A Night at the Museum

After a tiring and frustrating day working on research paper number four for my ACCT 509 class, Kim convinced me to have a beer and take some time off to relax.

We watched A Night at the Museum. It was pretty entertaining, but what I want to know is what happened with the old security guards?

A Day in the life

I'm keeping pretty busy these days. Here's the basic rundown:

• Wake up
• Take Molly for a walk
• Breakfast
• Shower
• Work (meetings, followup from meetings, and occasionally some hands-on technical stuff)
  
• Lunch break
• Work again
• (if I get home first) take Molly for a walk
  
• Dinner
• Homework
• Take Molly on another walk
  
• Sleep

On weekends, cut out the work parts...otherwise it's pretty much the same. By quantity, most of my life's events revolve around taking Molly for a walk, three times a day. I guess maybe I visit the bathroom more than that, but that's about it.

Re-blogging

I used to write to my own blog on my website (ok, I'd post every few months on average), but Google's Blogger can do some cool stuff, and it's one less thing for me to have to maintain, so I'm moving over here.

I'm sure you've heard something like this before, maybe from me, but I'm going to try to keep this blog active and post as frequently as I've got something to say...so thanks for reading.

Weekend Review

Let's pull up the to-do list and see how we did:

• haircut - check. Still extra crunchy with all that gel they put in it


• nail trim for Molly - check. plus a couple shots. and I trimmed Madison's claws too.


• homework - check. Even got started on next week's database assignment


• bourbon and coke - check. Working on the second one right now


• fix the lamp in our bedroom (again) - hmm...maybe next weekend.


• spend plenty of time wearing my new bathrobe - Also working on this one right now

Bacheloring It

Kim's heading to Wisconsin for her cousin's wedding tomorrow, so it's just me and the pets this weekend. The weekend should go by pretty fast though, since I'm probably going to have to spend most of it doing homework. I've got research paper #3 to write for my Accounting 509 class. I got the database class's homework done...select, insert, delete? Maybe I should have embellished my work a little....Nah...

So on this weekend's to-do list:

• haircut


• nail trim for Molly


• homework


• bourbon and coke


• fix the lamp in our bedroom (again)


• spend plenty of time wearing my new bathrobe

That should about take up the whole weekend, I think...

Halloween Watch 2006

Orange, CA - The time is 6:15. Kim is watching a recorded episode of Little People, Big World. I'm at my computer. Molly is getting cozied up in her favorite blanket, and Madison is upstairs. The "Happy Halloween" lights are lit. Our "Trick or Treat" flag is out. Now we wait.

UPDATE 6:55 - Three trick-or-treaters. One Anakin Skywalker, one Superman, and one Mickey Mouse.

UPDATE 7:11 - Two more trick-or-treaters. One Princess Jasmine and one Elmo who looked suspiciously too old to be dressed up as Elmo.

UPDATE 7:55 - No more trick-or-treaters since Jasmine and Elmo. It looks like we'll have a grand total of five for Halloween 2006.

ABS

No, not abdominal muscles. No, not Anti-lock braking system. No, not the Australian Bureau of Statistics. I'm talking about Apply Button Syndrome. It's a degenerative disease of the computer-user's mind.


Let me explain. Windows users, feel free to follow along (Mac & Linux users, play make-believe). Right click on your desktop, go to Properties. Click on Desktop tab. Change the background (or background color). What do you do next? Click Apply, of course. Then what? Click OK.

Now this isn't the best example because you actually get feedback (as in, a new background) when you click Apply. You've got the opportunity to try another background before you click OK, if this one doesn't please you.

Another example. Launch Windows Explorer. Click Tools->Folder Options. Click the View tab. Under Advanced Settings, click the checkbox next to Launch Folder Windows in a separate process. Click Apply. Click OK. Wait, did we just click Apply? But why? We didn't get get any useful feedback. It's not as if we can see the computer setting itself up to launch explorer in different processes. But we clicked Apply anyway.

This mental disease primarily affects people in the IT industry. Helpdesk staff are particularly susceptible. As you can see by this Google search, there are web sites out there actually spreading this disease.

I know right now you are wondering, 'What can I do to stop the spread of this disease, or to cure myself?' Well, medical science has yet to provide us with a drug known to eliminate this condition. The best advice I can give you is this: If the only feedback you get by clicking the Apply button is that the Apply button becomes disabled, don't click the Apply button before you click OK. OK?