At least there are still a few of them around. The article sounds almost sympathetic to Donna Duffer though.
Gabmbling disorders just like alcoholism and drug addiction can be a terrible thing but ultimately we are responsible for our behavior. The only true victims were her family, co-workers and employer.
I got home some time between three and four this afternoon. I was completely exhausted. I don’t have air in the car so after having ridden in it for half an hour and going to Wal-Mart I was sweating like a pig and probably stinking like one as well. I took a shower and then lay down with the youngest girl for a couple of minutes. I had not planned on napping as I have several hours of work today both for my real job and online, but I woke up at six. No damn caffeine so I am still in a fog. I don’t do very well without it to wake up with. I tend to bite people’s heads off.
I am getting ready to go back to work but have been waiting on this upgrade for MT to finish before that. I have to chmod some stuff but can’t do it until my FTP client finishes uploading.
In the meantime I’m working on my Itinerary for the next three months. I should have had this done 14 days ago but have pretty much just been playing it by ear.
I have been running the upgrade to Movabletype 4.0 rc2b while typing this, hopefully all will be well. I haven’t heard or seen any major bugs with it anyway. I did submit a bug report on the cron job that runs scheduled posts about a week ago and I see where messages are being suppressed from it but I don’t see where they actually fixed the problem.
Anyone else running MT4.0 that is able to get scheduled posts to work? Perhaps they did fix it. I generally have a post scheduled for Monday and Tuesday nights so I will see then I suppose.
As with any of the other beta or release candidate versions, just let me know if it does anything weird or you have any problems.
I don’t have much of anything intelligent to post this morning (that’s a change, huh?). I spent most of the morning surfing sites I haven’t been to before and answering some emails and am still just sort of dragging around, so this is my generic weekend open track-back post.
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Sometimes it’s difficult not to just hit people or cuss them out. I spent fifteen minutes on the phone late last night on my way home from work with someone who wanted to argue semantics with me about something we have to do before they actually got to the point of what was really important. By the time he finally got to the point he had wasted the time of five different people including myself and probably pissed them off just as bad as he did me. Stupid fucker…
It’s about time for me to start shopping for the holidays in the next couple of weeks. In addition to Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years both of my girls have birthdays as do I. Immediately after Christmas my son and wife have birthdays. Thus the fact that I am in the poor house five months of the year and only a pauper the other seven. I’m going to do the same thing I did last year and use Coupon Chief for most of these purchases, at least the ones online. I have posted about Coupon Chief before and how useful they are. They have up to date coupons and great deals along with excellent customer support. Want some examples of the coupons I found today?
You’re getting them anyway.
Normally when I go over there it’s looking for computer supplies and deals but I am probably not going to be getting any type of PC equipment for people this year so I went looking at some of the ‘normal’ stuff.
Target has some pretty good deals at Coupon Chief right now such as $5 off any purchase $50 or more, free shipping when you have more than $25 in shoes and free shipping on orders over $50 in Womens. Not too bad. I hate getting clothes for Christmas or birthdays myself. I consider myself a better judge of what I want to wear than you are for some reason, but clothes are a great gift for my girls. They love them. Thus the fact that I will end up doing some of my shopping at Target. Now if you want to spend a couple hundred bucks and buy me a new leather jacket I might reconsider my opinion of you giving me clothes but that’s about it.
Another store, and one that will be good for the wife is the Home Depot. Believe it or not, I want to get the wife and myself some new tools and a new chainsaw. Some tile for the bathroom would be cool too. Coupon Chief has several good deals for Home Depot such as a $250 Home Depot gift card with the purchase of select appliances, free delivery and haul away on appliances $299 and more, and there is an online clearance event going on right now with deals from 20%-50% off.
You get the gist of it. Use Coupon Chief when you are shopping online = save money. Don’t use coupon chief = flush it down the toilet why dontcha!
I haven’t been whining as much about work lately as I used to for some really simple reasons. My Area People Director (the head HR honcho in my area) is online and found me via LinkedIn. If he found me there I know he can find me on MySpace, where he does have an account, and that will eventually lead here. I don’t particularly care if they see what I am posting and am not particularly afraid of losing my job over it, particularly since I don’t use company names and generally don’t use anyone from work’s name other than calling them whiny assholes on occasion.
Oh, gotta stop that…
Anyway, I am more worried that they will see that I am making money on the side basically as a second job than them seeing I write about work on occasion. They are very controlling like that. As management we aren’t “allowed” to work second jobs. Period.
So I will probably keep bitching but I am going to try and start using more generic terms so as to keep myself out of hot water…
I felt the need from manly things…
things…
boobs…
guns…
maybe a bit of whiskey…
…and not necessarily in that order.
As much as I hate it this morning because I seem to be in a posting mood, I have to get going and get ready for work. I have meetings this afternoon but hopefully it won’t be such a long day as some of mine last week were. Provided he gets out of bed on time my relief manager is cooking today so at least I will have a semi-easy day.
I think maybe I will take the camera with me today and see if I can get some good stuff. Not likely being at work, but you never know…
The wife has to go back to work pretty shortly. Not sure if she is ready or not. Normally by this time of the year she is ready to get the hell away from our children and get back in front of everyone else’s. There is a difference you know. Kids will always act differently in front of others than they do with their own parents.
It’s time for me to hit the sack so I am going to go ahead and put this up a bit early.
A little something for you to wake up to…