So so tired...feels like I haven't slept worth a darn in days. Two
mt dews, and still all I want is a nap. So of course I have plans to
be out running around tonight. At work, been kind of up and down busy.
Not enough to wake up, but not down enough that I may snore a little.
Darn. Hoping to get though today in one sane piece. *crosses tentacles*
Or anxiety to anxiety, have to set up an old ass F5 loadbalancer for a
customer, where nothing about what the customer wants is documented, and
the linux admin involved in the project doesn't come in til after 2pm.
I've dealt with these things before, but they were always attached to
high anxiety issues, and I'm twitching quietly. At least I remembered
how to configure the network foo on this old old ass piece of hardware.
Oh well, I've done this before, I know the theory, now lets see if I can
make this all work.
Well, today seems to be the day of making Vulpine anxious. Started off
with very bad dreams. I remember bits and bobs of them, but all I can
really say coherantly is I dreamed that I was so anxious, that I called
in sick. And I woke up and really considered calling in due to anxiety
attack. Then noticed the time...I'm already late to work. Race out of the
apartment, waiting at a stoplight...and a cop comes up behind me
and lights off all his lights. Start to go 'ohshitohshitohshit', and he
hauls around me to shoot though the light. He was quickly followed by
2-3 more cop cars, and 2 firetrucks and an ambulance. *twitch* Finally
get moving, take the service road to avoid the nasty accident. Watch the
guy in front of me not pay attention, and bang off one of those barrels
they put up to keep people from hitting a concrete rail. *shudder*
Finallly get on the highway and get moving. *shakes head* I'm
wound up, and kind of wishing my dream was true and I'd called in due
to anxiety attack. Oh well, the magic pills should kick in soon *hopes*
So that's my morning. Was down in the dumps last night, now anxious.
Guess my brainmeats are trying to keep me in practice. Work is
work, still trying to get focus enough to figure out what I have to do
today. Tonight is redhead dinner, which will be nice. Then almost the
weekend. This all depends on me not going postal in the next 6 hours
or so, and that the drive home isn't a rerun. Wish me luck.
Well it's Wednesday, which means working from home. Been a good work
from home day, big thing was finding a password for a load balancer we
haven't used in two years. Hurrah for me keeping a list of old passwords.
Not much else going on. Still loving the Kia, even if I had to deal with
stop and go traffic on the way home last night. Trying to think of it
as practice driving a standard.
Tonight is dinner with an Amythest.
This weekend is going to see 'One for the Money' on Friday night, and
furniture rearranging on Saturday at Chez Amythest. Then I'm going to
try to talk people into going to see the new Underworld movie. Yay Kate
Beckinsale in leather.
So that's the state of the fox. Oh yeah, and I got a nifty package from
the HPLHS. 2 DVDs, one soundtrack album, and a stack of stickers to go
on the Kia. Yay for car stuff and Cthulhu stuff. Catch ya later.
Well, still loving the new Kia. Took it up to my insurance agent's to
get it put on the policy. Rate goes up, since well it's a 2012 compared
to a 1996. But the estimate I got before car shopping held up, and is
in the budget. Drove in to work, found a quirk about the car that I'll
have to get used to...I'm quite a bit closer to the ground. I had to
half get out of the car to punch in the gate code. Oops. Also,
another quirk. The car has radio/media controls on the steering wheel,
which are nifty...but Cephalopod (my older iPod nano), doesn't want
to play. So I have to control the iPod normally. Which is a minor
quibble. It also comes with satellite radio, which I've played with a
little...I get 3 months free, but I doubt I'll extend it past that.
Even with stations that play assorted rock and metal, it's still other
people's playlists. I rather have my own music to listen to. But
I did have good Hendrix and Led Zeppelin tunes to drive to last night.
Finance wise, I got a better rate via the Kia finance people than
Capital One (2% rate difference), and a really long term warranty/maintenance
plan. I'm paying the high end of what I budgeted, but still, it's in the
budget. Especially given my gas bill should be cut in half. So I'm
a happy fox. Vroom Vroom.
Not a lot else going on, work is well, work. Looking forward to this
weekend, and driving people around *wink* Hope everyone is doing good,
and I'll write more later.
Monday. *sigh* And I'm already wishing for a relaxing weekend. Hell,
I need a day off to recover from the weekend. Note to homeowners,
while the peel and stick vinyl floor tiles are an order of magnatude
easier to deal with, the sticky gloop SUCKS. Especially on finger
tips (learned something new I really can't stand). Got a hallway and a
living room done. Go team us.
Finished up one collection of Mythos stories (New Cthulhu) and started
another (Future Lovecraft). New Cthulhu didn't impress me, while it had
a number of good stories, most of them were ones I've read before (a
few I'd read in the last month, lots of overlap with 'Book of Cthulhu).
Future Lovecraft is alright, but only the first story 'In the Hall of
the Yellow King' by Peter Rawlik really grabbed me. It's an off the
wall combo of HPL Mythos and Star Warsy stuff. Lovecraftian purists will
probably not like. Oh, and there's a poem by ankh_hpl which
always improves a collection.
Got some news that I'm holding on to til probably later tonight. Assuming
all goes well, it will be some really spiffy news. But I'm just superstious
enough not to go into detail til it's all said and done. So stay tuned
Cultists, for when Vulpine says "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh
wgah'nagl fhtagn".
Meh mood, kinda wishing I could disappear into a Lovecraftian story. Yeah,
I know that's kind of demented of me. I blame all the time playing
Call of Cthulhu for this, a 1920's version of me with linguistic skills.
Yeah, we used to take bets on how quickly my character with Latin, Greek
and Arabic skills would go insane from reading forbidden lore that we
found during adventures. I'd even go completely non-subtle and named
characters 'Whateley' and 'Marsh'. Note to people...if I ever decide
to disappear and create a new identity...I'll probably be easy to track.
But yeah, minus the insanity and being nibbled by shoggoths, my characters
were fun. Always wanted to be able to learn languages and spend most of
my time knee deep in rare books. Oh well.
Watching 'Mission Impossible 3'. Decided to run though the movies on
DVD, since I hadn't seen them since #2 came out in the theaters, and I
was wanting to see #4. They're better than I remember, cheesy and
unbelievable, but so was the TV show. Probably after the movie ends
though I'll head to bed with a book and stay up too late reading.
Tentacles, eldritch beasties, hmm given the mood I'm in maybe I should
do another run though Charles Stross's 'Laundry' series. Geek + Cthulhu
references = happy Vulpine.
Nothing much else to talk about. Hope everyone is doing ok. Ciao.
Yay for Friday. Almost weekend, got paid, hanging out with a friend
tonight, good times. Had a decent night's sleep, odd dream about being
in some kind of physical recovery where I needed to exercise to get
back to 'normal'. And randomly, Christopher Lee appeared and told me
to start back with martial arts as exercise. I'm wondering if I should
take this as a sign. Woke up, got moving, went to get my happy pills
from the pharmacy. Came to work, finished up some stuff for the linux
admins. Glad they left good notes. Now I'm just dealing with the normal
work day.
Watched 'Devil' last night. Was a pretty decent thriller, which I
passed on seeing in the theaters due to the reviews it got. The ending
was kind of cheesy, but the rest of the movie was fairly decent.
Really, not much else to ramble about. Work is work, life is alright,
and I'm glad it's almost the weekend. Tick tock tick tock.
Most of you will remember some of my recent (6 months or so) firewall
installs that went, less than perfectly. Well today's went almost
picture perfect. Why ? Probably because it wasn't a drop in install
on an already existing setup. Client bought 3 servers and a Cisco
ASA firewall. Got to install the firewall and set it up before the
servers came on line, and other than one glitch in the config (that
I fixed right off) it all went smoothly. Of course, I still have to
wait on the customer to tell me what other customizations the firewall
needs, and setup loadbalancing (which is something I haven't done in a
LONG time), but still. No random firewall issues. Yay me !
Well, it's a better day moodwise today. Dinner and chitchat with
Amythest last night, better sleep,
and getting things to work today help the mood muchly. Now to
just get though today. Tonight's plan, tv/movie, leftovers for dinner,
ferret time, book time and sleep. Aka, normal evening #1. Laters gators.
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