Still Alive

Its a buggin when I'm not bloggin!

As soon as I get batteries I got pix to post!

Cleanplating

Remiss Amiss with a Kiss

Yes it has been ages, hasn't it? My current job I feel rather uncomfortable doing anything more than the most casual of looks over my email. They have this really honest and used policy about anything that is on their network channel is theirs and they can keep, look, bake whatever. So you can understand why I would choose not to blog at work.

And since I'm still in my first month there is a lot to learn about what all the main implemenation can do. That's what you get when you have a product with .NET in it- customization out to ................... Here. Which makes a support job have a steep learning curve.

So far I've been getting lots of compliments on my e-mail support. They're still trying to get me a license for our phone que system, so I'm spared from that at the moment. And on top of that I still don't have access to some of the sites we support just yet. So I need IDs. But that will be this week I'm sure.

We tried out a couple of new places lately. Buca di Beppo most notably. And to some extent Sierra Grille. Buca is the best, but is unfortunately is one of THE most expensive places we have ever eaten at. Family sized dinning with family sized prices. If only we could find out what the first olives were that they put on our pizza... each time since has had some greyer, saltier olives instead. Just not as good!

Sierra Grille is a good taste at a fair price, the hugest draw is the fresh no lard, no msg, faire. But the burritos are only so-so sized. While it takes two Qdoba burritos to fill my husband up, this was not the case at least with the fish and veggie burritos he got. The papaya, pineapple, and kiwi salsa is good however. I was very pleased to see that they don't use preformed chicken. Definitely whole chicken breast pieces. I don't recommend the guacamole though. Its pretty thin and lacks a robust flavor that I have grown accustomed to.

In other news, I love photochopping. An easter special on the website my husband and I run added a few colored eggs into some Warhammer Online screenshots we have been oohing over. Also mangled a picture of a Pocket Pikachu to have lovable Pikachu erased to include an Earthdawn Horror. Mmmm art!

So 15 days later...

So as they say in the movies, it is now later. In summary, so far my new job is the coolest in the world and the people that I work with are super awesome. I've kicked WoW for what is likely the last time with the main fact in mind being what a security risk it is to keep patching all the crap from Blizzard. Sorry I'm not paying fifteen a month to get hacked because the designers think its a good idea. Also... my mouse is sort of messing with me now, and while I was looking at the Microsoft Wireless 6000 I looked up my old flame- the wacom tablet.

I've settled my high hopes on the more realistic graphire range. It'd be my first tablet and its not such a risk to sink less than $200 than it is over $500. But oooh, what they have done now with the Intuos (topline)3 series... they've brought in the wide format. It made happy pants. I don't want to look at the pricetag. 6x11 and the bigger badder 12x19.

Beware the Ides of March, Caesar!

Just had to throw that in. Thanks Ms. M.G. I still remember toga day. And all the -->hilarious<-- pictures of everyone else that day too. The lengths a sophomore will go to for extra credit are amazing.

Kinda cleaning up things here at work since I'm putting in my notice today.

Lovely horoscope for today:

Conditions are unstable. Don't take anything for granted. Assume that if things can go wrong they will, and have a backup plan.

Things are always unstable. Jeez. It was the crystal ball's day off so we had to pick up Murphey's Law?

Hope this isn't an article I've posted before. Fresh Possibilities

A Lexington startup is developing food labels that change color to signal the freshness of packaged meat in the local supermarket, detecting spoilage right through the wrap.

Now that's a smart idea.

Update for my favorite daily/weekly comics:

Something Positive
Player Versus Player
Girl Genius
Order of the Stick
Scary Go Round
Penny Arcade
Penny and Aggie
AppleGeeks
Alien Dice (mostly to remind myself how hard it is for a person to just live off the income of online comics)
My Nodwick placeholder in the archives

Then I check my emails, look on the library website. Found a tiered skirt template. Troll a little bit on the World of Warcraft Forums.

Ho hum.