shhh.... I'm in here.

I am hiding from the woman party in the other room. Felecia is hosting the Christian Girlfriends night tonight. This is where the women from the church get together and chat 'bout stuff. So, needless to say, I have some good tunes pumping through my headphones (artist: Ohgr Album: Welt), a Marley firmly situated on my lap, a sixer of newcastle within easy reach, and a glass of scotch in my belly. No girl talk can infiltrate my defenses now!! muhahahhahhahaha.


I finished up season 2 of the IT crowd tonight. SO FARKING AWESOME!!! I love me some IT crowd. Moss is my hero.

Fall Hike

Yesterday I hit Mill B south for hike up to lake Blanche. I was originally shooting to scramble up to Sundial peak, but the snow was a bit too slippery for a safe go. I hit the trail-head about 8:00am so there was nobody around, awesome. There was a truck with a smashed out window in the parking lot, which was a bit discerning as I was the only other vehicle in the lot, but I figure the shits who did it probably are asleep now or have scored more meth and are good for a few hours. fuckers. Anyways, the hike itself was awesome. A nice southerly breeze was my only companion on the way up as Felecia did not want to venture out at ass-early on a Sunday morning, but it kept me company listening to my crazy thoughts. I hit the lake at just the right time as I didn't see a soul anywhere near the lake so I chucked my crap on a boulder, laid down and listened to nothing but the sounds of nature. Heaven. I snapped a few pictures, check them out below, the one of me is a self timed shot that came out reasonable well, a bit out of focus, but not worse than some of my other photos. Man, I really think yesterday was the single best hiking day yet this fall. I hope next weekend shapes up the same way.

a nightmare in the forest of tangle and rot.

This week has been full of uppers and downers, blues and reds. Sometimes I feel like a complete retard at my job, then 10 minutes later I pull off an amazing 3 point shot to win the game. I have been working on a large project at work that has tested my strengths of database wizardry. These types of projects are a good reminder that you aren't all that, and there is always something to learn. It has been a few months since I have had a good kick to the cerebellum, so this week has been kind of fun in a stressed out way. my big to-do was to build a reporting system that could show for an individual, team-lead, or manager a dashboard of current and closed requests - pretty boring eh? yeah, I about fell asleep in the design meeting - also breaking down where a request went in the system and how long it stayed in various areas. Well, 8 stored procedures, 4 functions, 6 tables, and numerous destroyed pens later I am finally at the end of journey to the land of beta. Just tonight I finished up the serious of reports that users in the company can view to determine who's holding up requests in the chain. Sounds pretty glamorous eh? yeah I know, snores-ville. But that is the work and the glory of a corporate data cowboy.

well, I reckin' I best be off to tend to the campfire, you folks have yourselves a right nice night then.

a small victory

So for about a year or so my computer monitor, a Samsung SyncMaster 204B has had a neat little problem, occasionally it will just flicker off then back on. Quite an annoying problem. For the longest time I figured it was hardware related, some chip getting too hot and flipping it into off mode just long enough to cool down. This comes after much troubleshooting device drivers, monitor settings, and the browsing the internets for any help (yeah, I probably could have called tech support, but I am lazy) but to no avail. So I have just dealt with it being flaky, it was after all not dead, and the flicker was really only a medium annoyance. Yesterday however I stumbled upon a quick fix for this problem. Apparently the monitor is just fine. The real problem lies in the monitor's inability to handle the full 60hz refresh rate that my video card and all NVidia cards throw out the DVI port. I found just some random forum post that explained how to fix this very issue. roll on into the NVidia control panel and set up a custom resolution ala 1600x1200 using a setting called CVT with blank, or some garbage like that. basically that last setting throttles down refresh rate to 59.8HZ, just enough to keep the monitor from overloading. BAD ASS. To make a boring story short, my monitor works great and I am so happy. Now, if I could fix my choppy scrolling problem in firefox I would be set.

My Fair Lady

This is our new cat Marley, we have had her for about 2 months or so. She was the replacement for Vino, but with Vespas passing she is our sole cat.
She is quite the little lady.