It's Friday!Follow

Thursday is the new Friday. All part of the Islamic social fascists who now run this country. Or is it the new Saturday since the Muslim holy day of worship is Friday? Oh no its a Zionist conspiracy to confuse all!!!

Huzza for the baby boy. Time for me to go to work.

I have Friday off, will clean up, do laundry work on bathroom.

Saturday and Sunday is work, eq, and tv. As well as the usual cooking and minor chores.

Today is my Tuesday. So bah.

No plans yet. Working all weekend. Possibly buying some more grub to cook next week (we're not going anywhere for Thanksgiving this year, going to stay home and do it ourselves). Maybe drag out some Christmas decorations.

Or maybe I'll just sit on the couch or play EQ2 in any free time I have.

Hooray! What names are you kicking around for him?

Okay, I know you're all interested in the ongoing saga of kittendom.

My friend induced me to go with her to the pet store that allows her shelter group to adopt cats out. Glass room, seven big cages. The female cat she'd picked out for me had been adopted the night before, so I got to meet her before she was whisked away.

The other cat she'd picked out was still there, and still freaked out. He's very cool looking, in an odd way. He's completely beige. You can barely see a faint pattern of stripes on the top of his head and the tip of his tail; otherwise his only marking is the gradual shading of color from a light cinnamon on his back to a champagne color on his belly. Yellow eyes. One extra toe per foot. Super soft short fur.

So there was also this kitten.... 6-8 months old, looks like a wild African plains cat of some sort - dappled with spots and stripes, brown on tan. He still has that fuzzy kitten fur, so it's hard to say what texture his fur will be when he's grown. He's slinky-skinny with huge ears.

At this point they're in the approach-avoid stage. They follow me around from a safe distance. They cry for attention but run away when I get too close.

This morning the beige one, who I'm mentally calling Babbitt because of the beige factor, was sitting in the bathtub. I found him sitting in the kitchen sink earlier in the week, so I'm thinking he just likes the feel of porcelain on his butt. Anyway he let me sit on the side of the tub and pet him for a long time, and even approached for more rubs when I stopped.

The kitten, or "Kittenface" as I'm calling him for now, followed me around crying and skittering away.

Neurotic cats.

On the other hand they've been hauled around from shelter to shelter, and Babbitt at least was rescued from death row; so I'm willing to give them a few weeks before I judge them too harshly. They're eating and using the litter box, so that's good enough for now.

Sooooooo cuuuuuuuuuuuute.

I want another kitten now. Ernesto is doing great, by the way. He's just finished reading Das Catipal and is now working on Miaow Zedong, Greatest Hits.

The hours not spent working will be spent playing the hell out of Assassin's Creed 2 and trying to convince my cat that toes are not food.

This weekend? Likely work, work and more work.

:(

Whaaat? No time for play?

Oki-doki.

Edited, Nov 19th 2009 5:48pm by Kavekk

I'm hoping to pick up my computer tomorrow and then spend all weekend playing with the settings and see how much the on board video will handle. I won't be able to get new video card for a month or two, so may just end up playing a lot of solitaire on it.

Congo rats Tare! have you picked out a name yet? Xebroniauax, Destroyer of Worlds is still available!

This week has been pretty surreal so far. Started out the beginning of it with a pretty bad migraine. eventually had to go in for migraine shots Tuesday, that didn't take, so they gave me a morphine shot, which killed the migraine, but i haven't got my breath back ever since. That side effect is supposed to go away soon though.

Then today I find out my Dad, who is retired but works as a consultant, has been cut back to 1 day a week until "the economy improves" which really, really sucks. So I dunno whats going to happen there.

We had a bizarre situation at other work. For about a month now, we have been dealing with mysterious reports of e-mails dissappearing without a trace from 2 or 3 inboxes. Exchange server, fully patched, decent security, etc. It looked like someone was deleting the e-mails and various calendar events, and then deleting the deleted files to cover their tracks. So we ramped up security, made password lock enable after 5 minutes of mouse inactivity, etc. Still keeps happening. Finally someone thinks to check the webmail logs, and bam! turns out one of the employees of a consultant at that project office somehow got 4 people;s account information, and was literally logging in to their accounts from his home address to delete their meeting reminders and important e-mails, so he could save the day and make himself look better by being the only one to remember any of the meetings and ths be the only one who would either show up or have the documents ready.

Annnyways, long story short, we finally tracked it to his cable modem, he gets confronted about it, he confesses the whole thing. Turns out he had been doing it for about a year, just never got caught before at all by anyone. And somehow he got the password each mandatory reset period. He was hitting 2 of his supervisors and one subordinate, and apperently wasn't trying to get them fired, just was trying to look good by comparison or some such strangeness.

Needless to say, he doesn't work at the project anymore...

Oh, and all my crown moulding is hung.

Workin', and cleanin'. That's my weekend.

Gratzies Tare!!!



Sorry I am late to the party, my Friday was actually Wednesday. I went out of town for a few days.

Spent this weekend preparing the house for my new roomy, who will be here for the next six months. I need to start getting some bills paid off and saving some $ for a life changing event in the next year and she and her son needed a place to stay.

Today, resting and more cleaning.

Leaving town again on Tues, prob won't see you guys until the following Sunday, except for a few pop ins now and then.



Good job Kao!!!

Thanks Elne

*whispers: it was actually some time ago, a programmer perma locked my count

Good luck Nights!!!