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Feeling Better & Mumbling Randomly

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

*blech* I hate being sick. Sure, it’s paid time off from work (121.5 hours of sick time remain­ing) but I’d rather be feel­ing good and tak­ing vaca­tion time. I am mostly over the bug I’d caught, but still feel­ing a bit con­gested. That being the case, I’m skip­ping cof­fee today in favor of hot tea¹. This being Wednes­day, my pref­er­ence for tea caused a bit of confusion.

Let me ‘splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. But­ter­cup is marry’ Humperdinck in a lit­tle less than half an hour. And every Wednes­day, myself and a few co-workers head over to the Ter­rapin to get a cup of real cof­fee². Almost with­out fail, I order a “Grand Canyon” which is 2 shots of espresso, steamed milk, a shot of dark choco­late syrup and a shot of mango syrup. *yum* When I got there today, I picked up their tea menu and Rob (one of the own­ers) ordered me to put it down. I explained about the con­ges­tion and he accepted it, but I wouldn’t say he was happy about it. Then I ordered their Chi­nese Break­fast tea, as the descrip­tion sounded sim­i­lar to the yun­nan jig tea I’ve men­tioned before. Hot caf­feinated bev­er­ages acquired, we headed back to the office and I headed back to the moun­tain of email that had arrived while I’d been out. After clear­ing out that mess (most of it went straight to the trash), I started/continued test­ing a prob­lem I’d been work­ing on Fri­day. I’m still pro­cess­ing the data for that test now, but I’m also start­ing to won­der if I should have stayed home again.

Today, like Sun­day, I woke up feel­ing bet­ter than the day before. The prob­lem is like Sun­day, I didn’t stay home. Sun­day, Ariesna & I were invited to go to Niabi Zoo over in Illi­nois with some of her fam­ily. It was a fun day and I took quite a few pic­tures³ but by the end of the day, I was totally wiped out and real­ized I should have stayed home. Now I’m not wiped out (so far) but I do feel more tired than I should from just sit­ting at a desk, star­ing at a com­puter screen. Ah well, not much I can do about that now.

BTW, last night I upgraded Cath’s site to the cur­rent ver­sion of Word­Press. I was kind of annoyed at how long it took but then most of that time was taken up my crappy ftp client hav­ing prob­lems delet­ing the files for the old ver­sion from the web­server. Mind you I was booted into Win­dows at the time⁴ which undoubtably was part of the prob­lem. But I did even­tu­ally get it done and wouldn’t you know it looks nearly iden­ti­cal to what it did before. I’d call that a good sign for a seam­less upgrade, but I’m wait­ing to hear back from her before I call it a suc­cess. So why the upgrade? In part to patch some old secu­rity holes and in part because all the new/interesting stuff for WP is hap­pen­ing on the newer ver­sions. This way if she feels like going out and pick­ing a dif­fer­ent theme⁵; it should be triv­ial to install it.

Any­way, one of the rea­sons I was annoyed with the amount of time it took was last night also hap­pened to be the sea­son pre­mier for NCIS. I’ve been a fan of this show for a while now, but sea­son 2’s finale was mur­der. Quite lit­er­ally, as they killed off one of the NCIS agents. I was very much look­ing for­ward to see­ing where they’d take the show next, but with upgrad­ing the site and some other things I didn’t get to watch the show as thor­oughly as I would have liked. From what I did see, I’m not sure how enjoy­able sea­son 3 will be. I don’t care for the new char­ac­ters they intro­duced into the NCIS office (Direc­tor Jenny Shep­ard and Agent Ziva David). The romatic back­ground between Gibbs & Shep­ard could be an inter­est­ing sub­plot but they seem to be push­ing it too hard in an episode which should be deal­ing more directly with the remain­ing NCIS agents work­ing to find Kate’s killer. And then to make the episode a 2-parter leav­ing us on another cliff-hanger is dis­tinctly annoy­ing. *sigh* I guess we’ll have to wait and see if they can pull this up with next week’s episode.

¹ Next to chicken noo­dle soup, hot tea works best for clear­ing up con­ges­tion and help­ing me feel bet­ter.
² The first part of this para­graph is a quote from The Princess Bride. And when I say cof­fee, I mean fla­vored espresso.
³ I’ll see about post­ing some of them later. Inci­den­tally, there was a clas­sic car show being held on the zoo’s premises so don’t be sur­prised if you see more car than ani­mals pho­tos.
⁴ I had some work to do that required M$ Word, as OpenOf­fice Writer couldn’t prop­erly edit the fancy for­mat­ing in the doc­u­ment (orig­i­nally cre­ated in M$ Word).
⁵ By per­haps look­ing through the themes in Alex King’s Theme Browser.…

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