So officially i am telling everybody today that the box at serverbeach will go bye bye on March 1. goDaddy looks like the easy alternative for a good price. So i'd say check it out. Otherwise i'll be archiving and making tar's available with everybody's shit in them.
While i say this i notice the woman sitting directly across the aisle at another table perk up. She is obviously listening in, and has become VERY interested in our conversation.
We continue on and eventually get to the subject of Letters from Iwo Jima winning the best "Foreign Film" at the Golden Globes. Something doesn't quite sit well about that with us and we start to discuss if its "REALLY" a foreign film. C'mon its directed by Clint Eastwood! You don't get any hard core American than that. Its an incredible film, but "foreign" we just don't know about.
At this point we have crossed the line, and the woman at the table next to us jumps in and defends the movie. She says it is in fact a Foreign film because its filmed in a foreign country and the primary language is foreign. We don't exactly buy it, but she's got a point. We still think its not really the best fit for the category. And honestly we were rooting for Pan's Labyrinth. So she keeps going and talking about film and Clint Eastwood. She seems to know A LOT about the subject.
A guess at this point Matt notices that shes wearing A LOT of crew gear. Namely an UNFORGIVEN shirt. I missed this completely.
We talk about the box office for awhile and she asks me how Freedom Writers is doing. I knew a lot of box office numbers, so she knows that I've got the information in my head. I tell her i think its still at 4th in the boxoffice with about 7 million. Well i was a little off now that i look back, its in 5th, but still has over 7 million this weekend.
She smiles from ear to ear and says that's the movie that she really cares about and that as long as it doesn't go down everything is good. Then she says that's because she's Hilary's mom. Everything becomes a little clearer now.
We finish up our lunch and say goodbye. At that point we really don't think to much about the validity of the claim that she's Hilary's mom. But sure enough i google "hilary swank's mom" when i get back to the office and there's a little thumbnail on wired images that's undeniably the woman we were talking to at lunch.
Just funny i also checked the category on the hfpa website. Its actually Best Foreign Language Film so she's absolutely right saying that it fits in the category.
The damn thing was done!!! Now all you have is BURNT POPCORN that SMELLS LIKE ASS! AND whatever you do.... DON'T ATTEMPT TO SAVE IT BY DUMPING IT OUT ON PAPER TOWEL AND PICKING THROUGH IT. ITS FUCKIN BURNT, and SMELLS LIKE THE AFOREMENTIONED ASS!!!
I'm not fuckin kidding, but this person did this 10 feet away from my desk. And I honestly had to LEAVE THE FUCKIN BUILDING it smelled so bad.
Ok, so here's what you do if you burn popcorn in an office that has NO WINDOWS FOR VENTILATION!!!! Take the burnt popcorn bad OUTSIDE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE AND DUMP IT IN AN OUTSIDE DUMPSTER!! Cmon you can be a little more courteous. Its been almost an hour now, and it still smells like ass. We're in a BIG office building, and the smell has moved to every corner of the office. We've got clients here.... they're gonna think we're all fuckin idiots that can't use a microwave.
Weekend update.
Everything became "real" this weekend. Friday the guest room was empty and painted and ready to go. Saturday everything changed, including "guest room". We got the full shipment of furniture, so suddenly it is VERY clear that its a nursery, and its COMING SOON! We've got a crib, a changing table, a rocking chair, and a little table and lamp. Its really cute, but its really freaking me out.
Friday night we got home and went out to dinner with my parents. We finally took them to New Moon in montrose. Good night and good food. We brought them back to the house and I was all proud of the compact fluorescent bulbs that i had installed all through my kitchen. I'm saving an assload of electricity by using these bulbs and they look almost exactly the same.
So saturday we ran to an early baby CPR class which turned out to be a train wreck. The instructor was stuck in traffic, and was filled in for by non other than some crazy "church lady" who openly admitted it was her first time teaching this class. Really started off good by giving us the confidence that we'd be learning something. So about 15 minutes in, a stand in teacher shows up to take the church lady's place. This teacher is actually the woman who taught our classes last weekend, so we feel a little more confidence now. So we practice on dummies and do all the song and dance of CPR. The church lady sits in the back of the class and interrupts regularly to insert completely useless personal experience stories. After 10 minutes of talking about nothing important, the stand-in teacher that we like regains control and continues. Then the original teacher shows up and there's a 3 way struggle for power. But the one that's obviously the smartest of the 3 (our old teacher) bails cause she knows she's no longer needed to be there. So then we sit though another hour of pain. The chuch lady throws in a couple more useless stories, and we get out as soon as we can.
We head home and wait for the deliveries. The guest room slowly becomes the nursery. The crib and changing table arrived. I find Jen just standing in the room smiling. I unpack a lamp thats been sitting around for a month, and assemble it. Its a touch lamp, with a surface that you just touch to turn it on and off. (we will come back to this later) We hang out and relax for a couple hours and then head out to dinner with Christ and Christina (and their 4month old Alyssa). When they show up Alyssa is so happy. She's not fussy when she's passed around to other people, but then we get in the car. Well needless to say, we don't think she likes traffic lights.
I drink way too much at dinner and have the opportunity to make a fool of myself way too many times. The great thing is... i don't remember much, and Jen's not mad at me, so i think i made it through ok.
Sunday we got another delivery for the nursery, this time the rocking chair. I find Jen again just standing around the room smiling. I'm having trouble with Jen's computer, and I can't seem to get the network to work properly. The problem started on Saturday. Hmmmm, what's the one thing that changed. Oh, its gotta be the lamp. I unplug it and it doesn't seem to fix anything. I figure it out later that the first time the lamp was unplugged, I had the settings wrong, so I didn't see any change. So after hours of screwing around with the network and I finally unplug the lamp again and everything is back to normal. The ethernet over power can't get a signal while the lamp is plugged in. I figure the switch mechanism is putting out a shitload of noise on the electrical line and is screwing with the network adapters.
Well at least i figured it out. BUT, it makes me think that maybe Will is having the same problem with his network adapters. the old wiring the his building is probably it, but there could be something else plugged in that's putting up too much interference.
anyway, lazy sunday as usual, and then a great episode of BSG.
so finally today I'm standing outside the main conference room of our all staff meeting. Bill always asks a couple trivia questions and gives a prize for one of em. So the big question today was, how much do compact florescent bulbs reduce electrical consumption? I've just spent the last couple weeks replacing EVERY bulb in the house, so I've read a lot of material on the subject. I know everybody doesn't agree on the figure, but for the most part 65% reduction is usually the average reduction in electrical consumption.
NOBODY attempts to answer, so i have to walk inside the conference room to answer. Bill says "correct" and that his figures show 66%, but he's giving it to me.
So i guess I win a 4pack of compact florescent bulbs. heheheh i've got 2 bulbs in the entire house that are NOT compact florescent. anyway...
