Grrr!
This is the third entry I've started. Let's see if I can finish this one to my satisfaction.
I'm always anxious about going back to work after a vacation. Coming home too. I worry about what might have imploded during my absence.
I returned home and all was well. And since I really enjoy my job and have great co-workers, I was happy to go back to work.
Well... Monday, my first day back, my supervisor gave me my six-month review. It wasn't good. In fact, it was downright ugly. I really don't want to get into a whole 'thing' about it, since it's an unpleasant subject. Suffice to say, I'm pretty depressed. I need to write my response this weekend and be as professional as I can. But I've just been working my *ass* off and to be told that I suck in pretty much every way just... It's pretty devastating.
*sigh*
I bought a Sony DVD burner so that I can burn my Tivo episodes to DVD. It's sort of complicated, but I figured it out. Tivo files aren't DVD files, so I have to convert them to .VOB files first. Which requires different software from the burner. Found it.
The burn just failed after something like 2.5 hours. Crap. The first time I tried, the burn was *almost* completed - just about 5 minutes left and the whole computer shut down. Shit. That time, I had a whole bunch of crap going on at once. I was transferring files, converting files and burning, all at the same time. No great surprise that my old Pentium 3 had a nervous breakdown. Not sure that I want to try again right now.
While I was waiting for all that computer stuff to get done, I decided to rewatch 'Morpheus'. Ironically, I fell asleep while watching it :) Unfortunately, I did something to my back during that nap. I slept wrong or something and my back *really* hurts now.
Did do a little shopping. Sam's Club had *all* of the Stargate Seasons in the new slim packaging on sale for something like $37 bucks each. Sadly, they didn't have Atlantis Season 1, which I would have bought. I've heard the commentaries are great and I'd like to see '38 Minutes' again.
I really wish I could lose myself in something fannish, but... gah! I really did enjoy "Morpheus" and thought there were some really good moments, but I'm finding it hard to enjoy much of anything right now. I hate when life is like this. I'm trying to decide if having a beer would help or hurt me.
So basically, I didn't do much today. Bought some nice Salmon and a couple of good-looking steaks. Overloaded my computer to the point it had a meltdown and took a nap which hurt my back.
Oh! I did have a thought about Atlantis.
The expedition is making some *really* questionable choices. I mean, seriously. I realize that they're dealing with moral issues that are very new and where the lines are blurred, but damn. And those things are turning around to bite them on the ass. I suspect it's going to get worse before it gets better. I'm not saying that the writing sucks. At least not yet, anyway. But this show is definately going in some interesting directions.
Elizabeth is getting more coy this season. Her "John Sheppard, are you defending my honor?" line was definately flirty and I don't particularly ship them. I don't mind it, it's just an observation. John seemed a bit taken aback and seemed to skirt the issue. I don't think it was a personal thing, just not the point of his report.
I like Atlantis, but I find I'm just not as engaged with the characters as I am with Stargate. Granted, it hasn't been on as long, but I got hooked into Stargate right from the start.
Here is an interview with Martin Gero on Gateworld I downloaded it to my mp3 player and listened to it on the bus this week.
Gero has some interesting things to say about Rodney. Gero is a really big McKay fan, so his eps are likely to be Rodney-centric. I'm not a huge Rodney fan. Sometimes he seems to be too much a characature, but I thought his "hungry" comment when Liz was all choked up was extremely charming and Rodney at his most disarming. Now *that's* a side of Rodney I really adore. Can we see more of that, please?
I also bought a ginormous bag of M & M's at Sam's Club today. They are going to have to go away because I'm going back on the wagon and I can't possibly eat that many M & M's between tonight and tomorrow. What was I thinking??? I probably wasn't.
I should probably just go to bed, but I don't really want to. It's only 10 and weekends are my time to stay up late and do whatever I want. But I don't really want to do anything.
Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.
I'm always anxious about going back to work after a vacation. Coming home too. I worry about what might have imploded during my absence.
I returned home and all was well. And since I really enjoy my job and have great co-workers, I was happy to go back to work.
Well... Monday, my first day back, my supervisor gave me my six-month review. It wasn't good. In fact, it was downright ugly. I really don't want to get into a whole 'thing' about it, since it's an unpleasant subject. Suffice to say, I'm pretty depressed. I need to write my response this weekend and be as professional as I can. But I've just been working my *ass* off and to be told that I suck in pretty much every way just... It's pretty devastating.
*sigh*
I bought a Sony DVD burner so that I can burn my Tivo episodes to DVD. It's sort of complicated, but I figured it out. Tivo files aren't DVD files, so I have to convert them to .VOB files first. Which requires different software from the burner. Found it.
The burn just failed after something like 2.5 hours. Crap. The first time I tried, the burn was *almost* completed - just about 5 minutes left and the whole computer shut down. Shit. That time, I had a whole bunch of crap going on at once. I was transferring files, converting files and burning, all at the same time. No great surprise that my old Pentium 3 had a nervous breakdown. Not sure that I want to try again right now.
While I was waiting for all that computer stuff to get done, I decided to rewatch 'Morpheus'. Ironically, I fell asleep while watching it :) Unfortunately, I did something to my back during that nap. I slept wrong or something and my back *really* hurts now.
Did do a little shopping. Sam's Club had *all* of the Stargate Seasons in the new slim packaging on sale for something like $37 bucks each. Sadly, they didn't have Atlantis Season 1, which I would have bought. I've heard the commentaries are great and I'd like to see '38 Minutes' again.
I really wish I could lose myself in something fannish, but... gah! I really did enjoy "Morpheus" and thought there were some really good moments, but I'm finding it hard to enjoy much of anything right now. I hate when life is like this. I'm trying to decide if having a beer would help or hurt me.
So basically, I didn't do much today. Bought some nice Salmon and a couple of good-looking steaks. Overloaded my computer to the point it had a meltdown and took a nap which hurt my back.
Oh! I did have a thought about Atlantis.
The expedition is making some *really* questionable choices. I mean, seriously. I realize that they're dealing with moral issues that are very new and where the lines are blurred, but damn. And those things are turning around to bite them on the ass. I suspect it's going to get worse before it gets better. I'm not saying that the writing sucks. At least not yet, anyway. But this show is definately going in some interesting directions.
Elizabeth is getting more coy this season. Her "John Sheppard, are you defending my honor?" line was definately flirty and I don't particularly ship them. I don't mind it, it's just an observation. John seemed a bit taken aback and seemed to skirt the issue. I don't think it was a personal thing, just not the point of his report.
I like Atlantis, but I find I'm just not as engaged with the characters as I am with Stargate. Granted, it hasn't been on as long, but I got hooked into Stargate right from the start.
Here is an interview with Martin Gero on Gateworld I downloaded it to my mp3 player and listened to it on the bus this week.
Gero has some interesting things to say about Rodney. Gero is a really big McKay fan, so his eps are likely to be Rodney-centric. I'm not a huge Rodney fan. Sometimes he seems to be too much a characature, but I thought his "hungry" comment when Liz was all choked up was extremely charming and Rodney at his most disarming. Now *that's* a side of Rodney I really adore. Can we see more of that, please?
I also bought a ginormous bag of M & M's at Sam's Club today. They are going to have to go away because I'm going back on the wagon and I can't possibly eat that many M & M's between tonight and tomorrow. What was I thinking??? I probably wasn't.
I should probably just go to bed, but I don't really want to. It's only 10 and weekends are my time to stay up late and do whatever I want. But I don't really want to do anything.
Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.