Still waiting on the snow.sleet.freezing rain. I get to drive home in this mess, past the worst intersection in Raleigh. If I don’t make it back, AVENGE ME! 
Taters, my tub shines.
Mornin’ y’all. It’s rainy in south Jawja. On the plus side it’s like 52 Amurrkin, so no sleet/freezing rain stuff. Winter storm warnings are in effect for north Jawja though. Poor things. I talked to mom and sis and they are prepared if it happens. Good for them.
My new workshop manager starts today. YAY! I’ll probably be busy gettin’ her all set up. Right now her office has a small computer desk in it for the computer we got hooked up yesterday but nuttin’ else. I’ma let her decide what she wants or does not want in there. I figure that’s only right since she’s gotta live with whatever’s in there, right?
Oh and tonight is our Chocolate Classic fundraiser. I am sooooo not lookin’ forward to it. Besides the weather bein’ yuck (supposed to be raining) I don’t wanna work all day and then go do this tonight. We have a dozen restaurants competing though and a lot of good swag for the silent auction, so it should raise several thousand dollars, which is good. People pay twenty-five dollars a whack for the chance to sample lots of chocolate desserts, sip champagne and vote on what they think is the best taste, best presentation and best over all. Plus, they’ll part with more moolah bidding on silent auction stuff. We also have coffee and milk to serve. I usually hang out at the coffee and milk table and schmooze that way. Plus, I can sneak some chocolate, so there is that. Still don’t wanna go though. I wanna go home.
Too early. Weird dreams. Need tea.
Mindfield, chocolatey creamy filling and regular pastry.
Dangit, swampy, y’all should serve hot cocoa and chocolate con churros! Sheesh!
Last night was one of those nights, where little went right.
It started with dinner, where I threw all caution to the wind and ate a piece of cake, breaking my diet. :smack: It quickly resulted in a bout of gastric distress known in weight-loss surgery circles as ‘dumping’, and I wound up taking an evening nap to get through it. That’s nail one in the proverbial coffin.
When it was time for bed, I had a hell of a time going to sleep, undoubtedly related to my evening nap. Just as I fade out, my pager went off. Another run to the Mayberry nursing home was in order.
As I got to the station, the first truck was leaving. I geared up, and very quickly, enough people showed to crew the second truck. It wouldn’t start, because the battery was drained. Nail #2. We found the charger, and fired that muther up. Right about the time the air brakes were charged up so we could leave, the call came out that it was another case of crap in the heater smouldering (the third time in 6 months, BTW), and we could stand down. We did go for a quick ride around town to charge up the battery, and that was 
.
When the chief got back with the other truck, he was mad. The nursing home isn’t maintaining their equipment, generating these calls. I suggested passing the hat around the station, and buying them a shop vac. That was a universal He was also annoyed at the dispatcher (a newbie), who did a good job keeping up with the radio traffic, but who failed to call our mutual assist station, which is standard for a structure, and imperative for the nursing home. Nail #2.5
I got home, all wired up from the call, and popped a melatonin to help me sleep. The call made me miss my trip to the Y this morning (#3), and for the first time in a month, the rescue squad had a busy night, and I forgot to put my pager on the closed channel setting (#4), so it kept waking me up.
The upshot: bright eyed, bushy tailed, and a frakkin ray o’ sunshine I ain’t this morning. I take consolation that I did not percieve the universe cocking the fuck with me gun; this was more cases of the shit happens categories.
It does suck when multiple things go wrong. It feels like a domino effect, and specifically planned to annoy you, even though you know it isn’t.
Had tea.
I am so lucky :rolleyes: . We did three quarter shimmy walking undulations and bodywaves again. And the elephant walk/backwards figure eight with undulations. And worked on hip drops and hip slides.
Ow.
Off to work.
There’s a range with which I grade stuff that goes worong. The lightest is ‘Shit Happens’; middle is ‘The Vast Conspiracy to Piss Me Off’ (usually traffic related); and the most severe is when ‘The Sound of the Universe Cocking the Fuck With Me Gun’ (my favorite line from Dead Like Me).
Time to get working… Zzzzzzz <clunk>
Bob I just chalk it all up to “I hate people.”
Just wanted to say hello this morning. We too are having the snow/sleet/freezing rain scheduled for today. I don’t expect it to be too bad on this side of the river, but Roundboy is planning on leaving early to get home. He lives up where Bob used to live, and the weather is always worse there.
Guten morgen. Sunny and cold but with promise for a warmer day with temps supposedly set to reach -1C (~30F) and a Friday that’s supposed to be not much worse. I can live with that. I have to leave work early this morning as MindWife has a dentist appointment (extraction), wherein she will receive a face full of N[sub]2[/sub]O (she’s acutely trypanophobic so she can’t take the local anesthetic), so I’ll have to be there when she gets out so I can take her home lest she wobble and fall into something hard and painful in her euphoric state. Her dentist has been on vacation on and off for something like 3 weeks since Christmas so he’s been very hard to pin down and get an appointment out of. This appointment was made two weeks ago. He’s a bit of a dick because he doesn’t prescribe pain killers after extractions and such unless specifically asked to. He’d better today. She saved a couple of Percosets but I’d rather the dentist prescribe some Tylenol 3s like he’s supposed to.
Work, shorter though it will be for me, will nevertheless be fun 'cos our tech is in a meeting all day with some OEM from Singapore, so we’ll be fielding all sorts of questions whose answers will invariably contain “Um … I’m not sure, let me go check that out for you.” We’re used to it though. This time of year he’s gone for weeks at a time doing dealer update schools, so we muddle through as best we can. I should really buy a good book on small engines so I know how to answer some of these questions.
Heff - In PalmSpeak, a “hard reset” is when you do a pinhole reset with the power button held down, effectively wiping everything off of your Palm. Then there’s a “warm reset” which is when you reset with the 4-way (or 2-way if you have a pre-OS5 machine) navigator held in the UP position (to disable hacks/addons and just run the Palm clean), and a plain old “reset” which is a straight pinhole reset with nothing held. There’s also a “factory reset,” but this requires a second person since it requires you to connect the Palm to a sync cable, then press reset, power, and the hotsync button all at the same time. This resets the Palm to factory settings (and erases all data).
Hacks, in PalmSpeak, are programs you install that hook themselves into the system in such a way that they are always running in some form and alter the behaviour of the unit and its operating system in ways that were not intended, such as screen savers, overclocking apps, etc. Although they’re officially supported in OS5 and above, they weren’t prior to that, hence they were programs that “hacked” the way PalmOS worked.
As to the problems – having owned a Zire72 for over a year I can say it’s a pretty reliable unit. It doesn’t have NVFS (non-volatile file system, wherein your data isn’t lost if your battery runs down completely) but that’s part of what I liked about it, because NVFS was buggy and tended to slow things down on the Tungsten T5 I bought to replace the Zire72. Now, PocketTunes synchronizes by installing a driver on your PC to turn it into a mass storage device (like a thumb drive) and gives you access to your SD card right from your desktop. It’s not very reliable though because it’s slow – it’s working through your Palm through cradle’s USB connection. If you have a card reader on your PC I would suggest using that to copy songs to your card instead. It would be a lot faster and you wouldn’t run into the crashes that can occur during that PocketTunes sync process. (This problem isn’t just with PTunes; Softick Card Export, which is basically the same thing without the MP3 player, has the same problem. It’s a problem with PalmOS in general, not the software)
Mind you, I’m assuming that when you say “synch” you are referring to the way PTunes syncs all by itself with the desktop, not the normal Palm Hotsync process.
I don’t know much about eBooks (I’ve never used my Palm as a reader), so I don’t know how your eBook reader works in that regard, but my guess is that it probably has a conduit (a program installed on the PC for a specific Palm application to allow it to talk to the desktop computer during a hotsync) installed that itself is a little buggy. I’d try a different eBook reader and see if that changes anything.
LiLi - Mmm. Chocolate danish. I think I might be gaining a few pounds just thinking about it.
Bobbio - I’m convinced that there is a vast conspiracy, all armed with Fuck Me Guns, and that the only reason there are times when it doesn’t seem to be messing with you is because its attention is focused on messing with someone else.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY REBO!!! I say some celebratin’ is in order.
Bobbio you win the icky night of the week award.
Nava hot chocolate has been discussed in the past. It’s kinda hard to make a bunch o’ hot chocolate without access to a kitchen from time to time, IMO. Thus, it’s never been done. Chocolate con churros? I had to think a minute. At first it was… churros…churros… chocolate with sausage… no, wait… chorizo is sausage, churros are those nummy sweet doughy things.
So do we have a [del]sucker[/del] volunteer for Monday yet?
Hey everyone. Been busy the past couple of days. The NEW EPISODE OF HOUSE was really good, thanks for asking.
Hugs to the following people:
{{{Haze}}}
{{{rigs and #2 son}}}
Gotta go to class. Here’s a pun.
[del]I’ve been railroaded[/del] I’ll do it…
The scream is a Van?
:dubious:
Edvard Munch painted The Scream.
You’re probably thinking of the other wavy painting, Starry Night. (Van Gogh)
Edit: [Max Smart]Missed it by “this” much[/MS]
But…but…but…Van Gogh didn’t paint the Scream. Edvard Munch did (I love his name).
Where did my Google go? I used to have a small window where I could go to Google from SDMB. I also used to see the url and be able to change it…I got nothing now. If it’s not bookmarked, I can’t surf it. WTF?
Off to take #2 to school. I wanted to see if breakfast stayed down. It did-he’s feeling fine. (oh, to be 8 again). Then major errands and then homework and then more errands when #1 son comes home (he needs new clothes). I just want to lay down…but my stomach feels fine.
Yay! The vet just phoned to say that Shadow is fine and can come home tonight. He’s awake, purring, getting fussed by the nurses and has his head in a bowl of chicken.
Ummm… Spats perhaps you are thinking of Edvard Munch instead of VanGogh?
Ok, we have a [del]sucker[/del] volunteer for Monday.
All in favor of Bobbio bein’ or host with the most say “Aye”.
AYE!!!
All those opposed :dubious: say “Nay”.
::crickets::
The “Ayes” have it. Bobbio shall regale of with a fantastical MMP next week.
Hello again, Dopers!
Bob, I think I may have to adopt your “stuff that goes wrong” scale. That’s pure genius. (Plus, it includes a Dead Like Me quote, which multiples its awesomeness tenfold.)
Not much is new on the meli front–I’ve actually been somewhat productive as of late, though. I wrote a poem and designed the official logo for my college’s Writer’s Club, as well as working on a new drawing project. (I’m into artist-y things, in case that wasn’t obvious. 
) And yes, for me, that counts as “productive.” The lazy days are completely unfathomable.
Oh, and I think he may be trying to avoid mentioning this, but I’m going to embarrass him anyway–Ali’s birthday is today. Therefore, everyone should use a whole lot of bright colors and big letters to draw much unwanted attention to him.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALI!
We got some sleet/freezing rain in SW Arkansas last night… chances of some more today. Oh well.
Ooooooh!
Special for Ali:
Feliz, feliz en tu día,
amiguito, que Dios te bendiga,
que reine la paz en tu día
y ¡que cumplas muchos más!
(The one I usually sing is traditional, this one is from a TV program and people 30 and under often prefer it)