Okay,
first up, check out the fat gut there. How come nobody ever told me I
was such a fat fuck? Maybe I should start binging on
Subway so I can be a skinny fuck like
Jared. This just goes
to show you that I definitely need to work out. This is just
disgusting.
Okay, so I went to SQL Server administration training last week. I
learned lots of stuff, but here’s the primary set of stuff I gained from
going to training:
First, going to training is like being on fucking vacation. Not having
to go in to work, not having to deal with bitchy users all day, not
having to troubleshoot crappy products or fix things I didn’t break
and/or have nothing to do with… it’s brilliance. It’s like a nonstop
party. Maybe I should be paid to go to training all day.
Second, while I absolutely hated school - both high school and college
- I dig the whole technical training gig. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m
learning something I see value in, or maybe it’s that I’m learning
things that I find interesting. Maybe both. The fact of the matter is,
training classes are so vastly better than school I can’t begin to
explain it. They should offer training classes instead of school.
That’d rock.
Third, there’s a hell of a lot of stuff I have no idea about regarding
database administration. There’s a lot of cool stuff out there that
would make my day loads simpler, and I don’t know a damn thing about it.
Going to the class was like this epiphany - all sorts of cool stuff I
can implement that will make things run generally smoother and possibly
shut some of the whiny users up. It just doesn’t get much better than
that.
So, besides training, what’d I do all week?
Well, Jenn and I rented The
Ring and
Rocky
on Friday night. The Ring was pretty good - more a
psychological/image-oriented horror film than a slasher flick - and it
was sorta freaky. Jenn’s sister called us at exactly the wrong moment
in the movie and both of us screamed. I had only seen small clips of
Rocky, and after talking about it with a friend of mine at the hockey
game, I had to rent it to see for myself. How was it? Hmmm… Well, it
won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1976 and I reflected on that for a
while after seeing the movie… where were the standards in 1976? Best
Picture, for crying out loud! Heads up our asses, man, heads up our
asses.
Went to the last two Winter Hawks games
of the regular season on Saturday and Sunday. I’m really glad the
season’s over; I’m not going to go to the playoff games because I’ve
been waiting so long for this season to end - I’m glad to finally have
some free time to do stuff again. I’ll miss my hockey friends, but
hopefully we’ll hang out during the off-season. I gave my friend Jerry
my email address and phone number, maybe we’ll get together and watch
the other four Rocky movies. Who knows?
Bought a couple of CDs in my off-time: Garbage -
beautifulgarbage
and Quarashi -
Jinx.
Both are good in their own right, though I’m sort of listening to them
and hoping on a level that they grow on me a bit more. The Quarashi disc
reminds me of Rage Against the Machine, which is fine, but I like them
better because they’re not so politically-oriented as Rage is. The
Garbage disc… there are a couple of really good ones on there, but for
the most part it feels like they’re trying too hard to “be original” or
some crap and rather than putting out good music they’re focusing on
liberating their artistic creativity. Eh. If you do get that one, check
out the remix program for your computer that comes on the disc. It’s
really cool.
Got a call on the Friday before last from my mom telling me that my
grandfather (mom’s dad) was in the hospital after having another heart
attack. I rushed in to see him laying in the ICU, telling jokes and
flirting with the nurses. He was out a couple of days later. In the
scheme of things, as heart attacks go, it wasn’t that big of a deal. I’m
glad he’s okay; I think he’s pretty well indestructible, and I like it
that way.
Got
the call last night about 4:45p that my GBA SP was waiting for me at the
local GameSpot. Picked that bitch up by 5:30p. Plugged it in, it was
charged and set to go by 9:30p (the first time you charge the battery it
takes a little longer).
I
also went to Toys R Us and bought the Nintendo
e-Reader.
I highlighted it, attached to my GBA, in the picture, so you can see how
it works. It plugs into the cartridge slot for the GBA and has an
optical reader on it. You get cards, sort of like baseball trading
cards, with this ultra-fine “dot code” on the edges that this thing
reads and then lets you play games. It came with Donkey Kong Jr. on a
series of five cards. The reader is the only real expense; the game
cards only cost like $5 a set. SWEET!