June 12, 2006
· The car's doing much better now since the repairs. After adding a couple splashes of coolant to top off the reservoir, it made it from Centreville to Richmond and back (two hours each way) with no problems. I don't remember much of the trip, since I was paranoidally (is that a word?) looking at the temerature guage half the time.
· There's a Five Guys opening in the shopping center just across 28. Maybe now I can see what all the fuss is about.
· Just a couple months after praising myself for staying away from the new IHOP up the street I'm now there once a week. I have no willpower.
· As part of the setup for [Client], the boss set up a VPN connection at work. As an added bonus I can now VPN into the office network and do stuff instead of Remote Desktopping in to one of our front-facing servers just to RD into my (back-facing only) desktop machine. It makes things go a lot faster. On the downside, it's really easy to forget you're VPNed in and spend the better part of a day routing all your internet requests through the office. Luckily this was on a Friday night...
· We're starting to hire contractors to take up some of the smaller projects at work. This doesn't lighten my load any, but it does make me less behind than I was.
· As I pointed out to a Slippery Rock student on Friday, it took me almost 18 years to realize that the official name of one of the NFL teams wasn't "The Pittsburgh Fucking Steelers". Well, when that's what you've heard them called all your life...
· Women have it easy. They can "decide" not to turn 30 and everyone just humors them and thinks it's cute. With The Big Three-Oh less than five months away I've realized that if I tried something like that people would look at me like I'd just grown an extra head.
