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  • I still don’t feel very awake…

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    james

    Fortunately I’m nearly halfway done my shift. And I have the next 3 days or so off. At least one of those mornings will be spent oversleeping. tomorrow sounds good. Hmm. I need things that entertain. My usual source of entertainment’s not doing it for me this afternoon.

    Someone called/texted me earlier. Why is beyond me. If it was someone on my flist I’m working. I’ll answer you later. Maybe. If it was someone else I probably don’t want to hear from ’em anyway. Bill collectors, for instance. Okay, my attempt to ramble isn’t doing much more keeping me awake than my usual sources of links. And this call just won’t end, so uh, I’m gonna find something else to read while this diagnostic runs. Yay for knowing things will be replaced and not being able to skip the rest of the checklist.

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  • Gruh.

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    james

    Getting up this morning was the last thing I thought about doing… almost literally. I slept in, and very nearly didn’t get here. I blame the absolute killer headache from hell I came home with last night, to the point where eating anything was a very bad idea. I was home long enough last night to check my voicemail and confirm no one wanted me, and then promptly fell into bed. Where I stayed ’til 8:30 or so this morning. On the bright side, the headache finally screwed off. On the not so bright side, I still didn’t sleep enough. I’ve got an hour or so before my shift starts, and it starts with a meeting for another hour. I’ll just kinda… be… over here… kay? *sleeps*

  • Can I just bullshit my way through half an hour and then go for training?

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    james

    Possible, but not bloody likely. It’s significantly more active now than it was when my lunch hour started. That, of course, does so not mean I can’t at least give some attempt at effort to being lazy. ‘Cuz, you know, lazy is good.

  • Is it over yet…?

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    james

    Sadly I already know the answer. But hey, I can pretend. At least it’s not as insane busy as it was earlier. Take a call, fix a busted machine, breathe, repeat the process. Now at least we’ve got a few minutes between calls. Mind you, it helps also that at about 5:30 today we’ll be spending a couple hours going through yet more training (fun stuffs, really!). So basicly:

    • email is an option,
    • text messages are an option,

      • and

    • calling is an option, depending on when.

    roughly translated, I’m significantly less reachable than I’d like to be, or than certain individuals would prefer me to be. But still reachable. For a more direct response, yell at my employer.

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  • Signs I should probably be in bed.

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    james

    Customers_suck is getting far, far too interesting. How this goes from being about a guy who really would have been much better shot than anything else to how easy/hard/whatever it is to wind up rejected from EHarmony is beyond me. Ah well, that’s what happens when I’m up past midnight. Conversations get funky-ish.

  • This will probably only be relevant or even interesting to a grand total of no one. Oh well.

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    james

    00:41:33 up 51 days, 12:23, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.01

    Do *that* with Windows. I dare you.

  • Uh, why?

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    james

    Can someone with a clue maybe possibly kinda sorta explain this to me? One football team gets shut down, another tries to come in and promptly folds, and they’re talking about bringing a third in? Now, admitedly I’m not exactly interested in football in general, but I still have to wonder. At what point does someone say this isn’t a football market, let’s try something else? Or do they even say as much? Inquiring and slightly confuddled minds want to know. Okay, just one.

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  • What kind of thinker are you?

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    james

    ‘Cuz every random collection of opinions should have a couple of these.


    Your Thinking is Abstract and Sequential


    You like to do research and collect lots of information.
    The more facts you have, the easier it is for you to learn.

    You need to figure things out for yourself and consider all possibilities.
    You tend to become an expert in the subjects that you study.

    It’s difficult for you to work with people who know less than you do.
    You aren’t a very patient teacher, and you don’t like convincing people that you’re right.

    Huh. Almost accurate. I are concerned.

  • Now that’s what I like to see.

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    james

    CTV actually covering something useful/interesting, as opposed to the usual shtuffs that goes along with Iraq being on the front page. A 13-year-old autistic kid, Carly, who I’ve mentioned on occasion, now actually wants to do something on her own to start making people aware of exactly what it’s like to be her. The original article blew my freakin’ mind, and would probably blow the minds of just about anyone else with the slightest hint of inner geek. But what surprised me more than anything else was the fact CTV actually followed up with it, and inside of 24 hours, too. They’ve since released a documentary on the subject last week, and have obviously been keeping an eye on the response from said documentary. either that or someone else just wants to make sure they keep on the topic, because they now have pretty much copy/pasted an email that was sent to a few different people from her, which pretty much says she wants to do something to help. I may not know a whole hell of a lot about autism, but if something were to actually come of all this media attention, I’d probably be one of the first in line to support it. For the absolute awesomeness factor, if for no other reason.

  • That’s my wonderful ISP.

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    james

    I’ll randomly post articles from technology related sites on here at times, mostly to point out the utter moronicness of the situations in question. Techdirt gets nominated as my source for local stupidity. Snipped for length.

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