Struck again

The computer and printer were trashed again in the same psych ward as last Friday. http://djpayne.blogspot.com/2008/04/crazy-weekend.html

At least this time they did not call me in the middle of the night. I do not know if it was the same patient or not. They got one of the last CRT monitors we had in our area (I wasn't going to give them another flatscreen). The mouse was able to escape damage this time, but that was about it.

Baby Update

Lisa's doctor is talking about inducing her on the 8th. Lisa is doing good, but the doctor is going on vacation when she is due and wanted her to have the baby before he leaves. Lisa is leaning towards that because she is suppose to graduate on the 17th and wanted to walk across the stage. Those of you who plan to visit, the baby will be here soon. We bought a new car for Lisa, but I am not allowed to blog about that....

Blog stats

151 visits in April, up from 138 in March. Only 1 visit from someone using Linux and 0 Macs( down from 4 and 2 in March). 137 visits from the US, 2 from Indonesia, 2 from the United Kingdom, 2 from India, 1 from Argentina, 1 from Malaysia, 1 from Turkey, 1 from Venezuela, 1 from France, and 1 from Canada.

Crazy weekend

I got paged about 12:40 Friday night. I managed to get myself out of bed closer to 1. One of the psych patients had gone on a rampage and destroyed a bunch of equipment. I had to replace the pc, monitor and phone. I also had to get them a loner printer. I ran into some issues and ended up getting home somewhere around 5. I managed to wake up in time for Saturdays game, but the pager started going off about 10. I was able to fend them off for a few hours but eventually had to go in. Pager did not go off last night, which was good because lisa was not feeling good. This morning it started about 8:30 and I think I got three calls already this morning.

Lisa's Bday dinner

Lisa wanted ham and "potatoes out of a box" for her Birthday. So, I cooked a ham in the slowcooker and made her potatoes. The ham was bigger than I though so we have lots of left overs.

Dust Bunnies Anyone?

I was cleaning up old and parts computers in our area, and I came across this. A nice layer of dust throughout... It is common to get a bunch of dust with this model (bad air flow), but this is a little more than normal. I pulled out some useful parts and then sealed the dust inside and put it in our recycle room. When the recycle company comes they probably do not want to open this one.

Laptop reload

I reloaded Windows on my laptop this week. I spent most of Monday morning reimaging and reloading Apps. I think I have about everything I need back on. Yesterday afternoon I realized that I needed one more and loaded it this morning. Yesterday evening I reloaded AOE, but I still need to load hamachi. Digger has yet to make it back as well.

Results from the Baby Name Revote

Benjamin Joseph

  5 (71%)

Benjamin Anthony

  0 (0%)

Jordan Tyler

  2 (28%)

March Blog traffic

It looks like there was a drop in visits to the blog this past month... though in February I did change my profile on the casual collective to include my blog, so there was more than normal visits in February.

Recount

I am vetoing Squeaky Moe and calling for a revote. No, Lisa you cannot name the baby Squeaky Moe just because it won.

Spring in Buffalo

There was a little bit of fresh snow this morning... I still think we are in for atleast one more good snow storm this year.. we will see.

Car Accident

Lisa and I were in a car accident last night. We are ok and the baby is ok. No one was hurt. We were on our way home from dinner with her family about 6:45. We were driving South on Niagara Falls Blvd and was going through a green light at Sheridan. This girl going North on the blvd made a left onto Sheridan right in front of us. There was another vehicle going South that blocked this girl from our view. Lisa did not see her until we hit the car. Thankfully I was able to see her soon enough to start breaking but not soon enough to miss her. When she was explaining what happened to the police, she said that she thought she had a green turn light, but knows she was in error. The bumper and the bracket for the one headlight is all that broke on my truck. Her car is in worse shape. She will not be able to open the rear passenger door and maybe not the front passenger door either. lisa called her doc when we got home and then went to Suburban Hospital to make sure the baby was fine. She wanted to see the turn signal that the girl though she had and there is a no left turn sign there.

Looking like an easy week

This is the kind of week I like... It is the second week in a row that I am not on problems during the day, so most of the problems had are resolved and I just have a handful of requests in my queue. I decided that rather than pull a bunch of request into my queue, I will mostly help other techs this week. I will probably end up pulling some request in my queue, but not too many. They tend to let me do what I want, so I want to see if this will help out everyone this week. Sometimes I like the really busy weeks, but these weeks where I do whatever are good change.

Who

Aren't Camera phones Great?

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I got my current phone a little more than a year ago. I origianly got this model to play around with and understand the remote syncing of outlook Email. Administration were all getting a similar device so they could always have a current calendar, email, and contacts always with them and they tend to come to we with all their problem. I have since decided it was not worth having my outlook account wireless sync if Kaleida was not paying for the phone. I am able to save about $40 a month by not having the internet service on my phone. Now, back from the tangent... I use the camera on the phone a lot. When I see something I want to show Lisa, when I see something I want to blog about a do not have another camera with me, or at work when I really want to get a point across. My team lead thinks it's great when ever there is a photo attached to my emails, and thinks its wonderful that I always have a camera with me. It is a very useful tool sometimes.