You awaken in a dimly lit basement. The air is chilly. You can hear the soft hum of a computer. You have a slight headache ( Read more... )

I had to reinstall Vista last week because of a crippling virus, or pile of viruses, depending which of the malware scrubbers you believe. There are upsides and downsides to this. The downside is that I lost whatever it is that I forgot to back up. So far, the only thing that I've realized that I forgot was my archived instant messenger logs from ( Read more... )

Kristina is the entirety of my friends page right now. I am certainly not blameless, but I'm disappointed to see that the Live Journal Renaissance was so short-lived ( Read more... )

The food party was awesome, but until I get my camera back from Jim and Kristina's house, an update about it would be lacking in substance ( Read more... )

I've been at my job a month now, and I've been seated at four different desks. I've also had to print a document four times and, by coincidence, each time was at a different computer, requiring four separate installations of a network printer, which, for reasons clear only to people that chose their college majors much more wisely than me, is a ( Read more... )

I did the math today and realized that I've been averaging an intake of about 1200 calories on days that I work. Now, it's also assuredly worth noting that, aside from trudging up and down an icy hill between work and my car, the greatest physical exertion of my workday comes from the sticky space bar on my keyboard. It's further worth noting that ( Read more... )

Ian invited us to Haiku Jim's birthday party on Friday. I say "us" because it seems like Ian lobbed the invitation in the general direction of everyone I know, so I operated under the assumption that it extended to everyone with whom I would normally have been with at Mortimer's that night. The party turned out to be high on the list of the most ( Read more... )

Apparently they're letting meout of work early today. I say "letting," but the reality of the situation is that they're kicking me out at 7. Evidently "we have to maintain consistency and bankers only work 38 hours a week." I pointed out that I worked 40 last week, and was told that's "the norm for training." I felt it undiplomatic to point out ( Read more... )

We lost at trivia again. The team of Redhead and Boring Guy seems to be an unstoppable trivia machine. Though, to be fair, we circled the wrong category as our bonus and lost by one point as a result, so it's possible that we're just off our game. Or else, since trivia is on payday, I've made peace with the idea that sometimes beer costs money ( Read more... )

This is a silly place to live a lot of the time. It took me almost an hour to get home from work last night, which actually isn't that bad when you consider that, under the best of circumstances, it takes a shade over 40 minutes. Just the same, the drive was unpleasant enough to make up for its comparative brevity. I know it's trite to insist that ( Read more... )