Category: Jake

I’m going to be in Sunriver late tonight. We’re completely restructuring our availability database here at the office for our reservation system and we have to change a pile of fields in the database, and rebuild the thing. And I have to rebuild after each of four different steps, and each rebuild takes about 40 minutes.

The office is buying us pizza today, that’s for sure. Blogging back to normal tomorrow after I recover from this mess.

I really wish I could spend more time on this site. I have so many wonderful links to share, but no time to share them. Unfortunately I’ve been pretty busy at the office the last few weeks, as well as at home, so the quantity and quality of my links is pretty low. I have a pile of links flagged to post, just no time to do them. And by the time I get the posted, somebody else will have posted them, and you’ll be asking what I’m smoking.

I just need a few more uninterrupted hours in the day, and life would be good. That, and this nagging fricking cold to go away. And a million dolloars. And some sleep. And while wishing for impossible things how about a pool table so that I can practice so that Simone doesn’t school me like she did today, but that’s another blog post entirely.

It was a bitter cold Halloween night in Central Oregon (though not as cold as last year where it was snowing and icy). My wife volunteered me to take around the nieces and nephews as well as my oldest daughter, so I ran them up and down the street in their little costumes, got them some candy, and then took them home to warm them back up.

A couple things I plan on doing next year:

1. I plan on carving out a pumpkin and filling it with concrete so that natural selection will take care of those jackass kids that run around the neighborhood smashing in pumpkins.

2. I plan on buy more really crappy canned vegetables. Why, you ask? Last night, we ran out of candy fairly early giving them to all the little ones in our neighborhood. When we ran out, we turned out the lights outside which most people know as the universal “This house is out of candy, go bug somebody else” sign. We did have any little kids show up, because most of them that were out and about were being escorted by their parents, and their parents know better. Just the same, we had a bunch of older kids (13+) that showed up after 8:00 or so that wanted candy. I politely told them that the light was off, that means we don’t have any candy, now go the hell away you prepubescent mooch. Sorry, but if you’re a teenager, you shouldn’t be out trick or treating, period.

About 9:30, somebody knocks on the door very loudly, making so much noise that they woke my one-year old. I open the door to find two kids that are obviously 15+, one of them taller than me, and neither of them in costume beyond a cheesy plastic mask. I told them that we put away our candy, but I’d go dig some out. I ran back to my pantry, reached way in the back to some canned sliced carrots that have been in there for many years, got the two dust-ridden cans, dropped them in the bags (hopefully crushing some of their charity candy) and shut the door. They were running off before they realized what I’d thrown in their garbage bags, so I doubt they even discover it until they got home.

Yes, that’s me: Jake the Halloween Grinch. I’m nursing a cold, so I was cranky anyway, that just put me over the edge. So next year I’m going to go to the Grocery Outlet here in Bend, buy the cheapest, nastiest, canned veggies I can find, and give them to kids that are much too old for trick or treating. I have no problems with older kids celebrating the holiday, but do it with some friends at a party or something.

Is anybody going to the U. of Oregon football this weekend against Arizona? It’s homecoming, and I’ll be there. If you want to say “Hi”, I’ll probably be hovering around the Emerald/J-School tent at the south-east corner of the stadium during halftime. See you on Saturday!

I haven’t slept more than four hours per night the last week or so, my kids have been sick, we’re short-staffed (and hiring) at work so I’m working my butt off, and there are some personal things that are going on that are keeping me busy and tired. I did want to post something here to test ORBlogs auto-ping, so I figured I’d try this.

I’m way behind on my e-mail, news and RSS reading, and I’ll try to get some content up tomorrow.

I don’t usually follow these types of memes, but this one requires me just hitting Ctrl-B in SharpMT for my answers, as well as some simple copy/pasting, so I figured I’d give it a whirl (in other words, if you want me to post a meme or something along those lines, make it easy for me). I got it from Ken, who got it from Neil who got it from Daisy. The following is 200 statements, and the ones that apply to me are in bold.

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OK, I need this ASAP so if there’s anybody locally who can help me out, that’d be dandy, as I’m on a deadline with this client, despite them screwing with me on their requests.

I misread the specs on a motherboard I ordered for a client’s computer, discovered that I need DDR400, not DDR2400. So I have 2 512 MB Sticks of DDR2 400, would like to trade straight across for DDR of the same capacity.

And if anybody has an adapter that will allow you to use a 20-pin ATX power connector on a 24-pin ATX connector motherboard, please let me know as well.

E-mail me at jake [at] [this site’s domain] dot com. My IM handles are over here, if you want to use those.

If you could ship these overnight, or even drive them to Bend, Oregon (if you’re in the area), that’d be terrific, and you’ll be getting much more valuable RAM out of the deal.

Update on 9/30: No dealers locally would trade, so I had to buy some and RMA the old stuff. Thanks anyway, folks!

Does anybody want WhoFlungDung.net? I own the domain, don’t have time to do anything with it, it expires soon. I’ll sell it for $10, or will give it to somebody who will put it to good use. Just let me know.

I have a friend of mine who’s dealing with a jackass ex-husband who has plenty of money, but won’t pay her a dime of the $4,000+ that she’s owed in back child support. The folks at the State of Oregon offices have been less than helpful because the man is living and working in Arizona. She’s talked to a lawyer, but she says that it’s going nowhere and she can’t afford it.

I’m still digging through the Arizona Child Support Services site to see what information I can dig up, because, from what I understand, even if you go through the local office here they have to deal with the folks in Arizona anyway. A lot of red tape, from what I understand.

So I’m looking for somebody that will fight this on her behalf because she doesn’t have the time, money, or resources to fight with this guy any more and, really, wants him out of her hair (he’s now asking her to just sign it all off). Does anybody know somebody that good that has a good knowledge about this sort of thing? E-mail me privately at jake [at] utterly boring [period] com or use the form on the right-side of the page.