It was a good day today. I felt I got lots accomplished at work. Frustrated in some areas, but I think I can always count on website work to make me feel good.
I get to see my angel tomorrow. Yay. I don’t think there’s anything better for a guy than holding the girl he loves in his arms. Just thinking of it makes me happy. I hope we get to do something fun outside this weekend. I think I’m getting tired of being cooped up inside.
Archive for June, 2002
I don’t mind storms and rain … except when tornados are a possibility. I discovered that I have excellent wireless reception in my basement. Not that that is incredibly useful. It would be nicer to actually have a weather band radio down there.
Work sucked this morning. I ran into a brick wall or two on a project I have been working on. This afternoon I worked on the website, which went pretty well. It’s shaping up pretty good.
I fixed my ssh on my server tonight. There’s apparently a bug in OpenSSH 3.3 that prevents you from using compression, privilege separation, and the Linux 2.2.x kernel together. My system is humming along happily now though.
I should get to bed… I haven’t been sleeping enough lately … in part due to personal projects and partly due to the weather. I also mowed my lawn tonight, so I’m rather bushed…. mmm … bushed …. 
I’m going to be *really* tired tomorrow. That’s what I get for staying up and watching Armageddon I guess. I bought a bunch of new DVDs tonight, and Armageddon came free with one of them. Since I like it anyway it was a bonus for me.
Work has been kinda depressing lately. So much to do and the summer break is nearly 1/3 over. I haven’t been getting a lot of satisfaction out of my job this week. Probably because I don’t feel like I’m accomplishing much.
Well … off to bed. Saturday is going to be an even later night than tonight, so I need to catch sleep tomorrow night.
I wasn’t feeling ambitious this evening, so I decided to work some more on my mp3 catalog. I got a little further with it.
I am going to Tomah this weekend (Saturday) with my brother to see the NTPA Grand National pulls … 2WD, super-stock, modified, heavy super-stock, pro-stock, 4WD, unlimited, super semis. Lots of noise and lots of exhaust and lots of horsepower. — insert series of vigorous Tim Allen grunts here — Anybody else interested in going? 
I tried to get beldurnik to go a few years ago, but he wasn’t interested. I think some exposure to this would do him good. 
Well, off to bed I go, since I don’t have much else to say. Some life, huh?
… or not, depending on your perspective. I had the dubious enjoyment of mowing lawn, washing dishes and doing laundry. What’s good about this you may wonder? Well, it means I don’t have to do them later this week!
Anybody going to the Hairball rock festival in Somerset this weekend? It sounds intriguing but I don’t want to go it alone … such things are always more fun with friends.
I think I’m going to have to replace the light fixture in my dining room/kitchen. It’s just at the right height so if I walk up to the table and lean over a bit, my forehead crashes right into it. This is not a good thing. It hurts. There’s another fixture downstairs in the basement that *really* needs to go because I have a tendency to stand up underneath it after putting clothes in the washer and I come close to impaling myself on some sharp protrusions. Also not good.
Sleep is sounding real good right now, so off I go.
Well, it was a great weekend … had to come to an end eventually. I spent it in Sun Prairie with Liz. It’s a bit of a jaunt to get there, but it’s definitely worth it. She was so happy to see me it made me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
The drive back took 3-1/2 hrs … non-stop. It wasn’t too bad and I didn’t get sleepy at all. I am going to be glad to be back in my bed though. I like firm beds, but the one I slept on in SP was a bit hard. I think I might bring my own pillow next time (2 weeks!).
I love Klondike bars. Yummy yummy. My package of bars is half gone (bought them middle of last week).
Tomorrow I get to mow my lawn again … I haven’t looked closely but I know it needs mowing ‘cuz it’s been a week. I also need to do dishes, so it should be a busy evening.
Grumble. LiveJournal’s website pisses me off sometimes. I hate it when I repeatedly cannot load a LiveJournal page ‘cuz the server isn’t responding or just a general “page failed to load” error in IE.
I actually forgot to post last night. I remembered after I crawled into bed but didn’t feel it was worth getting up, turning on my laptop and firing up iJournal to post something. I’ve had a pretty productive two days at work. Yesterday I got a lot of stuff done on the new IT website. This afternoon I spent several hours playing with MacOS X and LDAP. I broke my MacOS X test box and almost had to re-install the OS to regain admin rights.
Might not post much this weekend as I’m heading down to Madison to be with my angel. It’s been two weeks since I saw her last, but it feels like a lot longer. Well, off to bed with me.
… I hope. I spent a lot of time in meetings at work over the past 4 days … Thu: 3, Fri: 3, Mon: 4, Tues: 4. I don’t have any tomorrow though. Yay! I can actually get something done maybe.
I stayed late at work tonight to finish up a section of the new ITS website. While I don’t really enjoy staying late most of the time, it’s a good time to actually get things done because there are few interruptions after normal work hours. This also means I get to leave early on Friday to head down south.
I discovered another truck problem that appears to have come about as a result of the deer collision I had. The housing that holds the passenger-side headlight in place was damaged so the light is no longer aimed properly (it points downward too much). *grumble* … another thing to get fixed … hopefully the insurance will cover it ‘cuz the part didn’t look cheap/chinsy. It’s scheduled to go into the shop next week I think.
Well, I’d best get to bed.
…. I hope. I’m going to try to get into work early tomorrow and get something accomplished before the 3hr marathon “ITS Management Group” meeting. Maybe this time we won’t dwell on what we’ve done so much as issues that need to be discussed.
I’ve decided I’m going to head to Madison this weekend. I’ve been without my angel for 2 weeks and I miss her so. She sent me the lyrics to “Helplessly, Hopelessly, Recklessly” by Jessica Andrews tonight. I feel so loved. I’m twitterpated.
I am sick and fucking tired of these damned never-ending meetings! Meetings meetings everywhere! Meetings meetings … I’m going to pull out my hair! ARGH!
