Thoughts in a Pensieve

Hey, I have internet at work again.

More importantly, I can image computers at decent speeds.

well, I gotta work now see yall later.

So I have four days left.
Four days left until my trial of ecto expires and I have to decide if it's good enough to buy.

Four days left until my copy of Harry Potter Arrives

But only three days left until I go see Fantastic Four on Friday night date night.

Speaking of movies, I watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind last night. It was pretty good. I like the style of it. I feel the acting was very good too. It was interesting to see the main actors play the opposite roles that they normally play. Jim Carrey being the more serious role and Kate Winslet being the wild and wacky character. I thought it was pulled off very well.

I also appreciated the style of creative camera work as opposed to relying on computer effects for everything. As you can tell, I watched some of the bonus features.

So tomorrow is do or die time. We will be shutting down the entire network at school and we don't know really when it will be back up. Why? Well, our vendor neglected to tell us that 11 switches that are primary and key to the redesign are not going to be here. 2 are backordered until August 1st. And the other 9 switches are lost in transit. They shipped July 1 and should have been delivered around July 6th. (sounds like the same black hole that one of my blockbuster DVD's slipped into. but that's another story) So I found out about the swtitches on Friday. We ordered the first of June. Fine time to tell us that our switches won't be here. sure it was three days before our teardown, but really just one business day.

So I am going to try to get some free stuff out of this, because I see it as their screw up. Now I won't name names, due to slander lawsuit possibilities etc. I don't blame the manufacturer. Cisco is probably still the best in the business. I at least hope so, since the are definitely the most expensive. But the price doesn't concern me. Why? Well, read on.

Thanks to all you fine people that have a telephone service. See, there is a surcharge called "Universal Service". How is this related to my switches? Keep your pants on,( or don't, I don't care I can't see you). Any way, the Federal Government distributes that money back into the school systems. There's a catch though. you have to spend the money on telecommunication types of equipment and services. and there are other catches too, but the gist is our switches are covered. They aren't free mind you, but they are drastically discounted.

Remember back in high school, there was a free or a reduced lunch price for kids that lived less fortunate lives. If you aren't aware of it, then you must have been one of the "more" fortunate. Anyway, The USF (Universal Service Fund.. Stick with me here) covers the percentage of free/reduced students as the discount toward the equipment. So the school district that I work for has an Alternative high school. Everybody there qualifies for F/R lunch, 100% bam. that's a lot of discount. but it is averaged in with the rest of the district, so our total numbers are more around 75%. In the end, we are putting in about $135,000 network for about $33k!

Anyway, we'll see how fast we can get our network up and running.

I know, I didn't link to anything. nothing seemed relevant though.

So my wife's 5 year high school reunion was tonight. lot's of people getting drunk. I had two smirnoff's, but that didn't touch me. it was more like drinking pop. or soda if you desire. anyway. so Shannon is still up and reading some of her mommy message boards, so I figure I could stay up and write down some thoughts.

So for those that haven't figured it out, I have two kids. my daughter likes watching Veggietales. well, the latest one is called Minnesota Cuke. and they typically have a short story , an interlude song, and then a longer story. the interlude songs are usually funny or just weird. So I have the latest song in my head. It's a 1950's style teen tragedy ballad called "Pizza Angel".

Now I know that 50% Of my blog readers are in the pizza delivery business ( I have stealth ninjas that are good at retrieving that type of information). So I just thought I'd share. The song is about a guy who orders a pizza, but the pizza guy is two hours late. he is late because the number on the guys door is supposed to be 16, but the six is broken and hanging upside down so it looks like a 9. The premise of the story is pretty funny, especially since the Pizza delivery guy eats the entire pizza in the 2 hours that he was late. He says something about " Uh I got hungry while I was looking for your house... you don't have to tip me."

I wonder if pizza guys ever do spend 2 hours looking for a house, and then eat the pizza. or do they do things to pizzas to habitually bad customers? I suppose I can wait and read myself.


(Pizza Angel please come to me...Tomato sauce and Cheese so goouuooeey.) At the end of the trailer

Good night... er Morning...whatever it's late ... er early. I'm done