I spent all day
dreaming of the way I’d like to hold you
So I got absolutely nothing done
but it was so much fun and have I told you

How beautiful you are tonight
just like a movie star
how beautiful you are tonight
just like a movie star

Quit your job, dear
Then you can stay here at home beside me
You’ll be James Dean
I’ll be Sal Mineo, you can hide me

How beautiful you are tonight
just like a movie star
how beautiful you are tonight
just like a movie star

AHH…hahaha….how funny is it that the VP of the gun nut party shot his hunting buddy in the face?

I’ll tell you how funny. REEEAAAL fucking funny. About as funny as anything I’ve ever heard. Of course, there is a certain amount of bullshit surrounding it, much like anything else Cheney does. After all, we all know that were you or I wandering around with the proper hunting tag, and shot someone in the face…we’d probably be put under a little more scrutiny than the good ole V.P…but it’s so funny, that it doesn’t really bother me much. It’s also somewhat understandable, as I don’t think anyone could be expected to know that you are required to have a tag to hunt lawyers in Texas. It’s not a bad idea though…

Or do you suppose that the prince of evil just got fed up with his minions getting to do all the shooting of innocents over seas, and decided to try it out for himself? Do you think he tortured him first? Hmm…

I wonder how long before the NRA pays off the guy and takes him on a speaking tour? It would be great, “Our second amendment rights are still top priority. I value my right to bear arms, more than I value this whole side of my face, and neck…and chest. God Bless America!”

I just love it. Seriously. All around the world, we are known as an aggressive country, using the force of our weapons to dominate whatever arena we feel like entering…and now our Vice President has shot someone while in office. It just makes you proud to be an American. Incidently, he is the second V.P. in U.S. history to fire a gun at someone while in office.

Anyone catch the daily show last night? “Jon, tonight the Vice President is standing by his decision to shoot Harry Whittington. Now according to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush. Everyone believed at the time-there-were-quail in the brush. And while the quail turned out to be a 78 year old man, even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists-he still would have shot Mr. Whittington in the face. Mr.Cheney believes that the world is a better place for his spreading buckshot through the entire region of Mr. Whittington’s face.”

Here is something you should really look into.

It will make your life much happier.

Tribers - I have it..if you need it, let me know and I’ll load it into your Wordpress folders. All you’ll need to do is activate it in your plugin page.

Holy shit.

I passed out at my friend’s house last night, and had to drive home this morning. Currently we’ve got about two feet of snow on the ground. It’s drifting though…so in some places it’s waist deep.

91 North was so bad in some places my car would have got stuck if I had to stop. The exit I normally take was simply NOT there…in it’s place was a wall of snow. It took me about 45 minutes to go about 15 miles.

The Weather Channel just said that at certain times, it was snowing up to 4 inches an hour. My car was completely drifted in…you could barely see it when I got up this morning. The snow was nice and light though, so we used a broom and basically swept most of it away…or rather, enough for me to get into the car….then I threw it reverse and with some effort managed to back out. Getting up the GIGANTIC fucking hill out of my friends parking lot however, took 2 or three tries. First try I made it about 50% up it, then peeled out and slid backwards down the whole thing until I cut the wheel and pulling a 180 with basically no traction at all. I looped around the barely plowed parking lot…got going about 40, and plowed up the hill again. Some variation on this theme finally got me out after a few more tries.

This was BY far the most out of control weather I’ve ever had to drive in. And I did it with a Honda Civic, without studs or chains - demonstrating once again that studs are for pussies, and completely unneeded. Yes, there were places I was almost certain I was going to get stuck, like say, every single stop light. Or really…any time I had to stop for that matter, or even slow down too much..and sometimes just because…but the Honda power came through. I will say though, if I had to go anywhere outside of civilization, I wouldn’t. I was comforted on the drive home by the fact that should I get completely stuck, there were plenty of warm places around. Although it may have meant 12 hours in a 7-11 eating corn dogs…but hey…it’s better than dying out in the cold. I’m a particularly dense person sometimes, such as last night, and decided “Hey, they’re predicting the biggest storm of the year is going to hit tonight, I’ll go get wasted at my friends house and only take a hooded sweatshirt. What could possibly go wrong?”

I was just extremely careful not to try and use any side streets or anything. I saw MANY fools that did….and they are probably still out there digging…

I have never been as happy pulling into my parking lot as I was today. Speaking of which, that was quite a challenge in itself. Like I said though the snow is extremely light and fluffy though…so I just got a running start and plowed straight in….blowing snow out of the way…and managed to get to the only clear windswept spot in the whole parking lot. Then 20 minutes later the plow guy showed up. It’s awesome, every car in the lot is nearly invisible they are so buried in snow…except mine. I pity the fools that have to wake up in the morning and dig their shit out.

It’s hilarious…the Weather Channel keeps repeating “there is a heavy snow warning in effect in our area.” It’s like, no… last night there was a heavy snow warning… today there is just heavy snow… everyfuckingwhere.

Oh..ok..one more complaint and then I’m done. What the fuck is it with people walking down the middle of the fucking street? If I had a dollar for every fucking idiot I saw walking right down the middle of the street, forcing me to lose valuable and possibly unrecoverable speed, I would have…I don’t know…probably 20 or so dollars. Fucking morons. Go back in your goddamn house, or start shoveling the sidewalk…but I was having a hard enough time without having to worry about killing pedestrians who feel the street is their playground.

That’s all..I’m alive..and home. I have food, heat, a case of beer, a bottle of Makers, and I’m not going ANYWHERE.

Time is a precious commodity, especially if you’re a system administrator. No other job pulls people in so many directions at once. Users interrupt you constantly with requests, preventing you from getting anything done. Your managers want you to get long-term projects done but flood you with requests for quick-fixes that prevent you from ever getting to those long-term projects. But the pressure is on you to produce and it only increases with time. What do you do?

Here’s a great link about how to manage your time better.

It’s the author of Time Management For System Administrators, Thomas A. Limoncelli, giving a talk about the book and sharing some of the ideas from it. While the title implies that it is for system administrators specifically, I feel it’s quite applicable to anyone in a computer technology field.

Maybe that’s because in my job, like many I expect, I may do system administration, but I also do many other things in many other realms.

Anyway…read it. It’s good, and quite helpful.

Trailing off the likes of it
She likes it when it grows
Sending out a candidate
She’s sinking her foes
Peaking out then leveling
Wherever it goes

And her mother will greet you
And a river will reach you
Breaking out to make you slave again

Chasing Heather crazy
Chasing Heather crazy
Making sure that all the world is coming down
All the world is coming down on her
Anywhere I want to
And if you want to come too
We’ll go down where
All the girls are stumblin’ round
All the world is crumbling down around her

Staring out from otherworldly windows painted red
Doesn’t have to listen to the voices in your head
That’s a different lie
Do you remember what was said?

“Right then I hung up the phone. Can somebody tell me whose brilliant idea it was to outsource the entire planet? It seems like today even family owned businesses have been outsourced to India or Sri Lanka. I could write a whole essay on why outsourcing sucks more cock than Pam and Tom in that video I found on Direct Connect. Outsourcing sucks because no one speaks proper english. America is going downwards in a spiral to hell. Things better change, or you better bring back McCarthyism because there’s gonna be a whole lotta people yelling ‘All Hail Communism’ and you bet your balls that North Korea is busting at the nut on that T3 right now. Come on people, what’s going on in our nation, can’t we fix this? Oh my god Microsoft loses 5 cents an hour if they don’t outsource to another country. Puhleez come on. Starbucks even outsources if you call them, it’s like ‘Hello, this is Starbucks, in Spain, how can we help you?’. Ezmereldas probably chilling with them in a hotel right now…going out to a club. Come on guys, let’s change this. Once and for all. No more outsourcing!”

OMFG. Funny shit here. Total nerd humor though. If you don’t like Pure Pwnage, you really won’t like this. It may also help to know that it’s a spoof on these guys.

I have no idea what’s going on. But I can scarcely believe how awesome this town is.

A few minutes ago, a beat ass car…perhaps say, a 1983 Toyota Corolla went by. Now this is not immediately awesome, in fact, it could be considered a regular occurrence in nearly any town in America. But HERE, you look out your window wondering what the crazy crazy loud deathly screech is, and you see this Corolla. It’s not the sound of a belt screech though, it literally sound like all four tires perpetually peeling out.

You think to yourself, “that can’t be right…how could a Toyota light up all four tires?” You are right. The tires are not all peeling out, as that is impossible…and not only that, there is no telltale smoke. And trust me, tires peeling out that sounded like this would be quite smokey.

After the car disappeared from sight (but not sound), about 5 cop cars raced by lights and sirens blazing in chase. I can’t see around the corner of the building next door (not my office, the pie shop rather) to see what’s going on. But the huge evil screech has stopped, and I can see the police lights reflecting off the building next door.

I’m just left to wonder what in the hell would prompt you to continue driving when you car begins making a noise like that. Perhaps he was already running from the cops when the noise started? Barring that, escape from the law for some heinous crime, I can’t think of a reason not to immediately stop driving when that noise started.

It seriously sounded like banshees at the gates of hell. The sound completely stole my soul for a minute. I couldn’t decide if it was coming from my computer speakers, or the TV, or actually from outside or what. If I could get a good recording of a sound like that, I’d put it on my myspace profile as a sort of audio homage to the visual design abilities of oh so many myspace users. It was just all of a sudden all around me. And then I looked out to see the most unassuming car making it. I still can’t come up with anywhere near a rational explanation. There is nothing I know of that can happen to a car that can make it sound like that….other than as mentioned, a 4 wheel drive car burning out constantly as it drives down the road at about 10 miles an hour until it’s tires all explode.

Anyway….never a shortage of interesting things going on outside my window in this town.

Wow…before I could even hit post, there was a knock on my door. I immediately guessed it was that gaggle of hot chicks I’ve been expecting to just show up some day….but alas…it was not. It was just some friendly neighborhood bible thumpers inviting me to church with them. I hope I didn’t look too stoned when I told them I was going to be busy driving thumbtacks under my toe nails all night instead.