somehow my phone managed to convince itself that a full charge was ~58%. thankfully a reboot fixed that but, I mean, what?

also 4.3 is pretty nice. rather surprising that they bothered to release it for my phone at all, let alone so quickly, given that a) the GS3 is old news and b) T-Mobile phones have historically been near the end of the list, ( Read more... )

first I had to change from my Windows "extended desktop" to an "Eyefinity group", which was a bit of mixed bag. creating the group was incredibly simple and worked right off. toggling the option to put the Taskbar on only one screen worked partially: I could shove the Taskbar off to the left as I prefer but the space remained reserved on my other ( Read more... )

I'm beginning to believe that LJ really is obsolete. that makes me sad; I have so many happy memories related to this site.

when you black out the room and it almost helps and then you get up and stagger over to get some pills and have to stifle the whimpering because the sound hurts and your cat's trying to comfort you but her purring makes it worse and oh god it hurts hurts it hurts

I don't like Corona del Mar. I don't like Rite Aid. I don't like McDonald's. I do like Victoria's Secret. I loathe Pitney Bowes.

still not anywhere near full time, but I got a raise (yay!) and am getting sent out solo to sub on an overnight job. no evil daystar on my smoke breaks!

but. solo? I'd never heard of a punchdown tool a month ago, and now they're sending me out to the company we get the vast majority of our contracts from without supervision ( Read more... )

when refilling a Zippo (or equivalent), you will inevitably get lighter fluid on your fingers. the best solution is to set them on fire.

7th and Alameda is an interesting place to be working in the middle of the night. installing a security system. in a 24-hour McDonald's ( Read more... )

so, apparently somehow I'm now a professional datacom installer? go figure.

also: never enter a McDonald's kitchen during working hours. I'm really struggling now because I like the food, such as it is, but oh god the smells.

such an irritating phrase, for legacy reasons.