Domestic Geek

I'm just three short months away from going to Las Vegas, baby! I can't wait. I'm already making a list of things I need to get: laptop battery, new camera, better iPod earphones, etc. I'm going to have a blast!

I heard the most disturbing thing on the television today while eating breakfast at the Flying J restaurant this morning. Viagra is using Elvis' "Viva Las Vegas" song in their television ads. I was seriously wondering what The King would think about his music being used in such a way. I think it was tactless and totally inappropriate.

In an effort to get the cash together for my Vegas trip, I've started doing freelance design again. I'll have my site up by the end of the week, but in the mean time, if anybody reading this needs any graphic design services (print or web), I'm available. Just shoot me an email...the addy is in the sidebar--->

I was on a site called Oh! Crafty Me and she had the most wonderful piece of fabric that she had found at a place called Reprodepot. I'd love to have this wonderful pattern with sewing supplies pictured below. There are so many adorable patterns there. They are a little pricey, but I'll definitely keep this site in mind when I'm looking for something special.

*NOT A PAID POST - FOR MY OWN INFORMATION ONLY!

Do you want to know why I don't do web design for a living even though I studied it? IE. Yep, that stupid web browser...the spawn of the browser world let forth upon this earth by those jerks over at Microsoft. It is its own monster. I hate making a perfect good layout that looks absolutely lovely in every browser known to man EXCEPT Internet Explorer. I then hate wasting hours upon hours trying to figure out why things won't line up by one pixel. Grrrrr.

I've got a chancre sore on my gum which is apparently hitting a nerve that runs down my jaw and into my ear. Owwwwwwww!

The pillow was awesome, the little bit I got to sleep on it. I was wide awake at midnight last night. *sigh* Guess who commandeered it the minute I got up this morning, though. Guess someone needs to get himself one of his own.

So, last Friday was SysAdmin Appreciation Day and I tried really hard to drum up support for the holiday for Marcus. Unfortunately, I work with dolts.

First, I went to Marcus' immediate supervisor to get permission to decorate his door and to get her to drum up the day with the rest of the staff. Well, she didn't bother to tell me that she was going to be on vacation for most of last week. Hmph. Turns out she didn't bother to tell anybody before she left, either.

Then I talked to my supervisor and told him we should celebrate for Marcus and the prepress tech guy. It totally slipped his mind (so he says). Nevermind that I wrote it on the CALENDAR that he looks at every darned day.

So, Friday I stopped at 7-11 and bought him one of his favorite canned caffeinated coffee beverages and proceeded to decorate his door.

Apparently nobody I work with learned how to read. All day long, people wished Marcus "Happy Birthday." After a while, he got tired of telling people it wasn't his birthday. Others thought the mini CDs in between words in my HAPPY SYSADMIN DAY banner were letter Os. I thought they might have trouble with the banner, so I printed the sign at work that morning with the URL for the SysAdmin Day site. Clueless...the whole lot.

At least Marcus knows one person in the building truly appreciates him.

[more photos in the SysAdmin Day 2007 gallery]