many congradulations to marcus and anita, who started a new life together today. sure wish i could have been there...


i have never before wished that i could be at a wedding. except for this one. i think it's because both people are really good friends of mine. that's the only reason i can think of anyway. alot of my friends have been married or will be soon - and i hope to get out of going to all of their weddings. so it's definitely a foreign concept for me to wish that i could attend one... anyways...

directions on my new liquid antibiotic:

"take two tablets by mouth twice daily"

i'm realizing that what i hate most about my job is a direct result of what i love the most. it's not infrequent that i come home from work frustrated and stressed, yet i love my job soooo incredibly much. i think i enjoy it because i'm needed there. i am responsible for quite a bit (for sure more than i was as a student worker in the IT dept at school the last few years) -- the bar-code printers, the hand-held bar-code scanners, the 80 pc's and 40 laptops we have floating around the plant, and whatever else my boss has for me to do. some days are relatively quiet (like yesterday :-\ ), but most of the time i'm swamped. so with the responsibility, comes stress. i guess that's how it has to be.......

are you sure i'm not blond?

so i have this nice ups (uninterruptable power supply, for the non-geeks out there...an apc ee725bb for those of your who are geeky) to keep hank happy during t-storms. but it doesn't do me a whole lot of good if i don't attach everything to hank through it...

when i tried to dial-up on saturday afternoon, i got the error "the modem could not find a dial-tone...blah, blah, blah..." i checked the port with an actual phone, which worked. i swapped cables - that worked as well. then i realized that i had hooked the modem cable directly to the phone port and not through my ups. wow did i feel dumb. here i spend a bunch of money to protect hank, making sure the ups had lan, dsl, and modem support...and then i didn't even hook it up properly. i thought about seeing how long i could handle letting hank be unable to communicate with the outside world, but i didn't think my roommates would appreciate that (we all share him at the moment). thankfully, best buy is only a few minutes from my apt. :)

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health update: still feeling crappy about every other day...not really sure what's going on...