything that’s going to be in there. Why don’t I have rich grandparents like some other people I know. Grrr. Oh well. I guess you get what you get in life.

Friday I’ll probably spend sitting around the house and just doing nothing. My PU’s got a treadmill, so I might run on that, just to work out some. I don’t think I’ll make the trek back to Ames just for that.

Saturday is my mom’s side Christmas at my house. Joy, I really dislike them as well. Everyone’s like, “So when are you going to bring a girl to christmas.” I was REALLY hoping that Andrew would be in town for that christmas this year. But he’s not going to be. That should be most of the day. Again, not excited for presents there either. I’m getting a christmas tree decoration. JOY!

Sunday I’ll sit around the house some more.

Monday is the big day! Andrew’s coming back. I’m so excited, I can’t wait to give him his presents. Though I found out that I’ll have to return one of them now. 🙁 I hope it hasn’t been 30 days since I bought it.

Grrr at Sue, she’s ruining ALL my plans!

Anyways, it’s off to write a ranting private update about how much I hate people.

Laters all.

Almost Time

Well, I’ve got 20 minutes before I start my second job! I’m very nervous… And you know what? There’s no NERVOUS emotion! Grrr. I think I’m going to go steal some from Livejournal or something. Cause this is getting REALLY annoying!

Anyways, I think I’ve got everything ready, and I’m good to go. But I’m just really nervous about starting a new job, as I always am. I’m affraid that I won’t be good at it, etc.

This morning I was so nervous I was sick to my stomach. Hopefully this will go well, 6 hours of training today, and then 4 tomorrow and Tuesday. ::deep breath:: I hope I can do it!

Then after the training, I have to go to a group meeting at 6, and who knows how long that will last!!

Laters all.

Almost Over

Well, the break has been going pretty good. Wed I worked all day. I played with my project most of the day, got quite a bit done with it really. Apache on one machine and MySQL on the other. Well MySQL was still compiliing when I left work, but it seems to be done now, because I got an e-mail saying that they MySQL user had a default shell, but no login directory. So that means it at least got to the point where it created the user, which I assume is a good thing. I can’t wait to get in on Monday and see how they are doing. Apache seemed to be responding pretty quickly and serving up PHP pages pretty good on Wed, so that’s exciting since it’s such an old beast. They will make good development machines if everything works out the way that I want it too.

After work I came home and cleaned up my apartment some, and sat around for a while. Then went home to PC, and cooked some stuff for T-day dinner. Went to bed about 11ish.

Thursday we had 19 people over at our house. 2 huge turkeys and a pork loin. And TONS of other yummy food!





Looks fun, eh? 😛

After everyone left, I just spent the rest of the night sitting around home, eating and doing nothing really.

Friday I went shoping with my mom and Brother. Good times. I got new boxers and a few other things, which I’ve already forgotten. I’ll get them all for christmas!

Speaking of, I’ve already got two of my christmas presents. A subscription to Mens Journal, and a subscription to a San Diego magazine. Good times!

After shopping, I came home and sat around all day.

Today, I got up, went to the mall to get our passport photos, which was very annoying. MILLIONS of small children! Then my parents spent like an hour in Victorias Secret… I waited outside. lol

After that went home, and then drove back to Ames.

And that’s been my day.

Laters all. Perhaps more of an update tomorrow, and I also want to elaborate on how much I missed Andrew this week, and how I can’t wait tell I have someone to bring to family fnctions!

The DEC Lives!

So ever since I started here, I’ve had sort of a pet project. I rescued two DEC 3000/300LX’s from the trash. A machine that has been in use since early 1994, and it’s still working. And quite nicely too, if I may add.

Anyways, the point is… My Pet project now works! Yes, I have NetBSD 1.6.1 working on them. The only thing left to really do is figure out how to boot them without a serial console. Currently I have the env var’s set to what SHOULD make it automatically boot, but it just sits there at the SRM prompt, looking at me until I tell it to ‘boot’. I’m very excited about that.

So that’s what I’ve been working on today and yesterday here. Also went through the family cookbook and made some changes. I’m going to go print a copy for myself here soon. Good times.

Andrew is on his way to NJ… well actually he should be there by now. Hope he has a good time.

I went and got the application today for my passport. Then called my dad to get my birth cert. He said we could all go and get them together, because he and my mom need it too. So that means they’ll pay for it. Which is good, cause it’slike $100 once you add in the picture cost!

I had the strangest dream last night. I dreamt that I was in NJ with Andrew, and his dad wanted some time alone with him, the whole weekend to be exact, you know like a father-son bonding weekend. But Mary was gone, so there was no where for the little children to go. So I took them camping. It was a very strange dream if you ask me!

It still doesn’t seem like t-day break!

Umm, yeah not much else going on. So I’m going to break.

Laters all!

What I Need

Mr. Baker,

As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have a few very
basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superior
shares an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your
consistent and annoying harassment of myself, and my co-workers during
the commission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of
the few true genetic wastes of our time.

Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every little nuance of
everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not
only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen. I was hired
because I know about Unix, and you were apparently hired to provide
amusement to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt
to understand the concept of “cut and paste” for the hundredth time.

You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as
binary still gives you too many options. You will also never
understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you,
even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an
IP is.

Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will. You walk
around the building all day, shiftlessly looking for fault in others.
You have a sharp-dressed, useless look about you that may have worked
for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you
pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for
your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the
blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like
you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle.

Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a
full frontal lobotomy, I am forced to tender my resignation; however I
have a few parting points:

1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal to
give me a bad recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is “I
prefer not to comment.” I will have friends randomly call you over the
next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be
unable to do it on your own.

2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I know
every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to
get cute, I am going to publish your “favorites list”, which I
conveniently saved when you made me “back up” your useless files. I
believe that terms like “Lolita” are not usually viewed favorably by
the administration.

3. When you borrowed the digital camera to “take pictures of your
mothers B-day”, you neglected to mention that you were going to take
pictures of yourself in the mirror nude. Then you forgot to erase them
like the techno-moron you really are. Suffice it to say I have never
seen such odd acts with a ketchup bottle, but I assure you that those
have been copied and kept in safe places pending the authoring of a
glowing letter of recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please – I
hate having to correct your damn mistakes.)

Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on
my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow, not ONE minute later. One word of this to
anybody and all of your little twisted repugnant obsessions will be
open to the public. Never f*ck with your systems administrators, because
they know what you do with all your free time.

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I sure felt like writing something along these lines today. Grrr At my life.