Psychotomy

so, i stayed home wed/thurs this week b/c of the snow/ice/idiots. figured i don’t usually have much to do at the office, so i could not do it at home just as well, but i could play computer games and watch law and order dvd’s at the same time i didn’t do it ;)

except yesterday I, again, had real work to do from home :o this makes 3 out of 5 days i’ve worked at home and had work to do at the same time! it’s INCREDIBLE! (i’m not counting the days i was home b/c of the construction , although i think i had things to do at least one or two of those three, come to think of it)

apparently, unlike my old job, my new job actually has me WORKING when i WORK at HOME :o what a concept. I don’t get it ;)

oh, and my desk gets full when i have my windows laptop (for ssh to the office since their proxy/vpn-like client java tool thing only works in windows, wha?) and my mac laptop (b/c htat’s what i use for me stuff). then there’s the gmaing machine, but the keyboards in the tray and the monitors on a step up, so not really in the way. But the plate of tacos? yeah, that was coming up short on good places to put things :o

mind, I had some work to do this morning at the office, too. of course, i finished that hours ago, so now i’m marking time again. reading docs and such on security again. b/c it’s like an obsession ;)

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a few week ago, i painted the upstairs bathroom. it was a pale green. or, technically, so i’m told. b/c i couldn’t tell the difference between that, the white primer i’d put on earlier, or the white that the walls had been.

today i went to finish painting, b/c kiir told me there were a few small spots i missed. “not much, just a little touch up.” …

“this whole area, oh, and everything up here on this wall. and that wall.” … in the end “a few small spots you missed” became “3 of 4 walls” … then i had to pick out my own paint and started and … i could see this one. “what paint am i using?” “the green one!” … thanks, you stupid witch! she came up after prodding and confirmed that i was using the wrong paint. then she decided that, since i was doing all the walls anyway, we could just change paint to one i could see. wheee!

then i went downstairs and did that bathroom. which color? “the purple one” … you;ve got to be joking, come point! turns out i can see this one better than she can :o go me!

two bathrooms painted. two showers AWOL for now … uh, oops :o

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so, last night i’m tossing and turning trying to sleep while kiir’s reading …

then she punches me in the kidney, gets up and throws a book at my face.

what’s up with that! eeeesh. she claims it was “an accident” because “the life insurance isn’t high enough yet” … i need to invest in kevlar pj’s …

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so, we’ve got a bunch of people hosted on our server. all/most running an image system. i go to upgrade it, b/c it chokes on the mysql5 upgrades i did a few months ago.

took me 3 weeks to build a patch file that fixed my test case. i applied it to the rest of the server last weekend. i’ve now tried 3 more times with faster patches. it shatters every site into even less working order.

W.
T.
F.

*sigh*

wondering if it might be easier to reinstall. problem (with reinstalling and with the patching) is the customizations we’ve done on the templates and such. and apparently every freakin’ site has it’s own little tweaks. grrrrr

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hit ikea this weekend for the shelving units/etc to go with our tv stand. out of stock on the units, and the etc is 6′x1′x6″ 80lb boxes … i can’t pick it up (leverage vs torque, gravity wins!). I was thinking of how to get it onto the dolly cart when it occurred to me i’d have to get it into the house. well, we have a handtruck, ok.

wait, i have to get it up into the car … and out of the car … and up the stairs … fuck this, i can barely lift it, it ain’t getting all inside an’ stuff. so we’re going to go back when it’s all in stock (actually, probably just going back this weekend or next) and order it all for DELIVERY! wheeee. which means i didn’t get jack done with the living room rebuild/room cleanouts.

i did shred 2 bags full o stuff, though. and put away the clothes in the bedroom kinda. her clothes at least. and only things that don’t go in teh closet. b/c i can’t get in the closet yet. and the old headboard/footboard are currently half blocking the bathroom door b/c i didn’t have anywhere else to put them. i’m pretty confident that they are NOT going into the attic, though :/ stupid attic! be less anti-social!

played vanguard a bunch, cooked some. went to whole foods for groceries this week. the crab stuffed tilapia was strangely tasteless :o we decided we like the one i do better, go me! (we like flavor and spices, they were obviously aiming at the bland and tasteless crowd “my kids will eat this b/c it tastes just like nothing!”)

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OK, so this is (supposedly) the hindi characters (devangari script) unicoded version of the translations of the last post.

Which means it’s gonna look even worse and be more meaningless :o learn to live with dissappointment. I’m making some of this up as I go!

now, to keep crappy unicode squares from showing every time i view, we’ll go to the other page ;)

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So, if I figure out how to get the hindi characters in, I’ll add them. but not tonight, b/c I’m leaving soon.

krna aap mog krna hra adn aur ran — do you like green egg and ham
(haven’t looked up rules on plurals, and i’m fairly sure i don’t need both krna’s, but i’m not sure really yet)

maae krna n mog krna – i do not like

them – unko
in a — beech ak
with a — paj ak

soonthk — box (i think; s th(oo) k i’ve got, it’s the n i’m not sure of … and it could be snthook … assuming it’s even an n, it’s not in my alphabets list :/)
lomdo — fox … that doesn’t sound right :o
mvn — house
moos — mouse
bkr — goat
ag(ae)ra — dark
rah — train
rth’ — car
maeh — rain
paed — tree

… that’s assuming i have all the letters right. not that i really know how to pronounce such gems as “mvn” and “rth’” :o guess it’s time to ask my dad ;)

now, to learn enough grammar rules to string it all together into itself!

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So, I’ve spent the weekends for something like 3 months cleaning the house piecemeal. then in january i had to crash out the living room. i got a lot of the crap from there into the basement room (certianly not using the sewing machine NOW!), but other bits went into the downstairs bedroom, k’s room, baby’s room.

so, even though i’ve thrown out a huge amount of crap, and i’ve worked my ass off, kiir’s mom is coming beginning of march. to help us clean. b/c “the house really needs it” …

why did i bother? i know it’s never good enough, and i know i can only do so much before i get pissy about it. especially when k’s following me all over going “wanna play wanna play?” and pregnant kiir is on the computer playing games like i wanna be doing :o

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an ongoing thing the last few years has been my going back for my phd in computers. i kept saying i didn’t want to b/c i didn’t feel i could reasonably come up with thesis material.

because PhD theses are supposed to be “new contributions to the field” and I’m not in a research environment where I can play with things to the extent of coming up ith something new. and as a part time grad student, I wouldn’t be doing enough at school and RAing and such to pull it out. then kiir keeps telling me that if everyone’s eyes glaze over when i describe what i’m working at, it might be phd-quality. despite my protests that i wasn’t doing anything exciting and i was just doing basic blatantly obvious things. “which no one else has done”, she kept adding

so i keep looking at it on and off. hopkins became a non-contender when they told me I’d have to do 1-2 years fulltime as a resident student for their program. and none of my classes from my masters would transfer, b/c they’re sure that the Georgia Institute of Technology is a very good school (sarcasm) but it’s not on their level. It left me so stunned that I couldn’t even respond at the time, but GaTech vs JHU for CS? yeah, they’re A string, you’re C, but you’ve got an overall name people trust so I was willing to take it :o
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We picked up a “screaming katy” baby doll the other day. ok, so, it’s got some wholly unmemorable name and it was a pain in the ASS to find the damned thing. the idea was we needed something baby-shaped and baby-sized that made baby-sounds, so k can start getting used to the annoying damned whiny loud thing that disturbs his naps.

i mean, we have a CD with baby sounds, too, so he can get used to the sounds from the computer, but i don’t think kiir ever opened that and put it on her computer.

kiir took it out of the box and was playing with it, when she hit some sound that K was NOT pleased with :o she we got him to settle down, and i went to put the doll on the sofa next to him, so he could get used to it. and kiir’s all “no don’t do that!” “why, we want him to get used to it, so he’s willing to just curl up next to baby” “yeah, but not destroy the baby!” .. He’s been going to camp, he’s unlikely to destroy anything, and he’s not likely to break a toy that he’s seen mommy playing with, b/c he knows it’s only his stuffed animals he can eviscerate. he’s really quite good about it, honestly

of course, he had no interest in laying down next to this this this THING that stole part of HIS sofa! so I moved “thing” to the coffee table, and he jumped down and went around to bark at it some more :o this could take a while, getting him to accept. and it’s going to be a pain in my ass when i want to just sit and play on the computer :o

and today he didn’t go to camp … hopefully he’s still wound down some from 3 days. I doubt it, but maybe :o if not, maybe i’ll squeak a baby at him and clean the house some more. b/c, you know, i’ve only been on that for 5 months, and I only have 1.5 or so more before baby breaks into the place and all my hard work goes up in stunningly annoying flames as 3 metric tons of baby stuff appears in the house and gets played with by the grandparents and everyone who comes to visit even though baby’s still sleeping

and then it goes downhill. i hope it warms up a LOT before then. b/c K’s going to need some quality time so he doesn’t feel like he’s suddenly being ignored by me. he has separation issues, and it’s possible that he might look at the baby as a rival,then, and that would be bad. at least until baby’s old enough to play back. :/ in the meantime, K gets lotsof camp!

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