The Screaming Viking

I’m working on the orientation of things on the page still, drop me a line if the 3 columns aren’t semi lined up…ie the right hand column is way below the middle one.  What I know about editing style sheets couldn’t fill a thimbal.

Those god damn Pats wen’t 0 for the season…bastards.  I’m hoping they get their asses handed to them in the playoffs.  The problem is that it’s unlikely they will face a semi decent defensive team.  The colts can beat them but we’ll have to see.  TBH, I’d like to see the Packers take them out in the SuperBowl and see Favre go out on top.  The Bears ended the year with two solid victories.  After those two games I can’t see how they can justify starting anyone other than Orton next season.  I only saw the highlights, but that toss he made to Hester showed he’s got enough of an arm to take shots here and there.

The nerf bars came for the old man’s truck finally.  The god damn shipper wouldn’t send me a freeking tracking number.  I sent him two messages about them and the only email I got was after the fact when he said they arrived.  Horrible communication, but quick shipping.  I should leave him negative feedback.  It takes no time to add in an email address in the box when your filling out the shipping form, then the receipient gets a message and you don’t have to type shit.

 Made a pretty good haul over Xmas, leather coat, jump start station, some clothing, colman camping grill…and several other things.  I got several gift certs for various places as well.  I think I’m going to use them, take the items back…get cash and buy myself a zune.  A few bucks here and there doesn’t get you much, but if you can put it all together it adds up pretty quickly.  Got a pretty nice watch from my folks as well.  Ma told me to go pick out a decent band for it and she’d take care of that as well.  The folks also gave us a “start up” fund for a couple of things after we get a house.  We’ll put it towards furniture I’m sure.  We’re in pretty dire need of a decent couch and matress.  Everything else can come as time and funds allow.

Pretty relaxing out here, I enjoy coming.  Too bad there are no jobs in town or I would have never had to leave (or could move us back).  The only downside is the lack of broadband, but if we live close enough to town we would be able to hook up to that.

Jesus it’s been a long week.  Dunno how I would have handled it if we’d have worked all 5 days.

Moved the computer equipment to a separate breaker last nite, shouldn’t have any more over load problems.   I noticed yesterday that techno was just getting fuggin hammered, my upstream was pegged out.  I didn’t have any transfers going on at all.  I restarted apache and it seemed to fix it for awhile…but then it would go up again.  It was fairly perplexing.  I finally had time to go through my apache logs…apparently Google’s robot was indexing all my pictures….  So yeah, I think I’ve added the robots.txt properly so the bot will not scan the gallery anymore.  Time will tell.

I’m -hoping- to get out of here at 4 today.  Judging by this morning though, I’ll be here till 8….grrrrrr

The holiday visiting is 1/2 over…well more than 1/2 I guess but our first of two weekends worth of family time has been completed! Sara’s side is done and come Friday we get to visit my side. Sara’s group is an interesting mix of personalities. Her dad’s side is more boisterous, while her mother’s side is more reserved. It’s quite a swing to go from one to the other. There were not as many people at her grandmother’s farm as I thought there would be. We were looking at potentially 50 people, but there was only about 30 including kids. I was fairly relieved. I don’t do big crowds very well for very long. It was a good time though.

The little monster seemed fairly happy with her loot, the teenager…well who really knows for sure, something always sucks. It seems like the little one gets pretty lippy when she’s around her sister for more than five min, but this too is easily curtailed with appropriate verbiage.

I found out this weekend that 1/2 the living room is on the same breaker as the bathroom…something that was readily obvious as the women decided to get ready all at the same time. I think it was only a blow drier and a fan that caused the over load but clearly I’m on the ragged edge of what that breaker can hold. Expect a little down time this evening as I try to find another outlet that is not on the same circuit. I’m hoping to get to it tonight, depends how long it takes me to shovel out the living room.

So far I’m liking the way wordpress handles things for the website here. There are some changes that I want to make, I would prefer to have a different looking front page entirely, but that is going to take some doing. Not only will I have to learn how to code, but learning how to use a graphical application to design the backgrounds and so forth is a must.

Been playing a little EQ still. I buried my character in a dungeon to learn how to play again, and I’m happy to say it’s all coming back nicely. I wouldn’t mind doing a raid now and then, or a dungeon crawl…but it really doesn’t seem like anyone is interested in doing that. Everyone wants safe fast XP…and that’s never been why I played the game. From what I can see, there are no dungeons to run around in at the higher level. I sincerely doubt I’ll be raiding much, I just don’t care to put in that much time…but to screw around a little bit it is a fun game.

Well, back to fixing things…someone is going to owe me BIG when he gets off vacation….