Well I need to wait a few days and Rich will confirm my start with the Dome. I also need to contact a few other people to get some work done for them. Life is fun isn’t it?

Where are you chicken where are you?

So there are social rules which govern bathroom interaction for men. Never look at another dude, never turn to talk to another dude while using the urinal, generally don’t talk to anyone!

So there is usually urinals at one of two heights, the smaller men, older boys and then those over 3 feet in height. What amazes me if why the figgin short people insist on using something they need to stand on tippy toes for when the one designed for their comfort is empty. Then us taller folks need to practically aim for our shoes to use the smaller ones?

You have no idea how much this frustrates me and I had this happen to me today. Some short dude was using the big boy potty while I had to use the one designed for my 2 year old! I would say grow up to them but then where would that get is when the little folks get pissed?

It is hard to believe that this day 2001 the unthinkable happened. I remember the morning it happened, I was working to New Horizons. Ed came over for us to go to work together and the TV in the sitting room was showing the footage of the plane flying into the tower. The rest of the day was spent in a sense of complete and utter disbelief.

What a tragic loss of life to prove someones point. We are still looking for someone to blame, we are still looking for someone to hold accountable. No one act of justice will account for the tragic loss of life.

This week has been rough, the vendor we have doing our SQL training has been fraught with problems and is driving me nuts. I am hoping this calms down. I am feeling a little under the weather, think I am still trying to recover from the mad hours Monday into Tuesday. It is also over cast here.  Is nice as my sunburn is not being fried! 🙂 You know I cannot win and never seem to be happy with the weather 🙂

Well here I am trying to build 4 systems so we can have a class that our vendor fudged by not checking their disks. So how does this sound folks? And the answer is – what a disappointment that I am doing this. So go back to bed and be safe. DW and I spoke for a bit and she is not happy I am here, but this is tonight only.

Well the Summit was 2 days ago and I am still somewhat tender! There is something to be said about being beaten by a bunch of kids! OWW!

Need to get some pain killers. Other than that life is good!

She has cut her first tooth at 7 months! YEAY!  Will she sleep again and be less narky? Perhaps that is more a permanent female disposition?

The Knights of Freedom Summit 2008 was held at the Canyon Rim Park in Salt Lake. I had the pleasure this year of being Sir Glais, the Royal Knight. Which effectively meant I had a nice trusted job in the kingdom. Sir Richard found favor with the Queen was promoted to King Richard.

Sir Palinor our villain, the Queen’s evil step brother had repented and has become the Master at Arms. The Kingdom has had a good year of peace and prosperity. This is where our story took up. A sinister new foe has emerged and started to threaten the kingdom. The food for the poor has been stolen, the Royal treasury has been robbed, and the Royal Shield stolen, the Knights Camps robbed, the Royal Court trashed and finally the Queen was kidnapped. In essence a lot happened over two days! In the stead of each of these crimes a green hand print was always left.

As Sir Glais the Royal Knight I was charged with finding those responsible.  However as the alter ego of the Royal Knight I was the Green Knight, villain. Yes I looked very hard for the villain, amazingly enough in the absence of  full length mirror I never saw him!

The two days were great! The last day I got to change to my green costume and don my mask and assemble my army of villains. There must have been about 40+ this year. It was super. Two guys who are very into the whole re-enactment field were there in costume. They looked awesome! We lined up in front of the army of goodness. I attempted to assault the King and the  Royal Squire saved him, so I ripped off my mask and charged back to my army to have them charge the field!

My brave army held for 3 waves, then we retreated in fine Italian style into the gully behind us. The goody army followed us and rescued the Queen and killed mu Wizard! The cheek!! I rallied my men and we charged out of the gully! We charged onto the field and drove the goody army back. Then my men started to die, leaving me surrounded by 104 kids with swords and a desire for blood.

The good King Richard needed to come and save me! How sad the villain needs to be saved by the good king! The goody army then formed circle around me and they sent in their champion. They cheered him on, ‘Max, Max’ so I helped in my evil taunting voice, “Max, Max, Max’!. An epic battle then took place and I was beaten and surrendered!

What a great 2 days! I am sun burnt, and bruised. Took pain killers yesterday to sleep. Feel better today and want more fun!!

Yes this line has been over used, abused and sodomized since it first was heard in movies theaters everywhere. And in order to make life better and sound somewhat witty, I am abusing it now myself. My little friend is a Danby mini fridge. He / She / It is awesome. Dan(by) looks like this (see above), but black.

So I came to work by bus, and I had breakfast from my fridge. I have just had lunch from my fridge and I will get the bus home. I am sorry to report but we should have done this a long friggin time ago folks. There is nothing more opulent that this in living in a cube. All I need is a microwave, and mine is in the other side of the building for my team to use. Folks I am living large here. A geek and his fridge, maybe this could be a TV show? They have one man and his dog, and yes admittedly the dog does something useful. In the land of the geek the man with his own fridge and microwave is an admin.

I came to work last night and got my fridge ready, so when I can in Dan was ready to be useful. My food was chilled, my drinks were cold and I was happy. Now when the weather changes my mood might too, but I am the man with the fridge!

I charged my blue tooth headset, my ipod and I was ready to rock this morning folks. I woke up feeling like a bad night at the Roxbury. I was off balance, however my heavy reliance on technology and my need to feel self important and my fridge now has me where I need to be. What I now know is my fridge needs a block of edam, cheddar, my branston pickled chutney, some colemans mustard and some cidona to be the keeper of universal calm!

Although I have to admit it is doing pretty damned good right now!