Ah, inventory...

It's almost done. I've been here since 6 this morning, and I'll prolly be here til 4 or 5.

Easy money, as they say.

Have a great weekend!

A little too close...

...this happened about half a mile from work, at the Arby's I used to go to lunch at. It's on Redwood and 17th South. Apparently they tire-spiked Redwood to get him, after he killed a police officer at the U, car-jacked someone's Ford, then ran amok on I-15 and -215 at high speed.

Here is another link/photo of this...person. He's freaky lookin'.

All of this makes me want to conceal/carry more and more. That, and it makes me wonder about the state/efficacy of the justice department and its enforcement.

I also wonder why people who do this think they can get away from the law. Sure, you can get a fast car, but you can't outrun radio, can you?

Ben can appreciate this quote "It's not his fault that he can behave/society's made him go astray/perhaps if we're nice he'll go away."

Father's Day pictures...

Here's me with my most excellent tie that Val got me for Dia de padres. It goes great with my suit, don't you think?

By the way, it's hard to keep your eyes open in direct sunlight...

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Ahhhh, game playing fathers. Excellent.

I plan on having 2 or 3 old computers LANed for my kids and Val, so we can all play together. What fun it would be to play MechWarrior 3 or 4 together, or maybe Birth of the Federation. Right on!

I disagree...

I'm all for game guides. I have no problem buying them, looking at them, reading up on the game I'm gonna play. It is frustrating to play a game and not be able to find the things you need in-game. Game guides obviate that frustration.

It's not cheating, it's aiding me to keep my blood-pressure down. And that helps everyone. Besides, no one likes to lose.

Now, Valerie doesn't agree with this view, and that's OK. She'll play until she's about to give up before she'll go to a guide. Again, that's OK.

Here is the link to the comic.

Ahhh, deoxyribonucleic acid, how important you are...

...and how complex you are.

DNA is more complex than people thought, and the so called 'junk DNA' is not junk after all.

Makes me wonder what else there is in the world that we think we understand, but don't really. I think it's everything. Also makes me wonder how people can deny the existence of God, and think that all life is an astronomically huge (statistically speaking) coincidence.

(/soapbox)

I was cruisin' teh intarwebs this morning...

...and I came upon this.

It's a map comparing states' GDP's to other countries in the world.

It looks like UT has the same GDP (gross domestic product) as the country of Peru.
Michigan = Argentina , AZ= Thailand , ID=Ukraine , CA = France(wow!)

I think there are some people who have more time on their hands than they know what to do with. I suppose I'm one of them since I found it(but someone had a link on Ars that I followed).

Wow, that was quick...

...Mom and dad sold the IF house in 3 FRICKIN' DAYS!

3!

They put it up Thursday 7 June, had an offer of $2k more than they were asking on Friday, and they signed off yesterday.

Amazing...

Back to days...

...and boy is my schedule whacked. I couldn't get to sleep until ~12 last night, and woke up @ ~6. It's been a bit of a long day.

I have nothing to say today, yet, but if something comes up, I'll let you know.

I'm not gonna get on my soapbox...

...all I am gonna say is that this is a very sad situation, and it involves everybody.

I think the link speaks for itself.

I'm workin' nights this week, so I'm gonna go.

Have fun!

P.S. An interesting weekend. Val decided she wanted to go up into the foothills close to the house, in preparation to taking her Cub Scouts sometime in the near future. I should have worn pants, but nothing found me appetizing, fortunately. We only went ~ 2 miles, and the trail is ~6. Just a bit long. She wants to do the whole thing some morning soon. I don't think I really want to, but I'll prolly go so that she doesn't go alone.

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.