aslomp

so my air card on my tablet pc at work crapped out. for anyone who doesn't know, i spend at least two weeks of each month wandering around our campus collecting notes and observations, or implementing changes and so on.. so it's a big help to me that my computer is generally there with me and i'm on the network. this last month has been so much easier with it. yesterday i noticed an odd thing... though i was connected to our network, outlook only connected when i pushed the send-receive button.. dump.

anyway. today it just woudln't connect at all.. no VPN or anything. so the guy came to look at it and he says no good. so he took it away.. so now i'm not connected while i'm doing my stuff.

back i think

awesome. so those SOBs at Splice messed up my site.. if you remember a few months ago they dropped our sites because of some kind of massive failure.. everything was lost, or would have been, if we didn't have copies of everything here. anyway.. the problem was that they weren't getting any info to us and it was just no good. so anyway. part of thier bargain to keep people was they said they'd renew our domains for 6 months more. anyway. so that was last week, when they would have renewed and we'd be good to go for another blah blah months. ok.. so for more of that story check cat's blog.. i'm bored with that story.

anyway.. it's good to be back. i totally had like 4 people ask what was up. i'm that popular.

herbals

I took herbs and i feel much less aware of the impending doom of the world.. i wonder if there are paranoid buddhists.. i mean of course there are.. but i wonder how much crap they get about not being very good buddhists because of their failure to accept the impermanence of things.. or maybe that's not really important to buddhists anymore..

postahs

tonight we watched a movie. the island i think it was called. about cloning people you know.. for their organs. you know. I really find the whole thing unpleasant. i'm unsettled by anyone who plays god.. perhaps ironically. but still. I have a very poor reaction to certain kinds of science fiction. things like minority report and I robot, ... stuff that seems to have utopian themes maybe.. it's funny because Brazil is one of my old favorites.. but if i were to see it again now, it might really disturb me.. it always did disturb me, but not as much. anyway. i like to ramble, if no one ever noticed. anyway.. i know it's unpopular, but the idea of pushing certain medical frontiers discomforts me. I understand that medical advances save or slightly extend some lives... but some of them seem just too much.. like creating consciousness.. i really don't care for that one bit. and since not a damn person out there can say they understand fully the nature of consciousness i'm not going along with anyone who claims they're not tampering with it. same goes for you AI people.. if you make conscious computers, well.. you better hope they feel obliged to follow asimov's laws. and i'll warn you know that they won't. because our only concept of consciousness is modeled on our own human version of it, and frankly, we do like disobeying laws. and pushing boundaries.. hence my paranoid discomfort with this whole subject.

diarrhea over.

rumble grumble

so at work i like to say "rumble" or "grumble" in a low voice for really no reason at all. sometimes i'm expressing exasperation, or frustration. sometimes i'm just filling the silence. well.. as we were researching the next workshop we discovered someone who works on the issues we've identified who has the last name of "rumble".. so now whenever we talk about whether he need to come to a particular meeting i say "rumble" to say that he should be invited.

hmm

unless something totally awesome happens before i go to sleep, i'm going to declare this the worst weekend since... that time i got sick with the flu.. last spring. and i wasn't even sick. Cat's cold turned out to be strep, which sucks, but it's the first time she's had it since before we got married, so i take a little comfort in that.. anyway. she's too sick to work still, which i dont' know if she's taken care of yet, but i'll have to make sure htat happens before i leave tomorrow. and next week is the big fat 5 S that i have to do.. which i'm excited about, because it went really well last time.. but anyway. i heard joe got a car.. and i want to find out more.. so i'm gonna have to investigate. i want a car.. i wonder when that will happen.

yupdate

just so everyone knows, the heater got fixed around 11 this morning. the house is now a little too warm, in places, and just right in others. which is fine because i am tired of being all cold and huddled. it's made my shoulder and neck quite cramped. in other news, i think Cat's cold is past the bad part, so she should be more functional tomorrow and still more functional on monday.. i have no idea how fast she'll get better. but i'm optimistic. anyway. good times.

[teeth chatter]

It's really cold in here. our heater seems to have a malfunction, so it doesn't stay on longer than a couple minutes, certainly not long enough to heat the house. AND Cat has a big cold. no offense to her team, but those people keep passing some funky gross diseases around. they should take more days off. to get better. anyway. Having a severe sore throat and a fever last night, a cold house wasn't the best thing for her, but I borrowed a space heater from my 'rents and set it up in the room near her, the living room. so she could watch tv some, and it worked out ok.. it's not warm up here, but it's bearable, considering the frost outside. i'm wearing two sweatshirts and a teeshirt underneath, with the hood from one sweatshirt up... because it's just plain cold. anyway.. the good news is i called the guy who fixes heaters and this morning he called back, and said he thought i might be able to fix it myself. though i wish i had known that last night, it was nice of him to walk me through it over the phone, but upon the discovery that it was not as simple as he thought, or i was incompetent, he decided to come look. so he'll be here shortly. i will hopefully be able to take care of Cat in relative comfort soon. woo..

indeed

I just wanted to write a shitty review of a shittier movie. rob zombie created a steaming pile of something.. house of a thousand corpses. let me just say there was only one clever joke. i wasn't interested in the victims escaping, frankly, they were kind of unpleasant... the villains were just plain irritating, so i wanted to see them destroyed but of course, i would not be so lucky. but i must stress how irritating the victims were. completely irritating. the only person i thought was ok was that ugly freak show guy, who has clown face make-up. anyway. i hope this was enough to help you not see the movie, but not enough to just pique your interest. if you think i'm full of it, go see it. you'll be sorry.... and when you're disappointed because you left a piece of your life behind i won't gloat.. on the outside..

smack noise

i was just eating a gyro.. allegedly made of lamb, which i generally enjoy, but this one tastes like beef. i'm not sure what to do.. but it's never tasted like beef before.. so i'm pretty well convinced it was beef. i thikn lamb costs more.. so i paid for lamb, but probably got beef..

anyway. i was just making that noise you make like if you were smacking gum, but i had no gum.. so it was more like one of those old men with dentures slapping his tongue against the roof of his mouth. maybe i should hasten the denture era with tooth rotting deliciousness..

yerp

I missed festivus. I don't think i've ever actually seen that entire episode.. but i've had it explained to me. i suppose airing of grievances will not be a particularly prominent part of the party, perhaps just when you find some hard bits in your food... As for any other times, i recommend you keep your grief to yourself. it's the new year. don't taint it with your foul business. i mean tomorrow, don't taint it tomorrow. taint it later. once everyone has gone home, taint away.

I made a playlist for el ptay. but i think it needs something still.. .something i don't have.. or perhaps don't know that i have. gerplomp. Cat's almost home i hope. she just left work a few minutes ago.. it's almost 6:30 right now. kind of a long friday. i think that le sucks. but she says she'll be happy to get to work on the house when she gets home. i don't think i'll make her though.. just a little.. because the bedroom is kind of gross.. then tomrrow she could work on the basement.. because it's mostly done. and i can work on the kitchen and yard. then i'll make the food. i've decided that i'd make curry for Cat, and bok choy, and sizzling rice soup, like the kind they have at the place, the New Peking. it's very tasty that soup. i'll do something with the rice tonight to make sure it works. the recipe says uncooked rice that you fry, but that doesn't make sense, because at the beginning of the recipe it says using cooked rice makes blah blah blah [something good] so i think that's what she meant.

boweling

I spelled it that way on purpose. yes i did. today my team [which is totally awesome]went to lunch and then followed it with bowling. I did surprisingly poorly, but i still had an awesome time. i'm pretty tired because compared to my normal slothitude this is pretty much a workout. well, also i came home and jumped rope because i saw one on the floor. that was awesome, but my ears got all hot. i hate having hot ears. right, so where was i going with this?... oh yeah, so i got the nickname while bowling of 'fists of fury' because of the way i am always shaking my fists in the air to express disapproval about something.... you know, like a cranky old man. it was cool. i'm gonna go now. i have to clean the garage.. maybe fit two cars into it....