{"id":87614386,"date":"2008-11-29T01:02:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T09:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614386"},"modified":"2008-11-29T01:03:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T09:03:14","slug":"29-six-hundredth-post-srsly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614386","title":{"rendered":"28: Six Hundredth Post? Srsly?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my 600th post on this incarnation of this blog.\u00a0 I had another one at Blogger for a while, and I think I have them somewhere, I’ll have to make sure they’re back in my archives.\u00a0 Maybe another 15 posts or so.\u00a0 Elissa is over for our quad-weekly visit and Pimms<\/a>-fest.\u00a0 Booze-amahol is inherent in this post.
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Today my brain kinda went into neutral at work.\u00a0 I got stuff done, honest.\u00a0 I got to order a bunch of something that I would normally have shot down, or suspected isn’t really necessary, which translates to “I’m worried they’ll become toys.”\u00a0 It’s that enough of a sort of purchase that the person at the vendor said “Oh, are these gifts for people at work, like a giveaway?”<\/p>\n

I feel like putting stickers on them when they arrive that say “No having fun with this.”\u00a0 I’m such a grump sometimes.\u00a0 I’m a hardware junkie like the best of them, but sometimes I feel like people want things because it’ll be fun <\/em>to have them.\u00a0 Not because they’re needed for business purposes, but because they’re cool.<\/p>\n

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NOW.\u00a0 LET.\u00a0 ME.\u00a0 SAY.\u00a0 THIS.\u00a0 ABOUT.\u00a0 THAT.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m not saying that’s why these things were being requested, I’m saying that’s often what I<\/em><\/strong> suspect as a first reaction when people ask for things.\u00a0 I find myself saying (to people in my department, not to the end user) “What the heck do they need THAT for?\u00a0 Stocking stuffers?”\u00a0 I wonder if my inner techie Grumpy Old Man thinks people should all use super-serious-looking computers that aren’t in flashy colours, and don’t have well-crafted chrome corners and stuff.<\/p>\n

What else?\u00a0 Today seemed short.\u00a0 I woke up, got the kids dressed, trundled Tate off to Preschool even though he didn’t really think he wanted to go (he’s still on the mend, but happier about life).\u00a0 A very wet ride to work (it’s only 1.5km away, but my clothes were all soaked through), thank goodness I had “riding gear” from my mom by way of MEC<\/a>, so I didn’t have to hang my jeans on the back of a monitor to dry.\u00a0 Ordered things.\u00a0 Met with people.\u00a0 Figure out what next week is going to look like (the big boss is back in the office, so we’re “on” for next week to see if some of the big changes we’re doing are going to be worth it).<\/p>\n

Got home, had (too much) Greek food (hunk of meat with rice and potatoes), cleaned the house a bit while Arwen crashed out for a bit, and then Arwen woke me up from a nap when the kids were heading to bed.\u00a0 Felt kinda puttery, wandering around the house and moving things in a very Arthur Dent (from HitchHiker’s Guide To the Galaxy<\/a>) sort of way.\u00a0 I probably would have seemed just about right with a bathrobe on.<\/p>\n

In online music news, Seeqpod<\/a> is still moderately awesome (but more and more ads are showing up), MixTurtle<\/a> seems to be GONE in a puff of (I can only assume) legal logic, and SoundFlavor<\/a> looks interesting, if a little video-centric for my taste.<\/p>\n

And that’s uh, I guess that’s it.<\/p>\n

Have a great weekend everyone.\u00a0 The kids are going to gramma’s house tomorrow for a sleepover, so Arwen and I are probably to make a champagne flute sculpture and leave it in the middle of the coffee table, because we CAN, and go Christmas present shopping.\u00a0 We spent 10 minutes the other night saying “Cars-moos-shoppeen<\/em>” and giggling, which either means we’re looking forward to shopping, or we’re going to Freak Out and buy something Other than a Nintendo Wii.<\/p>\n

So wish us luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my 600th post on this incarnation of this blog.\u00a0 I had another one at Blogger for a while, and I think I have them somewhere, I’ll have to make sure they’re back in my archives.\u00a0 Maybe another 15 posts or so.\u00a0 Elissa is over for our quad-weekly visit and Pimms-fest.\u00a0 Booze-amahol is inherent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,2,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumpy-old-man","category-hardware","category-people","category-randomness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87614388,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614386\/revisions\/87614388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}