Here's the first one...

...all put together. It's about 6.5 feet long, and weighs about 1000+ lbs. It's expensive, too. At least $40 or $50, as Tim said yesterday. He's the one w/ the mustache in the top picture. Rob is the other guy. He (Rob) is the one who came by first yesterday and started putting things together. In person they look lots less dorky than they look in this picture. In fact, they're lots of fun to be around.

This printer seems pretty cool. It'll staple things by itself, and can hold a WHOLE FREAKIN' BUTTLOAD of paper. Those 3 drawers on the right will hold at least a case of paper, and the others can hold a lot also.

I know, I know...Geeky fun. Oh well.

One of the new printers came in yesterday...

...and here is the stack. The 'automated-output' printer is on the right, and the stack of associated hardware on the left is taller than John is. And this is just one printer of possibly 3.

I'm not sure how we're gonna fit 1 or 2 more in here. I thought we had a lot of room, but the boxes take up a ton of room. We can handle 1 more, but 2 is ...'iffy'.

Maybe, when the others come in, we'll have to unpack them outside, and then wheel them in to place.

They take up a lot of room, but it sorta feels like Christmas. We both want to get in to stuff and put it together. But, like good boys, we'll wait for the IBM guy to come in and do it.

A slow week...

...which is why I haven't posted anything.

But here is your Friday post...

Played racquetball last night, and didn't do too bad. Here are the scores: 11-15, 15-5, 3-15, 2-2.
I won 1 out of 3 games, which is better than last time. The last game we were running out of time, and that was the score we were at when we finished.

All things considered, I don't feel too sore from last night, but I REALLY should get back in to the exercising thing. It's hard to start again...

Have a great Memorial Day!

Well, it's Friday...

...and I'm in to work for ~1.5 hours, to help Mark through the busiest part of the day. I think I'll leave around 1 or 1.15.

Soryy for not posting this week. Either there hasn't been anything worth it to post, or I've been so busy putting out figurative AS400 fires to even try to post. It seems to have stabilized now, and hopefully this coming Sunday is better than the last one.

Have a great weekend...

I just found the coolest site!

Funny, non-offensive (to me), and marginally helpful.

I love it!

I am so tired right now...

I worked for Taunya last night so she could have a scheduled day off for Mother's Day. The only problem with that is that when I got in to work, all of the AS400 order drivers were gone. This meant that we couldn't print any orders, call for invoices, run returns, etc. Everything was stopped. Apparently, some 'l-user' (say it together) tried to run a reorganization of our files, and didn't keep track of it. It never finished, and nothing ever came back up.I tried to get things going by starting things manually, but that didn't work. I called the help desk, and they tried to help, but things didn't start working until 9 or 10 P.M., after we restarted the sytem for the 2nd day in a row.

That's 6 FREAKIN' HOURS! Of hardly anything happening!

Long story short:I got home at 2.15 this morning, and I'm back at work today.

I think I'm gonna go to sleep at 8.30 or 9 tonight.

*feh*

It's a good day so far...

I was driving in to work this morning: all the windows and sunroof open, GnR rockin', sun out, nice temperature. I just thought of how nice it was to be alive at that moment; my wife loves me, I'm gettin' in shape, I have fun things to do, I work at a job that I don't hate/despise/loathe, etc.

It was just nice.

Now, as I'm sure you'll all want to know, I lost all 3 of my racquetball games last night. But, it wasn't heinous: 16-14, 15-9, 15-11. Not too bad for someone who hadn't played for 6 or 7 years.

Then I went and pitched for our ward softball team....I'm not a very good pitcher, but after 5 innings I was figuring it out. We won 12-9, despite my best efforts in the last inning to walk just about everyone on the other team. I'll do better next week. It was still fun.

And yes, I'm sore, but it's a good sore.

P.S. SafetyPoints are things that my work does for us being safe. Every month, depending on if we take CPR refresher courses, fire safety, emergency response training, forklift safety, etc. we get more safety points. I take forklift training and basically stay out of the way. For this I get ~15 points a month. I'm useless in any sort of medical emergency. If a person sliced off their finger, I'd prolly freak out also. Fires- no freak out, but blood and such- FREAK OUT!!!!111 I remember one time when we had a merit-badge Pow Wow in IF, and we were doing 'Emergency Preparedness', and we went into the bathroom. Dad was laying there on the floor with fake burns on him, and fake blood. I remember having that sinking tummy feeling as I got anxious. I remember that feeling so well that I know I couldn't do first-aid on anyone who was in bad shape. I'd panic and prolly mess them up more.

...so, the SafetyPoints are redeemable for lots of cool things. We needed a digital camera, so that's what I got.

Yet another reason to take care of yourself...

...so that you don't need to take OxyContin and get addicted to it.

Purdue Pharmaceuticals just settled for a WHOLE BUTTLOAD OF $$$$$$$$ because they said, 4 years ago, that Oxycontin was less addictive and dangerous that oxycodone, which is highly addictive.

The only problem is that Oxycontin IS oxycodone, so it isn't very safe at all.

Way to increase the profits, people.

I bet the stockholders were happy.

Thursday...

This is my daytime co-worker John.
And this is me, with 'The Fauver Files' in the background.


I'm gonna play racquetball this afternoon. Hopefully I don't suck too much, since I haven't played for at least 6 years. Maybe more. Then, when that is done I'm gonna play ward softball. Then I need to make heart-cards for Dia de madres so I can mail them out tonight.

I'm gonna be sore tomorrow.

By the way, the camera I got is a Canon PowerShot A550, with a 7.1 Megapixel resolution. And best of all, it was free! Yay for SafetyPoints!

7.1 Megapixel goodness, finally!

There is the server rack, the AS400, the 2 printers we moved today, and the gaping hole they left on the floor. Look at all of that SPACE!

My desk at work with Blogger on my flat-screen, my blue cup of water and the picture of my hot Goo.

This is the computer room, looking through the door that we usually go in and out of. The door off to the right goes in to the warehouse. There is my green chair along the back wall, in the center.

And there is my supervisor Mark taking invoices off of the printer. The space behind him was cleared out today. There used to be 2 printers there, but the 3 of us(me, him and John) moved them out to make room for better, newer printers. Those will be coming in a month. Also, those are the work tables where we do just about everything, and the extreme fire hazard of about 100 boxes of paper stashed along the far wall.

Methane power...

...and NOT in the form of bean-powered farts!

...a methane rocket. I hope this becomes feasible. That would be pretty sweet.

What a weekend...

Val and I went to IF over the weekend, but had to come back as I had to teach a lesson on Sunday. We went up there with the express purpose of helping out with the back yard: transplanting flowers, trees, etc. and putting sod down. Unfortunately, it decided to snow Saturday A.M. , so we didn't work in the yard. Instead we moved things from downstairs into a storage shed. Some of those things sure were heavy.

Let's see...I got a new pair of shoes Thursday P.M. They're Earth shoes, and they're quite comfortable, at least as far as new shoes go. I used my baby-sitting money to pay for them.

On our way to IF we stopped in Layton, for a 10 minute trip into DI. We found a book that Val wanted, and I found ' Star Wars:Attack of the Clones'. Now I have all 3 books.

While in IF we found a couple of games that Val wanted: Legend of Zelda-4 Swords, and the MegaMan anniversary collection, both for the 'Cube. I also found a strategy guide for JetForce Gemini, which is an N64 game from about 10 years ago. I was surprised to find it for only $6.50. I also picked up Star Trek 3:The Search for Spock 2 disc set for $10. The best scene in there is when they take the Enterprise...

Yes, I am still a Trek geek. I like the music in that part. A lot.

Ummm. I can't really think of anything else that happened this weekend.

I need a real weekend again, soon. I have to work next Sunday, so the weekend will be short.

More thoughts...

Rain is good. Shoes are good. Exercise is good. But exercising in the rain with shoes that have holes in them isn't so good. So, we didn't go out this morning. We'll go out this afternoon.

I saw the cutest thing this morning on the way to work. I passed a car that had those kid sun-shades on the rear passenger windows, and they had elephants on them, each one holding on to the others' tails. No eyes or anything on them, but so cute.

Sleeping is good, and eventually your body will tell you that it needs to sleep, whether you want it to or not. You can't stop it.

Ummmmm. That's all for now...

A few realizations...

First, I'm frustrated that when I need to get new scriptures, I'll only be able to get them in either real leather or bonded leather.

Grrrr. >:(

Second, I like exercising in the morning, especially when I push myself and sweat, because I feel good for the rest of the morning.

Third, I like being able to get into the pool after I exercise. Mmmmmmm. It feels so good. By the way, the pool is at 88 degrees now, so I don't freeze in the morning.

Fourth, I'm gonna need to start getting up at ~5 A.M. so that I can get all the stuff done that I want to in the morning. Things like exercising, hopping in to the pool, showering, playing games, eating breakfast and getting all of my stuff ready for work...

*whew*

That's a lot of stuff to do, now that I think about it...

Have a great day...