Potential Evening Destination
Category: Generic
Couldn’t Care Less
Patches is not impressed.
Weight Watchers Weigh In Results
Holy crap guys, trimming my finger nails worked!
I was down a whopping 4.6 pounds for a total of 37.6. I did not see that coming at all! I mean we had sub shop take out dinners twice this week. Twice! I will say though that for most of the week I was just too damn busy to eat. Even on my Thursday telecommute day, the calls and emails just kept coming all day and I didn’t have time to over do it at lunch. Then yesterday I probably lost 2 pounds due to all of the exercise walking back and forth from my desk to my boss’ office.
My goal for December is still very much to not lose any ground due to holiday feasting. I just want to stay level if I can. This weigh in though. I’m really surprised. I’ll probably be up next week, but for now? WOOHOO!!
Weight Watchers Pre-Game
Every little bit helps, right?
That’s what I figured, so I just trimmed my finger nails. That should be good for about 0.00001 pounds.
What ever it takes!
Wide Awake
It’s 4:30am and I’m wide awake. I sense this is the start of a difficult day.
Bad Apple
It doesn’t happen often, but it’s happening right now.
I’m using iTunes Radio to listen to Christmas music (I wanted to listen to the new Smashing Pumpkins, but my iTunes was totally hijacked by people who actually have Christmas spirit even though it’s only December 12th) and all of the holiday music channels I’ve picked have just plain sucked!
It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then Apple actually does let me down.
Stupid Apple.
But wait! Elvis’ Blue Christmas!
Redemption!
None
I have zero christmas spirit. None.
Big Bird
Look who I just saw in the back yard!
I’ve been hoping to get a picture of one of the big suckers living out in the woods. He flew into view as I was walking past the window and he was (finally) nice enough to stick around for a pic.
The question now is, is it a hawk? Is it a red tailed hawk? Is it something else? I think it’s a red tailed hawk but I really don’t know for sure.
Microsoft Blues
I’m having one of those, “I want Microsoft to die and go away and never come back” kind of mornings.
Just before Thanksgiving I inherited a laptop running Windows 8.1. It has a touch screen and everything. I set it up to VPN to work and have used it twice for telecommuting so far. Today was supposed to be the third day.
At about 8:45 I turned the lappy on and went down cellar to flip the laundry from the washer to the dryer. When I came back it was in the middle of the mean ol’ update fiasco. Windows updates were installing. Yippee. I waited for it to finish. Then it needed a reboot. Okay, so I signed in over my phone and set up my call forwarding. Then the laptop rebooted again. When it came back up it started installing another round of updates.
Screw you, thinks me.
The laptop I had used prior to this is running Windows 7 and is currently in the living room closet. I could have gone straight there and logged in the way I used to, but I tried something different.
On the same day I initially set up the Windows 8 box, I also installed the latest version of Parallels onto my MacBook Pro. I set it up to run a copy of Windows 7 that we weren’t using, and did all of the setup to connect to work. So instead of grabbing the old lappy, I grabbed the MacBook Pro.
Two minutes later I was connected to work. The Windows 8 box was starting to install a THIRD set of updates. That’s when issue number two presented itself.
My MacBook Pro has a Retina display, In English that means the display is at a ridiculously high resolution. Normally that’s awesome, but there is one instance where it actually screws things up. I used windows remote desktop client to remote connect to the PC on my desk at work. I do this every time I work from home so that I can have all of my usual stuff in the normal place. I don’t have to re-install any software or anything like that.
Unfortunately windows remote desktop tries to match the screen resolution on the remote device to the resolution on the local device. That means that everything on my work PC looks so small you can barely read any text. If I only used text editors or web pages I could just zoom in, but I don’t have that option using any of my company’s software. Everything works, it is just really hard to read. It’s usable, but only barely.
So I ended up re-installing anything I need to start the day so that I can run it on the MacBook itself. That’s all fine and dandy and working well now. Unfortunately, if I need to connect to a customer’s network it will have the same remote desktop issue I have with my office PC. While still connected to my desktop I tried lowering the resolution on the display, but those options are not available when remote connected. I didn’t know that. Crap.
Off to Google we go! I learned how to set up remote desktop to open full screen. That was nice. It didn’t solve the problem though. I continued looking around and found three different Microsoft forum questions asking about my issue and in each case the solution was…
Wait for it…
There is no solution. The best suggestion was to lower the screen resolution on the target machine before you remote connect to it. That means I would have had to change the resolution last night before I left work. Ummm… yeah.
So at lunch time I am going to the living room closet and getting the Windows 7 laptop. I know I can get the problem on the Windows 8 machine fixed (I am guessing I know what the problem is), I just don’t have time to do it right now. I can handle the MacBook for a couple of hours, but if I have to remote to a customer it will be tough. During lunch I’ll have enough time to switch over to the other machine.
What a pain in the ass. Thanks for sucking, Windows.
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
Okay, first of all I am not going to turn this blog into a movie trailer collection. Yes, this is the second movie trailer I am posting in about two weeks, but that doesn’t mean this is the new thing, okay? You’re still going to get your usual blathering idiot stuff. Okay? Okay.
Second, this is not as big a deal to me as the Star Wars trailer I posted Thanksgiving weekend. However, that does not change the fact that this is a big cinematic deal for me.
When I learned that this movie was actually happening my first thought was that there is no way on this Earth that this movie can live up to the original. My second thought was that this movie is probably going to suck 37 flavours of ass.*
Then I saw the trailer and found myself laughing out loud.
I laughed out loud while watching a two minute trailer. That’s pretty impressive.
Now, here you go… The trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine 2!
*See what I did there? I used the British spelling of “flavor”, “flavour”. I figured this crappy little web page could use some freakin’ class for a change. Am I right or am I right?
