Category: daily tedium

I’m at home. Why? I’m the monkey from Outbreak. I’m extremely contagious with conjunctivitis. You got it. I have the dreaded Pink Eye. On top of my itchy painful eyes, I have a sinus infection! My doctor said not to go back to work until it’s cleared up, which means I could be here the rest of the week, on the couch, over a modem, small gooky tears rolling down my face as I stumble along trying to do work without all my normal tools.

294 – A crappy weekend, what with being sick and all. I’m back at work, and although I feel better, I’m still really tired. So, what do I do as soon as I get back to work? I start a fight. It’s my job. It’s what I do.

I’m gonna go pretend to take some sort of caffeinated substance, and pretend to be awake.

I love having a title that doesn’t relate at all to the content of the post that follows. I’m home sick now after actually attempting to make it through the morning and having my boss come over and tell me I looked like hell and to just go home. I was planning on working on a redesign of this site, but hey, I feel as bad as I look. Maybe later tonight if I wake up and the rocks are removed from my head.

Oh, and I just passed the 900 post mark… yowza.

295 – Over at A Small Victory, there’s a discussion of the best cover songs out there. I came up with a pretty good list that I posted to the comments, but the list is SO good, I wanted to share it here too.

• These Memories Can’t Wait – Living Colour cover of Talking Heads

• The James Bond Theme – Skatalites cover of everyone.

• James Bond Theme – Art of Noise… ditto

• Not really a cover, but Bela Fleck and the Flecktones’ version of The Star Spangled Banner gives me goosebumps every time I hear. They also do a great version of The Beatles’ My Michelle.

• I Will Survive – Cake cover of You Know Who

• Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley cover of Leonard Cohen (John Cale’s is good too – it’s the one they used in Shrek)

• Stand By Your Man – Lyle Lovett’s cover (on The Crying Game soundtrack)

• Don’t Fence Me In – David Byrne’s cover (the only good thing to come out of The Bachelor – the film, not the show)

• Take Me To The River – Talking Head’s cover

• Wang Dang Doodle – Koko Taylor’s version (not really a cover cuz EVERY blues singer does this song)

• Light My Fire – Massive Attack’s cover of Jose (you know who)

• Crosstown Traffic – Living Colour’s cover of Jimi Hendrix

In other exciting family news, my little sister has won yet another award!! She is now easily the most famous of the Lawvers. I have some catching up to do. As the oldest, I feel it is my place to be more famous than the rest of them. Ok, not really, but that sounds really catty, doesn’t it?

My cold is still messing with me. It’s decided that waking me up choking on throat and nose goblins at the crack of dawn, then subjecting me to chills and a rampaging headache until at least 10:30am. For the rest of the day, it’s sore throat, stuffy head and dulled senses until I collapse again at night. Work isn’t helping. This huge thing I still can’t tell you about is about to be something I can actually show you, on top of lots of new projects and other craziness (can you say \$100 billion loss… I can’t. It makes me cry), I’ve been working way too long every day. In before 8:30, home after 7. It’s a wonderful life, I tell you.

296.5 – I finally got a new belt last night and not a moment too soon. I was on the last hole and my pants were hanging precariously from my hips. I went ahead and got two the next two sizes down to save the hassle of going out again in six months to get a new one (the power of positive thinking, eh?).

I’m still in training, but I missed so much yesterday with work interruptions that I’m a little behind. This morning has been no better. What a scheduling mess. A big project in QA, another big one going into QA on Friday and a new Giganto Project in the requirements phase, all with due dates this week. Oh, and I have a cold. Yes!! The perfect week.

I actually sat down and watched the second half of Joe Millionaire last night. Ok, I get it. It’s horribly mean-spirited and “poor” Evan has to keep this deep dark secret. Watching the girls get all catty, and ruining Zora’s date was pretty funny. But, when you get down to it, it’s capitalizing on their greed and Evan’s willingness to play the bait in this awful farce. When you think about it, it’s pretty despicable even though it makes for great TV. I don’t think I’ll watch it next week.

I need a new belt!! Yes, I’ve said it already, but today I realized I can’t suck in my gut or my pants will fall down with my current belt hiked all the way to its last hole. Yep, Mr. Me, I’m doin’ pretty good.

I’m taking a Java class this week, which is a little weird since I already built this huge thing in Java without ever having touched it before and NOW I’m taking the class. But, while I was building this thing, there were lots of times I went, “Hey, what the?!” and got really frustrated because I couldn’t figure out why something worked one way and not another. I didn’t have the time to figure it out because I had to move on to the next problem. In the first three hours of class today, a lot of those frustrations melted away. Yeah, Java’s still a little too strict for me, and packages are still a pain, but at least I understand what they are now.

I’m in training aaaa-aaaaall day and then have a meeting that will keep me here past dark. So, you probably won’t hear a lot from me today unless l get inspired during lunch. Go read something else and then come back and tell me about it.

299.5 – YES!! Under 300!! Yeah, I know it’s cutting it close and with my first glass of water, I was back over 300… but it still counts. I’ve discovered the trick to this whole weighing myself thing. Only do it once a day at the point when I’ll probably be the lightest: in the morning first thing after waking up (and of course, taking a leak, because water’s really heavy). 20+ pounds down, 99.5 to go.

In non-fat news, we watched The Mothman Prophecies the other night. I wasn’t expecting much, but Jen and I were both awake and in the mood for a scary movie. It was a lot better than I expected it to be. It was very creepy, and did a great job of setting the mood. It was a little over-stylized, especially in the cut scenes. But, Jen screamed once which is a vote of confidence in a movie. If Jen screams, it is good. It’s better if Jen screams and then jumps into my arms for comfort… that’s a GREAT movie. A scream and a giggle, that’s a good movie. No screams and she falls asleep? That’s a horrible movie. Can you tell we’ve been married almost five years?

301.0 – Yup, that’s a pound and a half yesterday. At this rate, I’ll be at 299 tomorrow or Saturday!!! And, in case you’re already tired of this weight loss saga, get used to it. You’re gonna hear about it pretty much every day until I’m down to 220 (gunning for 200, but 220 would be my lowest “adult” weight when I was riding a bike every day and eating tomato soup two out of three meals a day).

Craptastic says it all. Never take hypertension medicine without eating. Never take a diuretic without eating. I felt like crap all day: swimmy head, jitters, stomach ache; and I just kept going. I got things done and didn’t bitch about it. I even went bowling. I bowled like crap, but I bowled.

My head still hurts and I’m pissed off. Why? I’m not really sure. It’s a lot of things. Work is vexing. Home is good. I now have to be in training next week on my anniversary. Ok, that’s enough. I’m done. Good night. See you tomorrow.