Last night’s dream was weird. I was sitting at my house all by myself, and I get a phone call from my high school friend, Jill. She wanted to have some cappuchinos at Maurie’s in Pekin, which was transformed into this trendy coffee bar with weird stuff on the walls like Applebee’s. I walk in […]

Continue reading...

After four and a half hours on support tonight (I don’t want to talk about it), I got some ambition up. I got the difficult wall of my bathroom scraped. One should never have to have his head two inches from the underside of a thirty year old toilet. But the difficult wall is done, […]

Continue reading...

I was thinking about something that my fearless Team Lead said last week as I sat up tonight. He asserted that all nerds have varying levels of OCD. That put me into stock-taking mode. Its true, I do. When engrossed in either a support or design issue, I must have something in my left hand […]

Continue reading...

This week saw the second of three planned examinations, this time it was predominantly a youth test. After a very thorough class by , our test candidates did a fantastic job. I managed to get 11 Sochins accomplished before classes started, I secretly wanted to do a few more. I got that chance on Saturday. […]

Continue reading...

Teddy After Bath 1 Originally uploaded by dalcher. Here’s our good buddy Teddy reclining on the loveseat after his bath. He just sat here and stared at me while I took these shots. Obviously, Tasha and I are both in trouble for making him have a bath. He was stinky and needed it though!

Continue reading...

I just wanted to give my good buddy some extreme to the max thanks for donating his copy of Quake4 Deluxe Edition to my cause. Apparently his system was unable to handle the sheer voluptuous glory of Quake4, so he passed it off to me. Let me tell you, this game looks GOOOOD. So good, […]

Continue reading...

Throughout the course of the last few days, I have been through some unpleasant meetings with our process partners. I know I am an idealist, however in this circumstance I feel that I am justified in my concerns relating to the approach that we’re being pressured towards. We have the opportunity to enter into talks […]

Continue reading...

I got a phone call at work today from stating that he would not be able to make it to Karate tonight, and could I make it so class could get going around 6 pm? I agreed, and thus lays the groundwork for my teaching the first class. I decided to let Kathy lead warmups, […]

Continue reading...

Holy crap, does this thing rock. I mean, seriously. Multitasking with the Core Duo processor is unreal. I’ve had some good systems in the past, but nothing could get past certain tasks at the same time… copying large files, downloading large files, and running memory intensive applications are cake to this thing. The Ultrasharp display […]

Continue reading...

I spent a lazy evening around the house tonight. I appear to have contracted The Crud, which appears to be equal portions aphthous ulcers and allergies. I have felt rather tired and lethargic for the last few days, so I thought it best to stay in and get better. I’m going to attempt Mapleton tomorrow […]

Continue reading...