Word of the Day

Disencumber.

Please disencumber the funds to allow further expenditures.

I Want a Do-Over

The tip-off should have been my inability to stay awake as my wife was driving us to work this morning. Not even the 2Km bike ride to finish my trip to work woke me up. My brain had the computational ability of canned movie-theater nacho cheese the entire day. The pinacle of the day occured this afternoon as I was working on converting and uploading a breakage charges file into PeopleSquash. I continually got a message telling me there was an error with the date. All involved agreed that the date was correct, and in the right format. After an hour or so of analysis by myself and two others it was determined that the problem was in the student ID number and not the date. After manually adjusting the ID number for each of the charges, I finally got the file to upload. I then posted it with no further problems. I pulled off the posted charges report and noticed a major problem - I posted the charges for last semester (fall 2007). So I quicly uploaded and posted the charges for spring 2008 and proceeded to check the new charges for Fall 2007. They weren't there. So I checked the post for spring 2008. Yep - double charged. In other words I thought I made a mistake, but I was wrong. I had pulled off the wrong post report the first time. Twenty minutes and three phone calls later the second post was reversed and the students were charged the correct amount. Because I am perfect, I'm blaming PeopleSquash, and everyone will believe me.

Annoying TV Shows

I can not decide if The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, or any of the High School Musical crud is the most annoying thing on television. Anyone wish to vote on it? I realize what my parents must have went through when I was young. I also realize that my parents wer a little more strict with the idiot box than my wife or I am. I also realize that the whole concept really is insipid, vapid and a total waste of time. The times of my life when I had no T.V. I was more productive and less irritable. I'd get rid of the silly thing, but if I did, I'd have a hard time watching informative programs such as The Simpsons or South Park.

Forget gas, now you're cooking with a light bulb.

From playing with rats yesterday to using her birthday presents today. Mmmmmm chocolate.

Go Figure

My daughter just had her ninth birthday party at a no kill animal shelter outside of town. She was allowed to pick three animals for her friends and self to interact with and she decided on a bunny rabbit and two rats. Yep rats! I'm so proud.

Stupid Naked Spam

So I cleaned out my spam folder for the first time in over a week today. It seems I have been a naughty and busy boy as one of the spam messages claimed to have "caught me naked" and I could click to see the video. Another claimed to have a video of me doing something stupid. I sure hope it is actually just one video of me doing something stupid while naked. Oh the possibilities...

Some of my Favorite Movies

High Plains Drifter
Casablanca
Rocky (the first one)
Animal House