Saturday, March 11, 2006
So I finally did it! Everywhere I've lived since I started college I've had milk crates and boxes of stuff stacked around my room. It has become fewer and fewer milk crates and boxes over the past four or so years as I've had a little more stability in where I lived from year to year what with the apartment in Hattiesubrg and now living here with my grandmother, but it was still there.
However, as of today there are no longer ANY milk crates or boxes stacked in my room. Sure, there is stuff stored on the shelf in my closet, in a small patch of space in the attic, and some stuff in one of the outbuildings, but it's semi-organized in those locations and it's not OUT in the way and being ugly clutter.
I guess it was the warm weather outside (it got to be over 80 today, ick!) and the pollen that I can tell is in the air because of how my eyes have been burning (today it's partly from dust, I am sure) but I got the "spring cleaning" bug. I also vacuumed up a dog, or it looks like there is a dog in the vaccine bag! Sooo much dust and dog hair around this room, sooo icky. (And even though I brush her daily, have bathed and even vacuumed her (much to her chagrin) she still sheds tons and tons of hair. If you grab her fur gently between your fingers and pull away, not hard just gently holding it so it slips from between your fingers as you pull away, bunches of it come off. If you ruffle her fur up clouds and clouds of it come off her. It's crazy. I mean, it WAS 80 out today, so shedding season HAS started. Time to shave her again methinks -- not that my grandmother will approve.)
Ummm, so where was I? Oh yes, my room is clean now. I had stacks of books that hadn't been organized on the shelves yet because crates were blocking the two lower shelves so those are in order now, I have organized my recipe collection in an expanding file, I have a stack of paper organizers on my desk three high, and there are no more boxes or crates stacked around this room, it's great!
I have one box of books to take to Goodwill that have been sitting on my floor for well over a year now that are by the door for me to take soon.
So there's this commercial that was just on and this lady is babytalking saying things like, "oooh, I love you, yes I do! I love you!" And then it shows that she's talking to a KitchenAid mixer in a store and this other shopper gives her an odd look. The first lady looks at her, annoyed at the glare, and then goes back to babytalking the mixer.
Reminded me a bit of myself before I owned one.
I didn't babytalk them. But I did look at them in every store I went to that had them, even if it was out of my way for that shopping trip and even if I went to five stores in a row that had them, and I dreamed of owning one.
I don't know what the commercial was for, something about online shopping or something with HGTV, I'm not sure.
Anyway, I'm sure glad I own one now; I don't have to worry about people giving me strange looks in stores! At least... Not for that. :)
Friday, March 10, 2006
So The Fresh Market does, indeed, have smoked salmon (at like $20 a pound) so I bought a quarter pound of it and some cream cheese and bread ("english toasting bread", I wasn't aware they made special bread in England just for toasting, but since this sandwich had such a english tea feeling to it I felt it was the right choice) so I could try my hand at it.
I couldn't remember what else was on it, or what flavor the cream cheese had so I searched the net for the bee's knees smoked salmon sandwich and found a cached copy of 2go box's menu that said it was smoked salmon, thinly sliced cucumbers, leaf lettuce and lemon dill cream cheese spread on homemade bread.
I wasn't sure if I had any dill weed, but I had cucumbers and lemon juice. I did have dill weed too. So the ingredients have come together to form a right tasty sandwich. I didn't put quite as much salmon on it as they did since it was so costly and I wasn't sure how the sandwich would turn out. The next one i'll use two slices instead of one.
Of course I dont have any lettuce, so it's sans lettuce, but it's still yummm.
I might try making some creme brulee tomorrow, I dunno. I do know, though, that another of these sandwiches will be consumed tomorrow. Yummmmmy.
Camera!
So today while I was at work I got a call from the camera repairman that has had my camera since October 19. I had taken it in for a shutter repair, which I found out needed repairing after trying to photograph Mike Roderick's wedding.
Anyway, he got the shutter fixed but found out the electronics needed a lot of work and got started on it. He ended up having to send it off to get it fixed. So now, almost 5 months later, I have my camera back.
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
So I was trying to figure out what I wanted to get for lunch today since I didn't bring anything with me. I was out delivering and knew that after driving out to Appling I'd have to go downtown so I was thinking of what was downtown that I would want and The Bee's Knees came to mind with that wonderful smoked salmon sandwich they have for lunch. So I called them up and asked for one.
THEY DON'T HAVE IT ANYMORE!
I settled for the pan-friend grouper sandwich which was good but not as good as the smoked salmon... :( So now I'm craving smoked salmon.
I wasn't able to get to the store in time to look for smoked salmon there, but I don't remember seeing it before. I'm sure the Fresh Market would have it, so I'll have to check tomorrow.
I did buy some cucumbers tonight and had a cucumber sandwich.
The bee's knees smoked salmon was on some sort of bread I think they made with some sort of cream cheese (I can't remember what was mixed in with it) cucumbers, and smoked salmon. It was sooooo yummy. Sad.
The state of documentation for computer software is sad these days.
We have gone from huge volumes documenting every function of a program, sometimes even multi-volume sets for a single program to getting a two page "quick start" guide (which often it leads to a rather anti-quick start) and a set of PDF files which may or may not be actual manuals.
Just after I started working at Allegra Larry handed me a CD and some papers, telling me it was the new antivirus software for the computers and he wanted me to install it. (eTrust from Computer Associates.)
You install the Threat Management Server on one computer and then remotely install the agent to the other computers on the domain. It seemed simple enough. I started reading the PDF files and figured out that they weren't an installation manual, merely a guide to how to set up the implementation depending on the size and infrastructure of your network. So I plowed ahead, trying to figure it out on my own.
I got the server installed on our file server and tested the remote install on one of the other computers with no trouble. I then tried to remote install to a couple of the other computers (there are a total of six, including the server) and ran up against a wall, the admin account apparently didn't have administrator privileges. I checked all the settings and everything should have worked.
It wasn't for another month (of course most weeks I end up getting only one or two half-hour periods to work on this project) that I found out that Windows XP (at least SP2, not sure about the other versions) has a registry entry that forces all remote log-ins to use the guest account. Turning that off fixed my problem.
Now I didn't know how to access the Threat Management Server functions and the installs on the other machines weren't picking up the registration key from the server. The Threat Management stuff required some mysterious log-in and password, and the remote machines needed some mysterious license file located somewhere on some computer.
So today I had more than half-an hour to work on the problem and called the tech support line. Turns out the mysterious username and password the Threat Management Server log-in needed was the LOCAL MACHINE's admin user. I also had to turn off the forceguest registry key on that machine. Then she showed me (she was using a remote access program to use the computer) where the file was located, in a sub-sub-sub directory of the eTrust folder. Yeah. How the am I supposed to know it's the XML file located in this sub-sub-sub folder? How am I supposed to know that the log-in it is requesting is the admin log-in for the local machine?
Stupid software makers.
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