Diary of a LAN Manager

This was just TOO cool :)- Vertigo by U2 "The night is full of holes Those bullets rip the sky Of ink with gold They twinkle as the boys play rock and roll" In 2004 you partied so hard... you forgot how to count. What 2004 Hit Song Are You?

Twenty years ago, there was fresh snow on the ground in West Tennessee and only a handful of friends and family members were brave enough to come see a tiny, precious newborn. Happy Birthday, Miranda.

It took me twenty-one years and two attempts, but by God, I've finished wading through Look Homeward Angel - and I loved it. I know these people - they're my people. All the melodrama, the repressed feelings, the hateful cutting comments, the sense of loneliness and loss - I understood every word, every sensation. I recognize the ugliness and the beauty, and I value both equally. It makes me want to start writing again.

http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/ Why wasn't I notified of this? How could you NOT tell me? Man, I'm going to have a lot of sick days in May....

"Hail to the chief, he's the chief and he needs hailing. He is the chief, so you'd better hail, you sons of bitches. Hail to the chief...." My Fellow Americans He's inaugurated. Thank God for small favors - I'll never have to see THAT again.

CNN:Entertainment Samuel L. Jackson on 'Star Wars' fate Actor: 'It's a great light-saber battle' Monday, January 17, 2005 Posted: 4:24 PM EST (2124 GMT) Editor's Note: The following story reveals plot points of the forthcoming "Star Wars" film. If you'd prefer to not know anything, stop reading now. Ummmm.... it's a little late for that, don't you think?

Perhaps I'm luckier than I think, or God smiles on me more often than He gets credit for. Either way, we still had heat this weekend - apparently our neighborhood is fed by a different line than the one which ruptured. This made for a much happier weekend. Friday night we went to a special meeting at BCC concerning some planned construction projects. Saturday we did laundry, took a nap, then went out for some quick shopping, followed by a trip to Green Hills to see Phantom. Sunday we went to church, went shopping with Miranda, then came home, put up a new ceiling fan, and crashed. Not a bad weekend, all in all. I tried to keep my mind off work, but it's hard sometimes. I'm not good at making major decisions, and this one will no doubt determine which way my career goes from here. Right now I'm waiting for the storm clouds to clear so that I can see things a little clearer.

There should be certain rules concerning Friday. Friday should, by law, NEVER be a bad day. You should never feel beaten up when you go home on a Friday. This has been a BAD Friday. It started off with a meeting I didn't want to go to in order to discuss a subject I did not wish to discuss. Said meeting, scheduled for 8:00, got re-scheduled for 10:00, which left me with a pre-meeting with one of the participants. At 10:00 we joined the third member of our little party, and proceeded to continue with agenda. At the end of the meeting, I felt a little better about my position in the overall scheme of things (ie, I'd had so much sunshine blown up my ass that my hair was glowing)and hoped that things would improve. I went to lunch. I came back and checked the news. According to the late-breaking news at the Tennesean, I have no gas at home. It seems that Nine-Mile hill decided to pretend it was located in California, and so it slid, breaking the gas line that feeds Bellevue.

Quote of the day: I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing. I was going to skip the bike ride this morning. We moved the exercise bike from the dining room during the whole remodeling thing, and I haven't been using it much since, mostly because it involved finding a place to set up my laptop to run the bike. I decided last week enough was enough, so last Tuesday I started all over and set up the schedule for the exercise program again. I'm supposed to ride at least three times a week, with each of my planned weeks beginning on Tuesday. I didn't ride on Tuesday of last week, felt like crap on Wednesday, overslept on Thursday, forgot on Friday, but Saturday I felt a renewed sense of urgency to do something about my health, so off I rode. Sunday wasn't too hard, and by Monday, it was feeling like part of my daily routine. Tuesday was also easy to do. But this morning - this morning I felt like sleeping in. I mean, who really w

Surviving the first week of 2005 wasn't too hard... although there are changes afoot in my world that I'm not quite sure I'm ready to handle. Changes in management's direction and directives have everyone uneasy. I may be asked to make a choice in who I answer to - the department I provide support to as a service, or the group who placed me with the department. I'll work it out - I always manage to land on my feet, cat-like as always. As always, my piddly-assed problems pale in comparison to the grand scheme of things - a friend of ours has a wife who is either slipping into dementia in her early sixties or her breast cancer has metastasized and she has a brain tumor. Neither sounds like good news to me. And as if I needed a larger reminder of my global insignificance, the tsunami disaster serves its purpose remarkably well. I can't comprehend the devastation involved, the suffering, the sickness, the hunger, the pain. It overwhelms me. So I do the only thing I

Happy New Year! Please forgive the incessant coughing - I just wasted a week of vacation being sick. Guess it's better than actually having the sick time charged to me, because I'm sure the doctor wouldn't have approved a week off. But even with a Z-pack and some Prednisone, I'm just barely past the fever-stage, and I have zero energy. But I'm here, back at work, bright smiling face :) On a happier note, I'm enjoying my Christmas present - I got my iPod! My U2 iPod! WooHoo!! Did you know it has games on it? How cool is that?