Archive for January, 2008

Baby’s first maintenance window

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

So it’s 1:40am, and I am at [The Internet]. Tonight is my first maintenance window as a fledgling network security engineer. In 20 minutes, I get to reboot a firewall. If all goes well, I get to go home after that. If not, I could be stuck here awhile. It’s [...]

Hello, my name is “Obsessed”

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

So my beekeeping class is on Saturday. And in the week or so since I booked it, I have officially crossed into the realm of total blinding obsession.
My obsession, chronicled:

I bought a book on Saturday. Not only is it readable, but they put some fantastic pictures in there. I’ve had my nosed [...]

Everything zen (mostly)

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

I’ve been trying to avoid a topic on here: my job. I’m not in a very happy place with it right now, and I know I’m prone to whine about it. Nobody likes a whiner. I am not going to get into specifics on why I’m not happy with things because it [...]

A leopard print bathroom and the best frozen dessert of all time

Monday, January 14th, 2008

I am a fan of the whole cameraphone phenomenon. Tonight I was cleaning out some of the pictures on my phone. Here are some real gems I found. Artifacts of everyday life, I call them.
A Christmas greeting from some yard ornaments in my in-laws’ neighborhood in Augusta.

The turtle I knitted for my [...]

The soul for getting down? I’ve got it.

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Scene: Our datacenter floor, about 5:30pm today.
I am walking past a customer’s cage. The customers are there messing around with their equipment, and they have music playing. The song? “Thriller.” At this moment, I experience a huge pang of regret for never following through on my plans to learn the entire [...]

Bees’ knees!

Monday, January 7th, 2008

So I think I’ve mentioned here before that I am really interested in beekeeping. I don’t know what got me started on it, but I would really love to try it. That is, if Colony Collapse Disorder doesn’t kill all the bees in the world before I get a chance to become a [...]

Man Stroke Woman

Monday, January 7th, 2008

I have to give my friend Tracey full credit for introducing me to Man Stroke Woman, a sketch comedy show from the UK. It has the guy in it who played Shaun’s best friend in Shaun of the Dead, and it upholds my view that everything is funnier with British people in it. [...]

Nostalgia 101

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Did you ever have one of those dreams that was so life-like, so vivid, that you woke up all emotional and had to remind yourself you were just dreaming? You wake up feeling like you were just there. I had one of those dreams night before last, and it really threw me off.
In [...]