The Freezer

This coming week is the annual “all nighter” job at the company I work for. The job isn’t really an all nighter any more though. It’s more of a long couple of days. I work in the data processing / digital printing department so it’s my job to process the data list, setup the letter forms and manage the printing of the letter. We use 8 HP Laserjet 9000 printers and they’ll be running for about 15-20 hours straight. It raises the temperature of the room by about 5 degrees and leaves a rhythmic noise in your head for a couple days. There will be 3 or 4 people in my area at any given time loading, emptying and tubbing up the printed letters. While it’s a hard couple of days, we always have a good time and with all the layoffs and business failures that are going on now, it makes me more thankful then ever to have a job that I enjoy doing with people that are great to work with.

My wife and I love animals. And our love shows more and more as we keep bringing new animals into our extended family. The latest adoptees are a pair of brother rats named Alphi and Ralphi. They are already twice the size they were when we brought them home and are finally big enough to move into their nice multilevel cage. But not to leave any of the others out, here’s a quick rundown (in no particular order) of what we “currently” have.

2 mini schnauser/jack russel terrier mix male dogs (Squirt and Baxter)
2 jumbo rats (Alphi and Ralphi)
1 veiled chameleon (Ryland)
1 schneiders skink (Konami)
1 albino corn snake (Albi)
1 dumpy tree frog (Avec)
5 firebelly toads
1 pickerel frog
1 american bull frog
1 grays salamander
2 fish tanks with assorted guppies/snails/shrimp
and a yellow canary named Punky.

It’s really not as bad as it looks. We love each of our pets for different reasons.

Alright, this is getting old. Another day at home with this stupid cold/flu/whatever. It must be on the way out now though because I woke up covered in sweat (fever broke) and I can finally take a full breath in without the need to cough up a kidney. I guess it works out well because my company’s annual “all night’er” job is coming up and we HAVE to be there for it. This year will be especially taxing because we’ll be doing two large jobs back to back so it’s a weeks worth of 12+ hour days. Fun times…

Been sick the last few days with a head cold. But it feels like it’s clearing up and I think I’m on the up swing. Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes yesterday! It was a good day even though I wasn’t feeling my best.

Thanks to this awesome plugin, my blog will detect if you’re visiting the site with a mobile browser (PDA/iPhone/whatever) and will format itself to a more lite weight layout. The plugin was SUPER simple to install/use and has it’s own template layout so that the mobile version of the site can be customized as needed.

I finally got my blog moved to a REAL hosting service thanks to my mother and father in-law. They gave me the money as a Christmas gift so no more hosting the site on my home PC. Now I just need to get in the habit of posting the day to day details of what I’m up to. I’ve been making small changes to the layout/design of the site so I figured it was time to post SOMETHING and finally have an entry in the year 2010. One thing I have yet to find is a good WordPress plugin that displays Xbox Live information, so I may try and write one soon.