countdown to nappy-time…

T-minus 15 minutes.

That’s when I get to dump all my tickets into the queues and go sit in the training room with a few of my colleagues, prop my eyelids open with toothpicks and take a nice siesta.

Seriously, though, it’s damn hard not to fall asleep sitting in a room for 4 hrs with nothing to do but listen to a trainer speak and watch a screen as he clicks through windows showing us where to go & what to do.

Yes, we do get an occassional break, but still.

At least I know I’m not alone in my sleepiness.  Out of the six of us there for the training (not including the trainer), all but two of us nodded off at some point during the four hours.  I think someone almost fell out of his chair because he wasn’t sitting near the table.

I always feel bad for the trainer when I can’t keep my eyes open, but I almost can’t help it.  I had the same problem in school, too, and it drove my teachers batty.  Especially when I was able to get A’s & B’s on the tests.  Heh.

T-minus 10 minutes.

Yeah, five minutes to type this up.  Shaddup.  I’m multi-tasking here!

Time to ditch the rest of my tickets.  Yay!

but for a charity…

A co-worker here is collecting tabs.. you know, the pop-tops from soda cans.

Once upon a time it used to be a mere urban legend, that pop-tops were collected and used to help pay for sick childrens’ medical care, etc.  But apparently since 1987, good ol’ McDonald’s is giving people a sense of “doing their part for charity” by accepting the collected pop-tops and taking them to recyclers.  The money collected goes towards the Ronald McDonald House funds.

I was curious about the growing collection of soda tabs on my co-worker’s desk, so I read the letter that was taped to the ziplock bag that lay open & waiting for new donations… It essentially says exactly what the Snopes site above says about the collection of them for the purpose of going towards the Ronald McDonald House.  Maybe not word for word, but the gist of it.

My thoughts echoed those at Snopes… collecting whole cans would be more cost effecient, and net more money.  But each to his own, I guess….

Another year older…

Happy Birthday to me!

Testing from EE

This is a test from the new blog software, Expression Engine.
Whee!

on MT..

My initial reaction was much the same as a lot of people's when I first read about MT3.0... $100 (normal price) for only 3 authors & 5 weblogs is a stiff price to pay for the limited number... I currently have two authors & three weblogs. Sometimes I create another author for test purposes, but I suppose that wouldn't really count as an "author" unless it was used on a regular basis... But if I were to purchase MT3.0 and someday decide to do a guest post thing like some people do, that would fill up the limit, and that would just leave me with an uncomfortable feeling.

And the free version having only 1 author & 3 blogs.. Well, using that version would mean I'd have to install two copies just for Josh & I to continue to use updated versions... (not that I've upgraded this one to 2.661.. and oh, look, now I can't unless someone has a copy laying around to send me!) I don't know if installing two copies in the same public_html directory but in different sub-folders would have any adverse affects or not.. and I'm not sure I'd want to risk trying it...

So anyway, when I heard through the grapevine that pMachines was doing a promotion to give away 1000 free copies of Expression Engine, I jumped at the chance and signed up. I got my e-mail this afternoon, letting me know I won and can download my copy. So I did.

But, now Six Apart has listened to the masses, and has adjusted their pricing structure for the personal license. Upped the lowest version of the paid personal license to 5 authors, 5 weblogs. A little more room to move, but still limiting. Expression Engine is unlimited in both.

I am going to be installing EE over the weekend. Mainly, I'm tempted by the lure of "no rebuilding, updating is dynamic & on the fly". I hate that MT has to rebuild, especially if I want to change the layout of the page (I don't have skinning implemented yet). It takes several minutes now to rebuild the whole site, and I still only have less than 300 entries in my blog. I can't imagine how long it takes for you people who have multiple years of entries! Gosh that must take forever!

So, in the interest of experimentation, I'll be installing EE, to try it out, get a feel for it. To see whether we like it better than MT, to see what its limitations may be. I'll definitely leave this copy of MT running in case things go horribly wrong or I just don't like EE. I'll make another entry here when I've tinkered around with EE enough to give an opinion on it.

*grumble*

Sorry about the test post, folks. At some point yesterday the perms on important files that MT needs to write to got dinked with and it done screwed everything up. I think it's fixed now, but it was downright annoying. Perm denied everytime we tried to save an entry. Bah!

Testing

Test entry please ignore

I’m not a spammer…

...but I play one on TV.

Seriously, though, one of my Yahoo e-mail addresses has been shanghai'd and is being used in sending spam. My account hasn't been compromised, but the address has.

Ironically, it's the account I created to use when I sign up on miscellaneous web sites and don't want to RECEIVE spam at my main e-mail account.

Even better, it's being used to proliferate some sort of worm or trojan. Nice, eh?

How did I discover this, you may ask? Simple. Hundreds of bounced messages (from mail servers reporting accounts that no longer exist), as well as the worms being sent BACK to my yahoo address.

Damn spammers. Damn worm/virus/trojan makers. Now my poor little Yahoo e-mail address is forever tainted.

niki @ diamondbacks baseball game = jinxed

I probably shouldn't ever attend another Diamondbacks home game, again. Ever.

I don't remember how many I've been to, maybe five or six, but I don't think they've ever won a game that I've attended.

I must be jinxed. I mean, the previous two games in the series, they smacked the Cubs down like flies. The Cubs lost, by a lot.

But last night... final score was 4-3, Cubs.
It probably didn't help that the only points scored were by the same player, all three single home runs... by Steve Finley.

I was even at the game a year or two back where the Dbacks were absolutely spanked (I forget which team they played), 20 - 1. That's the famous game where Mark Grace pitched an inning. And for those of you who don't know, Grace was our first baseman.

So how can I not think I'm jinxed, at least with them? Coyotes hockey doesn't fare much better.. I think they may have won once in the less than 10 games I think I've attended. That's not a very good ratio.

I think the only sports team that has one more than one game that I attended was Mustangs Hockey (IHL). But after them, it was just all downhill.

On a side note, though, Josh & I both swear we saw Wayne Gretzky walking through the food court breezeway when we first got there. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but it surely looked like him!

*hork*

Ahh.. there's nothing like the sound of a cat trying to hork up a hairball.

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