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Sunday, July 06, 2008

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Friday! Friday! Friday!

Well, I have received my bonus today! $300.00 of it was sucked out by the tax lords... GOD that sucks!!! Unbelievable that they even chunk out their share of everything that is earned, including bonuses.

Work continues on the websites, as I am brainstorming with applications to help automate the dynamics of the pages loading. I've started an applicaiton that will load randomly selected images for the page, and based on the day of the week, will select from a different folder that contains images for that day of the week, or seasonal images.

The application, which is in it's beta stages, will check the date, with some decision making subroutines, it will decide which folder to select from and choose a random image based on the number of images contained within that folder as the random number generator. Simple, but an effective way to rotate banners, advertisements, and provide a more dynamic website for the visitors.


Here at work we have automatic flushing urinals in the men's room. Unfortunately, I was suprised to find that the urinal on the right, decided to start flushing while I was still performing my 'duty' and as sprayed with the mix of water and whatever contents of the urinal were there at the time! The resulting spray missed me because I was alert enough to jump back, however I pissed on the floor as a result. I looked down to notice that I wasn't the only one who must have experienced this as I noticed then that I was standing before a rather large puddle that was there before I started this whole freakin' business.

I put a note in the suggestion box that reads "Please fix the pisser that flushes while you're holding your johnson and make it wait until you step away from it before it decides to flush!"

I hope someone takes this suggestion, but just in case they don't I'll be doing my business in the *left* urinal or go to another bathroom.. (why am I including this information in my blog???)

I'm also wondering when my blog will archive these blogs? Does it wait until I have collected a full week of blogs, or do I have to manually do it? Does it automatically include links to the archives, in the menu on the left, or do I have to write it in manually? Do I have to go looking for information, or will God himself shine down from the clouds and answer my every question before I even answer it? Will I ask another question in the blog or will I stop typing and finally hit the submit button?

The world may never know...

What is the anatomy of a connection string? Why should I ask these idiotic questions when I should be focusing on other areas that are far more important to my life than this? Who are you that you are reading my blogs anyway? Why do you care what I write in a blog? What impact does it really have in your life? My life?

Answers to these questions can be found by reading tomorrow's blog..

The Snow lives on!

Well, as promised, we got what they said we'd get - S N O W.. So close to Spring, and yet so far.. Not only that, it's colder than a witches' pituey too.

Ok, some programming stuff..
I've been working like a dog to get things rolling for dragonzlaircustomcycles.com site which is close to launching in April, just in time for riding season. I've got the database application in place, and the autoresponder email application is working properly.

Oh joy! Another winter Storm rolling in!

Just when I think that Old Man Winter is done with his reign over our region, and just when I think Spring is just about the corner because of the robin I saw the other day and just because I've got some plans to get the bike out of the shed to start preparing it for riding season - this happens: "A Winter Storm Warning is posted for the entire Western New York area today" - 6-12" of snow is expected to fall today, which means, when I get out of work tonight, I'm going to have to shovel something in order to get into my own friggin' home.

Thanks a lot, thanks a friggin' lot. I tell you, I'm so friggin' sick of this weather, and I often wonder, "What the hell am I doing here, and why don't I start looking for warmer climates to live?" - Well, it's not that easy, for one, family is here, and there's no way I could leave them just yet.

So, I'm stuck with this, and it's better to accept it than bitch about it so I'll shut up about it now. Just glad that sooner or later, this weather has to change to something more condusive to riding motorcycles. (some day).

Ok, it's Tuesday - I'm at work 1hour early, in the atrium again, with coffee, and a bananna from my lunch bucket. I'm wondering when the interviews for the position I've applied to will begin. I've got this notion that soon I will be in a different position - a better position with better hours, and less stress. That would make my life easier to deal with, right? Wrong answer, way wrong answer. I know that it wont make everything better, but might just ease up on some of the crap I've been dealing with here, but then again, it might open a whole new can of whoop-ass and put me further into the perverbial 'frying pan-of-hell' by moving to a new position, then again, it may not. Won't know unless I check it out, right?

Well, tomorrow is the official quit date (smoking) for me, and I've not see the MD about an inhaler yet. I've asked for an appointment, but not from my traditional doctor. Another doctor I know, who I've been emailing for a few weeks, has yet to reply to my question if he will see me, and subsequently watch over my quitting and health for this non-smoking thing. Hope to hear back from him today, and if he says yes, I'll make an appointment to see him, and move forward with the plan. Until then, today's the last day for smoking, and I've already got the nervous jitters about not having any cigarettes.

Screw it - just do it, right? Yes, enough said about that.

The winds are really picking up outside, and the snow has begun to fall, right now it's about 24 degrees, and I know it won't get much warmer than that today as this strong storm moves into the area. I like to keep up with the narrative forecasts from NOAA, which is updated hourly on their website. I don't know why, but sometimes, tracking storms is a fun thing to do. Hurricanes are another story - they fascinate me, but we never get them up here, so who cares about hurricanes, besides they give them gay names anyway. I would name them something that would be more descriptive of thier nature; Godzilla, Rohan, MegaBlast, and other things like destructive names we know. Not "george" or "Melinda" or whatever those meterologists give names to storms, I mean who's afraid of "Isabella"? Shit, give it a name that strikes some fear in the heart for God's sake like "Sauron" or "The deliverer of Evil" or something spooktastic like that.

Well, I've got only 15 minutes to get my ass logged to the phone system, so I'm closing with this simple thought:

"There's nothing you can do about anything - don't worry, you're not responsible so don't think you have to change it to make it right"

ABATE gets cartooned..

Great, another idiot slamming ABATE...

See the image

This blog is done via remote locations today. I grabbed my laptop as Patti and I were heading out the door this morning, knowing full well that I'd be sitting for a while just twiddling my thumbs while she cruised the shops at the mall, so I figure I'd get another blog in while I sit comfortably, in this food court located in the Eastern Hills mall.

It's a nice area, lots of marble and wood chairs. In the center, is a large hearth-shaped fire place with a 52 inch gateway lcd television embedded in the wall above the heavy wood mantle. Brass bars adorn the rail along the counters with tall wooden stools that encircle the fireplace pillars. No wireless access points though - I'll have to pen a strongly worded letter to the management of this mall to get something I can use for internet access, just a stupid access point in the cieiling with a connection out would be sweet, however I doubt it will ever happen. That would be too much like right..

Its before noon, and there's a good array of mall walkers, mostly older folks, strolling through the mall, at a relaxed but energetic pace. I stopped one of the several stations in the food court and got a medium coffee, $1.07 later I was unpacking my laptop, and sitting down near the tall pillar with the fireplace and television set. Some folks congregate to talk, eat and some come to blog, with thier laptops (me) because it's an open public place, and a good place to come to people watch.

This coffee tastes like shit, but I'm drinking it anyway because otherwise I wouldn't have anything and that would look odd - so I add 4 more sugars to it to kill the shit taste. Tow old people just sat down near me and they're eating a nice lunchie togther, a brief brake from thier shopping exciursions. More good news on the tele - a dual suicide bombing in Isreal. What the fuck would make anyone want to live in a country where everyone walks around with explosives taped to thier backs, blowing themselves up whenever they seem fit?

If I were president over there, and no, I'm not interested in going over there to actually do anything, but I am interested in telling someone else what to do, because I know better, and I'm always right when it comes to what I think and say. Anyway, the first thing we need to do, is keep those people in their own country, turn everyone from our borders and tell them to 'go home and stay there'. Shut down all our borders to immigrants, and keep them out for 10 years.

Meanwhile, we go through our internal population, and evict anyone that's not supposed to be in the US, and anyone waiting to be admitted should be sent packing back to the country of their origin. You think it costs alot of money to keep the illegal immigrants in a jail cell? It costs alot less to simply load them up on a plane, and fly them over thier country, when the plane is within the area of the person's country, we then open the door of the plane, and let them parachute out - there- end of problem.

Just got interupted by a guy sitting near me who shouted "Hey - what are you typing?" I ignored him at first, and then he shouted again "What'ya some kind of reporter? Why are you typing so much? I looked at him somewhat annyoed, but then we talked for a few minutes, and he got distracted by someone, who walked up and I returned to my laptop, and this blog. I think he's some kind of Jesus freak - as I heard him talking about God, and preaching something to a woman he was sitting with.

Well, I've had a chance to toy with the DVD player and surround unit. I went to Home Depot and bought the speaker mounts for the satelite speakers. Get this - at Stereo advantage, the store I originally bought the hardware from, I asked about speaker mounting hardware so I could wall mount the speakers. The salesperson directed me to an area where they had assorted wall mounting hardware and the (heres the good part) cheapest wall mounting hardware they had was $89.00 for a 4 pack of mounts!!! I asked, "Eighty-Nine fucking dollars for that??"