Mine, which is very small, but makes me feel a little warmer inside, is this little vbscript I put in my work startup folder. (personal stuff removed for security) You see I got tired of fuckrosoft constantly putting it’s crap back into my personal area. At first I wrote a batch file. Then I realized I could do the same with a bit of script and I would feel more ‘power user’ because I’d used a slightly more advanced method.
Function DeleteIfExists(file)
Dim fso
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
if fso.fileexists(file) then fso.DeleteFile file, True
set fso = nothing
End Function
DeleteIfExists("C:\Docume~1\[Lobsang's profile]\Favorites\Links\custom~1.url")
DeleteIfExists("C:\Docume~1\[Lobsang's profile]\Favorites\Links\freeho~1.url")
DeleteIfExists("C:\Docume~1\[Lobsang's profile]\Favorites\Links\window~1.url")
DeleteIfExists("C:\Docume~1\[Lobsang's profile]\Favorites\Links\windows.url")
DeleteIfExists("u:\profile\Favorites\Links\custom~1.url")
DeleteIfExists("u:\profile\Favorites\Links\freeho~1.url")
DeleteIfExists("u:\profile\Favorites\Links\window~1.url")
DeleteIfExists("u:\profile\Favorites\Links\windows.url")
Post your own small victories that give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside. They don’t have to be against Microsoft, or computer related. (But if they are, I may want to copy your idea)
Yesterday, I biked to church and did an hour of work in the community garden. When I got home, I started laundry, cleaned my bedroom, cleaned my bathroom, and took the trash out. Today, I’m concentrating on the much more difficult part - cleaning and organizing my desk, then my computer.
Oh, and I’m going to make shrimp fried rice or die trying.
Maybe it doesn’t sound like much, but for the past several months, weekends have been comatose time. The fact that I’m up, about, and getting things done means I’m healthier than I have been in a while.
I finally got a coworker to open up. I asked C how he was spending Father’s Day. He mentioned his four kids, then mentioned that his older daughter (in another state) is having kidney failure, but called this am to wish him happy Dad’s Day. I felt the “urge” to pray, not just for daughter, but for him as he walked away.
Earlier this morning, before I left for work, I finished the Bible book 2nd Corinthians, in which Paul discussed his asking God to remove the “thorn in his side.” God famously replied, “My Grace is sufficient for you.” When C told me how he felt about his ailing daughter’s Dad’s Day call, I knew I needed to pray, not just for daughter, but for strength for C…for God’s Grace to get him through.
After rearranging my computers and swapping various monitors, cables, keyboards/mice, etc. this morning, I lost my network (though everything had power, appeared connected per Windows, etc.), sent a panicked e-mail to my computer guy, and then finally got the network back myself. (After powering down and reseating everything about a THOUSAND times.)
I needed a news posting script for a website I put together, but couldn’t find one that did what I wanted. They either did too little or too much, and all did it in the wrong way. So I figured out the things I needed it to do, then found snippets of javascript and PHP across the web, assembled them together in the right order, and with a little trial and error, managed to get pretty much exactly what I wanted.
Since I don’t know how to program javascript, or PHP, but can sort of follow along what’s happening, I am very proud of my achievement.
My husband and I made it through the whole weekend without eating out once (unless you count the bag of popcorn we split at the movies). We have been trying to do this for about a year now, and finally made it through!
I’ve been working with my dogs to stop barking their heads off any time anyone approaches our front door. (They’re large and loud, but harmless, a yellow lab and a golden retriever.) A few minutes ago, when the FedEx man came by, they started their usual barking – but both of them stopped the very first time I told them to! I’ve been trying to stay calm and assertive when I give them commands, and you know what? It really works! They both sat there quietly while I opened the door and brought in the stuff the FedEx guy had dropped off, without me having to say another word to them.
This may not seem like much, but I never had dogs until the last few years, and I’m still very much a newbie at dog training. So this was a real achievement for me, to get both dogs to be so good after only telling them once.
Both Saturday night and last night I refrained from eating just to be eating. I wasn’t hungry, but I still thought about getting something. And I DIDN’T DO IT! Small victory, but morally important to me.
