Don't You Hate it When That Happens?

Don't you hate it when you're just driving along and a big semi comes up along side of you and throws you a ROCK?

Blueberries

I love blueberries.

Demotivators 2010 Calendar

Every year I pick out twelve pictures and quotes from the http://www.despair.com catalog for the office. It's probably the only confirmation email that I enjoy receiving. This company could "spam" me every day and I would laugh right out loud.

Here's their motto: AT DESPAIR, INC., we believe motivational products create unrealistic expectations, raising hopes only to dash them. That's why we created our soul-crushingly depressing Demotivators® designs, so you can skip the delusions that motivational products induce and head straight for the disappointments that follow!

BLOGGING

Never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few.

If you go to the Customer Service portion of the website you'll read the following:

Troubled Tickets

In an effort to further reduce our personal interactions with customers, we've added our revolutionary Troubled-Ticketing™ system. If you would like to report a problem, simply click the link below, and complete the accompanying Problem Report. After firing the responsible Little Person, their replacement will get back to you as soon as is convenient for us.

The Yearbook and Facebook

The other day I received a friend request in facebook.  The trouble was, I didn't remember him. I noticed that we had two fb friends in common from high school, so I pulled out my yearbook. I don't think I've looked at my yearbook since I graduated.

It was fun to read friend comments and look back at "old" photos.

From the green Scottish hills

Where the proud pipers play

To the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch

There's no better clan,

Nor will there ever be,

Than the friendly, fighting Scots of Ben Lomond.

We're proud of Ben Lomond

And all that she stands for,

And though o'er the earth we may wander

A part of our heart will always yearn to be

In the mem'ry hallowed halls of Ben Lomond.

Galoshes

Galoshes is not a word used much anymore. As a child I wore rubber boots similar to these.

"Princess" Hazel's Birthday

Today is Hazel's second birthday - hard to believe. She loves princesses, dolls, dressing up, make-up, Tinkerbell and shoes. I found a darling netted dress-up skirt for her and some fun magnet "paper" dolls.

Schoolwires

The school district has purchased a new web program. Our department's responsibility is to understand how the program works, migrate all the present department sites into new sites for each department, prepare and teach the program. My main responsibility has been to create sections and channels for each department and to create the new technology website. I will be responsible for a lot of the troubleshooting as departments and schools come on board. It's been a bit challenging, since Friday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Schoolwires has crashed. The architecture of this new web program is very different from the former one, which I could troubleshoot with my eyes closed. And words such as channels, migration, sections...have taken on new meanings - it's like learning a new language!