Should I start study for Apple cert now or try for Server +
Yup a masochist!
Network +
February 13, 2009 at 11:09 pm (Uncategorized)
Well after driving myself crazy for what seems like forever… I took my Network+ Exam today. (I only threw up twice the night before).
Spending $200+ dollars to be driven slowly mad (okay, madder) seems really stupid or masichist(al?). Add on the fact that I am taking a Programming course, a Notary course and I have company coming to my place tomorrow … yeah that is stress I seem to be feeling.
But hey I passed, so I get reimbursed from work (no pass no pay back) and I have warned my guests that if they see any underwear in the living room just don’t make eye contact and they probably won’t get hurt.
Must pass out now
Network+
February 3, 2009 at 2:56 pm (Uncategorized)
Seriously, I think I may just drive myself crazy studying for this test. I find myself asking a question I haven’t asked since I was a Sophomore in High School studying Geometry. “When am I ever going to need this in real life. Do I really need to know about token rings? How much of this do I really need to know off the top of my head? Our Network Administrator doesn’t have a lot of this memorized and I think he is part computer with all the information he has tucked in his head.
Sigh … Chapter 4 the OSI Model and Network protocols.
Hulu’s Superbowl ad was wrong if aliens want to turn our brains to cottage cheese this will work much better than tv or Hulu!
“The Gamers: Dorkness Rising” Trailer
October 19, 2008 at 10:46 am (Uncategorized)
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Bold new levels of Geekness
October 15, 2008 at 8:54 am (Uncategorized)
After this weekend I’m thinking that if I want to be able to function in “normal” society I am going to have to cut any kind of Star Wars input, interactions, exposure. On Sunday the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s Pops performance was “A Tribute to John Williams”. Things went well the music was beautiful the new conductor is both talented and funny. It was truly enjoyable. Until I managed to have an utterly geeky moment. During intermission members of the 501st (People who dress up in Star Wars outfits etc.) were collecting money for the make a wish foundation. I went out to the lobby, knowing full well that these people were going to be about, and had a viseral reaction to dodge behind a pillar the second I saw someone in a stormtrooper’s uniform. I literally froze in place for a moment. I wonder if I wouldn’t have done something stupid if I hadn’t seen a woman dressed in a Jedi outfit standing between me and the nearest stormtrooper… Seriously I almost made a huge ass of myself at a symphony performace because some guy/girl was dressed up as a badguy from my childhood…
But the plus side is that most of the people around were of similar mind set and Robert Moody even particiapeted in a fight jedi v stormtroopers. It isn’t every day you see a symphony conductor put down his baton and pick up a lightsaber. It was truly a great time even though I nearly humiliated myself beyond belief.
On a less geek note (or on a different kind of geek note) John Williams is an amazing composer the Violin solo in the “Schindler’s List” Theme is so beautiful I’ll be putting that on my iPod!
Luke Skywalker I’m not!
June 16, 2008 at 1:47 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: Stupid things I do
Well, I made it through surgery and everything is getting back in order (Well, as close as I get to order). Driving home on 295 from my doctor’s office I made the mistake of listening to the end of the Star Wars dramatization. As big of a geek as I am I got way to into it. Seriously, to the point of when I was being passed by a white/silverish Toyota I almost swerved on the “tie fighter” that was coming up behind me.
In my defense Vader had just killed the Gold leader.
And my apologies to the lady in the blue pontiac who almost went down with Biggs. I’m an idiot.
My next audio “read” for the car… Jane Eyre, seriously.
One of the Scariest things to hear.
June 3, 2008 at 8:07 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: medical
I was going through pre-operative tests and meetings yesterday and during one interview the nurse looks at me and says … “So, we’ll be operating on your left side.” NO! Now I’ll admit my surgery is minor (Salivary gland issues). So if they operated on the wrong side I wouldn’t be life altering disfiguration but I would have been upset/freaked. I now want to show up at the hospital with not this side scrawled across the left side of my face.
I mean honestly you hear about people getting the wrong body part removed/amputated and think how could it happen?
Well for my little mistake it was apparently a transcription error which can happen easily enough, and what if I was a bit more worried about the surgery and wasn’t focusing on what the nurse had said (I would be fairly distracted if I was about to have a limb removed). If I hadn’t spoken up would it have been caught?
Now, when I saw my doctor later that day his first question to me was … “Now what side are you having problems with? … That’s what I thought.”
Did he look at the records and realize there was a mistake or did the hospital contact him about the error. It just goes to show no matter what you have to pay attention when having medical procedures.
My favorite part was when the nurse asked me if I was sure they had the wrong side….
The Escapist : Video Galleries : Zero Punctuation : Painkiller
May 21, 2008 at 7:00 pm (Uncategorized)
Time Warp
May 20, 2008 at 12:32 pm (Uncategorized)
Grocery shopping during my lunch break and thought I might have been caught in some temporal anomaly. Looking through the produce and over the speakers KC and the Sunshine Band’s (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty.
As I head to frozen foods I hear Rick Dee’s Disco Duck.
Then as I’m checking out the cashier is grooving out to Hot Chocolate’s You Sexy Thang.
As I stumble out to my car, I grab my iPod and play the first random song… Sweet’s Wig Wam Bam.
Can the 70’s give you an aneurysm?
Guilt
May 19, 2008 at 11:00 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: Family, medical
Mom is just out of surgery and is doing fine. Dad just called and sounds a little lonesome. I am here at work feeling guilty as hell. I am usually the one who is there for these kinds of things but with things at work being as they are, I just can’t leave and it is eating me up that I can’t be there even though I am aware that my presence is not needed. My brother keeps stopping by to check on the folks and is taking Dad out to Lunch.
*Sigh* Guilt just sucks.
