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Oct. 25th, 2006 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI woke up at six-thirty today from one of those dreams wherein something is making noise at me and no matter how hard I try, I can't make it stop. This morning it was one of the Dell Latitude laptops. It was making a terrible, alarm clock-like noise and wouldn't shut up. I turned the sound down, muted it, shut it down several times (it kept rebooting itself), and had finally resorted to full-force beating on the keyboard (I remember realizing that I had broken the circular piece of glass that the computer had been inexplicably lying on) when I finally woke up to the sound of an angry clock that had been going off for about twenty minutes or so. I must have been tired from the furniture moving last night.
Speaking of which, we got that about half done. Since last night's efforts were slowed by having to clean the porch as well to make room for some of the furniture, I think that with that out of the way, we should be able to finish tonight. Sabrina has taken to sleeping directly in the middle of the now mostly empty living room/dining room area to be as much of an obstruction as cattily possible, which, I suppose, shouldn't be a surprise.
I'm starting to see frost on the ground in the mornings. I still haven't got new tires for the trucklet yet, but I'll have to do that before the snows come. Have to get our old washer and dryer out of the backyard too; I don't want to see them sticking out from under the snow every day. I should look into weather stripping for the windows too; I noticed some drafts while I was working in the dining room.
While chatting with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
posicat yesterday, he told me that he created his own avatar for Second Life. I very much need to get together with him and see how to do it. I'm probably not going to be on there much this week, but I really want my German Shepherd Dog avatar and some long, pretty head-fur. I saw someone at the hot tub who had absolutely fantastic hair, waist long, textured very realistically, and swaying in the breeze and the water. I think that, if he could, my character would have been drooling.
Almost to work again. Since I think I've forgotten to mention in the past, not only is the head of our entire networking and infrastructure group leaving to be head of IT at a startup company, the immediate manager of the help desk that I work in has changed positions to application support to replace our previous application support person who left to become a product trainer for a different division. Our manager wasted no time in making sure that everyone's time off approvals and expenses and stuff were routed up to her supervisor, our VP of IT. She's been a really good person to work for, but she is not a very technically oriented person and I think that, as the desk becomes bigger and we integrate with the company that we acquired earlier this year, we're going to need someone directly in charge of the help desk who has a more technical background. It's not too hard to tell how happy my now-former manager is at leaving her managerial duties behind though; things have been pretty crazy for her with the ongoing integration of our two help desks, not to mention replacement of our entire financial system on a hardware and software level (she was/is in charge of that project), so I can't blame her at all.
I'm behind someone in traffic right now with a ham radio plate! *bounce* I'm so excited about getting my license. The more I read, the more I want to have a rig of my own. Of course, I will need to have a callsign that starts with 'K9' and has an L or two somewhere in it. 'L' is my favorite letter in morse code, for a reason that you may think is odd. When you ride a train, do you notice a particular pattern of sound when the train goes over a seam in the tracks? Di-dah-di-di. Di-dah-di-di. When I'm on the Metra line into or out of Chicago, I often find myself repeating that sound in my head as we run along the rails. I've always loved trains, and that sound is one of the ones that is somehow representative of them for me. It also just happens to be the sound that 'L' makes in code. 'Di-dah-di-di'. I had the silliest grin on my face when I realized it. I'm really getting into learning code. I can feel it all conglomerating in the back of my head as I keep listening to it as it accompanies my typing. I can't wait to get on the bands and start listening to CW.
Vintage terms like CW are another reason I'm fascinated by the hobby. I understand that CW, or Continuous Wave, for morse code dates back to the first radios that didn't produce RF via a controlled spark-gap; instead, they'd finally developed one that would transmit a continuous carrier wave. Morse code was one of the first things sent via that hardware, and because it was a continuous wave, as opposed to the hiccupy spark gap-driven hardware, it came to be known as CW transmission, even though everything is a continuous wave at this point. I so love learning about why things are called what they are; there's a sense of the past being saved, being made tangible and touchable, that appeals to me about it.
Well, I'm at work and must sign off to go inside. 'Till next time!
Speaking of which, we got that about half done. Since last night's efforts were slowed by having to clean the porch as well to make room for some of the furniture, I think that with that out of the way, we should be able to finish tonight. Sabrina has taken to sleeping directly in the middle of the now mostly empty living room/dining room area to be as much of an obstruction as cattily possible, which, I suppose, shouldn't be a surprise.
I'm starting to see frost on the ground in the mornings. I still haven't got new tires for the trucklet yet, but I'll have to do that before the snows come. Have to get our old washer and dryer out of the backyard too; I don't want to see them sticking out from under the snow every day. I should look into weather stripping for the windows too; I noticed some drafts while I was working in the dining room.
While chatting with
posicat yesterday, he told me that he created his own avatar for Second Life. I very much need to get together with him and see how to do it. I'm probably not going to be on there much this week, but I really want my German Shepherd Dog avatar and some long, pretty head-fur. I saw someone at the hot tub who had absolutely fantastic hair, waist long, textured very realistically, and swaying in the breeze and the water. I think that, if he could, my character would have been drooling.Almost to work again. Since I think I've forgotten to mention in the past, not only is the head of our entire networking and infrastructure group leaving to be head of IT at a startup company, the immediate manager of the help desk that I work in has changed positions to application support to replace our previous application support person who left to become a product trainer for a different division. Our manager wasted no time in making sure that everyone's time off approvals and expenses and stuff were routed up to her supervisor, our VP of IT. She's been a really good person to work for, but she is not a very technically oriented person and I think that, as the desk becomes bigger and we integrate with the company that we acquired earlier this year, we're going to need someone directly in charge of the help desk who has a more technical background. It's not too hard to tell how happy my now-former manager is at leaving her managerial duties behind though; things have been pretty crazy for her with the ongoing integration of our two help desks, not to mention replacement of our entire financial system on a hardware and software level (she was/is in charge of that project), so I can't blame her at all.
I'm behind someone in traffic right now with a ham radio plate! *bounce* I'm so excited about getting my license. The more I read, the more I want to have a rig of my own. Of course, I will need to have a callsign that starts with 'K9' and has an L or two somewhere in it. 'L' is my favorite letter in morse code, for a reason that you may think is odd. When you ride a train, do you notice a particular pattern of sound when the train goes over a seam in the tracks? Di-dah-di-di. Di-dah-di-di. When I'm on the Metra line into or out of Chicago, I often find myself repeating that sound in my head as we run along the rails. I've always loved trains, and that sound is one of the ones that is somehow representative of them for me. It also just happens to be the sound that 'L' makes in code. 'Di-dah-di-di'. I had the silliest grin on my face when I realized it. I'm really getting into learning code. I can feel it all conglomerating in the back of my head as I keep listening to it as it accompanies my typing. I can't wait to get on the bands and start listening to CW.
Vintage terms like CW are another reason I'm fascinated by the hobby. I understand that CW, or Continuous Wave, for morse code dates back to the first radios that didn't produce RF via a controlled spark-gap; instead, they'd finally developed one that would transmit a continuous carrier wave. Morse code was one of the first things sent via that hardware, and because it was a continuous wave, as opposed to the hiccupy spark gap-driven hardware, it came to be known as CW transmission, even though everything is a continuous wave at this point. I so love learning about why things are called what they are; there's a sense of the past being saved, being made tangible and touchable, that appeals to me about it.
Well, I'm at work and must sign off to go inside. 'Till next time!
