I'm here now:
https://plus.google.com/117918328194798070197
come find me, I enjoy hearing from all of you but I've gotten far out of the habit of checking/posting to my LJ

  just having the phrase "1st world problem" in your lexicon highlights how ridiculous some problems are ( Read more... )

I was going to make a page to do it on my server, but I realized if i do this as a FB App, other people could benefit from it.
Habit Maker.
Use the same reward mechanisms that many FB games abuse, as exemplified by the study turned game Cow Clicker, to help people create new habits. Read more... )

I'm thinking of this Supernatural Clip.  If you haven't watched the series, Sam's soul was tortured while he was w/o it.  To keep that torture from driving him mad when it is put back in Death erects a barrier in his mind.
Life has been going along fine.  My father passed away, we're still sorting out the stuff.  What gets kept, sold, scanned, etc.
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I need to install something on my managers machine so she can use a utility I just created and have been being asked about a lot.  She was going to be  out of the office for several hours so I asked if I could install while she was gone.  She said I could do it when she got back.  She gets back, I ask, she said it's not going to happen today ( Read more... )

Today after going to our planned stop of Freedom Falls, Pittsville, PA, we stopped at a chocolatier called Divana in Foxburg where they mentioned a nearby Buttermilk Falls. After driving in that general direction till we found a 3G signal we googled it, and then proceeded to follow the craziest landmark based directions I have ever seen. Including
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Break through on phone stuff! but I don't want to share with anyone at work yet because I don't want to get their hopes up, or have them badgering me about when will it be done, which could be 15 minutes, or 15 days.

"omg important issue, needs fixed!"

later i goto their desk to fix it.  "Oh, this is a bad time, I'll come get you" and then often does

It's like it's a far walk or it's a huge inconvenience, but one person here does it All The Time to me.
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For weeks I've been getting flak for an issue which I just figured out is being caused by DB errors that have been in the system for *years*

 Cooking spree done for the day, should provide enough for the week ( Read more... )