My fingers are blue
07/27/05 09:13 PM |
General
Man is it cold at work. Now don't get me wrong, I
like cold. But this is milk cooler cold. Last week
they installed an AC unit in the server room and it
was about time. The building is 10 years old, but the
room was originally designated to be the server room.
It should have had some sort of separate cooling
control from the word go. It was actually an
elaborate process because they hooked it up to the
water lines and had to run the condensation purge out
through the roof. So in addition to the guy
installing the thing, they had an electrician and a
roofing guy there during the week for the
installation. Then there was another guy that had to
come out this week and turn it on, which he did
yesterday. Today the temperature gauge said it was 63
degrees in there, while my Garfield thermometer said
it was 52 degrees. In either case, it was nice and
cool in there. I think I'm going to have to stop
wearing shorts and sandals to work (although school
starts soon so I would have anyway).
It's been quite the dramatic change from camping this past weekend. Yes that's right, camping. I actually went camping outside of the safety of my air conditioned house. First, I'd like to state that I had a great time. It was fun to see some of Heather's friends that I haven't seen Mike and Amy's wedding and to meet a few new ones. That said, let discuss the concept of camping in July. I am of the theory that it either requires an air conditioned RV or needs to only occur in Alaska. I can't begin to describe how hot it was this weekend and how little air flows through a tent in a river valley. I have no idea how I managed to fall asleep Saturday night, but oddly enough I slept fairly well after I did. There are some photos of us sweating our butts off in the pictures section.
As we were camping in New Ulm, MN it only seemed natural to tour the Schell's brewery. Some of you may remember that the Schell brewery took over production of Grain Belt when the brewery in the cities closed. I will say this was my first exposure to Schell's beer. Now I don't want to ruin the tour for you, so I'll just say that it isn't as good as either the Leinenkugel's or the Sierra Nevada tours. However, I would have to say that the FireBrick and the Hefeweizen are very good beers. Just a word of caution, they aren't twist offs. Bring your own bottle opener. Or just get one of these http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/756e/
Speaking of geeky things. Last night was the release of the new limited edition CTS (Cardboard Tube Samurai) cel from Penny Arcade. They only made 750 of them and only 500 were available at ThinkGeek. According to the ThinkGeek page, they sold out in less than 2 hours. In an update on the Penny Arcade site, Gabe said that the ThinkGeek people told him they were actually sold out in less than 30 minutes and that at one point they were receiving 30 orders per minute for the cel. I wonder what number mine is.
I should have it on Friday and
will let you know if it looks as good in person
as it does on the site. To be honest, I'd buy
just about anything from these guys. Gabe is an
amazing artist. Here's the link for the cel
and just because everyone should check it out
here is the Penny Arcade site
Well while we're on the topic of all things geek, I may as well mention that it has finally happened. Hedana has finally reached level 60. Yes I'm going to briefly talk about WoW. Actually that's about all the news I have for WoW. I now need to work on gathering gold for epic items and elite mounts and all that fun stuff. And I suppose Hedana's younger siblings could use some attention now. I posted a couple of screenshots in the pictures section, including one of Hedana hitting 60.
Let's see what could I be forgetting? Oh yeah, Rocky. Well as they say, out of sight, out of mind. Rocky got dropped off at the vet this morning to be neutered and declawed. They said he should be out of surgery by about noon so when 2pm hit and I still hadn't heard from the vet's office, I was compelled to call and make sure I hadn't given them a wrong number or something. I was told they had a lot of surgeries today and that Rocky had just gone under the knife and everything was going well so far. But I'm happy to report that everything went well and Rocky is going to be fine. Well at least as well as he was before. I'm hoping that this little snip, will take some of the fight out of him. I guess if nothing else he's been disarmed. But it means that tonight I've had the fun task of cleaning the bathroom since he can't use regular litter for a week. Let me just say that you would be amazed at the places in the bathroom he managed to get litter to. I think I need another can of Clorox Wipes.
Well that's it for now. I'll take some shots of my ThinkGeek purchases and post later this week. And yes there will be some post-op Rocky photos. Oh and speaking of pictures, watch for a revamp of the pictures section coming in the future. I finally got around to exporting and doing a general sort of my iPhoto Library. Hopefully I can figure out a better way to arrange all the albums this will create and still make them a manageable size for those of you on dial-up connections.
Until then go amuse yourself at Penny Arcade...
It's been quite the dramatic change from camping this past weekend. Yes that's right, camping. I actually went camping outside of the safety of my air conditioned house. First, I'd like to state that I had a great time. It was fun to see some of Heather's friends that I haven't seen Mike and Amy's wedding and to meet a few new ones. That said, let discuss the concept of camping in July. I am of the theory that it either requires an air conditioned RV or needs to only occur in Alaska. I can't begin to describe how hot it was this weekend and how little air flows through a tent in a river valley. I have no idea how I managed to fall asleep Saturday night, but oddly enough I slept fairly well after I did. There are some photos of us sweating our butts off in the pictures section.
As we were camping in New Ulm, MN it only seemed natural to tour the Schell's brewery. Some of you may remember that the Schell brewery took over production of Grain Belt when the brewery in the cities closed. I will say this was my first exposure to Schell's beer. Now I don't want to ruin the tour for you, so I'll just say that it isn't as good as either the Leinenkugel's or the Sierra Nevada tours. However, I would have to say that the FireBrick and the Hefeweizen are very good beers. Just a word of caution, they aren't twist offs. Bring your own bottle opener. Or just get one of these http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/756e/
Speaking of geeky things. Last night was the release of the new limited edition CTS (Cardboard Tube Samurai) cel from Penny Arcade. They only made 750 of them and only 500 were available at ThinkGeek. According to the ThinkGeek page, they sold out in less than 2 hours. In an update on the Penny Arcade site, Gabe said that the ThinkGeek people told him they were actually sold out in less than 30 minutes and that at one point they were receiving 30 orders per minute for the cel. I wonder what number mine is.
I should have it on Friday and
will let you know if it looks as good in person
as it does on the site. To be honest, I'd buy
just about anything from these guys. Gabe is an
amazing artist. Here's the link for the cel
and just because everyone should check it out
here is the Penny Arcade site
Well while we're on the topic of all things geek, I may as well mention that it has finally happened. Hedana has finally reached level 60. Yes I'm going to briefly talk about WoW. Actually that's about all the news I have for WoW. I now need to work on gathering gold for epic items and elite mounts and all that fun stuff. And I suppose Hedana's younger siblings could use some attention now. I posted a couple of screenshots in the pictures section, including one of Hedana hitting 60.
Let's see what could I be forgetting? Oh yeah, Rocky. Well as they say, out of sight, out of mind. Rocky got dropped off at the vet this morning to be neutered and declawed. They said he should be out of surgery by about noon so when 2pm hit and I still hadn't heard from the vet's office, I was compelled to call and make sure I hadn't given them a wrong number or something. I was told they had a lot of surgeries today and that Rocky had just gone under the knife and everything was going well so far. But I'm happy to report that everything went well and Rocky is going to be fine. Well at least as well as he was before. I'm hoping that this little snip, will take some of the fight out of him. I guess if nothing else he's been disarmed. But it means that tonight I've had the fun task of cleaning the bathroom since he can't use regular litter for a week. Let me just say that you would be amazed at the places in the bathroom he managed to get litter to. I think I need another can of Clorox Wipes.
Well that's it for now. I'll take some shots of my ThinkGeek purchases and post later this week. And yes there will be some post-op Rocky photos. Oh and speaking of pictures, watch for a revamp of the pictures section coming in the future. I finally got around to exporting and doing a general sort of my iPhoto Library. Hopefully I can figure out a better way to arrange all the albums this will create and still make them a manageable size for those of you on dial-up connections.
Until then go amuse yourself at Penny Arcade...
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