i have spent the last 5 1/2 hours troubleshooting the same broken circuit - our field techs (i started w/1 now we're up to 2 plus the customer's it vendor on site) can't seem to get it through their thick skulls that somewhere in the customer's office there is a bad transmit wire (receive is fine, they are getting my signal, but i'm not getting ( Read more... )

Freak Day at the Zoo ( Read more... )

1) i still have a job
2) life is mostly good
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( it's been a busy week )

took tomorrow off work to finish packing, color my hair, and chill before flying to convergance; i'll be gone until tuesday, although i may see some of you out tomorrow night at alchemydc - hopefully the short vacation will work wonders toward improving my horrid attitude toward work

we'll be at convergence from friday afternoon til monday night, taking the red-eye back to bwi arriving here at 7ish tuesday morning; if you need to reach us (or want to find us at the con) the room is registered in my name, kim turner, and either zooom or i should have a cell with us and on at almost any given time (however we may turn it off when ( Read more... )

looks like i was not the only one having stress/problems over the last few days... to all of you here's some mojo hoping that things improve/have improved since your lj posts

thursday night was not a great night at alchemy_dc music wise, alternated between dancing and hanging out complaining about how bad the music was, then staciadevi's car got broken into (thanks to the staff at alchemy for letting us know and all the assistance with making sure everything was at least kinda ok) and the night got very surreal ( Read more... )

thursday - work, meet zooom for dinner w/ his twist club motorcycle group - he's late, gets to the restaurant about 10 mins before i leave, meet cute boi at the ranch, drive to baltimore, check out ascension - it was dead people wise and more importantly the music sucked - since when is smashing pumpkins (2 songs in a row too) goth/industrial? - ( Read more... )

pyrogus posted something very cool today which may go a long way toward explaining why i am often quiet even in social situations ( Read more... )