Jan 31 2003
1/5 +
I decided there absolutely had to be an entry today, if only so I can say that more than 1/5 of the days in January had entries. That hasn’t happened since the first month I started this site. See, I’m actually working on my resolutions (ok, so I haven’t reached the “much” in resolution #1 - let’s not nit-pick just yet)!
This week has been something of a long one. Husband has been out of town since Monday morning, the longest stretch of time we’ve been apart since our wedding. Funny how the sounds of four cats tearing through the house and making the typical cat-type noises take on very different - rather ominous - tones when I know I’m the only one home at night. Glad he comes back this evening, I miss him.
I did manage to get my application to Drexel’s Online MLS program in the mail this week. Yay, me! The most annoying part of the process was rewriting my resumé which hadn’t been touched in two years. I managed to add information about my current role and strip out the extraneous bits from previous jobs in order to get the whole thing onto two pages, but can I just say how much I HATE MSWord and the resumé templates?? Yuck. I ended up creating my own from scratch. At least it’s done. I need to find better software for this (I need to reinstall teTeX binaries on my Sun workstation, actually. Then I need to relearn how to use it; the syntax, if I recall, is rather ugly, but used properly it’s a powerful tool)
I’ve also been trying to upgrade my Mac this week. Actually, I think I might have started the process last weekend - it’s not going overly well. I have a lovely blue&white G3 that I bought back in ‘99 when I thought that certainly 6G of hard drive space would be enough. Hah! Little did I know. The real object I lust after is the new 17-inch powerbook, but since the cost for that is roughly the same as the cost to have the electric system in our house upgraded or to have the back yard regraded so the water doesn’t run down the slope to pool at our foundation, I’m settling for a new 40G hard drive and an OS upgrade to OS X - Jaguar. Seems that there are slight incompatibilities with new stuff and my ol’ G3 (the details of which I won’t get into)… with luck this weekend’s attempts will fix everything and I’ll once again have a nice working Mac at home.
On a more upbeat note, my order from Despair Inc. arrived yesterday. Two frames to display at work: Burnout and Cluelessness, plus a calendar for Husband and one for myself. I’m amused.
Right. Enough of the boring ramblings. Off to get the house cleaned before Husband arrives!
