I finally got my invite for Live Mesh today. I've been pretty excited to try it out, especially now that I have a laptop and a desktop I'd like to keep in sync. Unfortunately, after trying to run the installer, I was greeted with this message:

"Product does not support running under an elevated administrator account or with UAC disabled."

Why!? UAC is SO annoying when working on a development machine. So my choices are to constantly by annoyed by Vista or not use Mesh. So stupid!

This is the first issue post-SP1 that has made me regret going Vista over XP. Hopefully a future release allows non-UAC usage. Turns out there is a valid technical reason and it's fixed with Vista SP1. Hopefully the next Live Mesh release will take advantage of it. Just frustrating.

My first week of self-employment has been too busy. Unfortunately, too much of that time has been personal errands. I've got about 25 hours to make up so far and am still burning the midnight oil for another gig. Tomorrow I'll be spending a good chunk of the afternoon at a nerd conference which may end up putting me further behind. I'm trying to stop thinking of everything in terms of "how much money could i have made working instead of doing this?" (where "this" could be anything from "dr appt" to "taking a nap"), but it's hard to turn that off sometimes.

Today I got a gum graft done to try and stop my implant from failing. My mouth's still achy and I'm cranky that I can't eat the foods I want until the gum heals up. But on the plus side, the implant's not sticking out up front anymore.

Today was an emotional rollercoaster of a day. I gave my notice at work and will soon be dangerously self-employed, doing consulting work for some friends I used to work with. So tired. So happy and excited about what's ahead.

Current Mood: content

Lowes got our new fridge in early and I just happened to have the day off of work, so they delivered it today. Hooray! No more clanking compressor driving me crazy at night. The delivery people were awesome and got everything set up in about 10 minutes. As one of them was demonstrating all of the features to me, she tried the in-door water dispenser and it didn't work at all. They futzed around with the shut-off valves under the sink for awhile before telling me I'd have to call a plumber. I swore to them the line was working before and showed them the ice that the previous fridge spit out literally as they were unloading the truck. They were stumped.

After heading back apologetically to their truck to leave, I tried it out and the ice maker and the water dispenser were completely dead. Then I noticed the "lock out" button was set to "lock". After turning the lock off, water started gushing out. I facepalmed and brought a cup of water out to the truck where they were finishing up paperwork. After telling the delivery person about the lock out button, she facepalmed as well. So hooray new, working fridge!

I've been with Tammy 12 years today. That's longer than any of her students have been alive. Another couple of years and the time I've spent with her in my life will outweigh the time I haven't. That boggles my mind. The only people I know (that I still keep in some semblance of contact with) who have been together longer are georgy and Rick. Tam and I often remark on how relatively drama-free our lives are. Hopefully that's a good thing, hopefully it keeps making us happy and content, and hopefully it continues.

We went down to SoFla last weekend to bring my nephew to the RenFest. He ended up going to a last-minute birthday party instead, but we got to hang with my fam for dinner. Tam, Dan, Sean, and I all still hit RenFest. The magic it once held for me is mostly gone and I can't really put a finger on why. I'm sure it's not much different than it was way-back-when, but somehow the whole tourist-trap aspect of it is so much more obvious and grating to me now. It was cool just hanging out with the TamFam for the majority of the weekend.

We finally got upgraded to TFS 2008 at work this week. I created a separate work blog so I don't keep spewing more Microsoft fanboy posts at everyone here.

Met up with jobu138 and zeekster for our semi-annual Wing night tonight. We've decided to do a Rock Band Block Party at some point in the very near future. I need to dust off the drums and get practicing again. Also, 6 master DLC Grateful Dead songs for Rock Band released last night? Well played, sir!

I started listening to the Harry Potter audiobooks back in December. I enjoyed the first 4 immensely, was bored with the 5th until the very end where it squeaked out a somewhat jarring adequate, and am (so far) much happier with the 6th. Rowling doesn't mind playing rough with her characters, which is refreshing.

IT'S OVER!

Dan, you're asleep in your room right now, so I'm leaving you this letter. Sorry for secretly blaming your Airport base station and Apple in general for our networking woes whenever Tammy and I visit. Hours of slow, painful, fruitless googling over my cellular connection finally led me to an article. While the content of the article itself was useless, it did contain this image:



And that's when I realized that the letters in your network key were all capitalized.

Current Mood: well-connected

With Australia's wacky timezones, I think it's safe to assume it's Thursday (maybe even Friday) there by now, so Happy (possibly belated) Birthday, Martin! May this year be as full of 6.5 sigma significance as your last.

Tammy and I hit downtown to see Mike Doughty at The Social last night. We decided to try out Urban Flats for dinner, which ended up being so, so yummy. With half an hour to kill before the doors even opened at The Social, we decided to pop into a tattoo parlor so I could finally get my star touched up. When I got it a year ago, it healed horribly, with prominent white streaks all throughout the black portions, radiating out of the center. After what couldn't have been more than 10 minutes of touch up, my wrist was back to beautiful.

Finally, we headed into the Social and stood in the same spot for four hours. Doughty put on an amazing performance. He played a handful of older songs from the Soul Coughing days and a LOT of his solo stuff, including what seemed like most of Haughty Melodic. The show was so much fun and the atmosphere was very laid back. It was like Mike was just some guy several hundred people were friends with (most of them MUCH better friends than me, it seemed too) and he decided to jam at your block party. He was obviously enjoying himself and having a good time bantering with the crowd.

So leg&back achy from standing in one spot for 4 hours. SO OLD.

Current Mood: content

So excited to finally get to see one of my favorite movies on the big screen! The Big Lebowski is playing at The Enzian as part of their "cult movie nights" series.

Current Mood: chipper

Just bought tickets to see Mike Doughty in two weeks. I was surprised when I saw Orlando listed in the tour dates, we usually get passed over by the smaller acts. I'm not complaining, though. I'm tapping my feet, as a matter of fact. :)