We returned Sunday from the vacation to MD. And awesome trip was had by all.

Tuesday:Started out a bit "off". Nothing seemed to go the way I wanted it to, starting with an 8:00 am phone call from work as I was trying to pack. The 5ish hour drive went fairly well except for the missing of exits. I ended up taking the scenic route which was, in ( Read more... )

WHEATSome of you are aware that I have significant issues digesting food and often have LOTS of abdominal pain. Some of you are also aware that my sister and aunt have the autoimmune disorder Lupus. I likely do as well. I have been doing some reading and one other issues that can be common in people with a genetic predisposition to autoimmune ( Read more... )

The hellish weeks of work ended last week and I took this entire week off. Yay! Highlights include getting the Easter Dress in WoW, Leveling a few times on Mannoroth, and hanging out with Scott. Mostly I have been happy to do NOTHING as often as possible. This is my first vacation since Emma was at Teh Shanty and I came up for 10 days ( Read more... )

We are nearly finished the massive project at work that I have been focusing on. Data files were sent to the customer yesterday and only a few loose ends remained to be tied up today. I was planning on having a few days off for the first time in months but seems I have to focus on a new software tool that I wrote the spec for. The programmer has a ( Read more... )

Something was beeping in the house when I got home tonight at almost 11pm. This means a fire alarm or carbon monoxide alarm battery went bad... I HATE that. Seems they all go at once and I can never figure out which one went bad. I was running all over the house trying to find the beep. I have a pile of alarm parts and batteries now. I win. I need ( Read more... )

I don't think I could be bored if I only had time off of work. I could...do weeks worth of laundry, do the dishes, finish re-arranging my bedroom, get my new cellphone activated, level to 60 on Kargath or level a little on Mannoroth, fish in game, go shopping for pretty spring things, buy parts and build a new computer, do taxes, relax and watch TV ( Read more... )

I think it will be weeks before I get a day off again..which will make it about a month straight of work. I am about 2 weeks into it. Most of those days are way over 8 hour days. So tired. Since last June I have tested and analyzed 5 software releases...4 of them were done by a core team of three of us. Most of the long hours were ones I worked. So ( Read more... )

To anyone who was trying to talk to me today, I can't not seem to send a message via ICQ or even ICQ2go. Skype shows nobody online so I can't send a message that way either. *groths* Everything fails. I was not ignoring messages. Just so you know.

So, either I get a Masters Degree or I continue to put up with the idiots that I deal with every day. I am so sick of this that I think I finally have the motivation to fix this. Software Engineering it shall be I think. I REALLY don't want to do it and fear the math that will be involved in the bridge courses, but I HAVE to. One of the managers ( Read more... )

So, we recently got some new-ish software that I use in my testing of radar threat databases. It is quite nifty. It got me to thinking that based on this software I could automate most of the test data collection. Well, I would not code it, but I could see a lot of ways to use the current software as a base to improve on it. It is perfect for it ( Read more... )