As you can tell, my day has already sucked due to electrical issues. Now I find out one of my tires went flat. Turns out there is a screw lodged in it. Funny, that's almost the same as the nail in the side-wall of my other front tire last week. Two tires in a week, that is definately a record for me. I'm a little bit suspicious since it was two tires in a week and Colin's van had a flat tire about a month ago for the same reason; a nail was in the tire. Are we seeing a trend here? Add to this that another tenant in the parking lot had all four tires flat at one point. I have to talk to her to find out if they just had the air let out or if they were punctured like mine. Ugh... can't wait until Friday.
Thursday, September 25, 2003
Colin's blog = poof!
Posted on 9/25/2003 11:37:00 AMby TC
For those of you who read my blog and Colin's blog, he doesn't have the time to update his blog so he has deleted it. This has been a public service announcement.
I hate stupid people
Posted on 9/25/2003 11:35:00 AMby TC
I have been unable to do much of the work I normally do for the past two days due to the fact that electricians have been having a tendancy to cut my power in my office. They are working on splitting up the almost completely unused Fuller Auditorium Preperation Room next to my office, and since my office was originally created by splitting it off from that room (apparently it really used to be huge) I share several electrical circuits with it.
In the early morning my lab testing area was shut down because they went to work on some of the power. No warning, no nothing. Just 8 machines suddenly powering down in the middle of whatever they were doing. I explained to the guy, after he finally turned the power back on, that there were other offices to consider when shutting off a circuit. He agreed he'd work on the circuit the next morning so I'd shut off the power after I left work. I figure everything is fine now.
Nope.
I get back from my weekly ops meeting to find that mine and my co-worker's (Chris) machines were all powered down due to the fact that they had tripped another circuit breaker. We got it turned on and I was hoping we finally had an understanding about things.
Nope.
Today while Chris and I were out trying to fix things over in Washburn, we get a call from Andy (another co-worker) that they are planning to shut off the power in my room and Chris' room and we better get back here to shut off our things so they would get powered down safely. Add to this that the fact that the outlets weren't labeled right so they ended up just flicking off any circuit they thought was right. I wonder how many other systems they brought down accidentally. Ugh...
So at the moment I can't really do a damned thing until I can be sure that I'm not going to lose power. I hate stupid people. A little planning and forethought go a long way.
In the early morning my lab testing area was shut down because they went to work on some of the power. No warning, no nothing. Just 8 machines suddenly powering down in the middle of whatever they were doing. I explained to the guy, after he finally turned the power back on, that there were other offices to consider when shutting off a circuit. He agreed he'd work on the circuit the next morning so I'd shut off the power after I left work. I figure everything is fine now.
Nope.
I get back from my weekly ops meeting to find that mine and my co-worker's (Chris) machines were all powered down due to the fact that they had tripped another circuit breaker. We got it turned on and I was hoping we finally had an understanding about things.
Nope.
Today while Chris and I were out trying to fix things over in Washburn, we get a call from Andy (another co-worker) that they are planning to shut off the power in my room and Chris' room and we better get back here to shut off our things so they would get powered down safely. Add to this that the fact that the outlets weren't labeled right so they ended up just flicking off any circuit they thought was right. I wonder how many other systems they brought down accidentally. Ugh...
So at the moment I can't really do a damned thing until I can be sure that I'm not going to lose power. I hate stupid people. A little planning and forethought go a long way.
Saturday, September 20, 2003
And all was right with the world
Posted on 9/20/2003 06:14:00 PMby TC
YAY!!! My home PC is finally back in operation. I've been using my laptop for the last month while trying to figure out what is wrong with my PC. After replacing the power supply, and swapping out all the RAM to test it I finally was able to figure out that it was a combination of my network card being fried and the PCI slot it was in being fried. *shrug* oh well. I put a backup NIC into another open slot and all is right with the world again.
Now that my MP3 collection is back I think its time to have a party. :) Maybe at the end of the term. Speaking of parties, I know that this may be a bit early, but keep me in mind for your new years party plans. I will be having my third annual new years eve party, its gonna be a blast. With any luck this will be the last time I have it in an apartment. My new years resolution will hopefully be to move into a townhouse that I will own. I am beginning the process of buying a house, wish me luck.
Now that my MP3 collection is back I think its time to have a party. :) Maybe at the end of the term. Speaking of parties, I know that this may be a bit early, but keep me in mind for your new years party plans. I will be having my third annual new years eve party, its gonna be a blast. With any luck this will be the last time I have it in an apartment. My new years resolution will hopefully be to move into a townhouse that I will own. I am beginning the process of buying a house, wish me luck.
Friday, September 19, 2003
TGIF
Posted on 9/19/2003 11:35:00 PMby TC
Well its Friday. The day started out rainy and ugly and didn't get much better. I went to drive into work and found that my front tire was flat. Looks like I'll be making a trip out to DirectTire soon. Thankfully at this point I have a full size spare so its not that bad but I have to make sure to change it soon so I don't take any chances while I'm using my spare. I don't wanna be stuck with no spare at all.
I have a concert this Saturday for Glee Club, but I have to say I'm just not feeling the excitement of it any more. I sort of feel that I'm dragging myself through it at this point. Maybe this will be my last year? I have to do this year at the very least since its Louis' retirement. Louis has given so much to the club and helped me to really grow as a singer I have to do this for him. I think the key deciding factor for next year will be the location of the glee club trip and the selection for the musical (if we do one). Even still, I may still leave after this year and just go on the trip as a guest.
I have a concert this Saturday for Glee Club, but I have to say I'm just not feeling the excitement of it any more. I sort of feel that I'm dragging myself through it at this point. Maybe this will be my last year? I have to do this year at the very least since its Louis' retirement. Louis has given so much to the club and helped me to really grow as a singer I have to do this for him. I think the key deciding factor for next year will be the location of the glee club trip and the selection for the musical (if we do one). Even still, I may still leave after this year and just go on the trip as a guest.
Monday, September 15, 2003
You Can Never Look Back
Posted on 9/15/2003 11:48:00 PMby TC
Had a good party at crow the other night. It was an 80's theme. While it was fun and all, I'm starting to feel my age a bit at the parties. It's little things that remind me that I'm not an undergraduate any more and that I can't go back. It's like the line from "Boys of Summer" 'Don't look back! you can never look back!'
I sometimes feel a bit cheated that I always acted years ahead of my age during the time of my life that I was allowed to be young and do stupid things. All things considered though, I don't regret it really. I mean I always say that everything I've done has brought me to where I am to day and I'm happy with that. Plus, a lot of times in my life I've been the level-headed one, the one to keep things together and that serves a purpose too. I guess not everyone can be the crazy, reckless one. *shrug* Maybe that's why I surround myself with friends who are a bit crazy :) The ones that convince me to do things that I normally wouldn't do.
Speaking of which, my roomie brought me up to the new networking tower on top of Morgan Hall. It was really, really cool. It rises about 30 feet above the roof, and we climbed up and got an incredible view of Worcester. That was something I'd never do without being prodded to do it. It was definately worth it even if I was asking if we should be doing it the whole way up.
I guess the lesson is that its never too late to be a kid again, or to be a bit daring. Do something ever once and a while that scares you. :)
I sometimes feel a bit cheated that I always acted years ahead of my age during the time of my life that I was allowed to be young and do stupid things. All things considered though, I don't regret it really. I mean I always say that everything I've done has brought me to where I am to day and I'm happy with that. Plus, a lot of times in my life I've been the level-headed one, the one to keep things together and that serves a purpose too. I guess not everyone can be the crazy, reckless one. *shrug* Maybe that's why I surround myself with friends who are a bit crazy :) The ones that convince me to do things that I normally wouldn't do.
Speaking of which, my roomie brought me up to the new networking tower on top of Morgan Hall. It was really, really cool. It rises about 30 feet above the roof, and we climbed up and got an incredible view of Worcester. That was something I'd never do without being prodded to do it. It was definately worth it even if I was asking if we should be doing it the whole way up.
I guess the lesson is that its never too late to be a kid again, or to be a bit daring. Do something ever once and a while that scares you. :)
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Here We Go Again!
Posted on 9/10/2003 04:09:00 PMby TC
Well Microsoft just released a new security patch to take care of a new attack vector for the RPC/DCOM security vulnerablity that gave us the Blaster/Nachi virii. We are beginning to batten down the hatches to prep for the worst with this. Hopefully we'll weather the storm well, but in case we don't and you don't seem me for a week or so, you know why.
*sigh* And just as we were finishing up with Nachi.
For those with Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 please update your systems. You can either update from Windows Update or you can download the specific patches directly and install them.
MS03-39 Patch: Win2k WinXP
*sigh* And just as we were finishing up with Nachi.
For those with Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 please update your systems. You can either update from Windows Update or you can download the specific patches directly and install them.
MS03-39 Patch: Win2k WinXP
Tuesday, September 02, 2003
Dreams...
Posted on 9/02/2003 09:10:00 AMby TC
Dreams are interesting things. I tend to get very wrapped up in mine. They are very realistic and tend to be very close to the surface and vivid shortly before I wake up. Sometimes I'll find myself oversleeping because in the dream I want to see how it ends, what happens.
Lately a weird, slightly disturbing trend is that I'm dreaming and can't seem to remember something important. I think it changes dream to dream, but for whatever reason, there is something that I know I've always known how to do, or why it happens but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. When I finally wake up I feel unsettling disassociated with life. I feel like there's something that's just not real, something that just isn't connected.
Lately a weird, slightly disturbing trend is that I'm dreaming and can't seem to remember something important. I think it changes dream to dream, but for whatever reason, there is something that I know I've always known how to do, or why it happens but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. When I finally wake up I feel unsettling disassociated with life. I feel like there's something that's just not real, something that just isn't connected.
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