Thoughts in a Pensieve

Yeah, So I have a song in my head. Every time I get an email i hear this. and I think "ding.... Fries are done". I know it's dumb, but see I used to work at McDonalds, and I remember singing "Pies Are Done" to the musical tones that the pie oven beeped when the..pies were done. see it makes sense. Well, this guy created a web page that Mike went to a while back. There is one expletive on the site, so I recommend not letting little ears hear, if I'm not to late. It goes by pretty quick though so perhaps little ones won't hear it.

Anyway, so every once in a while Mike or I will get email and we hear a ding. Logically, ding needs to be followed by a "Fries are done"

But even when I click check mail and don't get any email, I get this sound when it checks. so it starts all over again. and walking into the Administration building they have one of those doors that go mmmbongg which is close enough to a ding for the fries to be done.

I think I am done with work for the week. I could vent my frustrations on how we did not receive all of our CIsco switches for our plan to upgrade our network. wait... I think I just did. Anyway sometimes the best laid plans .. ah. cliches blow.

So the wife and I have been addicted to this game. she actually beat it before I did. I however have my name on the global high score list. Number 25 baby. As a matter of fact, I have my game paused right now to post this. I actually spent the 19.95 to buy it.

See, I was recently informed that I went on a blogger burnout. Yep. didn't know it existed. But it's not really this games fault. see I am swamped at work. I just finished an Excel spreadsheet with all the projects that I have at work to get done by August 24. It was three pages long. I half thought of posting the list here, but I figured that'd be a waste of your time.

But too be honest, I have no excuse for why I didn't write in the blog. I suppose I could say that I had so many thoughts in my head, that i lacked the capacity to make a decision as to what to talk about.

I have noticed at work that I am having a difficult time making decisions. see we have had a few things that Mike(scroll to the bottom) and I have been able to do 4 or 5 things. we found ourselves sitting for about five minutes going. " well we could do this... or this...or ... this..(relating to computers)... umm. which should we do? uh.. (sitting catatonic) I dunno, Let's go to lunch. Chili Dogs sound good." then we went to Vitale's Pizza. so much for our decision making abilities.

Oh, and that link to Mike listed above was our previous employer. the site hasn't been updated yet. but we don't have one together at Kelloggsville yet. just one of the many things on my spreadsheet O' crap to do.

I suppose we could just tell members of the community to go to http://216.120.137.132/ Heck, it's less typing, and if I could memorize it in less than 9 months, well, why can't they.

Novell sucks. I know they are migrating everything over to linux, but I don't anticipate that making things better. See the problem with the computer industry today is that the companies assume that people want more FEATURES. but that's not what people want at all. what they want is to be able to do a few things easily, quickly, and reliably. See that's why I am such a fan of Apple computer. They get that point. plug it in and it works. really. depending on what Apple product you are dealing with, you have a range of simple customizations, or you can modify advanced settings and code if you choose to.

Anyway. I am going to fire this stinkin Novell Border manager server as soon as I can. unfortunately that is looking like next summer. Hopefully I can convince the powers that be that I need to at least get my web server on the public side of the firewall. After all, what good is a web server for if it is only available when it feels like working.

I was going to edit my post the one that says "Try it know" but the irony of all the mistakes is just better. I did get the site up, then broke it promptly after posting the ... uh post.

Anyway. It should be up. especially if you see a rocket picture here.

Well, I was half right. The reason my web server at school/work wasn't working was because of a stinkin Novell server. But it wasn't because it just wasn't working. I forgot to re-enter one line of information. Oh well, I suppose that's life. try it know folks it's live, But that don't mean it's pretty. I am going to be in charge of the website next year, or at least partly in charge, as it will fall on the shoulders of Kelloggsville Public Schools Tech support Department. We will work on prettying things up throughout the year.


So to answer the question you have if you read the title of this post, the first dumb thing I did was a collective thing with my brother in law. At church we are on the tech team for running the light board every 4 weeks or so. We've been doin' this for a while, as a team, Joe has been doin' this for a few years. Well, Thursday night practice we couldn't get anything to work. the board and the computer just weren't controlling the lights. Well, they weren't turning on. We could however control the movable lights. Not a lot of good without beams of light coming out of them. It took us a half hour of trouble shooting, and then one person asked the simple question, "Is the Master Slider supposed to be all the way down?" DUH!!.

Who decided to put something like that on the board anyway. Seriously why would you want to have a slider that can do a massive blackout. I can understand having a blackout programmed into the show, but why have a slider that overrides all lights and shuts them down. Well, maybe if one light caught fire or something you might want to shut off all the lights at once... but still that would just incite panic with the audience.

I guess I can't criticize a teacher for claiming that their printer won't work and it turns out it's either off, or there is no paper in the tray.