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March 08, 2005
Days of Blunder...
I’ve been bad, in that there have been no updates for the last two days. It’s not that I haven’t been doing stuff— I have been. Rather, I blame it on equipment failure. Well, that and a little bit of laziness. But mostly equipment failure.
Sunday was okay, a beautiful day that could have lasted forever but didn’t. We had taken William and Darian to the park Friday evening, so we didn’t do anything all that special with them, but I feel like I spent most of my time tending to one or the other. I did go and sort of apply for a job at Willis Music, but that was non-committal at best. They’ve got signs up everywhere that they’re looking for people, but there aren’t actually in need of anyone right now.
The big event on Sunday was the cause of the equipment failure. It was a toxic spill, you see. Diet Big K cola all over my desk and down my keyboard tray, over top of my keyboard and then down to the floor. It was touch and go for awhile, and even though my wife wanted to call in Federal assistance, I managed to deal with the worst of it. Or so I thought.
Yesterday was kind of a rough day at work. Well, even before work, since there was a tractor trailer overturned and blocking both lanes of I-64 East. It took me about two hours to get to work yesterday morning, and of course it would be the day that we had an application going live. Except that I wasn’t there to do that until after 9 AM. I usually hit work at 7:30 and I left in plenty of time yesterday, but Fate (and perhaps the local 89th Teamsters) were against me.
I finally did get the cutover done and [THIS CLAUSE HAS BEEN REMOVED BY THE INTERNET CENSORS. I RECEIVED TROUBLESOME INFORMATION. THAT IS ALL.] In the afternoon I was finally able to get back to the project I was supposed to get started on back on February 23rd.
When I got home, I horked around with my Mac for a while, trying to get it connected to the Internet again. It didn’t work. I was hampered in this activity by my now sticky keyboard…. Hells, I couldn’t even log in and check my Yahoo! Mail account due to keys not working, or spitting out two characters instead of one.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to soak the keyboard in alcohol and clear it up. Especially since it is a Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard. And I don’t think they make those things anymore. I have two of them and they are like as unto gold to me.
But for now, I am off to Jeffersonville, Indiana to pick up my guitar. I have been assured that the action and intonation have been set up, the neck has been adjusted, the nut has been reattached, and that new strings are now stretched over the fretboard. Here’s hoping they’re correct, cuz I wanna play already!!
Posted by john at March 8, 2005 02:50 PM