Stalled
I'm stalled on the InstallShield project at work at the moment, for reasons that would probably bore and/or confuse most people who might be reading this.
I managed to hit a bird on my way to work today. Though, more accurately, the bird hit me. This is, I believe, the second small animal my car has hit. The first was a squirrel on the way back from the Oregon coast in 2005, while The Cheating Wench was driving.
I bought a staple gun yesterday, just a cheap little one, and some 1/2" staples to fix a couple of drawers that broke during the move to Oregon.
Turns out the staples are too long to fit in the stapler. *sigh* So I went back tonight to buy smaller ones: 3/8" this time. These are short enough, but like the previous set, are just a smidge too narrow, so they don't quite fit in the track. They fit, but tightly. Too tight for the spring mechanism that's supposed to keep staples at the front of the device. *sigh*
I went in to the store for staples. I walked out with staples. And Dexter Season One DVDs, a Wii Classic Controller, and a Wii Zapper ...
I've been poking lightly at online job boards recently, and I've realized something about myself ... again. I have this realization every time I job hunt.
I'm good at a lot of things. But I'm not great at anything. Not anything very marketable anyway. (I think I'm a pretty good fiction writer if I do say so myself, and a few people on my friends list can attest to my cuddling prowess, right?)
I can do just about anything an IT department might need, from running network cable through walls to writing a program to monitor a service running on a computer in the network. I can (and have) set up an Active Directory domain and manage firewalls, mail servers, routers, etc. At one time I knew how to setup and manage VLANs through the Cisco IOS. I haven't done it for years, but I'm pretty sure it'd come back quickly. I could write a web page to collect customer data and store it in a database (that I designed) for reporting later. I can create Windows Installers (using InstallShield) to do just about anything you'd need.
The catch is, none of the software I write will look very good, or perform very well. It would function as designed, but would probably not be very error tolerant unless I have a good amount of time to finish it.
I managed to hit a bird on my way to work today. Though, more accurately, the bird hit me. This is, I believe, the second small animal my car has hit. The first was a squirrel on the way back from the Oregon coast in 2005, while The Cheating Wench was driving.
I bought a staple gun yesterday, just a cheap little one, and some 1/2" staples to fix a couple of drawers that broke during the move to Oregon.
Turns out the staples are too long to fit in the stapler. *sigh* So I went back tonight to buy smaller ones: 3/8" this time. These are short enough, but like the previous set, are just a smidge too narrow, so they don't quite fit in the track. They fit, but tightly. Too tight for the spring mechanism that's supposed to keep staples at the front of the device. *sigh*
I went in to the store for staples. I walked out with staples. And Dexter Season One DVDs, a Wii Classic Controller, and a Wii Zapper ...
I've been poking lightly at online job boards recently, and I've realized something about myself ... again. I have this realization every time I job hunt.
I'm good at a lot of things. But I'm not great at anything. Not anything very marketable anyway. (I think I'm a pretty good fiction writer if I do say so myself, and a few people on my friends list can attest to my cuddling prowess, right?)
I can do just about anything an IT department might need, from running network cable through walls to writing a program to monitor a service running on a computer in the network. I can (and have) set up an Active Directory domain and manage firewalls, mail servers, routers, etc. At one time I knew how to setup and manage VLANs through the Cisco IOS. I haven't done it for years, but I'm pretty sure it'd come back quickly. I could write a web page to collect customer data and store it in a database (that I designed) for reporting later. I can create Windows Installers (using InstallShield) to do just about anything you'd need.
The catch is, none of the software I write will look very good, or perform very well. It would function as designed, but would probably not be very error tolerant unless I have a good amount of time to finish it.