They are going to be up and down for awhile.. We’re preparing to upgrade Fedora (again).
Another week of morning hell.
Looked into the future today. I’ll be getting up at the crack of dawn still so it’ll be real hard to find me unless you see me on my days off. I won’t go into detail but yes, the epic circle jerkery that is corporate life is still taking place. The person who I have taken over for is getting trained to take yet another persons place, leaving me with their job still.
At least I’m getting more hours. That’s the only thing that’s really keeping me half sane.
Sunday Night Open Thread
Today I spent most of my time tidying things up a bit. Then I looked into a few maps for a game that is not Left 4 Dead (since I wouldn’t mind reviewing something dor a different game). Then we had steak for dinner. Had mine Florentine style with a lemon wedge. nothing like a steak grilled over hickory/mesquite and seasoned with some lemon juice from a fresh wedge.
Now to prepare my lunch box for tomorrow. I know ahead of time that it’ll be a full day.
Saturday Open Thread
Decided to experiment in the kitchen today. Green curry with zucchini over rice and some India Spice chai to wash it down. On another note my L4D2 server died again (thanks Valve) and I have no idea what to do. It’s coredumping nonstop and I can’t seem to find anyone else having issues with their servers. This shit annoys me, especially since last night I wanted to play it… So instead I opted for Serious Sam HD, where I killed Santa.
Open Thread
It was great. I slept in, went to work and felt nice and fresh. I could actually think. Now it’s my weekend. I have plenty of rum and coke, screwdriver supplies and bloody mary shit to get through it.
Goodbye Trellian, hello Dreamweaver
Just got Dreamweaver tonight. For those that don’t know Adobe Dreamweaver is used for building websites, html editing and can be used to create many webscripts (php, java etc). I used Trellian to change the slackers site but felt it was lacking somehow. I’ll be experimenting in Dreamweaver CS5 to see what I can come up with. Maybe even find a template for inspiration/to fuck with.
What I did today.
I decided to veg out today. I kinda felt entitled to do so. So I stayed in my comfy PC chair and played with HTML for a bit and came up with the new look for the primary website:
http://slackersforum.servebeer.com/
I’ll add a background image later. I figured the buttons would be good for now.
Made it. Barely…
Today was geriatric tuesday, and boy the store was full of elderly zombies. It wasn’t really clear what I was supposed to be doing today. I was only brought in to handle the overhead but ended up doing things that weren’t even for my department or doing someone elses job. It was one of those circle jerk style days… Tonight is going to be all about drinking and slacking.
I’m too antisocial to join a social network
Maybe I’m old fashioned but regular email, forums and blogging are good enough for me. Hell I never even thought I would be blogging or vlogging when I was younger. Then eventually I found reasons to do both. However I’m not really a spacebook/myface/tehgoogleplus person. I have no reason/desire to use social networking sites. For one I’m a privacy nut, for another I know that workplaces search sites like facebook to find out about their workers (they try to find me all the time). I have nothing to hide about myself (otherwise I wouldn’t even have a blog), I just think my online life should be like my real life. Personal. I mean it’s not like I go about the real world advertising that I exist online.
The reason for this rant is because of something that’s been coming up a lot lately at work. Random strangers asking if I have a facebook, today especially. There’s this one girl that I see shopping from time to time over the last few years while I’m working or out and about on my day off. She wanted to know if I had a facebook and I told her the truth. Then she wanted to know if I had an email address. Who doesn’t these days? But I don’t go about giving it out to just anyone, hell there are people who I’ve known for several years that don’t have my email. There’s no reason for it, especially if you’re local. It also seems like every other day there is a co worker or a stranger asking someone (including me) if you exist online. I can understand this if it’s a close friend or a family member. But if I see you every single day or every other day why should we discuss things online? I rate this among people who would rather text each other side by side than actually carry on a conversation.
That brings me to another point. As much as I like the online world I believe that places like facebook and even youtube cause social laziness. I guess for some it’s easier to break the ice that way, but often it seems to come off as creepy. Or maybe that’s just me.