Work

Post party madness!!!

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The award party was fun on Sunday. Turkey was later than expected. Turns out cooking turkey is harder than you think. That is what my friend Amanda found out. In the end the food was great, but took a bit longer to make. We did what I guess a lot of people do, gamble on who will win the Oscar. I was amazed that out of 8 people I came in 3rd place. I can safely say I had no idea about almost all the films I was voting on. I like movies, but I didn?t get to many last year. I also tend to not see may films that are Oscar worthy! Go figure. I was aiming for not being in last place, so I did ok.

Today was very busy. Crazy things going on at work. Have you ever had a day where nothing ever goes exactly the way you plan? It wasn?t a bad day, but just things didn?t go they way anticipated. First all I can say is discount hardware is not always worth it. Also IDE raid, cheap and nice, but it has some work left to be done before I am very happy.

Didn?t get home tonight till 8pm. Cooking dinner now, and catching up on what is stored on tivo. I was going to log onto work, but I am just tired. Probably do something later before bed.

Nothing else going on of value today to note. I got a replacement stuffed animal for my niece Morgan. The first one was all messed up so I called and got a new one sent to me. Got to bring it over to her later this week. Not that a 3 week old will notice or care, but hey!!!

Getting ready for the party

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So there is no confusion, when I mean I got dressed for the part, I just put a tee shirt and khakis on. Hope no one expected a suit or tux. I havent even seen half these movies up for awards. Still will be interesting..
posted by Scott at 3/23/2003 05:23:48 PM

So I cleaned my apartment today. So far that was the highlight of the day. I think I am going to break this blog up with personal and work stuff. Lots going on at work that I think would be cool to document how things progress, but I don?t want to keep switching back and forth. So the bottom half of the posts will be ?tech? stuff, the beginning will be other stuff.

Just got dressed for the academy award party I am going to. Getting picked up by my friend rich in a bit. Apparently we will be drinking a lot so I don?t want to drive over. Looks like it will be fun.

So I found my cell phone last night. I thought I lost it Friday. I called and Verizon said that no one was making calls on it. I back tracked what I did Thursday and it turned up deep in a coat pocket. Glad I have 2 of those dam things, or I would be in trouble. That is one thing about a home (landline) phone, they never can get lost.

Got an IM from my friend Steve. He and another friend tom are coming down in April for a Def Leppard concert. I like 80?s music, and Def Leppard is my favorite. I just hope they don?t play all new stuff that sucks. Some bands should just give up on new music and play what people liked. So Steve & tom are coming down from Albany and due to some weird fluke that I didn?t want to get into they got tickets for Thursday & Friday night concerts. I like this band, but I hope I can handle 2 concerts of them in a row!

So I finally got Gus (the boss) his phish mp3?s. Very cool that they allow free distribution of their live concerts. I got like 800 megs of stuff and encoded them to mp3. Speaking of music and Def Leppard, I may have to go back and buy another copy of hysteria. It is like one of my all time favorite album?s and the copy I have is scratched. So the mp3 encoding of it sounds really bad with skippingL I wonder how legal it is to download those tracks from the internet if I already own the cd. Who am I kidding, that file trading software puts so much spy crap on your computer I won?t ever install it again.

Work

Yes I actually worked on Sunday. Remote access is awesome. Well it sucks that you work on Sunday, but at least I can do it from the floor of my apartment watching tv. I moved a bunch of network shares around. So everyone at work will think we are screwing with them, but the real reason is to get all the mapped drives onto 1 file server. We have been doing this piece by piece for 2 weeks and it probably will be another 1-2 weeks before we are done. Something always comes up to slow us down or distract us.

I am also playing with some cool features that probably no one uses in Windows 2000 AD (active directory). Just put up a DFS (distributed file system) share. It is cool. Next I want to look at 2000?s built in package distribution. We don?t want to spend $$$ on a separate package so we will play with this. Looks cool, but that does not mean anything.

More tomorrow!