In which I complain about my DH, mourn the loss of another dog, and comment on work.
Bread blew off going to work again today, which kinda pissed me off for some reason. The night before last he’d told me he was going up to Cedar Rapids the next day and would stay up there until Friday, then yesterday morning he decided not to work. He decided this morning not to work yet again.
It’s not like he’s lazing around; he’s been cleaning the property. He’s created a “fence row” and towed a bunch of vehicle carcasses back there. He’s shuffled a couple trailer loads of garbage and crap over to the burn pile (which is now half the size of our house). He’s removed the dead appliances from the driveway, moved piles of wood, and picked up garbage. He’s graded the driveway, and mowed an acre or two. (His mom gave him a tractor recently.) Yesterday he even did the dishes.
And it’s not like I can blame someone for not wanting to go to work. I mean, work sucks, and it’s Spring and gorgeous outside.
But. We’ve got maybe $90 until the next time one of us gets paid, which is probably him — and not until next Friday. We can’t keep gas in his truck for that, not to mention keep me in lemondrop martinis. (The lemondrop martini is my new drink. Summery, don’t you think? And delicious. Yum. And plus I’m sick of cranberry juice.)
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NLW and the ever-gorgeous Mr. J had to put a dog down yesterday. (Everyone I know knows someone who has lost a pet recently, it’s like they’re all checking out at once.) I met NLW at the bar after work last night and bought her a drink. Funnily enough, she’s now drinking my old cocktail-of-choice, the Scarlet O’Hara. (The problem with online drink recipes is that no one makes them the same. I had to read nine lemondrop recipes to find the one I like. It’s ridiculous.)
Re-re IMed me today. She misses Dhuma. Says she’ll be fine for awhile, then will start crying.
Fuck.
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“Oh, no,” intoned Buzz from behind me, just now.
“What,” I said.
“Look back at picasso,” he said.
I did.
Oh shit. BSOD. (Picasso is one of our very important internal servers here at work.)
I walked over to read the error. It said INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE. Trying to make Buzz laugh, I said, “Well, that’s not the worst BSOD you can get.”
He said, “It is about the worst you can get!”
If that box doesn’t come back up, he’ll start throwing things. (Last week he threw his phone and startled one of the people from the admin building. *giggle*)
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Last night’s Windows Update is fucked. If you haven’t installed it yet, wait a few days. It breaks some computers display drivers.
Our boss rebooted his computer after the update and his display went to 800×600, so he right-clicked on his desktop to edit his Properties, and Windows promptly rebooted. It also rebooted when he tried to navigate to the Display Control Panel. Same thing happened to another engineer. Both have flat panel displays.
Aren’t Windows Updates fun?
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This cracked me up. If I got a letter from my representative with curse words in it, I’d love it.
But I’m a person who deliberately uses the f-word as many times as I can in any given day, so the a-word wouldn’t rattle me even if it was totally out of context.
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I make a traditional dirty vodka martini. Justin will typically order some sort of fruity variation of a vodka martini.
Perhaps we’ll try the ‘ol lemondrop recipe. It sounds like it could be a new spring fave to me.
Simple syrup, in case you, like I, didn’t know, is: equal amounts of water and sugar boiled together. So you put a cup of water and a cup of sugar in a sauce pan and boil it, then use it with lemon juice and Absolut Citron to make your lemondrop. Yay! -m
BSOD – new acronym for me. Thanks for sharing your geeky knowledge. 🙂
If you didn’t know it, does that mean… can it possibly mean that… you’ve never seen one?!?! -m
seen one, maybe two.
i know – i’m an uninitiated geek, at best. 😉
I am so ready to be somewhere other than work and your lemondrop martini has me drooling. I want to be able to go to Martini’s and sit in the courtyard, but they’re outta service cuz of some stupid tornado. Sigh…
Now then, Mush, if you ever find a really good cucumber martini recipe (and actually try it), let me know. When Mark, Victor and I went to New Orleans last March, I had what was called a Cucumber Cosmopolitan at the Marigny Brasserie, and I’ve been dyin’ for one since.
I’ve never even found a bad cucumber martini recipe! -m
The drink I had last night at ThaiTanic (ha! get it?) was yummy. It was Thai Iced Tea (with out the condensed milk), lemon, and vodka. Mmm. Cool and refreshing.
And hangover inducing, apparently.
Thai iced tea with vodka? OMG, that’s brilliant! -m
I’m drinkin’ manhattans these days when I am not on vacation, sitting by the pool, and sipping Pina Coladas 😉
It’s good to be back.
I think you are an asshole … not.
Gregg
Mmm. Pina coladas. -m
Since I wrote an essay months ago and placed it on your ‘Rants’ about that BSOD symptom, I think you owe me $10. It’s alson on my blog. Caused me hours or work.
In my case it was installing SP2 that brought it out. M$ pretends it’s only a Win2K problem but I see it’s now invading more XP machines. Oh, wait, you don’t say it’s a XP update. Which is it? B-t-w, I had to reformat and reinstall XP to get rid of the problem. Took hours.
I agree…”INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE” isn’t the worst failure. I think an OS fault loop is the worst. When the OS boots to a ‘welcome’ screen and then quickly reboots. Very hard to work with, even using the ‘Safe Mode’ doesn’t make it much easier. And if you forgot to do a ‘Create’ system restore point lately…
A inaccessible drive can be any number of things that are easily fixed. Hardware and MBR and viruses and cables, broken fans causing overheating of the drive…etc. All easy to find and fix. Even if it never reboots, it could be copied. They are like nearly bullet proof.
Have fun with it.
The boxes affected were all Win2kPro, I believe. Total pain in the arse. Ugh. -m
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Heh, who loves you baby?
YOU DO! *smooch* -m