rorqual

Your weasel is the American River Otter. Fun and
playful, you're the life of the party! Talk
about an animal that knows how to have fun.
Good news: You're the only animal, besides people,
of course, to have built toys! How cool is
that?
Bad news: As fun loving as you are, some people
think you eat too many damn fish, and water
pollution's no spring picnic either.


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Poor otters.

Narf!

I left work early today because it was so very cold. The heat wasn't working right in the trailer, and though I had three space heaters in my office, it was still only about 56F. One of the guys in the other trailer went out and dug the third space heater out of a warehouse, because I usually only have two, and he felt bad for me. I love the guys at my job.

But then, I don't know them very well. And that's probably for the best. If there's one thing I've learned here on lj, is that often people you like when you meet them and chat socially, can turn out to be Hidden Idiots when given a public soapbox from which to air the meanderings of their interesting little minds. No, not you, friends of my friends list. You are on my friends list because I find you uniformly entertaining, and not just in the "Oh man, you won't believe what Ted did *this* time" kind of way. Well, some of you are like that too. But mainly, it's the other people I know, mostly only socially...the people about whom I've said, "Oh yeah, X is a really nice person, I like talking to him/her". And then they get on lj and I'm all like, "What? And you what?" And then when I meet them in public I smile, and then sidle away...because I now know they are Hidden Idiots.

Then again, maybe that's the beauty of lj, being able to out your Hidden Idiot side in semi-public. Maybe it's liberating, the freedom. Then again, who was it that said it is better to be believed to be ignorant, than to open your mouth and prove you are? Wilde? Someone smarter than me, certianly.

Hm. Am I being an idiot now? I'm sure someone will tell me if I am....

For the dorks in the crowd...

So, I go to the pharmacy to pick up Sammi's meds. It's not a big chain place; it's one of the independent, compounding pharmacies you can still find around. Like a lot of small businesses, it belongs to a larger organization, I assume of other independent pharmacies. To that effect, it has a little sticker on the door, with the abbreviation of that organization....

Apparently, I go to an EPIC pharmacy...:)

Whee! I frolic in the joy of having my USB stuff working - grazi again, kyriotate. And I'm loving the rebuild now that I can get stuff to work - I revel in the sleek silver stylings of XP, and stand joyfully surveying the vast empty veldt of my hard drives, uncluttered by fragments and needless programs. I don't want to install anything new, and mar the perfection of my system. Now, if I could only get memory that worked, and finally slay the demon monitor flicker (which I have at least temporarily beaten into submission), all would be perfect.

Makes me wish I had become a full-fledged girl computer dork, rather than just vaguely useful....ah, the road not taken....

I am off to kyriotates house so he can rebuild my machine. He is competent and knowledgeable and wise, and yet I have fear in my heart. What if I forget my passwords? What if I have a program on here I need but don't have the media to, and don't realize that until it's too late. What if it fails catastrophically and I have no computer at all?!?!

Fear.

*shudder*

Last week: Went on Asian market shopping spree. Lotte is a combo grocery store & Asian marketplace - all the Hello Kitty merchandise one woman can handle, plus electronics, food, and much, much more. Han Ah Reum is less department store, more supermarket, but with sushi bar and more Western products. And a nifty selection of bakery products. Beware the spicy beef udong, masquerading (to those ignorant of Korean) as regular beef udong, but then being very, very spicy. Also, Bible Bars! Both of these are in the Columbia area; email if you care for directions. To be honest, I am not even entirely sure of the websites cited above are to the places I mean them to be. But they are very shiny!

Got pseudo snowed in. It was lovely and quiet and I hurt myself digging my car out, but felt very butch. Mmmm, grilled cheese...

This past week: Went to NJ to help kyriotate pack and move. Dusted, wrapped, taped, and threw away many things. Had many asthma attacks. Obtained bruises in odd places. Acquired new monitor, wireless router, and crock pot. Please send good crock pot recipes my way.

Yesterday: Watched movers move stuff out. Recovered. Drove. Strained neck taking ginormous new monitor out of car. Installed monitor, which failed to fix flicker issues. Installed new drivers for monitor. Installed new drivers for video card. Did not fix flicker problem. Was fortunate to retain any semblance of useful moniting. Slept.

Today: Watched movers move stuff in. Was extraneous. Came home and installed router, which works. Wrapped many xmas gifts. Ordered more xmas gifts online. Have finished xmas shopping except for critical figure: the mother. She's impossible to shop for. Grrr.

Now: Wasting time I should be using to hem pants. Will go hem pants now. No, really. Any second now. I'm all over this.

...I have my reasons why.

It's so cold, I'm not drinking my tea, so much as snuggling with it.

Many things in my office are covered with a fine layer of what look like (and may in fact be) shiny flecks of metal, from the sandblasting going on next door. I expect to start coughing up blood at any moment.

I'm so looking forward to not having to get up at 6am tomorrow, that I may set my alarm for 6, just so I can turn it off and go back to sleep.

I am sad without my usual 7am conversational partner, and hope she feels better soon.

This(*) is one of those things that makes you realize that putting those points in dodge may indeed save your life. The attorney will be fine, he took a few hits to the upper body, but is recovering nicely and, as you can see, initally walked away from the attack. Honestly, at that range, he could easily have been killed.

So what have we learned, class?

1) Nothing says success like a shotgun.
2) Squeeze, not jerk, the trigger.
3) Any cover is better than no cover.

Actual text link to CNN article.

(*) Technical note: the video file is big and probably is best for broadband. There are two clips together; the first part of the second one is really the best angle. After that, you can skip the rest.

I have the whole Internet at my disposal - and can't think of anything to do on it.

I have AIM access - but none of my friends get up before eleven, and I get to work at seven.

Good God. Help me, people! E., you must know *something* I can do online during the day - you work in a technical field...:)