Enterprise is cancelled 🙁 *goes into geek mourning*

I agree with garibaldicu; Sometimes computers really do suck. I’ve been migrating an old web server to a new one at work. Fortunately, it’s just ours (the Center’s). Still, it’s been a major headache–broken links here, broken apps there.. All because we’re going not only from IIS 5 to IIS 6, but also because we’ve created an AD. It’s not all that tough, but I’m having to deal with the caveats as they come–at least I’m learning a good bit in the process. I’ve just learned to be a firefighter and put out the little brush fires as I see them *groan*

In other news, I’m going out with Carrie again tonight. It should be quite awesome. We’re just doing dinner and a DVD, which should be really nice *imagines Tracy getting her beak ready for pecking*

Hard to believe January is gone already. This means about 2.5 months until Episode III *drools with geek happiness* There’ll be other geek movies–before and after–but there will most likely not be a Star Wars movie ever again. Geek history in the making 🙂

Anyhoo, have to go get ready to put out some fires *sigh*

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So I was sleeping. And I wake up, thinking I’ve had a nice whole refreshing night of sleep. And it’s only 1am *bangs head on coffee table*

I had a really vivid dream, and it seemed like it had a really long playing time (like all night).. but, that’s what I get for thinkin 😛 And it was a really odd dream, too. A bunch of us were chilling at garibaldicu‘s place and, for some reason, Cristine had a bunch of birds. Really big birds–like the size of a Mini Cooper. There was more to this strange dream, like we were all actually staying in the same hotel as the president, but the entire cohesive plot is already fading fast.

Ahh, well.. Back to attempt the sleep thing.

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday, Dear altafass
Happy Birthday to you!

🙂

Yesterday was just your typical blah Monday, but I think it ended really, really well. Not only did it end in the Vortex, but I actually avoided playing WoW for one night. lol.

I can’t believe it’s the 25th of January already. Wowsers. Before I know it, it’s going to be February and stuff. This year is totally flying by.

Nothing much else going on, really. I’ve pretty much finished rebuilding my laptop; how exciting. hehe. I put XP Pro on it because the limited abilities of XP Home was getting kind of old.

I saw a trailer for The Ring 2 the other day. Not only does it look freaky, but it also looks quite disturbing–perhaps even moreso than the first. I don’t even remember why I saw the first; it was a rather trite story with rather shallow characters and a pretty predictable end.

Penny keeps eyeing my empty cereal bowl–she’s been licking it a couple times over the last couple of weeks and, after she’s finished licking, she usually throws up because of that little intolerance of milk that cats have. What a dingbat 😛 Better go put this away before she makes with the puking thing again.

I’ve been playing World of Warcraft for the past few nights. It is such a frelling awesome game. I only play for about an hour or so a night. I’ve gone up at least a level every night since Friday, and I’m up to Level 7. My character is a Human Mage. It looks like you can have a number of characters for free, so I might start someone else of a warrior class or something. This game is a whole different world from EverQuest or Final Fantasy XI–in this game it’s not just a matter of going around killing big huge rats or wolves, but major leveling comes from all of the quests that you take on. If I go about an hour every night like I have, I will be level 30 by the middle of next month. I’m in no hurry, especially because I don’t want this game to burnout quickly. It takes moderation–and Half-Life: 2 in-between 🙂

So, just about every night for a while in some capacity, I’ve been in a place called the Vortex. It’s nothing but an AIM/Yahoo chat room that was initially spawned by pktaxwench and continued by just about all of us. I got a webcam, mostly at the behest of altafass, since she had one and couldn’t see me. Since then, we have brought video and audio to our Vortex. It’s good to have the Vortex in the 21st Century 🙂

I’m glad this week is almost over. Because of the kewlness of the Vortex and World of Warcraft, I have only gotten 6 hours of sleep every night this week. I can get pretty cranky if I don’t get my full 8, so it’s quite fortunate for those around me that they still live 😉 I got a nap yesterday evening, but naps never really do it for me. I go to sleep for about 20 minutes and almost always wake up with a headache. Argh.

Anyhoo, off to do some of the work thing.

Congrats to those who got LJ back up. I can only imagine how hellish that feat was.

Lots of not to much has been going on since my birthday. I started playing some World of Warcraft last nite. It seems like a frelling good game, so far. But, that’s not saying much; I haven’t gotten beyond the first quest. I’m loading it on the laptop as I write, and also watching ROTK again..

I’ve been getting some kewl software for my new Tungsten E. My first Palm device was a Handspring Visor Deluxe. I had two Pocket PCs thereafter, and have come back home. Palm has come so far since I last saw it. My particular device runs Palm OS 5.2.1. The Visor I had ran 3.1. You can do just about anything with this Tungsten that you could with either one of the Pocket PCs I had. It’s just amazing *drools in geek contentment*

Poor little Penny was sick the other day. She threw up once, but hasn’t again since. I’m hoping she just swallowed something that she nibbled that didn’t agree with her. I need to take her to the vet sometime soon. I’ve had her a little over a year now, and she probably needs a checkup anyway.

Saw Battlestar Galactica last night. It looks like it’s going to be an extremely awesome series. I can’t wait to see more of it. Still getting used to Starbuck being a chick 🙂

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your own bulletin…along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

(not next to me, but nearest book)
If each record includes a large amount of satellite data, we often permute an array of pointers to the records rather than the records themselves in order to minimize data movement.
(Introduction to Algorithms, 2nd Edition)

Today was one of those days. I was in the zone. I could code nothing wrong. lol. It’s kind of kewl; I programmed a timetracking system for my the Center, and I’ve been coding some upgrades for it, and now another Center on the University wants to use it. w00t. It’s definitely kewl when your software gets wide use.

Nothing much has been going down, really. I think I’ve decided to get a bike, though.. Perhaps sometime within the next month. I haven’t really gotten a new bike since middle school, maybe early high school. So, I’m definitely not starting out with the uber top of the line. I’m thinking about a Giant Iguana, or perhaps a Cannondale Jekyll. If any of you bike riders have any other good entry-level bikes, lemme know 🙂

Anyhoo.. Off for some Counter-Strike. w00t.