Stacks upon stacks of red Microsoft-logo cups
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I think I'm going to name my first child Moonunit.I was thinking of drawing random letters from a hat; it'll give a better name than some breeders give.Bziytk. Yay! I wonder how ... that would be pronounced.It's pronounced "Jane." :PYOU WIN AT TEH INTARWEB for that. (Via
LiveJournal Childfree community.)
So, apparently it's been raining here on and off for the past 18 days. Feels like I'm back in England.
Honey's grandfather is better; they cleaned out his lungs and took him off the ventilator.
My office mate LW is on vacation (back to Ann Arbor, MI) this week, so we covered his side of the office with stacks red Microsoft-logo cups... on the keyboards, lining desk surface, on monitors, his gym shoes, chair, floor, shelves, and even a few rows on the light. Yoda tops the stack on the highest shelf (don't ask, we got him from AB when we were building with cups earlier, but then the stack got knocked down while I was out so AT and I came up with this plan). We were assisted by MD, SW, SI, JB, and a cast of thousands.
(Hopefully he doesn't read this before he gets back to work.) I'll get the pictures up RSN.
Latest bug is one where Internet Explorer sends us a crap command-line, because it hateses us, preciousss (yeah, I'm watching LOTR, how could you tell?) When the "Open in Microsoft Office Word" 'W' icon is clicked, if Word is already open it sends a DDE FileOpen request, but it includes too many quotes, so we get FileOpen(""filename""). Fair enough, maybe the registered Open pattern is FileOpen("%1") and it just adds another set; we can work around that (although God help you if your filename actually begins and ends with double quotes). If Word isn't open, it runs it with a command line like /n /dde ""filename", yes, with the unbalanced quotes. We could work around that too—there doesn't seem to be an equivalent unbalanced registry entry—but I'm trying to contact someone on the IE team to see what's up.
Since Honey's away this week I've been staying later; I went to dinner with some of the guys yesterday, JB drove his BMW. He was taking the corners a little fast, so WB doesn't want to ride with him any more so today WB drove and demonstrated proper driving habits, while JB sat up front and played with his Club™ anti-theft device. Sometimes "It's like a little boy's nursery school I've come upon here" (Attley Jackson, Gone in 60 Seconds) :-). We work hard, but we also have fun.
Wrote to Bob for Christmas, we've been writing back and forth a little; hiring situation at Hilton is as dismal as it ever was; I'm glad Doyle's still around. Good times... Memphis wasn't a bad place to live nor Hilton a bad place to work. It was the first place we lived together, plus the first place I lived on my own, first place I lived in in the US... many memories, sad, happy, frustrated; the wave of heat that hit you on leaving an air-conditioned building in summer; finding out that my car's temperature display could do three digits; running at Shelby farms; Natchez Trace park; canoeing in Arkansas; etc.
My office mate LW is on vacation (back to Ann Arbor, MI) this week, so we covered his side of the office with stacks red Microsoft-logo cups... on the keyboards, lining desk surface, on monitors, his gym shoes, chair, floor, shelves, and even a few rows on the light. Yoda tops the stack on the highest shelf (don't ask, we got him from AB when we were building with cups earlier, but then the stack got knocked down while I was out so AT and I came up with this plan). We were assisted by MD, SW, SI, JB, and a cast of thousands.
(Hopefully he doesn't read this before he gets back to work.) I'll get the pictures up RSN.
Since Honey's away this week I've been staying later; I went to dinner with some of the guys yesterday, JB drove his BMW. He was taking the corners a little fast, so WB doesn't want to ride with him any more so today WB drove and demonstrated proper driving habits, while JB sat up front and played with his Club™ anti-theft device. Sometimes "It's like a little boy's nursery school I've come upon here" (Attley Jackson, Gone in 60 Seconds) :-). We work hard, but we also have fun.