I was supposed to do this regularly?

Who ever said that?

Oh..... me?

ok, well, things have not been condusive to reliable posting.

In the last month, work has been difficult just becuase of workload demands. It's tough to be at home and pay attention to anything when your mind is still at work. :(

My laptop at work died. I'm currently writing this from the one I just recieved yesterday at the office.

I simply haven't felt like making the effort.



OK... News to report:
I got a promotion at work. Congratulations to me, I now make less money per hour. YAY! I hope that gets better, but so far, more extra hours than extra money ;) Either way, it's a good thing. My official title is "Manager of Delivery Service". Personally, I think it should be something like "Manager of Service & Delivery" which makes more sense to me... but whatever, I've found myself after these years being in charge again of someone other than myself. Let's hope I don't screw it up or get burned out too quickly eh?

We're car hunting for April. We need a new car for April, and as a request during my promotion, my boss is fronting the money for April to get a car. Nothing fancy, 4 wheels and a seat is all, but something that she can get out of the house with and even take all the kids with if need be. The hunt goes on. We tried to drive out to Albany this morning, but we made the mistake of taking all back roads. After one stop for Ethan to be sick, and two more for Kellen, we decided it wasn't fated to be. Other cars call, we'll see if we answer. ;)

Tomorrow's Mother's Day. I always feel like I fail on this day. Nothing ever feels like enough whether it's a card or flowers, or dinner or whatever. That's just me though, I get wierd like that. It's all so "done" that I feel like I'm not doing anything special, but I also feel like I can't just do nothing cus that's not really very cool either. "Rock. Hard-Place. Hi, my name is Jared. Why are you so close right now?"

Beyond that, like I said, I have a laptop again. I'm using it now. Yay. It's not a bad little machine once I disabled all the crap that loads automagically each time it boots. A computer should not take 15 minutes to boot when it's brand new. It just seems wrong, don't you? Like I said, not a bad little machine, but Lenovo commits a few sins with their new systems. First, like all of them, they bundle Norton. This would be unforgivable, but everyone does it, so it's just simply stupid. In addition to this though, they bundled all sorts of Corel software. Not that corel software is necessarily bad, but when you install it, it loads all sorts of programs that run in memory just waiting with controlled anticipation for you do do something with them. Great, right? No. Since I will use Corel rarely, it just makes the computer slower. Bye Corel. And now the end. Laptops these days all seem to come with handy utilities to help you when you run into a problem. Specially branded help programs, that you need a manual just to use, and pretty little graphics that display on the screen every time you use a special function just to let you know you've done it. All very nice and pretty. Each one taking up it's own space inside the system's memory. I went from having 17 different notification and status icons in my taskbar to 5. The system is much happier with me and me with it. YAY!

OK, enough computer time. I'm going outside now. Have a good day.