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this blog is starting to match its title more and more...

and this new interface is getting annoying.  i like that it reads two spaces, but it messes up my typing habits, since it leaves an empty line every time i hit enter...

hmm..  it didn't do it that time....  maybe i pissed it off...

i got my first big personal project today!  okay, not really any of the above description, but...  yesterday we got a request to set up the test bed for video im.  we didn't have any specs or anything (they hadn't decided on stuff yet), so we could start on it.  well, when i started today, lance was working on the term server (that he somehow managed to fubar...), and ulyssees was duplicating a big blue (16-strand coax bundle) for chris...  so i started on it myself, and then steven came to "help" me 'cause his ldap was down (i.e. he couldn't do his own work)...  well, he slowed most everything down...  it took him like, half an hour to cap ethernet, and he did it wrong anyway (somebody's *special* ;p).  everybody in the office, plus keith, made fun of him...  it was great =]

oh, back to my project...  i did most of it myself =D  steven and ulyssees helped with parts, but i was...  responsible for it, i guess would be the best way of saying it...  a couple of times, when lance came by, i was up on the ladder running cable, and ulyssees was sitting in an office chair, "supervising."  lance thought it was hilarious...

oh, and i overslept this morning...  partially 'cause i was just sleeping like a log (slept through my watch alarm), and partially because nobody was moving around the house (they all had dentist appointments this morning, so they got to sleep in), so i didn't have my wakeup cue sounds...

 
(wednesday, 21)
yesterday, on the way home, i passed an orkin truck...  there was a sticker across the tailgate that said "CAUTION: this truck makes frequent stops.  do not follow too closely."  it was all in caps, but the only part of it that you could read at a safe following distance was the caution...  so... it's almost like the "if you can read this, you're following too close" bumper sticker...

last night, while on the phone with z, she was recounting a story of what happened at the restaurant...  they had run out of soup (which, incidentally, was what they'd gone there for, since z's wisdom teeth are killing her), and the waitress then told them, "well, you can have salad..."  z and i both exclaimed "but that's nothing like soup!"  hmm...  lots funnier when it happened...

 
(tuesday, 20)
just like me messing up time the day before.  matt said something about it being 8, and i said "no, it's not 8 yet..."  but i looked at my watch, which said 8:05 (my watch is four minutes fast), so i quickly covered myself with "it's a leap minute!"  it was quite funny at the time... no, really, it was...

earlier that day, when i was out of the office at lunch time, cong called me from lance's phone and left me a message...  telling me to bring him lunch.  and lance.  (bring lance lunch, not bring him lance...)  and then he went on to tell me only to eat half of what i order, and to bring back the rest...  only, i wasn't going out for lunch...

also...  that was the day i found out...  that divac will be a laker once again.  all say it with me now...  "eeeew"  damn bastard...  he's going to make me hate the lakers =(  but, but, but...    i guess i'll see after the roster gets set...  =/

 
(monday, 19)
monday, on the way into work...  i drove by some roadkill that i'd driven by on the way to vinny and huey's...  i'd forgotten, until i drove by it again, that it was a skunk.  eew.

at work...  we found out that a bunch of the bsr setup was wrong.  they'd given us the wrong specs.  so we had to fix that...  only, we found out at like, 4:30...  so i was at work until 6...  i wish they'd discover stuff like this earlier...

i needed to pee by that time, but i just wanted to get home, so i drove...  as soon as we left, it started raining.  i sooooo had to pee.  not funny.

also, there was this idiot protege.  ugly green.  like...  asparagus, mixed with teal.  yeah.  this guy sped down the merge lane, passed up a break in traffic in front of a corolla (the one in front of me), which was where he needed to be merging, since the lane ended there, and cut off the altima in front of the corolla.  could he have really been in such a rush that one car mattered *that* much?  well, the answer turned out to be no, since the guy ended up driving mph slower than the car in front of him the rest of the way home.  what a bastard.

 
(sunday, 18)
on the phone with matt...  "phil wouldn't come back to bed."  um, matt...  what?  okay, i know what that was about, but it was still funny.   and "boxers are as good as underwear."  uuh...  oh, but i got spam when i was on the phone, too...  for "climax cream."  yeah.