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stolen from thelittlebeast:

If you woke up and I was in bed with you, what would be your first thought?

post your reply and then copy in your own journal, if you so desire. :)

When it rains, it pours...

So remember that little server compromise I blogged about a few posts ago? Well, whatever compromised the server was downloaded in the automated backups to my workstation at the office and caused a compromise there. The hacker was able to hijack my Administrator account and reassign my Administrator group as a subgroup of another group. Needless to say my Administrator wasn't really an Administrator anymore so now we're doing a reinstall on that machine. The hacker was kind enough to leave all the backups in place, though, so we were able to fish through and see exactly how the server was compromised. Nice of him/her. Such a trooper!

I doubt my and Kathy's galleries will be restored any time soon. I have all the custom Gallery files I need to recreate them so I may just start over from scratch and perhaps this time upload fewer images. Though most likely I may take this opportunity to do the complete redesign I've been contemplating for a while. My site is so damn ugly, but for some reason at the time I really liked the design. It's too heavy and... I don't know... Yuck! I hope the trip was good cause the effects are wearing off now, whatever I took.

Today was busy between snow removal, showing up at the office to find my workstation had kicked the bucket, not being able to get DamnSmallLinux properly seeing the network and Internet on said machine, filming the Selectboard meeting and Public Hearing on tax exemptions, attending the taxpayers meeting and doing the post-production on the earlier filmed meeting. Holy crap! I never did eat dinner. I don't think I will. That makes me sad.

Oops. I forgot to pay rent! It was due today. I'll have to call and apologize profusely tomorrow just before I send it out. I feel shitty. Oh so shitty. So shitty and witty and late! It's a pitty that my rent wasn't paid today.

Tomorrow Ray is coming over and we're going to game. Woohoo! I like games. They make me happy. Indeed.

Be Like Water

You know, I've quoted this a few times, most recently as a comment to an LJ friend. I really like it. It's a great gift of wisdom from Bruce Lee that is my own little personal reminder of balance, and it just so happens it has to do with a very personal spiritual experience, too. So I decided to share it here and it will also replace my antiquated text on my home page.

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend." - Bruce Lee

Ghost of Help Desk Past

I bumped into Jon and Zach at Chase Street Market today while grabbing some much needed lunch. I had a bit of a conversation with Jon. Zach didn't say anything but he had that look on his face like he really wasn't pleased to be in the same building as me. It's actually kinda frustrating because regardless of whatever tension may have existed when we worked together five years ago, I've gotten over it and I feel genuinely sorry it even existed in the first place. The problem is it seems like he has no interest in moving beyond that moment in time five years ago. I suppose I deserve it. I've held some pretty mean grudges in the past and to some degree still do. I guess it really sucks when you get placed on the other side of the fence.

Then again, I didn't really make much effort to speak to him. What can you say when the person you want to speak to is glaring at you like they wish your head would just explode so they could at least have some bright moment in their lunch hour? Oh well. Here's hoping that tension will one day dissipate and we can get to know each other again and have a laugh like we once did.

I'm looking forward to hanging out with Jon next Thursday when I go to Concord for my new CPAP mask. That is,provided he's available to hang out. If not, that's cool. Either way I'll get to hang out with Paul. Which reminds me, I should email him and let him know I have a definite time that I'm coming down.

Ray just left not too long ago. He, Kathy and I played a really long game of Lord of the Rings Risk. It's an interesting game. It has some of the same combat mechanics of the original but otherwise it has a different feel. Apparently you canplay it like traditional Risk but weplayed by the LotR rules. There's all kinds of weirdness with adventure cards and such, but I actually think I enjoy it a little more than the original. Kathy and I are borrowing it to try it again and get a better feel for it. He'll be coming back on Tuesday next week so we can all play Power Grid. He's also looking to get a big game of Twilight Imperium going on. Right now we have three players but if a couple other people are interested in coming up some weekend and joining in, that would be mega nypht.

That's right: I used an old-school slang from the college days. I rock, mofo! And I dare accuse another of living in the past...

Torn Between to OSs

Such a dilemma: do I keep the Mac SE at OS 7.5.3 or do I wipe the hard drive and install m68kLinux? Tough call. I think I may hold out to find another SE first. Now I regret getting rid of my horde of SEs, but at the time I had no use for them.

Another Meme

I swiped this one from dominanefret.

1 YOUR PORN STAR NAME (name of first pet + street you live on):
Fluff Main
2 YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME (name of your favorite snack food + grandfather's first name):
Almond Ernie
3 YOUR FASHION DESIGNER NAME (first word you see on your left + favorite restaurant):
Tambourine EastNorth
4 EXOTIC FOREIGNER ALIAS (favorite spice + last vacation spot):
Mustard Maine
5 SOCIALITE ALIAS (silliest childhood nickname + town where you first partied):
Bumbum Plymouth
6 FLY BOY/GIRL ALIAS (ie J.Lo) (first initial + first 3 letters of your last name):
J.Cad
7 ICON ALIAS (something sweet within sight + any liquid within kitchen):
Baklava Water
8 DETECTIVE ALIAS (favorite baby animal + where you went to high school):
Puppy Nashua
9 BARFLY ALIAS (last snack you ate + your favorite alcoholic drink):
Pie Sambuca
10 SOAP OPERA ALIAS (middle name + street where you first lived):
Alan Caldwell
11 ROCK STAR ALIAS (favorite candy + last name of favorite musician):
Butterscotch Petrucci
12 LOVER ALIAS (favorite baked good + BF/GF Last name):
Fritter Capach
13 GREASE ALIAS (favorite swear word + last word of favorite movie):
Asshat Space