Good for work, good for home?

A few weeks ago I decided I would benefit from having a dual monitor setup. So I had my manager find me a dual video card. Now to make room on my desk, I had to get rid of the old 17 inch CRT monitor and then get two flat screen monitors.

Now, hearing rummers of an easy way of getting involed in the Payne Fam AOE3 games, I wonder if AOE3 would work over multiple monitors and if so would each monitor need the video memory. The computer at home has two video cards but only only one has the added video memory. Besides that, there is not room on the desk for an additional monitor at home.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone. We are very spread out this year.

There is no snow this year for Christmas in Buffalo.

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Its back

Power just came back on. 62 and a half hours in the dark. Hopefully this is not a teaser taste of power. The smoke detector beeped once when the power came on and the dog went to bed.

You got to do what you got to do sometimes.

No power means no high speed internet. We are able to use the dialup to connect to the hospital. This only works so long as we have power to the laptops. At some point the battery on Dad's laptop died. He needed to connect to the Hospital. We have a car adapter, so it was a matter of getting the laptop charged in the van and have a phone line at the same time.

The Clean up

Trip to the store

Dad and I went to Tops on Friday. There was nothing on the shelves. This photo was taken with my phone. It is the bread isle.

The Sky and Trees are falling

The Sky is Falling Part 2

So much for it not sticking. I guess it is time to find the scrapper and put it in the truck.

The Sky is falling

I have been getting to work early, because they are taking one of the buildings down and we lost some parking until they are done. I have to get there early to get a spot. The building was coming down fast but they are having problems with this last part.

I have been sitting in my truck until it gets closer to the time I should be at work. This morning it was raining, and then I noticed some solid stuff coming down in the rain. It was not much. The ground is too warm for anything to stick, but they are already talking about lake effect.

You can see in this photo some of this solid precipitation that was on the cover of my truck this morning.

Back to Work

Today was my first day back. Everyone seemed glade to have me back. They have gotten a little behind. As I was headed in this morning, someone in administration asked how I was and said they heard I had surgery and was glade to see that I was doing better. I am not sure how they found out. It was kind of a long day but I made it through. I am ready for a nap.

How ironic

When I got out of work today, I went to my truck and it would not start. I thought it was funny. I just paid it off and not it would not start. I sat in the parking lot for an hour and then Dad was able to give me a jump. hopefully there will not be any more issues anytime soon, but I will take it in tomorrow to have it checked out.

Paid in Full!

Isn't that a wonderful statement? Well, I have been working at Children's Hospital this week and I stopped by the credit union to see what is left on my truck. I saw what was left, though hmm... then came back to my office and did a web transfer from my savings to my checking, grabbed my checkbook and payed it off. Only eight months early. So, I now own my truck free and clear.

Excitement at the General

I got to work today and I noticed some smoke from the other side of one of the buildings across from the main building. When I was crossing the street to the main building I saw a bunch of people running across to that area. I decided to just head up to my office... I would be able to see that area from one of the offices up on my floor. When I got in the build I notice there were not many lights on but really did not think twice about that. I got to the elevators and they were out, so I ran up the stairs to the fifth floor. There was no power in my area and the data center was on generator power. I looked out the windows on the one side and there was smoke coming from the power house. The fire trucks started showing up shortly after that. The A building, the tower, was mostly on normal power and the rest of the site was all on generator power. Well, the hospital was now at a code orange status(disaster). I got a page from the code orange command center that they were not able to get the phones working, so I headed down there. Come to find out someone had decided to move the command center to an unused area in the A building, because there was no power in the boardroom, where the command center is suppose to be. They should have stayed in the board room and opened the curtains. Well, I got a couple of phones working for them and they pulled out the emergency cell phones. Because I was there, I became the IST person for this disaster. So, there were Administrators, managers and then me in the command center. I ended up stay there for most of the morning, relaying information. A little before 11 o'clock, the COO came in and briefed us on what the electric company was saying at that point. They were still in the process of seeing what damage there was, and that we were likely not going to be back to full power most of the day. At this point it was decided that I could be pulled out of the command center and head over to Children's Hospital, where I was suppose to help out this afternoon and all next week.

Book Review: Alone Together by Jack Weyland

This was a good book. It was quite the change of pace from the last book I read.

When I read, I put a lot of effort, well a lot of emotion into the book. I loose myself in the book, and I loose track of time. Since I read slow I could loose a lot of time. I put myself in the shoes of the different charactors and in a way share in their pains and their accomplishments. This book was no different. I really got into it. The main charater is very much like me. Parts of it really hit close to home for me. The end was a happy ending. I am glade. I love happy endings.