Jan. 7th, 2009

thoreau: (bbq)
I am feeling so much better today! but I won't over do it - less I slide backwards. Nyquil is a miracle product - I've slept 9-10 hours the last three nights and that is helping battle back the cold a great deal.


This is the first winter in a real long time that the length of the darkness at night is starting to bother me. I am growing weary of getting up in the dark and spending evenings in the dark. Spring can't come soon enough. (I realize we're barely a month into winter, but still...)


Heading to the audition clinic for the SFGMC tonight - in prep for my audition on Friday at 8pm.


Fresh box came this morning - -

• 1 head of Napa Cabbage
• 2 pnds. Butternut Squash
• 1 bunch of Collard Greens
• 1 bunch Red Leaf Lettuce
• 1.5 lbs Baby BokChoy
• 1 lb. Red Onions
• 1.5 lbs Mandarins
• 2 pds Concord Pears
• 1 bunch Sweet Nantes Carrots
• 2 pds Fuji Apples
• 1 pd. Loose Leeks


Last ten songs purchased from iTunes?

1. The Beauty of the Rain (Dar Williams & Chris Botti)
2. Nothing Else - Dave Barnes
3. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (Dean Martin & Chris Botti)
4. Green Light (John Legend)
5. We Belong Together (Gavin Degraw)
6. Flute Sonata In E Minor, BWV 1034: I. Adagio Ma non Tanto (Emmanuel Pahud)
7. Rhythm of Love (Yes)
8. Butterfly (Jason Mraz)
9. Étincelles, Morceau CarActéristique, Op. 36, No. 6: Allegro Scherzando (Vladimir Horowitz)
10. Gravity (Live) (John Mayer)


Dealt with kneejerk - omgtheskyisfalling reactions today at work when a web application wasn't available for a six and a half minute window. It's a sales app - and in the downtime people started writing allstaff emails screaming about it being down - and people trying to email files back and forth manually because the application was down - and "how will we work without this application?" - and nobody thought to email the Web Director - or ask about the app and when it might be back up. It took me 30 seconds to fix the problem - followed by another flurry of "It's back up" emails from the people complaining - followed by a flurry of "I don't know what your problem is I can get into it emails" from people who didn't experience any downtime and were calling the people that experienced downtime computer illiterate. All the while - a few concerned salespeople lined up at my door to tell me the app was down - and when could they get an ETA. Lets just say that they are all lucky a tazer-style weapon was not available for my use.


Had the last of the Tijuana Pie leftovers for lunch today. Major Yummyness!


oh - and...I keep working out - and I'm losing on the sides of the tummy, but my shoulders and arms are not proceeding fast enough for me! (curse you muscles! Grow! GROW!)



why - who knows? that is why it is called minutiae.
thoreau: (i'mfuckingpaintingtrees)
[15:52] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): omg lj is down
[15:52] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): PANIC!
[15:52] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): I just noticed.
[15:52] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): Thank goodness I got multiple backups of everything I had on there this morning.
[15:52] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): I burned it on a DVD
[15:53] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC
[15:54] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): I wish that I could get the funding to buy them back out from under the Russians.
[15:55] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): Stacey's book store is closing.
[15:56] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): LJ's hardware is still active, but not their website.
[15:57] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): dhcp189-19:lj-xml2 langley$ ping livejournal.com
PING livejournal.com (208.93.0.12: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 208.93.0.128: icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=50.674 ms
64 bytes from 208.93.0.128: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=45.249 ms
64 bytes from 208.93.0.128: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=46.173 ms

[16:03] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin):
[16:03] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): so what does that mean?
[16:03] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): You haven't been following?
[16:03] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): I have
[16:04] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): They may have shut down.
[16:04] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): "may have"
[16:04] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): Well, being that they laid of quite a bit of their staff, they also could be experiencing a failure that they are not equipped staff wise to handle quickly, or they could have just decided to call it quits.
[16:05] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC
[16:05] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): (laid off)
[16:05] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): LiveJournal.com is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance. Don't worry, this has nothing to do with our recent company layoffs! It's a technical problem, not a lack-of-personnel problem.

Thank you for your patience.
[16:05] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): LiveJournal.com is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance. Don't worry, this has nothing to do with our recent company layoffs! It's a technical problem, not a lack-of-personnel problem.
[16:05] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): LOLZ
[16:05] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined):
[16:05] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): refresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refresh
[16:06] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): (BREATHE!!)
[16:06] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): refresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refreshrefresh refresh refresh refresh
[16:06] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): WHERE IS LJ~!
[16:06] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): (heart beat increasing)
[16:06] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): San Francisco
[16:06] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic panic
[16:06] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): (breaks out in cold sweat)
[16:07] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): is it back up?
[16:07] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): how about now?
[16:07] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): now?
[16:07] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): NOW!?
[16:07] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): (laughing)
[16:07] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): now!?
[16:07] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): Nah. If something happens I would expect a white knight to come in and take over the site.
[16:07] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): No Jimmy, we aren't there yet. heheheehe
[16:08] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): (begin phase 1 of withdrawal symptoms)
[16:08] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): no - LJ will be back (denial)
[16:08] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): (do not head for the goody bin!)
[16:08] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): cookies are not your friend.
[16:09] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): I'm going to be importing all of my livejournal posts and images to here: http://tmlangley.wordpress.com/ and then migrate them to http://www.ursa-q.net
[16:10] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): I just have my server (ursa-q) subbed out right now.
[16:10] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): I have robertmcdiarmid.wordpress.com set up
[16:10] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): but there is no "friends" function
[16:10] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): How will I validate myself without comments?
[16:10] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): Wordpress is installed, but not completely finished.
[16:10] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): How will I measure my self esteem
[16:10] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): They have comments
[16:10] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): but without comment whoring posts I'm nobody!?
[16:10] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): I'm also going to check out Movable Type.
[16:10] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): (starts to cry)
[16:11] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): If I can figure out how to get LiveJournal installed on one of my machines, then I'll do that but it has been a bear to install. (and not in a good way)
[16:11] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): I have shirtless pics up in my latest post without reaching 50 comments
[16:11] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): I'm losing valuable time
[16:11] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): You're a mess love.
[16:12] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): will they still say woof after such a long downtime?
[16:12] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
[16:12] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): will they even remember?
[16:12] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): Okay, the site is back
[16:12] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): OMG THE SITE IS BACK!
[16:12] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): (deep calming breaths)
[16:13] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): It seems they have been getting swamped with excess traffic.
[16:13] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): http://status.livejournal.com
[16:13] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): would you mind if I copy pasted our conversation as a post - to memorialize how you helped me through this trying time?
[16:13] Tommy ([livejournal.com profile] notdefined): hahahaha sure.
[16:13] Robert ([livejournal.com profile] low_fat_muffin): (lights candle - and reads his LJ with Yanni music playing in the background)

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