My Job Pt. II

This week work picked up at my job. After two plus years of having only two
shifts, we now have three. After months of talk and wait, we got the order that we've been waiting for. 12MM pieces out the door by end of July. That's TWELVE MILLION pieces folks. 120k plus/shift. Minimum. That's 360k plus per day. Roughly 1.5 million every three days

I run a die cutter. I personally have cut 70k sheets in two days. Multiply that by 10. That's 700k pieces. That was a normal TOTAL order three months ago. Now it'll be the norm for two years. The total order is in the tens of millions.

Yeah, my job isn't the greatest in the world. It pays the bills and there are days when I enjoy what I do. There are other days that I dislike my job. Right now, we are all happier than we've been in months if not years.

I'll keep y'all posted on the happenings.

-More to come

I should, I wish, I love

Thanks to Mr. Nighttime for the tag. I don't get many if any vistors to my piece of the 'Net. Maybe my wife and Mr. Nighttime.

Below is my meme. Got me as to what that is.

My ex... Girlfriend, if she could be called that. A messed up, in need of help young woman. I tried and failed.
Maybe I should...Try and find a job that builds on life and not education
I love... My wife, my son, my family. Life.
People would say...I am a good friend, fun to be around.
I don't understand...Why we aren't doing more to fight the abuses of government.
Letting our current leadership run roughshod over our rights bothers me.
When I wake up in the morning...Let me do just that, wake up. Let me have my morning fixes.
I lost...Trust in my government.
Life is full of...Un-expected joy and terrible heart break
My past is something...That reminds me of what I have today.
I get annoyed when...People joke around with me too much.
Parties are...Fun. If the right people are there.
I wish...I could make enough money to move from this area to the Pacific Northwest.
Dogs...Love'em. Not enough room or time to have one.
Cats...Love 'em as well.
Tomorrow...If it comes, it comes. Live for today.
I have a low tolerance for...Abuse of any sort.
If I had a million dollars...Invest some, give some to a worthy cause and spend some.
I'm totally terrified of...Losing everything I have. It may not be much, but with out it...

Connection Issues

What gives. I tried to connect to a local hotspot today. I could not get any further than a local connection. A friend who was there at the same time was able to
access from his laptop. Maybe it was that he had an Apple machine and I have a Dell.
May be some other issue. I may never know.

We tried to figure out what was causing this to no avail. I know I can connect at home, so I doubt highly it's an issue with the WiFi card. May be the HotSpot likes only Apples and their OS and dislikes Windows based units. If that's the case, it should be noted.

Other than that little thing, I have beeen extreamly happy with the laptop.
Jen and I no longer need to "fight" over the need to use the computer.

New Computers Pt. II

Well, yesterday, Monday 02 June '08 was the big day. We bought our new -I'm talking about BRAND NEW- laptops. No second hand desktop. "Two out of the box, wrapped in styro-foam, un-opened CD-Roms, all manuals, cords and all accounted for, SIR," computers.

Dell Inspiron 1525, 2Gig memory, 120Gig hard-drive, WiFi enabled Windows Vista Home Premium.

Had an issue setting up the wireless router. Our 6 year old Dell desk-top did not like being asked by the installation software to check the connection. When it got to that point in the process, the desk-top booted me off the 'Net. Not good. I tried again. Same result. Okay... NOT!! I ended up using thedesktop's now ainciant operating sytem to configure the router. Any normal bi-pedial mamal would think this the end of the problems. NOT SO. Jen connected with out a hitch. I, on the other hand, had problems with this as well. A program that took Jen all of 2minutes (that's 120 seconds people) was going to take me 34 minutes or more. NOT GOOD. I ended up thinking I had a problem with my WiFi. This is not a good. A brand new laptop should not have this type of problem. I asked about it at work. Thankfully my boss knows a good deal about such things. Long story short. He thought it may be a configuration issue. Maybe it was. After I got our son, Andrew from his after care program, he and I went to a local mall that I knew had an area with an "open" network. I logged on and, SLAM. Speeds more like I would expect.

As I stated in part 1 of this Oh the joy. Oh, the pain in the posterior.


-More to come

Shopping for new computers.

Such fun. Such a pain in the posterior. What type? Laptop, tablet, desktop? What brand? Dell? Compaq? HP? Toshiba? The list goes on. How much memory? Hard drive space? Screen size? On this one goes, as well.
Which OS? Windows and which variant? XP, Vista? Apple and, again, which variant?
OS X, Leopard? Linux -and the learning curve that comes along with that one. Which add-ons will we need to buy? Mice, thumb drives, cases, back-packs, batteries.

What ever we do end up getting, and we are pretty much decided on brand/s and OSes and all the stuff that is included on that front, it'll be better than a desktop that was handed down to us by father when he bought a new desktop five years ago.
At that point the handed down comp. was already two or three years old. At least it had XP.

Either way, it means brand new. NO MORE second hand electronics for us.
A few weeks to go and this will all be taken care of. I'll be able to sit in a comfy chair or lounge in bed and post to this blog. Jen'll be able to surf while I chat with friends two time-zones away on AIM. We can go to the local StarBux or other WiFI-enabled local and browse the latest headlines that are of interest. All that and more.

Now for the pain in the posterior part. Making sure that the programs we use the most are either copied to disc for easier movig to the laptop or downloaded to the new computers.
It also means that any shared programs have the appropriate personal files moved to the appropriate computer.

I'll post more on this later. In the mean time, Jen and I get to "shop" via the current POS and get an idea of what's out there, which additional items we'll need to purchase now and which can wait for a bit.

-More to come