Archive for May, 2002
Thursday, May 30th, 2002
Found this little tidbit at Annoyances.org. It was ICQed to me by my husband last night.
What if Dr. Seuss wrote technical manuals?
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icons put your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted ‘cause the index doesn’t hash,
Then your situation’s hopeless, and your system’s gonna crash!
If the label on your cable on the gable at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel to another protocol,
That’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall.
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
“Cause as sure as I’m a poet, the sucker’s gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy’s getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary RISC,
Then you have to flash your memory and you’ll want to RAM your ROM,
Quickly turn off your computer and be sure to tell your mom!
– Jim Fiedler
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2002
I love doing word search puzzles. They are so relaxiing because you don’t really have to think to do them. Last year I got a subscription to the Dell Word Search Puzzles and of course time doesn’t permit me to complete a whole book so quickly. I still have 3 more volumes from my subscription that I haven’t started yet. Plus the one I’m working on currently. So I have plenty of words to find still before I have to get a new subscription.
I can find words fairly fast. I do a puzzle in a few minutes. I think I like the ones in the book more than any I’ve found for the computer, whether they be local programs or online. You can take the book anywhere and I find I take it with me almost as often as I take a book.
I think my favorite type of word search are the tail tags. Each word begins with the letter the last one ended with. In some of them, you end up at the starting point. I am also beginning to like the tanglewords. Those are a little more challenging because it’s sort of like a crossword puzzle, but you have only words, no clues. Certain letters of board are filled in. Those are starting letters for some of the words in the puzzle. You have to fill in the rest.
This probably makes no sense at all. I’m sleepy and a little inebriated, so I probably have no idea what I’m saying. Oh well, I’m off to relax and sleep. 
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2002
It’s hard after a 3-day weekend to get back into the work mode. I feel like today is Monday instead of Tuesday. I’ve tons of errands to run and surprisingly this weekend wore me out, so I am totally exhausted and have no energy to do anything. I need a vacation from my vacation!
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Sunday, May 26th, 2002
Today we’re busy with my in-laws. They decided to drive up and spend the long weekend with us to see our new house. Much fun. They got us new bed clothes, so we can now change out our sheets on occasion and not have to look at the same ones all the time.
We may be going to the movies to see Star Wars II again, as the folks haven’t yet seen it.
Of course last weekend, we bought a gas grill, so my husband has wanted to cook out almost every night this past week. I’m not complaning, that is less cooking that I have to do. Heehee!
Sometimes it is a good thing when your parents come to visit. My folks will be coming out next month about this same time, so we’ll get to see them as well.
My mother-in-law has left me the first three installments of the Harry Potter series for us to start reading. I know this series is all the craze, but it is fantasy and I’m not a big fan of fantasy.
What is your take on the Harry Potter craze? I will attempt to read the books; I know everyone has said they are fabulous, but I am skeptical. Is anyone else addicted to this? If you are, why attracted you to it? I’m curious as to why people find it so fascinating.
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Monday, May 20th, 2002
Went to see Star Wars Episode II yesterday. It was fabulous. I loved that it introduced quite a few people, ideas, objects that were significant in the original three films. I walked out of the theater longing to see Episode III. I really think the 2 years wait will definitely be worth it. I look forward to seeing how they make the final connection between Episode III and IV.
This is a definite must-see movie and future must-own movie.
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Saturday, May 18th, 2002
I really hate how I am feeling right now, but I can’t help it. For some reason, I value friendships. I always have. Maybe that is why I’m a very forgiving person. I always felt I forgive to easily, but you do that if you want friends. You forgive and accept them for who they are. I’m loyal, trustworthy, in my opinion, a great friend.
Yet I don’t have any. Well, my husband is my friend and my sister, but I don’t really have any girlfriends that I can spend time with. My sister is 8 years younger, in college miles away, so of course she has her own life. I had close friends when I was in high school, a best friend that was like my other half. In college I had friends, no one real close but I had a group that hung out. Since I graduated, we’ve all spread out and I keep in touch with none of them.
So here I am with no girlfriends to spend time with. Back to the main question…what am I feeling? Jealousy. Real stupid, but why. My husband is out with his friends, having a good time, which he does quite frequently. What do I do, stay at home alone, because I don’t have anyone to hang out with except him. He is great, but it’s just not the same as hanging out with the girls. I really miss that from my days of school.
I’ve always had trouble making friends. I think I am so in need of female friendship that maybe I scar them away or something…it sounds really lame. Of course, it bugs me that he goes out with his friends. Well, not really. I don’t mind it, I mind how I feel when he doesn’t come home til after midnight because he’s been out drinking with the guys.
I don’t even have anyone to spend a few hours with, much less a long evening drinking and talking girl stuff. I miss having a girlfriend to goof with. I love my husband. He is real easy to like, people take to him really well. He doesn’t have trouble making friends. I’m having trouble finding just one to share things with.
Just to show by example…our wedding. My bridesmaids were my sister and his cousin. His groomsmen were his two closest friends. I always said it would be my best friend, and my sister understood that your best friend is always your maid of honor. She got that honor because there was no best friend to step up to the job.
I guess I need to quit rambling. This entry is atrociously long, but I had to get this all out. I had to vent my frustration in some way, and it’s always made me feel somewhat better to write about it.
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