All right, I saw this video, and immediately thought of The Purple Bunny. The bunny in this video may not be purple, but yes… he does hate you. :-)

You know, I should learn to keep my trap shut sometimes.

I had posted in an earlier entry that this weekend was going to be a welcome respite from the hectic month before. I had very little planned (other than meeting Louie for dinner and drinks last night), and mainly planned on relaxing and not doing anything of note. That ended up being true for both Saturday and Sunday. Today, however, turned out to be another story altogether.

I got up at around 9 AM or so, had breakfast and my morning coffee, and settled down to catch up on the day’s news plus talk to Misty some. Unfortunately, right around lunch, I got a call from a VP at work telling me that he wanted me to come down to Mexico tomorrow evening so I could fix a printer issue at our location down there. Fortunately, I was able to talk to coworkers, come up with an alternate solution that didn’t even need to involve me going down there, and relayed it to the VP. That crisis was, fortunately, averted.

However, while this was going on, I was informed that a serious recurring issue with the network uplink at the corporate office was not on our ISP’s end and instead was at the office, so I ended up having to drive down there in miserable weather to see about getting it fixed. I actually passed at least two major wrecks on I-45 northbound on the way down there; needless to say when I drove home I took US 59 and the Hardy Toll Road. Still, I managed to get it fixed and came back home. I would have preferred to have those two hours to lay about the house in, though.

As for the rest of this evening, well… not sure what I’ll be doing yet. I might go take a short nap in a bit, and then watch some TV after dinner. Exciting, I know, but I really don’t have anything else planned. Tomorrow is going to be something of a hectic day, so I need some relaxation before I hit the ground running in the morning. Ah, well… might as well make the best of it. I just hope I don’t have any more work-related interruptions…

This week and next week, the two part Doctor Who story “Human Nature”/”The Family of Blood” is airing. What might not be too well-known is the fact that the two-parter, written by Paul Cornell, is an adaptation of the novel Human Nature that Cornell originally wrote as part of Virgin Publishing’s “New Adventures” line of Doctor Who novels in the 90’s. The original novel featured the Seventh Doctor and Professor Bernice Summerfield.

The funny thing was, the BBC had the original version of Human Nature on their website available for reading online or downloading. I was going to link directly to it, but the link has been temporarily removed with a note saying that it “will return in two weeks”. I guess my main suggestion is to try the other books on the site, and then once “The Family of Blood” has aired, return and read the original novel once it’s become available…

Holy crap.

As a lot of people know, the first official trailers for Team Fortress 2 were released within the past few days. In a bit of nostalgia, I decided to see if I could find the intro for the original Team Fortress… and I don’t mean Team Fortress Classic, I mean the ORIGINAL mod for Quake. Sure enough, YouTube failed to disappoint. :-)

Just as a side bit of trivia: the music is “Ecce Gratum” from the Carmina burana. When I worked for Custom Computer Centers, the sales manager loved that intro. So, for his birthday, I picked him up a copy of the Carmina burana on CD. He didn’t realize why I got it for him until it got to the appropriate track… ;-)

Well, this is fun. As I stated in the last entry, I was supposed to go out to Odessa today on a business trip. What neither my boss nor I realized when we scheduled the trip, however, was that I was leaving on the day of the annual stockholder’s meeting. It was quickly decided yesterday that I needed to be here for it instead of on the road, so I ended up rescheduling my flight and hotel for two weeks from now. Fun fun.

So, instead of being on a flight to Odessa right now, I’m sitting in a corner of the training room at the office, waiting for the stockholders’ meeting to start in an hour or so. I’m hoping everything ends up being uneventful, but with our luck if I HAD gone out of town, everything would have fallen apart and no one here would have quite known how to fix it. I had looked forward to this trip, but I easily admit it would have been problematic had I gone. Ah, well… I still have the one in two weeks to look forward to.

I did get to go out and unwind last night, though. Dave called me at around 3 PM asking if I wanted to meet for dinner and drinks somewhere, simply because it was his day off and he was bored out of his skull. I readily agreed; as soon as I was done with most of the preparations for the meeting last night, I made my way over to the Richmond Arms to meet Dave. For those who don’t know, Richmond Arms is a British pub over off Richmond Avenue. We ate, had a couple of beers (I had a pint of Guinness and a pint of Shiner Bock), and generally talked for a long while. Afterwards, I made my way home. All in all, it was a nice diversion from the usual weeknight humdrum (which does not include talking to Misty… heh).

Ah, well. I’ll just see how things go from here. On the bright side, as said earlier, it’s a three-day weekend… and I plan on going over to Cypress tomorrow to get myself out of the office (but not out of work) early. :-) Maybe Mom would want to meet at Red Robin for lunch… who knows. I guess we’ll see…

Well, it’s the middle of another week… or close to the middle anyway. I’m just stuck at my desk right now, talking to Misty via IM while doing some work on the Mortal Kombat Online server. Nothing too serious, mind you… just finishing up working on the backup scripts. It was a good weekend this past weekend, for the most part… which kinda makes up for the crap day I had today.

Friday night was fun. After I got off work, I made my way back to north Houston, and instead of going straight home went to Becky and Brian’s house, where preparations were being made for a surprise birthday party for Becky. While Brian and Becky were at a school play, we were at the house getting things ready. In the end, I felt like a bit of a tool; I helped Heather get some balloons up, provided some wiring, and helped Autumn’s husband Brian get some streamers and lights hung. The rest of the time leading up to Becky’s arrival, though, was spent in the house in front of my laptop, helping out with a couple of database upgrades at work. :-/ While people were prepping I was waiting for scripts to finish running. In the end, though, Becky got home and was suitably surprised and elated. :-) The party itself was great, catching up with old friends. I must say, though, that I did a lot worse at Karaoke Revolution than I normally do. I’ll have to practice. After a while, though, I said my goodbyes and left; Sean, Jinny, and Henry were good enough to give me a lift back to my car, and I headed home.

Saturday was fun as well. At around lunchtime, I made my way down to Louie’s apartment, arriving at right about the same time as Dave did. From there, we went to Fuddrucker’s, where we had lunch. After lunch, we headed back to the apartment. While Louie and Dave worked on scanning slides, I got on the phone and talked with Misty. After talking to Misty a while, I fired up Louie’s PS2 and played a few rounds of Mortal Kombat II, followed by a game of Cyberball 2072. Once Louie and Dave were done, we sat down and watched the Mets and the Yankees play, followed by… God help me… bullriding. (Actually, bullriding is quite amusing to watch… what with watching how riders get thrown combined with the redneck accents of the announcers.) After that, we went and had dinner at Chili’s, followed by browsing at Borders then Barnes & Noble. Then, after getting some Marble Slab, we went back to the apartment and watched a bit more bullriding. Soon enough we were all getting tired and ended up heading home.

Not much happened Sunday, other than my sitting in the kitchen most of the afternoon working on my laptop, working on the Oracle servers at work. Heh.

As for today… blah. Today was the day from hell. As I was getting ready to leave this morning, I had to unplug the power to my laptop so I could pack it up. So, I go under the desk, and I kneeled under the desk to remove the power cord… and I heard something rip. It turned out I ripped my Dockers. :-/ After putting a new pair of pants on and packing the laptop, I headed to the datacenter… only to find that the version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 I had was old enough where it didn’t have the drivers for the hard disk controller on the server I needed to install it on. Gah! I ended up going back to the office so I could download new ISOs. Then, while at the office, I get a message from one of MK Online’s mods leading me to find that there was a problem with the server. After talking with the hosting provider support, CCShadow, and his father, the server was brought back up and running. Finally, I got an email this afternoon on my MK Online email account that ended up incensing me. *sigh* It didn’t help that I didn’t get any caffeine until 3 PM. (I usually have two or three cups of coffee in the morning.)

As for the rest of this week, well… on Thursday and Friday I will be out on a business trip to Odessa, TX. After that, I’ll have a three-day weekend to look forward to. I need a chance to relax and unwind… heh. For now, though, I’m just going to keep talking to Misty, have a beer, and continue working on these scripts and let them run. Ah, well… just another fun day for me.

All right, first Ginny posted this, and then I saw it on Ain’t It Cool News. All I have to say is… Bruce is the Man. :-)

Heh. This kind of occasional zinger is one of the reasons I love Misty so. :-)

I was driving past Haude Elementary on the way home from work tonight, and had Misty on the phone with me… and the following exchange ensued.

Me: “What the hell? `Mathematics hip hop program’? What is that supposed to be?”
Misty: “How is THAT supposed to go? `One, two, buckle your shoe; three, four, bitch shut the door’?”

I damn near died laughing….