Happy New Year

My husband's at home now, working on getting the desktop computers online. He was also going to make my computer "usable." I told him that it's perfectly usable under Windows, I just need him to get me online. He says that's not good enough, though, he wants me to use Linux. That's fine, once I'm online I can install stuff myself. The one thing I don't think I can figure out myself is the audio. It keeps telling me "no volume control element found" or something like that. The Linux community would benefit greatly from packing things out of the box- a system that auto-installs things like Gaim, OpenOffice, CD/DVD player, etc. I'd happily test for such a thing, I think I'm about an average user. Well... I suppose that's debatable. I'm comfortable in Linux, Windows, Mac... Now, I think that Macs dislike me, they've all given me issues except for OS X. I've dabbled in game design, text games, photo-editing (I grew up and got trained in old-school film photography, still trying to translate that to digital imagery) and so on. Speaking of which... I'm still looking forward to the day when I can partake of my hobbies more regularly. But not swimming. No, I've gotten to that point where I'm high enough up the chain of command that I can't swim at my own pool. I still like to swim, but I can't enjoy it at the place that I work, because someone needs me to do something. So instead I'll work on my other hobbies, like cross-stitching (it's been over a year since I picked up a needle), photography (my husband just bought me a new digital camera, it rocks), reading (the last book I read for fun was LotR, which took me like 2 years to get halfway through the second book...). We'll see, right? I have all my cross stitching stuff in a sealed box in the garage, that's where I'd like to start first. I've heard from people in the past week or two (or found them on MySpace) that I haven't seen or heard form in a while, which is really nice. I miss my friends, hope to get back in touch with you in the new year. :) Back with more in a few days probably.

Hello, Internet

The phone guy came and fixed the connection, so then my husband fixed up the DSL modem and such, and now we're online! With the laptop anyway, we're still going to get wireless cards for the two desktop computers because the modem is in the living room and we can't run cable through to the bedroom. I thought for a while about putting the desktop computers in the "office" area, but then decided against it. We're already using the desk as a stand for our new printer (which is super cool and wireless) and we don't have a good monitor except the one that we're using already as a TV. (It'll picture-in-picture the computer and television, which is cool.) Now, that's not to say that I'll be online as much as I used to be before... but at least I'll try to stay logged on so you can leave me messages. :) My email response time may be quicker too! Well, I'm going to poke around the internet for a while, then go shower and get ready for work. TTFN!

MySpace

Oh, I forgot to mention, in another feat of un-paralleled giving in to peer pressure, I've also now created a MySpace. I don't want the people at my new job to know it yet though. As I said on MySpace, I can do this now only because I don't work for the old place anymore. I want to hear no evil and see no evil about my employees!

I quit!

Today is my last day of work at my old job. I turned in my resignation letter a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't been able to get online to share that with you! I'm going to the Red Cross to pick up a video, then teaching a CPR class from 1-6. At the end of class, I'm turning in my keys to my Division Manager, who is co-instructing with me. Then from 6-9:30 I'm packing up my stuff. They already moved me out of the desk because they gave it to someone else (I might tell you more about that later) so I just have to get the boxes to the car. They gave me flimsy and wide boxes though, so I might need help there. I'll park in the alley to make it closer. I haven't told my supervisor at my new job that I quit. I'll tell her in a month or two, for now I need to take advantage of having Mondays and Tuesdays (the days I normally worked at old job) off. Charles and I both had yesterday off, and it was very productive. We cleaned up the house, that was a very good thing, we needed to do that. Christmas was good, we spent Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas Day with his.