Day Three, the mud thins

New teacher lady (Miss SMIS)... Clearer answers... I can now answer question "So what do you do there?"... Like the job so far... Can actually accomplish some things... Miss SMIS gone for coffee (apple doesn't fall far...)... Expect to be pro by 4 PM... Gum chewing bumblebee lady gone for now... Boss lady says I can customize tasks.. Thank god... Blue box been renamed to "File 66"... Will grow very fond of File 66... To do pile dwindling, and computer favorites populated... Happy Gapper going strong... Damn forgot spoon again... Yogurt for snack substituted for Doritos from snack box... PB and J for lunch again... Good book and bench next to river on the agenda... More later...

Day two, the wreck-oning

Eyes so heavy... teacher lady is very boring... Work habits could be set to music... Flight of the bumblebee for no pattern or concentration... Freeze Frame for Moments of intense concentration... Resembles meltdown... Might take up smoking... Longer and more bountiful breaks... One hour left here, then back to old spot to do some Overtime... Work Work Work... Must go, 3:00 Joggers passing by soon... Did I mention great view...

Day two... Part deux

Have rediscovered dislike for gum... Teacher Lady chews like bovine and the smell is stomach turning... Half day gone, learned very little... Visions of my old post enter my mind... I love it here... Can't wait to be able to do job myself... Have been hinted at about new oppertunity opening... Might make this a permanent thing... Maybe... Office dynamic is much more tolerable... Eeyore Mother in law very sweet... Jim feels right at home... It seems Superintendant that had JIM "removed" some time ago will be new neighbor... Shoots... Actually occupying Office behind mt pre fab walls with only window facing into my cube... Shoots... Will devise plan to relocate or formulate noxious gas to emit into his area... Problem solved... Beans for lunch every day as of July 1... That'll learn em... More Later...

Day two

Fedalog, day two... Teacher Lady trying to explain her years and years to JIM... Jim just wants to roll up sleeves and go... Teacher Lady not keen on Gapper system of learning... Gapper gets new teach tomorrow... To make matters worse, system my new job based on not working... Coffee time comes fast over here and lasts long time... 9:30 (only been here one hour) Coffee time... Teacher Lady advises she will be back in 30... Jim will try to cope with ample spare time... Wonder if I will ever learn new job... Maybe just go for coffee with people so it looks like I belong... Inbox piled high, Jim can't look at anymore... Blue box looking like good alternative... More later...

New Diggs

Sitting at new desk... Nice view of River... Lots of nice ladies around me... Men are subdued and quiet... Women are loud and boisterous (spell?)...

Feel like "The new guy" all over again... Lunch time now... Dumb dumb forgot fork for salad... Used hands... Not as yummy... Forgot dressing aswell... Peanut butter and jelly tomorrow...

Have feeling that this job is tougher... Teacher lady knows job entirely too well... Teacher lady knows nothing of teaching... Very Confused... But can drift off to view of Sarnia Harbour any time... Sweet...

Boss lady nice, but retiring shortly... Too bad, seems nice... Eeyore mama going to train me in few days... Jim worried, but confident... Secret of JIM's "dumbness" to be uncovered by family...
Eeyore Mother in law two cubicles down... Jim in good hands... More later...

How you feelin?

24 degrees and sunny. I hate to think of how my wife (who sits in front of an air conditioner while drying her hair) is coping with the heat as she tries to sleep off a night shift.

We once lived in a 3rd florr of an apartment building in eastern ontario, where the temperature indoors was always about 10 degrees above the outside temp. We had a portable air conditioner that could barely cool a 10 by 10 room. I was into running and working out and the heat likely was to be credited for my weight loss. It was hot hot hot.

My wife is an East coaster and they don't know 30 degrees C and humid? 20 is normal, and pleasantly dry. Ontario was like hell to her in that way, it was hot enough to keep her secluded in the bed room (10 by 10 space as it happens) in front of the air conditioner. Poor thing.

She doesn't realize it but she has become much more "climatized".

I however am stuck in an office building listening to REM on a internet radio station that is boasting their location today is on a patio at a bar.

Forecast for the weekend? 26 to 30 and no rain expected. Sweet. Forecast for me, lawn care, BBQ and beer.

Relationships 2k5

Even non-Geeks could relate to this one.

Recently, a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it is a memory hog and leaves very little system resources for other applications. He is only now noticing that Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child-Resources. No mention of this particular phenomena was included in the product brochure or the documentation, though other users have informed him that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application. Not only that, but Wife 1.0 installs itself in such a way that it is always launched at system initialisation where it can monitor all the other system activity.

He is finding that some other applications like PokerNight 10.3,BeerBash 2.5 and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run on the system at all; crashing the system when selected, even though they worked fine before. At installation, Wife 1.0 provides no option as to the installation of undesired Plug-Ins such as MotherInLaw 55.8 and BrotherInLaw Betarelease.

Additionally, system performance seems to diminish with each day passing. Some features he would like to see in the upcoming WIFE 2.0:

1) A "Do Not Remind Me Again" button.
2) A "Minimize" button.
3) An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be installed with the option to uninstall at any time without the loss of Cache and other system resources.
4) An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode which would allow the system's hardware probe feature to be much more useful.

I have however decided to avoid all of these headaches associated with Wife 1.0 and have decided to stick with Girlfriend 2.0 Even here, however, I have found many problems:

Apparantly you cannot install Girlfriend 2.0 on top of Girlfriend 1.0. You must first uninstall Girlfriend 1.0. Other users say this is a long standing bug which I should have been aware of. You would think they have fixed such a bug by now.

To make matters worse; the uninstall program for Girlfriend 1.0 does not work very well and tends to leave undesirable traces of the application in the system. Another thing that sucks;
all versions of Girlfriend continually pop-up annoying little messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife1.0. No feature is provided where one could disable these message pop-ups.

Bug warning

Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug: If you try to install Mistress 1.1before uninstalling Wife 1.0, then Wife 1.0 will delete all MSMoney files before automatically uninstalling.

Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming insufficient system resources.

Bug workaround

To avoid the above bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system and never run any file transfer applications such as LapLink 6.0. Also, beware of similar shareware applications that have been known to carry viruses that may affect Wife 1.0.

Thoughts of the day, number three

What’s the deal with tires; propels a car nicely but they’re always wearing down, getting flats. I think the way to go is by flying everywhere. Except if they lose the part that propels the plane, you probably wouldn’t be able to read my Blog anymore, and that would be bad.

Thoughts of the day, number two

Why would you want to live in Las Vegas. It’s the desert, I could understand if you liked gambling or had a restaurant or a business, or you worked there or had a family that owned a business or worked there or something. Oh.

Thoughts of the day, number one

It had been weeks since an original, funny thought entered his head.

He contemplated doing a story from the point of view of a blade of grass located in his lawn; the trials and tribulations of climbing, growing towards the sun, only to have the “Giant” come along with some toxicant spewing motorized blade to take him down to a length, that, thank the good lord, was just above his reproductive organs.

But that would be silly.