Domestic Geek

Gah, how did it get to be 9 pm Sunday already?

Of course, it didn't help that I actually slept until noon today! I think I went to bed around 11 pm last night and only got up for an hour this morning to take medicine and check the bounced email situation. Man, my body was apparently exhausted. Then we spent a good part of the day running errands since Marcus had to get a new firewall to keep me from doing what I did yesterday. The good news is I haven't had any bounced back emails in hours.

My face hurts today, but at least it's the pain of healing. It didn't help that I went to put a shirt on this morning and managed to punch myself right in the jaw. Only I could pull that off.

I (or those signed up under me) need to win some more iTunes certificates on either Winzy or Blingo. I'm getting dangerously low on credits, people!

I need to order something on Amazon and it only costs $10. I want to get the free shipping for orders over $25, but can't seem to find anything I really want around $15. Everything I want costs way more than that and I can't spend the money right now or it's preorder only and wouldn't work for this order. Hmph.

I've been updating my Stephen King missing books list. I found a cute little used bookstore on Broadway a couple of weeks ago, but didn't have my missing books list handy to see if any that they had were on my list. There is also a good one over at 80th and Wadsworth, but I don't get up that way often anymore. I don't mind splurging $3 here and there for used paperbacks, y'know? It's about time I did some pleasure reading and got caught up. I don't think I've read a Stephen King novel since 2002. I'm waaaay behind.

I somehow managed to miss an email from one of my domain hosts that one of my domains was expiring this first week in June. I had the same problem last year and let it lapse. I had intended to move it to my main registrar so that this didn't happen this year and almost forgot. Good thing I decided to finally clean out my mailbox. Those 1000+ unread messages in there were really annoying. I hope it gets transferred before it expires.

One last reminder to send out Police ticket winning vibes. I'm going to win some!

I downloaded a neat little extension for Firefox today that colors your tabs. I've read that other people use these and like them, but I wasn't thrilled before. I'm ready to give them a second chance, though. We'll see.

On that note, I guess I'd better close up here and head to bed.

The local radio station 99.5 The Mountain is giving away Police tickets. They're at the Pepsi Center June 9 & 10 (next weekend) and I really, really, really, really, really want to go. Did I mention that I really want to go? LOL Anyway, I need the help of everyone reading my blog. Send good ticket winning vibes my way. All I had to do was fit out on their web form the three Police songs I heard and the times I heard them today. I'm not sure how many sets of tickets are being given away, though. The grand prize is two tickets in the station's Mountain Suite. I'd be all over that! So, help a girl out and help me win those tickets! Now I just need someone to go with me. Dave? Nina? Laura? Any police fans close by that can go at short notice?

Gah, I hope Marcus gets home soon. I don't know if someone has infiltrated my email account or if someone else's computer with my email addy in it has become a spam zombie, but I've been getting undeliverable email notices for the last couple of hours...lots of them.

Edit: Well, it looks like I ended up getting some sort of trojan or something on the old PC today. It was the zombie. We're not sure if we got it stopped and the machine cleaned good enough, so Marcus just had me pull the network cable on it. Grrr. Stupid spammers. Stupid windows. Stupid me.

I had a really weird moment of Zen last Thursday, I think it was. My old place of employment called Marcus because the designers are being allowed to work from home 3 days a week instead of having to make the drive to Larkspur every day and needed their computers set up to access the network from home. At first I was so incredibly angry when I heard about that, because I asked for that exact work situation before I was let go. Since one of my main problems was the amount of gas I was wasting driving there, I wanted the ability to work from home and I was flat out told no.

Then I took a deep breathe and felt totally at peace — a real moment of zen. I realized if I had gotten what I had wanted, I wouldn't be where I am now. I wouldn't be working at an established company only 17 miles from home, working with Marcus, working with a really nice set of people for the most part, getting some recognition for the good work I do, getting paid hourly so I actually get overtime pay for those extra hours I work and getting company-paid benefits. Instead I'd still be working at a floundering start-up where the personalities clash, people are mean and rude to each other, driving 100 miles a day round trip, no benefits whatsoever, having to deal with stupid clients and franchisees and generally feeling too much stress.

It was a sucky road getting here, but I am truly grateful for the position I have now. I'm grateful for the experiences I've had at all the different places I've worked because they have given me such a broad knowledge base of the various types of design skills needed and so far all have come into play in one way or another where I currently work. Even my technology skills have been useful.

I'm so glad I was so quickly able to look for the good and let go of those angry, ugly feelings I was having. It's a real breakthrough for me.

While I was over at Apple's site this morning, I saw the front page had a big announcement that in June you will be able to view YouTube content through your AppleTV. That's pretty cool.