Domestic Geek

Happy Birthday to my friend, Dave.

Wow, it's raining pretty good right now. I love the rain. If I didn't have a project for school to work on, I'd go out and drive around in it.

The head manager at work hired another friend of the asst. manager he's got a thing for. Whoo hoo. Asst. manager just got engaged to be married. Wonder how head manager is going to react to that.

I'm so tired all the time and I don't know why. I got plenty of sleep last night, though. I hope there is nothing majorly wrong with me.

I got kind of excited today at work when my neck cracked really bad and I was pain-free for about a half hour. I could even turn my head from side to side. It didn't last, though, as it hurts again. *sigh* Still no call from the insurance lady.

The initiative on the Denver ballot to ban circuses, etc. from the Denver city limits went down in flames tonight. Good.

Oh, and I have jury duty tomorrow. I totally didn't realize tomorrow was the 11th already and of course, my number got called. Booooooooo.

To show hidden files on Mac OSX:
1. open terminal
2. type: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles ON

To undo:
1. type: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles OFF

Current mood: lethargic
I. am. so. burnt. out.

Seriously, the two weeks off from school was supposed to recharge my batteries so that I could get through the last ten weeks of my associates degree. I've spent the last month in pain which has drained me more than ever. Top it off with a car that keeps wanting to be put out of its misery (it has got over 280,000 miles on it) and I'm freakin' burnt.

I need a leave of absence. Five weeks off last year did wonders for my well-being. Too bad they rarely offer the class I'm taking at the moment. *sigh* I had a part of my final project due today. Did I finish it? No. Did I feel guilty about that? A little. Is this like me? Not at all. Normal me would've stayed up all night with absolutley no sleep to meet a deadline. Burnt me went to bed at 1 a.m. and said "f-ck it." Not good. Not good at all.

I love the new Bowling for Soup song called 1985. It's hilarious. There is a video for the song on the band's website. Check it out, it's too damned funny (especially if you're a child of the '80s like I am!).

So, it's a day late, but here's the story about the neighbor kids. I was trying to nap on Saturday afternoon because I'm so damned tired lately. They were jumping on the trampoline, but I was blocking that out. I started to hear thunder rumble and then I hear what I thought, in my half asleep state, was the tornado warning thing. I heard a mechanical voice talking, but it was in Spanish. I thought to myself, "Self, since when did they start doing warning information in Spanish?" Then I hear one of the kids on the trampoline yell, "What did you say?" Then the mechanical voice answers, "Burrito!" or some other such nonsense (I'm still half asleep, mind you). Yep, they had some kind of dumb Mr. Microphone or Karaoke machine pointed at my bedroom window. Oh, the joy of it all. Needless to say, my nap was over. Sadly, I was a bit grumpy the rest of the day.

They moved a double-wide out of here the other day. I think they displaced a bunch of cockroaches. I found one running across my dryer last night. Between Marcus with the wasp killer and me with the vacuum, we got him. I hope he was just a scout and, since he will not return to the troops, the rest will not venture into my humble abode. The last thing I need is a cockroach problem. Ewww.

OK, well, I've got reading to do for class tomorrow, so I'm going to bed and I'll get up early to do it. The old me would've just sucked it up and read it and had the sleeping hours to let the info sink it. Oh, well.

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Current mood: frustrated
No, not to a new house (much as I would love that after yesterday! - story to come after I get home from work), but to a new blogging system. I got up this morning and saw that I had 11 new comments! After a comment dry spell since I really have nothing exciting to say, I was so estatic. Guess some assh*le figured out how to get around my MT Blacklist. They were all from some stupid online casino. ARGH! Is anybody really stupid enough to click on blog spam? I know that people really do buy from regular spam (BAD PEOPLE!) and that is why it will never go away, but from blog comments? Stupid. So, I deleted them, but had to go throught the whole site rebuild crap and decided that today I'm dumping MovableType for good. After much playing, I'm going with Expression Engine (Marcus was nice enough to buy me a copy). I like the Captcha feature for comments (where you have to type a word in a graphic). If things start to look weird around here for the next week (or disappear totally), ignore it while I get everything figured out.