Joezone Layer

Since I last posted. Actually I never seem to post anywhere except at work. I lost half my lunch hour mid april to the needs of the child. I really miss my lunch hour. Oh the naps I had, the powerful errands I've run . I barely have time to go out and get a lunch come back and eat it. I won't have a lunch hour again for oh say like 10 years. I'll be in my 40's then and maybe, hopefully, still working in the same place. I'd really like a lunch hour and a half. Enough time to get home eat and return to work. The dogs would love it, but it would be a 30 minute lunchbreak at home with 30 minutes travel each way (about). I can dream these simple dreams but I can't work 8 - 5:30. My child, my unborn child, my dogs need- no they must be tended to. I look at all these younger people with no responsibilities beyond coming to work and paying their personal bills and I'm not jealous, I think knowing what they will in some way go though and the path to acceptance...

Yup -The End Of The World As We Know It - I used to prepare for that. I knew the probable sizes and types of SOVIET nukes were going to hit about where in my area of Southern NJ. I knew which buildings around my area afforded the best fallout protection, how many roentgen's of exposure would cause what level of radiation sickness. Read fiction like Wolf and Iron , Warday, Alas Babylon, The Last Ship, The Survivalist series, Deathlands, and a lot of non fiction stuff. In short I knew what may happen, what seemed at times was going to happen. I was prepared with knowledge (but not materials) and knew more than most adults around me about the policy of MAD(Mutually Assured Destruction). Thankfully it all passed with the fall of the only other seriously credible nuclear threat. I recently figured out that I had no clue or made no serious preparations of the other more common type of TEOTWAWKI - slipping into a coma or other state where I wasn't going to come back, or most ...

I am a Geek L33t haxzz0r Gawd. ..No but I am enjoying playing with an unlimited budget and building a PC I can craft with my hands and some luck (and a firm yet gentle push of the cpu into the mobo -this time) . I say my current killer machine is about 65% of this if we're including the AWEsome LCD display (which I have naught but an emachine flat CRT (.25 pitch) . I have not yet installed my HP Lightscribe burner but I HAVE it , and I can only go to the 2 GIG ram neighborhood because I already have two of three slots filled with 512's(no the l33t variety either). But I have a Athlon 64 3400 CPU on a ASUS silcon RAID 0 on x2 80gig WD 7200 SATA drives plus another 80gig WD IDE as a bitch drive for tossing trash into. Anyway I went to my favorite pc site www.newegg.com and built my wishlist PC. I think I thought of everything but what I can find anywhere is these block adapters to plug in the usb wires into that I can then plug in as one unit into the mobo. Same goes for the fr...

I didn't win the HGTV dream home in Tyler Texas. Some poor drone from flyover country who'd been out of work on disability won the home. I guess it's for the better (for that f_ck) . The contest was too long and allowed me to enter like 30 times and even get other people to enter. I mean c'mon a 1.5 million dollar prize (1 million in home .25 mill in furnishings and GMC Envoy Denali, and .25 mill in cash) can't beat that. I had plans to sell the home to my parents (Dad is already retired, mom is close enough) at a loss so I could take the tax hit on the prize value and come out with like 600,000 in cash to add to my Kingdom and Castle in NJ. Plus I'd be able to visit the home and maybe inherit it after they pass on . I just don't know how that Chicago Schlub is going to be able to afford like 38% taxes on 1.5 million. He didn't win a house stuff and a quarter million in cash he won a death struggle with the 570,000 mortage that he can put a nice downpa...

I've been putting this off trying to pull off the double insurance HMO and PPO thing. It figures the absecess goes and pops about a week or two before the HMO choice for dentist is set up. Aside for the salty taste of blood that started just before the first commercial break in the show 24, it's been fine. I keep waiting for the pain. I'm told the procedure is like getting a cavity filled but takes a lot longer. If I was all Goth I would relish the experience of this constant taste of blood in my mouth. It tastes like murder. I bet my breath REALLY stinks in the morning now. I've been using this special mouthwash no alcohol based and full of enzymes, really good stuff called 'Biotien' or some brand name like that. I'm hoping this root canal and cap thing dosen't cost too much or get to ugly

Coworker of mine and I have been frequenting http://www.howstuffworks.com Today they have a pretty detailed 80 picture spoiler for Revenge of the Sith Episode 3 . with some captions and some animated photspreads. I cannot unknow what I have seen and this spoiler is so good it's well ...bad. I know too much and have turns of the movie have been laid open to me for all it's macbeth like borrowing. The URL is http://www.tpu.fi/~t4jlaaks/ep3/ if you don't want to visit how stuff works. They also had a really interesting report on megalightning as a possible cause of the columbia disaster http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=cc6y424y. Don't blame me if knowing there is a full spoiler out there is too much to resist. I know I couldn't and wish I didn't knwo this was out there but feel compelled to pass it on all the same.

I now hate snow. Most of the time I do. Today it serves as a road hazzard. Back two weeks ago I was able to make some Calvin style snowmen http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html. Mine was a lone surviving soldier who's buddy was impaled to a tree fending off two nasty 'alien' attackers. I should have taken pictures. I'm going to try to bring to life the snowman eating monster

I'm a geek, I speak a dialect of geek called helpdesk. I don't care if I'm called the helpdesk, as long as it's known that : A. I like my career, I have no homework, little if any after work commitments. B. I make very good money for not having career shattering responsibilities C. I like customer service. Let me be more specific I like delivering good customer service in complex systems with multilevel technical and or organization challenges. D. I'm going to become wealthy doing my other projects. I do this because I'm good at it, and It's good for me (structure in someone who worships at the altar of chaos) There is an attitude people seem to have about this line of work (that I have been doing for 11 years). Mainly it's that this is a stepping stone into something else   . Those are the people I see burn out. Now Helpdesk Managers well the ones that aren't frustrated but not burned out 'stepping stoners' who got promoted, are of...

First post. I had to check out bensbargains.net dialogs to get all inspired to post. There is nothing like people trading trash in sequential posts that gets me going faster. I suppose my blogging will be mostly stream of consciousness. I'm reminded to make this post "as simple as possible but no simpler". Maybe I'll get going and post like a fiend once I get two or three in and that would be without fishing for comments. I'm currently (when not blogging or working): Building a boardgame Playing through a huge boardgame library. I swear some post I will list all the games I own. Playing Rome: Total War Running Champions Playing D&D Playing MOO3- for over a yeah on one 2 player game - off and on...currently off Playing Call of Duty, online Organizing my 20+year (about there was about 5-6 off collecting years) comic collection and getting the guts to just sell it. That's all the fun stuff that's not family. I don't think I'm bringing family...