Month: March 2007

Earlier this week I wiped my new sexy thing clean and reinstalled everything, from the OS up. Just an annual clean-up, plus I had some nagging problems that I wanted to try to fix.

I didn’t want to reinstall everything – I only wanted to have what I needed. In a year I collect a bunch of stuff that I use once or twice, then forget about. Plus, I have two programs that aren’t “universal” programs (able to run natively on Intel) – Quicken and Excel. Both of them are used to keep track of my finances. Both of them require Rosetta to run on my new sexy thing, which slows it down.

I didn’t really feel like putting MS Office v.X back on, just to open spreadsheets. I’d tried Google Docs in the past but my spreadsheet was too complicated and Google Docs didn’t support it at the time.

Looks like Google has made some improvements, because I just tried again and it opens the file just fine!

Google for the win! Buh-bye, Microsoft Office.

Moments that put everything else into perspective:

Spending lunch with two good friends, laughing so hard that we couldn’t breathe, couldn’t talk, and certainly couldn’t finish the conversation that prompted all the laughter.

Part of what made it all so funny was the fact that we were in a public cafeteria in a public building, surrounded by both folks we worked with (and should probably maintain some kind of professional manner around) and the general public, whose view of county employees would be shaped by our actions.

And another part of what made it all so funny was the topic which prompted the laughter, a topic that, in itself, is among the first things to provoke laughter in humans, and remains funny right up until our final days.

I wish I could do justice to that moment.

I feel so dirty posting a commercial on my blog.

But… who’s the freakin’ hottie in this commercial?
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I’m not sure that this meant:

“Blue State Voter,
Red State of Mind”

???

There were a bunch of other bumper stickers on the car but I went by too fast to read them all – presumably they would have given me context to understand this one.

Post your ideas in the comments.

My favorite scene from “Lost” this season.

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Good advice, even if you’re not trying to rebuild an ancient hippie bus while you’re trapped on a South Pacific island and mourning the death of your lover.

That speech contains so many nuggets of good advice… It’s not a coincidence that the creators of “Lost” appear to be such fans of philosophy, as shown by the fact that many characters on the show are named after famous philosophers.

Forgot to add this, in sufficiently vague language that only a few will “get” it:

Just for today, I’m going to examine all my options, decide what I really want, and commit myself to a plan to get it – for a specific value of “it”.

In the spirit of my previous post, I am pleased to announce to the world of the intertubes that I have taken today and Monday off from work. For no particular reason, other than it’s spring, and I have a 10K on Sunday, and work has been pretty stressful lately.

Today I plan on goofing off a lot. I’m right now sitting in a coffee shop, people-watching. I also plan on going for a walk, and quite possibly watching a movie. I will probably play games, and I might… might, mind you… climb a tree or fly a kite.

Some peoples’ reactions to holidays that are supposed to celebrate pleasurable or positive behavior, like Christmas or Valentine’s Day, is to say “that’s how you should act all the time, not just on that one day out of the year.”

That’s so true, even for me.

That’s why I work extra hard to keep National Goof Off Day alive in my heart all year ’round, not just every March 22nd.

Tracy: Whatever, emu-boy.

Me (laughing): What?

Tracy: …Isn’t that the word?

Me: I’m a flightless bird, now?

Tracy: Whatever.

Me (still laughing): I think you meant Emo-boy!

Tracy: Yes. That.

Me: I am so blogging this!

I rented and watched two movies yesterday, and can give one-sentence reviews of them.

“Stranger Than Fiction” 2006 (Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenyllenyllenyllenhaal) – There’s so much more to this story than the previews suggest. 4 out of 5 stars.

“Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny” 2006 (Jack Black, Kyle Gass) – This was exactly – exactly! – as I imagined it would be, only with more pot humor. 3.5 out of 5 stars.