I have now been kicked out of a second datacenter. Woohoo!

56 Marietta didn't appreciate me kissing Mike in front of the camera, I guess. Beh. Datacenters with Christian morals. Who woulda thought?

CSS makes me want to stab things.

Check this. See if it looks 'off' in your browser. Looks fine in IE to me, but Safari has the right menu's as being too far to the right. I really hate how different browsers have different css implementations.

October in Illinois is my favorite month of the year. I can't really say that I miss Illinois that much - after all, the farm isn't the right place for my pointy toed Nine West's - but I do get pangs of homesickness, especially this time of the year. I remember October on the farm. The chill of the fall would start to set in, and I'd feel it in my bones when the wind somehow managed to penetrate my blue Adidas jacket. I used to sit on the tree swing dragging the toes of my sneakers through the dirt, watching the leaves fight with each other as they floated to the grass. Sometimes I'd drink hot cocoa - the kind that you get in the packet that comes with little marshmallows already included. I'd sit there until I fell asleep, full of ideas on how I was going to get out of there. It's not windy here, and it still stays fairly warm. You can't feel fall creeping up on you. It's just not the same at all. It's strange that I'd miss these things now. It was a lot more simple then. I hated life, but at least it was free of all those big decisions that we had to face once we grew up and left home.

<sektie> ls -dongs
<sektie> is valid.
<jkh> wow, so it does.
<softweyr> sektie: does that list all the alberts on the system?
<jkh> I must alias ls to ls -dongs now
ð ket_ tries ls -dongs
<ket_> ... i have TWO!?
<softweyr> wes@zaphod$ ls -dongs
<softweyr> 8 ./
<softweyr> hahahaha!
<softweyr> it shows a wide-eyed dong!
<reffje> pics pls

Oh, and they gave me 3 shots. I guess I forgot to mention that. 3 freaking shots. As a result, I can't seem to warm up, I'm dehydrated as hell, and I can barely lift my laptop. Those shots hurt like a motherfucker. The first and third ones seemed to take forever to finish, and it still stings. At the time, I nearly broke Mike's fingers I was squeezing so hard. The second shot was shorter, and it took a second for the sting to kick in. It had a lot more of a bite than the first/third ones. I forgot what they were. Mike is driving up here to bring me my meds. I'll update with what my fabulous medication is later. For now, I will sit back with an Adderall and a Percoset. It's interesting how Adderall seems to make my back stop hurting. Any ideas why?

I went to the hospital last night. Further back problems. I have no more sick days this year. I hate my spine. Hate and rage.

2.5 hours later, and I'm finally all caught up at work. Adderall is the shit. Go me.

So it's not really Monday yet. Close enough.

If pill popping was an Olympic Sport, I'd at least get the silver. I just took some Percoset/Flexeril/Tinzadine for my back. Yeah, I'm feeling pretty good now. Wooh-wee.

Mike said he's going to get off IRC. Apparently he can't take the hate people dish out about me. Eh, well, I guess I could see how that could wear on a person. It's not my fault I'm not the typical simpering female. Heaven forbid I have an opinion. It's even worse that I'm so vocal about it, I suppose. I had hoped (and incorrectly judged) that he would be strong enough to be able to take it. This seems to be a reoccuring theme in my boyfriends. Hmm.

There was a lot of drama today, specifically about my website. There's this guy (who shall remain nameless, and I'll get to my reasons for that in a bit) that is a friend of a friend and runs a hosting company. September 11th, night of the party, we were talking and I asked him to set up a second server for me. The price wasn't too bad, and I decided I'd give him a chance, despite my absolute love of Layered Tech. So, lets see. in a little bit it will be October 18th, and I still have no server up. He doesn't answer his phone, he doesn't return my voicemails, he doesn't respond to my messages. This doesn't seem very professional to me. So I told this friend that if his friend didn't set up my server by tonight, I would publicly renounce his company on my website.

I rarely resort to threats, but I was very pissed. I've worked for every major webhosting company in Atlanta, and I am not one to piss off. Hell, most of HR from said webhosting companies still reads my blogs. Interland is still one of my top IP blocks hitting the site. A lot of local people read this site, as well as other sysadmins. In short, you never really want a company completely and utterly trashed by someone reasonably competent, especially if they have a good reason.

This led to a huge fight between myself and my friend. Apparently, although the purpose of this rant was to be completely business related, my friend accused me of making it personal. He then asked me not to do it, saying I was putting him in the middle, etc. Saying that it was going to ruin him as well. It seems to me that by asking me not to write about this as a personal favor to him was what made it personal.

As a result, I've compromised. Enough flames have been doused tonight, no need to start another. I'm still very pissed, and I'm not saying that I won't reveal the entire story plus names later, but for now I've left it anonymous.

YOU DO NOT FUCK OVER TEH FREEBSDGIRL PLZKTNXBYE!

On Fridays, we have "Caption This Picture" at work. Today's picture was so funny, I thought I'd put it up here.