Starting the New Year
Four days late. Not bad I guess. Maybe it’s the staying in one spot that makes me get all sedentary and lazy. I vow to change this! Maybe… All I know is that 2008 was actually pretty fun and I think 2009 is going to be to.
Entries Tagged as 'Life'
Would you buy from this man?
I was watching one of the House episodes we’ve DVRed at 0400, and saw a new commercial for the Total Body Gym or something. It’s the workout system that Chuck Norris endorses. I know it’s new because in this one, Chuck has a full on porn stach. The thing is straight out of the 70’s. Oddly, I feel compelled to at least look up some info and reviews on the system now…
Conservation in action!
Even at my work they’ve gotten into the conservation ethic to the point that we have an official Energy Conversation Program for the base. As far as I can tell, they exist solely to send out emails like the following:
For Energy Efficiency!
This Holiday Season look for the “ENERGY STAR” label when shopping for electronic appliances. An “ENERGY STAR” appliance uses 10-50% less energy and water than standard models.
It’s not bad as far it goes: nice little tip, quick read. The problem is
that they are attaching a sizable (in this case 350k) Powerpoint that says exactly the same thing. The slide has a couple of pretty graphics, but really its only purpose to clutter up my mailbox and make me mad about wasted attachments. That detracts from the overall message and leaves a negative impression.
Unintentionally funny
One of the buildings our units reside in is getting the cable lines
worked on. This leads to the following bit from the notification email:
.bq If you have persistent phone problems for more than one hour, please
call [edited].
New Job stuff
Contrary to commentary, the virtual life isn’t what has been sucking up all my time. It’s the real life stuff that is in the middle of making me a punching bag. To start off with, my previous job was at the lowest level of the overall big generic org chart that makes up the Air Force. A couple of weeks ago I went on a business trip and when I returned all anyone could ask me was how my interview went. WTF. I knew of no interview, at least until I got a chance to log in and check my mail. Whoops, that interview that happened the day before … while I was still on a plane. Reschedule to that day, show up, tell the boss “thanks but no thanks,” and promptly go into competition mode talking to the current job holder: how many other people did he interview (1), did they want the job (don’t know), etc. This happens on a Friday at the end of the day and the boss is going on a business trip Monday and Tuesday so it won’t be announced until Wednesday. Wednesday: dead silence until 2100, when the old guy calls me up and gives this long voicemail about the decision being made but the middle layers needing to be informed and yada-yada. The tone overall seems to be negative to me, which is good since it means I didn’t get the job and everything is right with the world. At least, it’s right with the world unti I show up at the office and my squadron CC pulls me in and goes “I’ve got some news and whether it’s good or bad depends on your point of view.” Cutting all that short, I am now working directly for my boss’ boss’ boss’ boss. Talk about jumping the chain…
It has added about an extra hour and a half to my regular work day. I’ve also learned that Exchange doesn’t like when you try to move an entire folder tree from an Org box down to a local .pst, you need to move each folder indivdually and then remake the tree in the .pst. Something about the possibility of “private items” in subfolders that Exchange can’t be bothered to check.
Ouch
Yeah, that new job came through. We’ll see how this turns out…
Cthulu found
And people have doubted if Lovecraft was entirely sane…
Scientists have discovered what they believe is an eight-armed creature, which colonised a large section of the world’s oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
Changes
I may have a new job tomorrow.
We’ll have a historically different Pres/VP-elect tomorrow.
Wrath is 8 days away.
Which one am I most excited for?
Juliet & Juliet
I occasionally read articles that suggest that women are naturally less aggressive and overall nicer than men. This is unfortunately contradicted by real-life experience, which suggests that women are bat-shit crazy and just as dangerous as men:
Carol Anne Burger killed her former lover by stabbing her 222 times with a Phillips-head screwdriver and then took pains to hide her crime, police said Wednesday.
In summary, it’s safer to assume that a woman would go crazy on you just as much as a man would since they are both human. Given that humans are naturally nuts, I suggest having as little face-to-face interaction with them as possible. 
The light at the end of the tunnel
Monday, I saw and beat the last bit of raid content in The Burning Crusade. We spent all night working on Kil’Jaeden, and managed to kill him 3 minutes after our raid time ends. It was a nice gift before the server reset on Tuesday morning. Our regular raid then went last night, and we were planning on doing the first four bosses in Sunwell Plateau. The raid started off interestingly with three wipes to overpulling on trash, wasting our first half hour. A little bit of hangover from the night before I think…
After those wipes, we started wacking bosses left and right. One shots on all bosses up to M’uru, we accomplished our goal of four bosses with an hour to spare. Pushing forward, we nailed M’uru (second kill) in two shots and then 2-shot Kil’Jaeden as well. Even though it was an extra 5 minutes this time, we cleared all of Sunwell in a single night which is pretty awesome.
This means it’s time to farm achievements with 2 weeks to go until Wrath. Everytime I start getting bored with WoW, I find something new to do that sucks me in and makes my time in Azeroth enjoyable. Needless to say, Otter is pissed that my WAR CE is basically wasted. I need to see if I can sell the box of crap and just keep the account for later. I did cancel the subscription for WAR since I wasn’t able to get into it.
In this case, the light at the end of the tunnel turned out to be a train of alternate (Achievements) and new (Wrath) content coming my way.