I know I’ve been bitching about this a lot lately, and all one of you who reads this are probably sick of it, but 5:00am can bite my shiny metal ass.

My training room PC has mysteriously rebooted itself twice so far today.  I’ve been here for two hours.  This does not bode well.

I couldn’t remote connect to my desk until after the last spontaneous reboot.  Try using any Google web application without having the ability to run JavaScript.  Such had been my morning.

Happy Monday!

I mentioned this before, but I finally snagged a picture of a cardinal in the yard.  Technically it was in the neighbor’s yard, but let’s not split hairs, okay?  I’ve been trying to get this little bastard for almost the entire time we’ve been living in this house.

Too bad the pictures royally suck.

My darling wife is having a bad back day.  She is seeing her chiropractor first thing tomorrow.  Anyone have any tips on what to do to alleviate the pain in the mean time?

Chances are it will be tough to do anything recommended as she is working right now (working from home with her laptop on the dining room table, sitting in the one chair in the house that doesn’t make her back feel worse) but maybe after she’s done being the greatest developer in the universe for the day we’ll be able to try some ideas.

Thanks

Our min-van went into the shop a few weeks ago for a whole slew of problems.  One was this sick, weird, scary grinding sound coming from one of the wheels.  They fixed it fine, but shortly after picking it up we heard a different, sicker, weirder, scarier grinding sound.  So the van has an appointment this week to get whatever that is taken care of.

Today I took our other car, which we bought new in June of 2011, for an inspection.  It failed.  Insert dumfounded look of dumfoundedness onto my face.  The guy who did the inspection said he has seen the same thing on other cars of the same year, make, and model.  I guess it’s just a problem with the connection to the car’s computer.  It actually passed all of the tests, but when it tallied the final results it gave a rejection.  So now the new car has an appointment with the dealer to get whatever that is fixed.

Damn, sometimes cars just suck.

On the irrelevant upside, I finally got a picture or two of the little cardinal that lives in our neighborhood (although I haven’t looked at them yet.  Expect a picture post later).  That was one of my wild kingdom goals for this summer.  Now if I could just get a picture of the hawk that comes around occasionally.  Possibly a picture of it eating the little red cardinal.  That would kick many flavors of ass.

On another irrelevant upside, the bathroom is clean.  I think the kitchen is next on the agenda.

(Jen came up with this. I’m just forwarding it along)

Tonight only:
John Cougar Mellon Cat performs, “It’s a lazy ol’ Cat.”

Get your tickets now!

Laundry kills me.  Our dryer doesn’t work terribly well.  It gets the job done, but it needs to run for two cycles.  Last night I had two loads of laundry to do that had to get done before I could go to sleep.  I didn’t get home until well after 8:00, and the laundry didn’t start until well after 9:00.  The dryer cycle runs for about an hour.  The result of all of this is that I didn’t go to sleep until after 1:00, closer to 1:30.  The alarm clock went off at 5:00 but I didn’t hear it.  Jen snoozed it and it woke me up when it went off the second time at 5:10.  That means that I got less than four hours of sleep.  As a younger man I could easily make it through a work day on four hours of sleep.  Now, it’s a struggle.  Less than four hours of sleep and I am a total mess.  Today I was perfectly fine from 5:40 or so, when I fell out of bed, until about 9:30.  That’s when the exhaustion hit me. 

I am one sleepy red head.

I heard about the movie theater shooting in Colorado.  My thoughts go out to all of those affected by what some disturbed schmuck decided to do last night.  Here’s hoping the wounded recover.  I don’t want to see the already enormous death toll rise.  The whole thing is just unimaginably awful.