Tag Archives: Personal Blather

Two things about windows and only one of them is computer related. I’ll deal with that first. I was going to do an entry from work yesterday and, at a whim, I decided to update from one of our Windows PCs instead of the Mac I usually use. For some reason, instead of letting me create a new entry, it kept dumping me back to the login screen and asking for my password. Very vexing. I could probably have figured out what was wrong if I took the time to do so, but I shouldn’t have needed to take that time…

Anyway, it was too minor to merit that level of attention, so I didn’t bother.

After work, my Fiancee and I headed over to her friend’s place and we hung out chatting and BS’ing until after midnight. One of the things we got talking about was her friend’s job and the lack of cool window displays in their store.
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Tarot and Tourette. One is a method of divination. The other is a disorder.

Of course, you could combine the two and you’ve got someone who has sudden involuntary outbursts of prophecy.

Wound up doing quite a lot today, but not as much as had been originally scheduled. The morning started with a visit to the wedding photographer, checkbook in hand. Deposits have been made, contracts have been signed, and we now have a photographer!

After that, it was a quick run to the various bakeries. Great Harvest has provided much of the food for the week. We got some amazing horseradish onion dipping sauce (that’s horseradish sauce to dip onions in) and some wasabi raspberry mustard that can clean out sinuses and fry nose hair at ten feet.
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The only good thing about being sick is that, when you’re conscious, you can watch daytime television. I have memories of being sick from when I was young, and I remember watching game shows when I was in grade school. When I’m sick, I have strange nostalga for Campbell’s soup, peanut butter and jelly on saltine crackers and “The Price is Right.”
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There’s so much to do and my brain is a loose cluster of goo right now. I spent most of the day curled up in bed shivering and sweating. I had a few minutes of lucidity this afternoon, during which I forgot to call the wedding caterers, so I’m in the doghouse for that. We’re planning on calling it an early night, so we’re gonna miss the President’s State of the Union Address and the corresponding drinking game.
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Just a couple of quick notes during lunch… First off some behind the scenes geek stuff: I’m loving the new logging system! I had a slight hiccup caused by a glitch in the server name and I was able to troubleshoot it just by looking at the web logs… Plus, I could see that people actually read this drivel of mine! Thanks!
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Re-read yesterday’s entry… Jeez that was depressing… Sorry.

It’s been single-digit cold for a week or two now, dipping down below zero at night, and I guess it kinda got me down. I briefly considered going through and editing it, but I’ve kinda decided to leave things here ‘As-Is’ as a sort of yardstick of how my writing changes.
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This is a month of slow erosion. It grinds you down a little bit every day. The days are starting to lengthen, but only by a blink or two each morning and evening. It’s so cold that your breath freezes in your beard, and your hands turn red and puffy from the wind biting through the seams in your gloves.

January chafes and rubs at you. It grinds down with icy files, smooths off with dark sandpaper and polishes you raw with salty grit.
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One of my early jobs, when I was a lowly student, was as a computer site monitor for the University library. My duties were fairly simple: When people came in, they needed to fill out a short form and leave their ID card. I’d give them a number corresponding to a computer and file their ID under that number. When they left, they’d give me back the number card, I’d give them back their ID and I’d put the form in a box for a supervisor to do the site statistics with later.

It wasn’t too complicated, but somehow people would still manage to screw things up.
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