Archive of Marcia's Musings June 4-10, 2001
Sunday, June 10, 2001
Better, Thanks!
Thanks to everyone who has written over the past couple of days; I am feeling better . . . somewhat, anyway. My throat isn't as sore as it was but I have progressed into the true head-cold symptoms. Not my idea of a good time but, this whole thing wasn't my idea anyway.
I've watched more movies over the past two days than I've seen in a few months again-- I even pulled out "Forget Paris" from the depths of the VHS collection!! Must be desperate, eh?
Brian's done that Costco run and the grocery store by himself and has settled now in front of the computer to play Mist III.
Hopefully, I'll be back tomorrow in a state that is closer to my reality than I am at the present moment. Thanks for coming by and for bearing with me.
Have a nice day and evening!
Saturday, June 9, 2001Unknown void of time . . .
Friday, June 8, 2001Brief Post
This is going to be just a short post to let you know I'm still alive-- my throat hurts a lot but I'm surviving. I came home from work at around noon; I had to go in because I had a conference call at 8am. From that point forward, however, not much was going on at the office so it was a good day to be sick, if there is such a thing.
Brian and I went out to a nearby almost favorite place for Mexican food tonight and we're about to watch one of his two favorite movies: "Doctor Dolittle" with Rex Harrison (Yes, the REAL movie!). He said that this movie and "Catch-22" were the two movies that he'd really like to get so I got them for him without him knowing about it. Late anniversary surprise, I guess.
Anyway, hopefully tomorrow I'll feel better-- been loading up on vitamins and such all day. Eventually, they'll kick in right?
Have a nice evening!
Thursday, June 7, 2001My Mother, My Self
I don't know why but at one point, during my workday, I had a flash-back about my mother. I saw her doing and saying something that I had said and done. It was a very strange feeling but, I did a flash on my posture and what I was saying and I saw my mother saying it.
I think about her a lot even though she's been gone for almost 15 years. Of my sisters and myself, I see my sister Sue being a lot like her, too but not so much my sister, Karen and I don't know why. We've probably all got some of the characteristics but, sometimes I'll hear myself laugh and look around for my mother. Or, like today, I'll stand a particular way and say and do something and remind myself of my mother.
She was a neat lady so I like that I remind myself of her-- its a Good Thing.
Uh-Oh!!
What is not a Good Thing is what I'm feeling-- in my throat that is-- I've got swollen glands and a sore throat right now. I have no idea how I got this but it is probably not a good way to have a weekend, I'm pretty sure.
Hopefully, the vitamins that I've been downing since I got home from work will help and I'll be over it before the weekend starts tomorrow. Yeah, right, that's when you rest and take care of yourself to get over something-- we all know that I can't do that right now. End-of-quarter month is not a good time to get sick-- definitely NOT a Good Thing.
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I've interrupted myself-- my concentration is that of a pea tonight-- twice or three times making dinner, paying a couple of bills and getting the receipts together for the medical reimbursement stuff during the course of writing this update. Not doing well, I don't believe. So, on that note, I'm off-- you have a nice, healthy evening, okay? Okay!!
Wednesday, June 6, 2001Can You Tell What Time It Is???
Why, its end of quarter time, that's what time it is!! How do you know its end of quarter time? That's right, boys and girls: my computer has started freezing and dying and crashing!!! Big TIME!!!!!! Yeesh!!
Within the first hour of work today, I had three freezes of my system; these are the kind of hard freezes where you have to flip off the battery pack in order to get it to restart!! Then, on top of that, our main repository of contract formats has somehow managed to become full of viruses and voila, we're outta business!!! Oh, yeah, it is definitely end of quarter again!!
Cog In The Wheel
It has apparently been determined by the Powers That Be that I will become the Federal and State Government back-up negotiator. Don't have a clue as to why they've chosen me but hey, gimme those DFARs and watch me get lost!!! I am receiving full assistance and availability on getting trained on it so that's a good thing-- I've actually always hated working with Government folks so I'm not sure that I'm going to be doing a very good job of working within the wheels of those systems but, I'm willing to give anything a try once.
And, no, before you ask: there is no more money associated with it-- Brian asked too but, so far as I know, there isn't. That could still happen-- next month is raise/review time so anything is possible and, if something good happens, believe me, you'll be the second . . . third . . . okay, 213th person to know, okay? Promise!! ;>)
Me "Mowsha"
A woman I work with has a 7-year old boy that has, for some reason, taken a shine to me. If he has to come into the office with her, whatever day of the week it is, he is much more cooperative about going in if he knows I'm going to be there. I think I know what it is: I gave him a game at work one day to play and he mastered it-- really mastered it-- in about 2 minutes for which I praised him. That seems logical, doesn't it? I know his mother well enough to know that she also showers a great deal of attention and praise on both of their kids but, for some reason, I struck up a friendship with Jeffrey as a result of those 3 little words: "Great job, Jeffrey!!"
Anyway, they live in our neighborhood and he's been playing on a baseball team but lately he's been losing interest. Susan (my friend/co-worker) asked if I wanted to attend one of his games and I said I'd go to the game he had tonight. I went to the game on my way home from my bike ride and had blast watching-- Jeffrey hit the ball all the times that I saw him at bat!! He did pretty good in the fielding area, too, as did all of the kids-- they are soooooo little (young and small, I mean)!! When the game was over, he came up to me and said "Mowsha, thanks for coming!! I weally appweciate it." Jeffrey has a problem saying the letter "R" and, for some reason, coming from a 7-year old, it is really cute to hear!! I praised him for playing really well-- he does, too, especially for a 7 year old!!
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I'm on my own for dinner tonight-- Brian's out to SVLUG and I'm gonna be steaming some artichokes!! Nummy!!!!Have a nice evening!
Tuesday, June 5, 2001Planning Again
After seeing Barbara's inspiring pictures about cabins in the woods, I decided that I'd start looking into getting a cabin for us for next year's vacations-- at least one of them. As you know, we usually take a weekend away in February and so, I looked into it but, around here, there's a problem: snow happens in February. Soooo, guess where we aren't going to any cabins in February-- we'll keep it in mind for another weekend trip in the spring perhaps but, definitely this is not going to be happening in February.
So, I tried to think of warmer places to go: Morro Bay? We've been there; Los Angeles? No interest; Catalina Island? Hey, Catalina Island!! So, I'm doing some research on how to get there and when to go, etc. I'm psyched now-- I'm not sure I can wait 8 months but I don't think I've got a lot of choice, either!!
Clue Me In, Please??
I've been trying to figure something out: Why is Timothy McVeigh going to get a stay of execution for something that he's admitted doing because evidence was left out? Evidence that doesn't help his defense should not be enough to stop the carrying out of the sentence, I would think. Besides, if he wants to see "the others" prosecuted for the same crime, then he should give up their names. Why would he care? Its not like they can get even for him "tattling" on them-- he'll be dead!! He can't very well say that he lied to the guys who wrote the book in which he admitted to killing 168 people-- What can he say? Oops, I lied? Is it possible that there would be anyone who would believe that he only said he said that because it sounded "cool" and he thought he'd get more chicks??? (In jail? I don't think so!!)
SOOOOO, if you have any clue why this guy is catching a break, wanna let me in on it? I know that if they don't listen to the appeal he'll be set up as some kinda martyr but it won't take long for people to forget the circumstances of his "appeal" and still remember his name and how many people he killed. The martyrs in this are the ones who died in the explosion because he (and the "conspirators") was an idiot.
While we're at it: does anyone else see Terry Nichols as a whiney little creep? He just seems like he is in constant panic mode and he, so far, has not been sentenced to death. I don't get that-- its like watching a cockroach run for cover when the light has suddenly been turned on in the room!!
What I find truly amazing is that both of these guys were apparently delusional enough to think that they could get away with murder-- literally-- without anyone knowing who they were or catching them or prosecuting them. What did they really think would happen? Perhaps, they were under the impression that we would hand them the keys to Oklahoma City or, worse yet, the directorship of the FBI so that they could run it??
I've been seething for a couple of weeks now. Frankly, I'd rather that he was put in a little room-- let out for fifteen minutes, once a day-- with the pictures of the victims on the wall. Letting those faces surround him for the next forty or fifty years-- My guess is that he's so weak, he'd crack long before he died from old age.
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Four Weeks in a Row!!I've lost consistently for four weeks in a row-- I don't think I've done that well EVER before on this diet-- Yee-haw!!! Its getting a little easier but, I had Brian stock up on veggies tonight on the way home from work. I can have veggies forever before I use up my points-- eventually, I'll lose the hunger pangs!! ;>)
Its going better, really-- I think.
Anyway, I'm outta here-- no plans for the evening except to relax. Have a nice evening!
Monday, June 4, 2001Nerve
Sometimes I am totally amazed at people. I have a "customer" who wants to be a reseller for my company. Now, we have a reseller program so this works. Because of the Robinson-Patman Act, we have requirements on how we are allowed to run this program: things have to be consistent across the board. Either this customer has just fallen off the turnip truck or they think that I have but, in either case, they are wanting things that are out-right ridiculous! They are insisting that we let them do some things that we don't allow:
(1) They don't want to be responsible for their employees knowing the product.I'm responding to this but, admittedly not as quickly as I could: its going to be a lot of hassle, and there's no immediate revenue in it for us so it doesn't make sense to me to push it. I've finally received some much needed input from my director so that'll help give me some ammunition in negotiating their requests. In the meantime, I'm left with thinking: "Excuse me?? Who's reselling whose products???" Yeah, that's what I thought!!
(2) They want to be able to have their resellers resell our product; this constitutes a pyramid scheme.Change of Plans and Too Many Plans
Brian was going to go to a meeting in Palo Alto about computers (Big Surprise, I know) but has changed his mind-- he was up late last night trying to get Windows to work with any of the three computers he has so that he could play a new game. Yeah, I know-- he was up pretty late (12:30am or later) but, I can tell you for a fact that, considering the sounds I'm hearing from the other room, he got it working! He's pretty wiped out tonight so that changed his plans for tonight.
Tomorrow night is Weight Watchers for me-- I'm still struggling with the points adjustment but, its working slowly but surely!! Then Wednesday he's got SVLUG and I'm going to go watch a friend's son play baseball-- cute kid, too. We'll be able to have dinner together long about Thursday night, I think. How do you know you're too busy? When it takes three days to have dinner together!!!
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Well, as it stands, I guess that's about it for me. I'm actually pretty tired, too since I don't sleep as well when he's not in bed with me. That and it was a Monday today, ya know? Yeesh!!
Have a nice evening!
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