I can’t say there has been that much of note lately. At least not that I thought was really worth writing about. Something happened at my parents’ that I thought would make good fodder for this blog. I’ve forgotten it so I guess not. Oh, wait. I remember it. It will be fun. Guess you’ll have to look for it in a day or two. I’ve now even written it down. This will help.
I did go see my niece play soccer for her school team. This is the first year/season she has played for her school. She has played several seasons for the YMCA league. My sister played soccer when she was a kid. She was fearless. I’m really glad to see my niece continue in the sport. I have to say I really like the sport though I admit to not always understanding some of the finer bits. I never played the sport for anything other than Phys. Ed. in school and even then, they sort of kept the ball far away from me. I sure do enjoy watching though. I managed to get shouts of encouragement in, in between my conversation with my nephew about the finer points of the coloring of the planet Mercury for his science project.
I’m in the process of that thing people call ‘Spring Cleaning’, except not really.
My living circumstances changed last year about this time. I’ve spent most of the year aquiring the furniture and things that I needed to complete my home. Things like a bed, a dining table and chairs, certain pots and pans. I’ve had help along the way. Some very generous students of my mother’s gave me a couch, chair and two ottamans, and another gave me a large tv. And of course there was the Winter Holiday and my parents gave me some nice cooking items. So I haven’t had to put it all together on my own. I didn’t have to worry really about my office as I brought all the furniture I needed with me to my new home. Now however, I’ve discovered, it’s really not what I want.
Now I am in the process of figuring out what I want. Things like a desk, not a computer table. Taking height into consideration is quite a challenge. I’m short. My current computer table is too tall. I have to raise my chair and use a footstool for my feet in order to type comfortablly. I think I want doors and drawers. I’ve got stuff sitting on shelves that really could go in drawers. I don’t need it out all the time. Oh, and then there is the surface area. I want to be able to compute, write bills, and draw or make other art. This is giong to be a challenge.
I am looking forward to a new desk though. I’m hoping to replace two pieces of furniture with it and make room to setup my easel. Oh what fun.
I had a nice, interesting, somewhat annoying though surprisingly not too challenging time at work last week. It was much more frustrating and challenging for our network team. Our primary domain controller went down. Ok, pretty much gave up the ghost and called it quits. So they had to switch over to a different one. As I understand it, it was definately it’s own challenge. They were mostly down for about 3 hours that I can say for sure. I didn’t get emails on the blackberry from about 5:30 pm to about 8:45pm. So since I work mostly in the desktop support area, this wouldn’t be too big an issue. Except…I also support our Hyperion environment for the accounting and finance people and it is utilizing active directory for user authentication. So some changes had to be made. Fortunately, I have recently setup our development environment for hyperion so I was able to try and test it there first, since I was doing this remotely, and find out I was going to be better off waiting until I got in the office the next day to fix this. Things were still processing and I had a backup plan if I couldn’t get the active directory to work so better not to mess with it yet. The story ends with me having them up and running by my lunch time and everyone was able to get back in and work their little hearts out for the rest of the day. Hooray for me.
That was really all the week I could take. Though, after my niece’s soccer game my parents and I stopped at a ‘mexican’ restaurant for dinner. That was interesting. The only other thing I will say about it is this…they had Greek cheese, and American cheese and NO Mexican cheese. It’s a Mexican restaurant…What’s up with that?
Stay tuned folks. I promise to add more stuff and articles. I’ll get onto Games about another article or two. In case you didn’t notice, we’ve added a poll. We’re just curious as to what you’re reading so we’ve given you some choices. We’re looking into a few new addon’s for the site. Not sure yet if they will show up here for use or if you will just read about them. I’ve got some new requirements for another site that I help out with and I’m probably going to need to test more software. As always, I’ll try to share the experience. Just in case you don’t want the pain of experimentation yourself. There will be some interesting stuff coming up.
Cheers.
Originally published at: suguayproductions.com/joomla which has been discontinued.
