Happy birthday to my Mom. Yay for me not remembering at the last minute.
Also, yesterday was the one year anniverary of me going to the pshrink
for the first time. Wish I'd also gotten to go to the zoo like last
year as well, but oh well.
Well, done with the day. Came home, made dinner, and now watching
The Omen. Wasn't in the mood for 'White Collar'. Was an ok day, big
thing was running 250 feet of fiber from our core routers to a colo
customer's cage. Not much else going on. Watching 'The Omen' remake.
Not sure what I'll do after it's over, probably make it an early night.
I've got a case of the yawns. Hope you lot are having good evenings.
Well, back to the Shoggoth Pit. Less than yay today, nothing really
wrong save I slept like crap last night. Stupid anxiety. Had an
amusing weird dream about a new sitcom on tv about this 20-something
talking about living her life in a small town as a store owner, yoga
instructor...oh yeah and professional pr0n star. Looked like a funny
show.
Not much else. Pseudo Friday time, tonight's plan is to cook dinner
(Hamburger Helper Cheesy Potato flavor) and watch 'White Collar' episodes
til all hours. I'm really enjoying the show. Wishing I could snag some
of Neil Caffrey's (the conman turned FBI consultant on the show) self
confidence. Life would probably be easier if I believed in myself more.
Not much of anything else. Hoping today is a quiet day. Stressors, begone.
*hopes*
Yes, I said yay for Monday. I'm off oncall as of 9am, so that's much yay.
Didn't get any calls, but I still was a little on edge about being oncall.
But a little less each time, I'm hoping eventually I'll be able to zen
through on call like my network coworkers. Of course, they both have
scary amounts of self confidence, which isn't my strong suite. Oh well,
I'm better than I was a year ago. Must focus on that.
Beyond being off call, it's an ok day. Had weird dreams, including a dream
about calling in sick to work for some really bizarre reason. I don't
remember said reason, but I woke up thinking 'Oh crap, why did I call in???'
*shakes head* I'm better now. Well save I forgot breakfast. Doh.
Weekend was ok, not much was done. Assorted TV watching with
Amythest. She's got me watching
'White Collar', yet another funny cop show. What can I say, I like
my crime with a little bit of snark.
Really not much else to ramble about. Hoping for a calm week, and an
enjoyable 3 day weekend next weekend. *crosses fingers* Have a good
one boys and girls.
And just to add to the geeky joy of today, I got a replacement video
card for Cthulhu.
The AGP card I bought a while back doesn't seem to like Ubuntu. So I
setup an RMA with the online store I got it from, then thought about
trying the same PCI card that's currently in
Cthulhu. So, an order
from Amazon later, I have the exact same card. Installed it, plugged
in the monitor and set it up. A little tinkering later, and I have
a 3 monitor setup. There's a little oddness to the setup, due to how the
X server is running, this will probably work best with 3 seperate cards,
each powering one monitor, with xinerama linking them. But for now,
this rocks muchly. I'm a happy geeky cultist fox now. *beam*
Greetings boys and girls. Hurrah for Friday. Double hurrah for making
the VPN/Firewall foo work today. Seems I was laboring under misinformation,
the firewall does support the Cisco VPN client. After a little arguing
with it (ok, several hours of tinkering and arguing), I got it to work.
Yay for me. I also found Ferret Pirate Hammocks last night on Amazon,
for a little more than half the cost at Petco. So two of them are on
their way to me, one for my weasels, one for
Amythest's gang. Yay for ferret
spoilage.
Had a good night last night. My usual routine, but the blues that have
been stalking me got blown away. Figuring out why something was borked
is a good mood perk. So was NCIS episodes and ferret playtime. Slept
alright, had weird dreams again as usual. I'm starting to get used to
the odd, yet usually entertaining dreams.
Tonight's plans appear to be computer tinkering, radioactive cannibal mutant
movies (have the original 'Hills Have Eyes' movies in from Netflix), and
maybe even treating myself to Chinese food. No plans beyond that for the
weekend. I'm on call still, so plans kinda hang around being within
range of a computer and internet, lets hope for no calls *crosses
tentacles*
Had a customer request a VPN setup on his Pix 501. Got it worked out and
tested on my Windows XP box at work. Sent the customer the info to setup,
and the customer messages back they can't make it work under Windows 7.
I don't have a Win7 box at work, but I have one at home, so I took a little
work home with me. After much arguing, and Googling, I figured out that
Windows 7 doesn't support MSCHAPv1, which is what the Pix supports. I
figured out a work around, but there's no encryption. Doubt that will
work for the client. So, we'll see what they want to do. I have a
feeling there will be a firewall upgrade in the future. But, yay for
me figuring it all out. I'm one smart cookie.
When I went to the petstore yesterday for ferret chow, I noticed they had
some new hammocks and ferret beds and such...
They had a ferret pirate ship.
I must obtain this for the feezley overlords. It even comes with a pirate
ferret tshirt, which I can see my guys wearing for all of 10 seconds.
But still. Pirate ferrets ! I doubt I can find room in the budget, but
we'll see. Also, Amythest's
weasels need one too. Hmm, *ponders credit card abuse*
(yes I'm posting random stuff in an attempt to improve the mood, let's see
if it works)
Tempted to make a sock-puppet (A real one, not a fake internet persona) and
require all human interaction at work be routed though said sock puppet.
Not sure if it would change anything, save upping the weirdness level here
at the Shoggoth Pit. Might make me laugh more though.
Blah, blah blah blah. Yeah, I'm having another blah day. Not sure what's
up with me the last couple of days, but I be in a funk. Not much going
on at the Shoggoth Pit, got here late today. Got my usual foo done, and
now just waiting for time to pass on by.
Oh, one bit of good news. Mom saw her doctor the other day, and she's
cleared. Yay for healthy parental units.
That's about all I got for the day. Catch you lot later. *wave*
My Wednesday has been up and down. Woke up in a blah mood. Got moving,
went over to Mom's to help her with some paperwork stuff, then ran
some errands. Ferret chow, soda, and pharmacy. Came home, then went
back out and met up with Amythest
for dinner. Olive Garden, was tasty. Ran around with her while she
got pet stuff, then we both headed for homes. Now just relaxing at home
before bedtime. Then back to the Shoggoth Pit tomorrow. Lets hope it's
a good couple of days before the weekend. Not much else to babble about.
*wave*
It's pseudo Friday, yay pseudo Friday. Had a mildly frustrating night last
night. Tried to setup my 3 monitor setup, and
Cthulhu wouldn't
recognize the agp card as an nvidia card. It saw it as a video card, but
that was it. Not sure why it was giving me such grief. Probably going
to experiment with it again tomorrow, and if it doesn't work...that's
what RMA is for. I've got a feeling my tri monitor setup will be stuck
with 2 monitors on Cthulhu
and one on Hastur,
with swapping the monitor for the TV when I want to watch Netflix streaming.
Kinda kludgy, but I don't watch streaming all that often.
After giving up on the computer foo, I played with ferrets, read a book,
showered and went to bed. Usual routine. Went to bed and had extended
vivid dreams about being a writer, researching stories about an urban
fantasy series staring an immortal detective. I was living in a city,
reminded me of NYC, but it wasn't. I had an apartment near the museum
district, and I kept walking there to do research. I also dreamed I was
taking notes on my phone. Funny part, I woke up and the text editor on
my phone was on, but all that was on there was '*random curses* look at that
dragon go...' and 'I have known death, destroyer of name'. *shakes head*
My subconscious was really going for the gusto last night.
Now I'm at work, yay work. Hoping today flies by fast. Tonight I need
to go shopping for foodstuffs, and ferret kibble. Then home to watch
movies and veg out. *hopes for good vegging* *yawn* And more dreams of
me doing research. It was fun.
She's feeling better, a little stircrazy cause she's not allowed to leave
the apartment. Her doctor is coming by tomorrow, yes her doctor does
housecalls. It's part of a service where they come to you for exams,
bloodwork, etc. So far it seems to be pretty good. Hopefully Mom's
lungs will check out as better so she can get out. Thanks for all the
good thoughts, they are greatly appreciately.
Well, it's Monday. Start of another wonderful work week...and oncall week.
Oh well, I will survive. Slept for crud last night, couldn't get my mind
to settle down, even though I was ready to sleep. Hate when that happens.
Was dragging this morning, came in about 15 min late. Now I'm just
looking forward to going home, and going to bed early tonight. Sleep,
perchance to dream.
Had an alright weekend. Saturday I met up with the gang for dinner and
hangoutness. Dinner was a bit of a clusterfsck, given people running on
Ufie time, and trying to make dinner decisions to satisfy 9 adults and
3 kidlets. It worked out ok, but I think next weekend I'm going to suggest
'Show up at $PERSON's house, bring your own dinner'. It tends to lead to
less stress. IMHO that is. After dinner, we hung out...watched a few
episodes of the new season of 'The IT Crowd'. I cut out about 11, took
my meds and went to bed.
Sunday, woke up in a really blah mood. Got talked into not staying home
like I was thinking of by Amythest,
headed down to her place, and we watched cop shows all day. Well, I watched,
she was enthralled with a book on her new Nook. Book addicts, whatcha going
to do with them *wink* Came home, ate, took my meds and promptly got
very loopy as the post yesterday will show.
So that's the state of the fox for right now. Work is well, work. No
wild plans for the week. With being oncall, I won't have too many wild
plans anyway. Grocery shopping and pharmacy raiding tonight. Then maybe
a movie, or NCIS episodes. And sleep, oh yes, there will be sleep.
Came home from out usual hangout time. Caught up on cop shows. Did my laundry, now I'm having a second course before bed. I had my happy pills and they are making me a little mentally loopy. So, I think I'm going not post more until I'm sure I won't be utterly embarassing myself. I usually get a little loopy when I take my meds, but it's kicking in faster tonihgt. Lack of dinner and med time must have kicked in. So I see me going to bed early. ANd not read much, Cause frankly at this point, I'll proptly forget what little I read...
FYI; anything typed tonight should be looked add oddly, then change the subject. And keep a record, for when I write that book about my life, that noone will ever believe.
Well, I was in a really chipper mood last night, woke up today less
than chipper. The down side of really perky nights, I tend to wake up
less than perky. Probably didn't help that I took my meds late, and
overslept. Got up, got a shower ate some breakfast, now pondering what to
do for the afternoon. Later on I'm meeting up with the gang for...
something. Not sure wha the plans are, but I'll be glad to hang out
with friends. Yay friends. Mood is better, silly tv show + breakfast
definitely improves things. Lets hope things continue to swing back
up. *crosses tentacles*
