Say Anything.

I didn't cry today when I dropped off my brand new kindergartener! Maybe the 2 years of preschool/daycare has built up a tolerance (not really I cried last week at orientation when I left him in the hallway) Of course, he came home without his coat and no one knows where it went. Teach me to spend 30$ on a Tony Hawk hoodie.

Also, Im sending my thoughts and prayers out today for a routine perfect surgery for Lessa!

I just posted this on my Facebook page, but it's too damned funny not to post here, especially with all the 3d modeling enthusiasts among us. Sorry to the people I'm spamming with this!

[video=youtube;iRZ2Sh5-XuM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZ2Sh5-XuM[/video]

This was done by the lead CGI animator of the new Tron movie.

What.

What the fuck

^^ That


Thursday at some point between morning and lunch, my DSL mostly died.
Went from 156KB/sec downloads to 15KB/sec. So more than a 90% drop.
Since I was at work, and went over m'Lady's house Thursday night, no one told me about it until Friday afternoon.

Call Earthlink Friday night after pre-emptively completing all the troubleshooting they'd have me do.
The guy tried to feed me a line of BS about how the modem is "slowly dying."
Uhm, hello, it's a fully electronic device. If it were going to die, it would just die. There's no in between.
So then he refuses to send me a modem or send a technician; he wants to have my connection monitored for 24 hours.

They call back Saturday morning; I miss it because I'm mowing. I call them back.
The next woman tries to get me to do the same steps. Nuh uh. Not doing it
Then she tries to tell me that in order to get a new modem, I need to both
a) pay 40 bucks overnight shipping
b) agree to an additional year contract
Nuh uh. Not doing it. I tell her "I've been a customer for 12 years, I don't expect that to change soon."
She overnights me a modem for free with no contract.

Sunday.
Monday.
Tuesday.
Still running at under 10% capacity for my line.

Tuesday night I call Comcast (ugh) and add their internet to my cable service. I'm up and running in 35 minutes.

Internet's running 25x faster than Earthlink at its best.

I don't mean to be the guy in suspenders and a bow tie that everyone laughs at and throws up on at the party, but this is not true. Capacitors' performance slowly degrades as they age, assuming they don't explode first. And since they're necessary for constructing filters, which in turn are necessary for constructing DSL modems, it's easily within the realm of possibility that that's what was wrong. I'm not saying it absolutely is, of course - I would have no way of knowing that. But electronic devices definitely can, and indeed in many cases are designed to, fail slowly.

Either way, I'm glad you're fixed up now and surfing e-waves on the information superhighway (which is apparently made of some sort of fluid and not actually paved) at rates you had previously only imagined in your wildest dreams! Heroes in a half shell... TURTLE POWER!

Wow. If we had to choose nerd masters now for the inevitable Nerd Domination global event, I got dibs on Gongaa.

Of course it's made of fluid; the internet is a series of tubes.

<3 u grrl



I lol every time I see this.

When I wrote it, I was laughing because of the difference in the colloquial "series" as "an assortment of things", and the literal "series". The internet as a circuit amuses me.

Today has been...I honestly do not know where to start. I can't even start. It has been...that...bad.

I hope you're feeling better today, Roz. Listening to Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Stitt play and sing this song always cheers me up.

And if the song doesn't work, at least you can laugh at Dizzy's chipmunk cheeks.

All better.

I have had days like that lately Roz *hug*

So surgery went well, they pulled my kidney and a ten pound tumor. We are still waiting on pathology to tell me how much/when I will need to do chemo.

I thought that having all my guts moved around and one removed would hurt, but I was wrong, its the part where they slice through every freaking muscle in your abdomen that hurts like a bitch. Moving sucks, breathing sucks, but I have to work on both if I want to get out of here./ I cannot wait to be healed.. *chants*

My brother's bday is saturday, and my other brother's will be the 21st, and dawson will be 12 on the 22nd (same as Eve) Not sure Ill make it out for the weekend, but should be by early next week. Would be nice to eat something more than icechips for a change.

I'm glad you made it through surgery ok, Lessa, and that they we able to remove the tumor. You might want to talk to them about preserving it and integrating it into your physical therapy. A 10lb weight might come in handy. ;-)

How big of an incision did they have to make to remove all that? I hope your pathology report comes back with some good news.

Lol Gongaa, my hubby said he wanted them to put it in a jar and take it home to show off, he said we could name it too since its bigger and more expensive than any of our babies were.

I have not seen the incision yet, but they have my entire belly covered in a bandage. I think its only about 8 to ten inches, from about just below my sternum to my waist, straight down. My cousin has a similar scar from having his spleen removed.

I always think they get to your kidneys from your back, not your front. You know, kidney punches and that story about getting your kidneys harvested seem to tell a different story O_O

Glad everything went ok and you're awake and on the mend! Literally! Take it easy though - you know how surgery like that can be. Oh you feel great after a couple weeks and you move around and then BAM - what the hell, what's with this pain??!!! They only cut into my body and yanked out (see: baby, organ, alien).

Do not post pictures, by the way. /woof!

/hug!

Glad you're OK, good luck on the recovery, and whatever you do, DO NOT WATCH ANYTHING FUNNY. Oh and don't go for a drive in a car with no shocks.

For the last month, we have had 4 people from India in our office for developer/programming training.

Today, 2 black SUVs and 2 black vans from DHS showed up at my office, trying to break into their rental car and looking for them.

Come to find out, last night someone "witnessed" them going into the nearby Target with a "package", then leaving the store without it. They were returning things they couldn't take home with them, as they are going home tomorrow.