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Friday, August 11th, 2006

So tonight I finally felt like writing something. I was all set and ready to go when I noticed my laptop wasn’t connecting to my wireless connection, and I’ve become too much of a wireless snob to use a network cable that’s tethered to the wall. Sometimes the box goes on the fritz and I have to reset it, so when I went to quickly do that before I sat down to bash out a post a long time in the making, I was absolutely appalled when I traced the power cord from the router through my hand to find the adapter, only to have the frayed ends of a severed cord slip through my grasp. And my little Bora, the wire chewer, looking so sweet and innocent…yeah right. My alarm clock’s radio antenna apparently didn’t slake her thirst for electronic destruction. So, after a fair amount of time spent splicing wires and brushing up on the electrical skills I’d learned when designing my graduation cap last year, here I am–online, wireless and nearly too tired to write.

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Lukewarm and loving it

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

It doesn’t seem fair that the worst times drag on forever and good times go by all too quickly. This week in particular was neither really great nor really bad, though, so it went by about as quickly as you could expect. It was a week a bit like the intro to Tale of Two Cities, so I suppose the best times and the worst averaged out to be, well, average. I’ll take that! Hey, lukewarm is a vast improvement…

I thought this week was going to be awful seeing as how I was back in training full-time at work again. It actually turned out all right in the end, although I’m only halfway done now and still have the worst part (a presentation in front of my boss and my boss’ boss) ahead of me. The people in my training class have been really nice and fun, so it’s made it a lot easier than it otherwise would have been. Unless you consider learning how to install and customize application virtualization software a good time, in which case the activities alone and the 1,000+ page book would be all you could ever ask for.

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