Like that gas mileage?

That's a 12 gallon tank (reserve is about a gallon). I normally put just at 11 gallons in when I fill up.

Boy, this is funny....

Co-worker was setting up a laptop for a user that we had purchased from HP. It came with Vista Business on it and he set about wiping the drive and installing XP, since we have software that can only run on XP (Cisco call manager, etc). He starts the boot process and it takes 3 and a half hours for Vista to finish loading everything and show a desktop. Then he restarts, and the XP install stalls because it can't find the hard drive. Then, as he's trying once more to correct that issue, the os locks up because it can't load the scheduler. Talk about annoying. I'll upload a pic of the screen when it locked up here in a minute.

Notice something wrong?

Funny

Coworker was trying to put the side of a Dell 3U server back on and was hammering at it. Looked at it a second, turned it over and slid the side back on and screwed it down perfectly....I love my job.

Before the move...

I had light, and a screwdriver. Now I have no light, but I have plenty of screwdrivers!

Well, doesn't that suck....

The mechanic that pulled this tire off asked me how I made it to the garage. Little does he know that I've been driving for over a month with the tire at or getting to that condition.

Bored at Grapefest.

Sarah showing just how bored she is at Grapefest where we were waiting to get to volunteering. Grapefest, by the way, is for the citizens of Grapevine to get merrily drunk and the wineries in the area to push their wines to be the number 1!

Train car at Grapefest

Office desktop

Bree and Allie looking bored

The day of days...

Tomorrow marks the day I officially entered the United States Marine Corps. Technically, it was Tuesday, September 3 1996 because the second was Labor Day. What a long night that was. It's been 11 years since that day and I don't regret it at all.

A point of note to some people.

If you leave a comment on my blog and I have no idea who you are, please leave me some way of replying to your comment. That way, I can thank you for your comment and see who is viewing my page. If you don't leave me a way to contact you, well, that sucks for me, I guess.

GAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!! WHY! Why must it be so difficult?!?!?!



Just kidding honey, I love you!

Interesting.

I like this quote.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
- Frank Zappa

A few things.

I know my post from Sunday only has a blank line in it. It's got a video of Evanescence playing in it and I have to figure out how to get it from my phone to my computer.

Anyway, Sarah and I were driving around the lake today and we pulled into a previously flooded park area to look at the damage and as we were driving around it, she saw a snake with a fish. We turned around and watched the snake (a cottonmouth) try to pull the fish into the foliage surrounding the road. The cottonmouth pulled it about halfway and then gave up. It was really awesome watching nature work. The fish weighed more than the snake, but it was dead, so the snake was having to pull really hard, coiling it's body up and then pulling backwards. I think it got scared of us because it dropped the fish and went back into the grass. The first thing we did when we got home was look up snakes of Texas and it was definitely a young cottonmouth, with a dark pattern and kind of greenish and a big white mouth. This is the link to the page we looked at and it definitely looked like the snake. Also, you could tell where the water from the flooding had been up to, cause the ground was a pale white and green color and there was plenty of moss everywhere.

Job situation is getting kind of desperate. I interviewed for an IT place in Dallas on Tuesday and I'm still waiting to hear back. Supposedly they really liked me but they want to interview others so they get an idea of what they're looking for, or something like that. My old employer called me and I basically told him to go screw.