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January 28, 2008
The Coolest Thing I've Done All January
Yes, that's VMware's Fusion, allowing me to run MS Word 2007 and XP as an application on OS Tiger. : )
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January 27, 2008
Pink Lace Dishcloth
January's dishcloth for CLDCX2. Shells n Lace, out of 200 Crochet Blocks.
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January 26, 2008
An Indication That The Child Is Feeling Better
Mommy leaves the room
Child begins to jump on her mini trampoline
Mommy returns
"What? There is no jumping on the trampoline! Sick children do not jump on the trampoline! Sick children lie quietly on the couch under blankets, drinking fluids and letting their little bodies rest and recover from their colds! You have a fever. Where are your socks? It's too cold for no socks! Locate your socks! Return to the couch! This is not a Fun Day, this is a Sick Day!"
Child stamps, flails limbs about and wails
"You never let me have any fun!!!!"
Child finds socks and returns to the couch, pulling its knees up to its chest, crossing its arms, protruding its lower lip from its face, and glowers at Mommy
Yea, she'll be just fine : )
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January 23, 2008
January's Squares
Here's my squares for CLGSX. I used the Fretwork square pattern from 200 Crochet Blocks. : )
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January 16, 2008
Reason 1 Why I Hate Microsoft Software
K, so I am taking office 2007 and excel 2007 at a local community college in order to learn 2k7 to teach it to staff (and, as a half time student, my loans are in school deferrment, aka 'no pay'). Since I am a 100% Mac G33k, I get to install MS 2k7 on our xp box at home.
Certain people in our IT dept refer to 2k7 as having the "Big Ass Button Bar," and boy, they werent kidding. There sure is a big ass button bar across the top of the software. But.... that big ass button bar and all the conceivably annoying menus that magically appear as you mouse near something can actually be pretty helpful... when needed. I quickly made a ppt. Which relates to our story.
So I am also curious about Outlook 2k7, so I thought I'd configure it to talk to our exchange server at work so I could test it out. So, I open Outlook, and begin to configure the account. I get the error message, "You cannot connect to an Exchange server in Outlook. Exit Outlook and add an Exchange server from the mail icon in Control Panel." Okay. I can do that.
So I close Outlook. Go to Control Panel. Find the Mail icon. Click "Add." So on, so forth x 3, and I get this:
Sigh.
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January 10, 2008
Fish 0.5
So Y'all have met Norman, right? The betta fish that sits on my desk? Well, I have a story for you. First off, I love IT people. I really do. I think they're so cool and I wouldnt want to work with anyone else.
Norman comes home with me on our breaks. The library is closed for 2 weeks around xmas, so Norman has to come home, as I'm not going to drop into work just to feed him. He comes home and sits on the entertainment center with all the other fishies.
So I'm transporting Norman, in what I have that best fits the job, a plastic peanut butter jar. Norman is dismayed, i'm sure, but I have this meeting before we can go home, so he's there, in the jar, swimming around next to my laptop as i write the agenda for the meeting on the board. Our webmaster comes in.
We make small talk about vacations and work and time off. And he asks, "What's with that jar next to your laptop?"
"Oh, that's my Betta fish."
He looks confused and asks, "Your prefish? Like version 0.5?"
We stare at each other for a moment. Then I get it. "Oh, no! Betta! It's a Siamese Fighting Fish. Not Beta, like new software."
I think that's the coolest conversation I had all December. : )
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January 08, 2008
Purse for Carmella
Made this purse... did it on the fly, and i think it turned out pretty cute!
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January 05, 2008
We have this tree...
So we have this tree... It's called a "Fruit Cocktail" tree. Why? Because some brilliant person grafted orange, lemon, and grapefruit branches to generic root stalk. We call it FrankenTree. It is the meanest tree I've ever met... it has long, 3 inch spiky thorns and jabs at you as you walk by. We all have scars from its massively long, stinging talons, and I'm surprised none of us have lost an eye to the damn thing. Does it make fruit? Sort of. It makes green things that stay on it for 8-10 months, then turn brown and fall on you as you wander nearby. Some of them turn yellow. And they're *huge* We call them FrankenFruit.
Daniel decided to prune FrankenTree this morning. Unfortunately, he failed to notify me of this event, so I have no before/during pics. Therefore, I must improvise.
I do, however, have some pics after the event. Here's me, a *much* shorter and less bushy looking FrankenTree (omg, it looks normal!), and it's bizarrely huge FrankenFruit. And the cat, most likely wondering what we're doing playing around in the wet grass. Yes, do feel free to make fun of my cowboy pjs. I think they're a hoot.
And of course I also grabbed a snap of FrankenFruit. Here, we see FrankenFruit next to normal fruit, an orange and 2 grapefruits, purchased from Vons.
Notice how FrankenFruit is homogeneous looking, nubby, and generally malformed. The first year I lived here, each side of the tree produced distinct orange/grapefruit/lemon looking fruit. Not this year. FrankenFruit is mostly the same irrespective of its original location on FrankenTree and very lemony in its apperance. I think I'll try to eat one. Daniel says, "Sure, I help you. I'll call 911 when you keel over." Gee, thanks, hun.
I chose the normalest looking one that looked the most like a sweet fruit. It was a lemon (but it sure does smell good), and full of seeds (anybody want their own FrankenTree? lmk). But, a sweeter than normal lemon. So, I dub FrankenFruit Edible. Maybe I'll make some lemonade. : )
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January 04, 2008
He sits on my desk and looks at me.
Let me take a moment to introduce you to Norman F. Norman, world. World, Norman.
I'm back to work today... with a pretty big To Do list. Sigh... ah, well. At least it's super quiet and I have ipod to amuse me while I meander thru my list. Oh, and have I mentioned I now have Sonic the Hedgehog on my ipod? Shhhh, dont tell. =p Actually, i'm really impressed with the game. The graphics are so clear, and it's really easy to play. And a great way to while away the hours in the bank teller line, waiting for the car to run thru the wash, &c (but of course not for work! No, No, Never!).
Am I glad to be back? well... let's see... puttering around the home, crocheting on stuffs, napping, fooling around in the yard, watching the impending rainstorm roll in VS work. Uh, hm. what do *you* think???? Anyways, I've managed to fritter away the last hour making a list, sifting email, and getting irritated with Twitter. I just created an account for giggles, but come to find out, i'm not popular enough to consider keeping it. 3... 2... 1... deleted.
I am still stumped and frustrated about this flickr/ravelry/blog work, and trying to get the three to mash together in one place. I've read more MT documentation than I ever wanted to, which is useless as I have no access to the MT server sitting in the main library at work, which houses my blog. According to flickr and MT, there's this file that should be somewhere, and some setting that should be turned on. And MT is low on the list of Things To Do in IT these days, what with this working thing going on. So, I remain stumped. For now. We'll see what develops.
I got a neato offer from UIUC a few days back - one of the professors there asked me to be a guest lecturer for the online Science Reference course, isn't that cool!?! I'll blah, blah, blah on about science reference questions, and what my job is like. I am pretty tickled because I like to consider myself an Out-Of-The-Box librarian, doing things quite differently from the norm.
Well, back to work for now. I have 9 things to do today... umpteen Rats in my Rats bin that require killing, a few missing books to find, and other, less amusing things. Of it all, only one thing looks fun. Ah, errata....
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January 01, 2008
Ravelry n Flickr
Humf... Back in November I got my Ravelry invite... which encouraged me to open a Flickr account... which has created a lot of duplication of uploading and stuff of pics n things. I am exploring how to figure out how to mash the things together into one... Flickr has the ability to post pics to your blog, except that we dont have the appropriate files and settings on our MT server at work. And I dont have access to said server. And IT really doesnt have time to mess with it, either. So I guess for now I'll keep the duplicating up, and try (again) to be more verbose with my Blah Blah Blah here.
In the mean time - here's important links to my Ravelry and Flickr stuffs. : )
Ravelry - http://www.ravelry.com/projects/jezmynne
Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jezmynne/
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