Only two official days of work until we go to Vegas. And tomorrow doesn’t really count. There is a all-employee meeting tomorrow on the beach somewhere in Marina Del Rey, with a catered BBQ lunch. Sweet. And then I have to come in on Monday, but then from Tuesday until the following Monday. Its going to cost me 4 days of comp-time but I don’t care I’m in desperate need of some time off. This job is draining me. There are 3 people here that have a clue about what is going on, so when those people are gone nothing gets done around here. So in two weeks myself and another one of the guys in the know, are going to be teaching a class on how to handle the day to day operations of this office. I’m not so sure it will do any good, the people that don’t do anything are people that have been here for years and years, and they just don’t choose to do anything, and since it is government service there is no chance of getting fired. It really must be nice to have that kind of job security. I need to get me some of that, but probably at a huge pay-cut.
I’ve really got the bug to build a new PC lately. I told myself that instead of spending 1000-1300 on a new PC I should get a G5, but I’m holding off on the that until the new processors get released, but there are a pantload of new games out for PC that I really want to play. Now my current machine is no slouch as it is, but with the new Radeon cards out now, and those Athlon 64’s calling my name I could potentially build a machine that would RULE. But I suppose I should just wait for Doom and Half Life to be released before I dive into it. Perhaps if I just buy a new monitor I would be happy. The 17in monitor that I have to play games on is killing me. It’s an old POS that I bought at a garage sale for 10 dollars. I wish that I still had my 21in beast (when it was working properly). Although I did see the Dell 20.1in FP on-sale the other day for 750. I should have picked that up when I had the chance.
I have to go get an office chair tonight for my desk. I was sitting on one of our barstools last night while I played a computer game, and now my back is kind of sore. We still need to get some shelves for the spare bedroom so that we can clean up the huge mess of stuff that is in there, I’m wondering how we managed to pack so much stuff into our old apartment and now that we have a whole extra bedroom we can’t find space to put anything. We also need to get some sort of bike rack so we can get the bike out of the way. I wonder if it would be possible to put a bike rack in the stairwell? Hmmmmmm.
Not much else I can think of right now, I have been digging through backup tapes for the last hour or so looking for someone’s .pst file that they accidentally deleted OVER A MONTH AGO. “Ummm yeah I deleted a file a month ago and I was wondering if you can get it back.” GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. But anyway…..
Casey OUT.