Dinner was an oh-so-exciting peanut butter and raspberry jam sandwich, followed by some chips and salsa later.

I should have said: A LARGE deadline, involving many people and many parts, and we only just decided to do it today, and the other key person gets back to her office tomorrow, after 2.5 weeks away.

Er, yikes?

We've had to threaten mass rebellion when they want to schedule a major software install within 2 days of a holiday.

I've got a software upgrade I need to do July 5th. Despite it not being my responsibility anymore (I decided to do it myself instead of passing it off to our lone field tech because he's horribly swamped. I just have to hope it doesn't bog down our WAN) and me telling the vendor that July 5th was bad day because we're going to be short-staffed and it was already iffy since I was going to have to be covering the phones while doing the install anyway.

This is coming after we did an in-house upgrade a couple weeks back (that required the users to delete their old shortcut and install the new client) was done the evening before the field tech at the local hospital went on vacation and one of the help desk people was in our corporate office for training. That was a nightmare.

Crap. I forgot I was supposed to try again to refinance my student loans tonight, AND I got a thing in the mail that a credit company has decided that one of the fraudlent accounts is, in fact, my responsibility.

Ouch. Is there anything you can about it? I just got a letter in the mail today saying someone broke into one of the offices of my insurance provider and stole two laptops and a server with client information on it, and to watch my credit history for fraud. Which is scary after the recent tales of woe here.

Well, nothing I can do about it now, but I'll definitely call in the morning and raise some hell.

Deadline or no, I'm excited to be going out of town this weekend, anyway.

Isn't there a July 1 deadline for loan consolidation under current rules? (sorry to be a downer if there is. My info is partially heard public radio.) Also, CONTEST CONTEST the fraud shit. I'm so sorry you have to go through this. I wish you could nail the person who started this, be it theif or moron who didn't secure their data.

It's not a consolation, but your experience has probably made enough of us paranoid enough to be proactive. Sucks to be a lesson, though.

I just watched the Let's Rob Mick Jagger pilot, and OMG so funny. It's in the same vein as My Name is Earl, only pre-karma. The characters are a little broad so far, but there are some great great one-liners about cookies. And The Bridges of Madison County.

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Great photo from Lubbock. Amanda at Pandagon says this explains why she loves West Texas, but no longer lives there. If you need a completly work safe, kid safe chuckle click.

That's too funy, Typo Boy.

ICompletelyON, ita, you're going to tell us when Eureka is tivo selectable, right?

They were talking about Eureka at work yesterday. I heard it's good, but like Lost makes little logical sense sometimes. And it's on SciFi. That's all I know.

I'm tired. Washing my face sounds like a whole hell of a lot of work. Ditto on emptying out the dishwasher, loading the dishwasher with all the new things I finally got from NY (my mom's box just arrived, and like a dummy I opened it and took everything out, and now I have to find places for it all).

I wish I could just leave it all out, but I can't. Since I believe the proper term for infant felines is DESTRUCTOKATZtm.

From overheard in the office. And I don't care if this is one of the made up ones; it is still completely true:

Database administrator #1: You can either spend half a day showing them how to do it and another three weeks constantly answering questions, or you can just take half an hour and write the code for them.

Database administrator #2: Well, we should teach them how to fish instead of just feeding them every day!

Database administrator #1: You can teach them how to fish, but they still won't know how to write code.

My driver side wing mirror is shattered after some crap was flung up at my car while I was doing 80+ on the freeway. I am not happy.

I was happy for the four hours I was at krav, but now I remember again.

Nothing for dinner, unless you count the gatorade I had, and the blackberry/ginger ale mix I'm about to have.

Eureka is July 18th, so I think TiVo will find it on the 3rd or 4th of July.

That sucks, ita, both the no dinner and the mirror.