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So far, so good...
Feb. 15th, 2005 12:20 amI downloaded Firefox earlier tonight. My speed is back to where it should be - I no longer have to type a paragraph, wait two minutes for it to show up on the screen, then go back and fix typos, rinse and repeat. It's going to take me a while to get used to tabbing instead of switching windows to get from one session to another, though... but so far, I'm happy. :)
However, I think there still might be something wrong with my computer, as this should never have happened in the first place.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
twiddler is stopping by on Thursday evening to have a look. I'm pretty sure now that IE is the source of the problem, because before I downloaded Firefox, when I opened up a window and tried to log onto LJ, the browser got hijacked by that adult site I was talking about the other night. That didn't happen in Firefox, however. Maybe I need a patch? Though Yahoo was still running slowly even before I tried to open LJ.
I wasn't online Saturday night or yesterday, so I'm finding that I have a lot of catching up to do. Saturday night around 11:30, I got a call fromcuteteenboy asking if I wanted to go have a beer with him, then he'd crash at my place so that we'd both be on time at Finch station to meet kosst_amojan to go to the Toronto Trek Programming Department meeting. So I went downtown and met him at the subway, then we went over to Pegasus. The bartender was going to card him but the bartender who had been working last weekend was in there drinking on his night off and remembered him. (What is it with bartenders? I know several who, on their nights off, go drinking in the place where they work. You'd think they would have had enough of the place.) I think cuteteenboy was disappointed.
A couple of friends from my bowling league were in there - one of them was going to the airport almost immediately after leaving the bar as he was taking off for a Cuban vacation in the morning. (I think he likedcuteteenboy. I didn't have the heart to tell him that he's about 30 years too old for cuteteenboy's tastes, or that cuteteenboy has a bf...)
We actually didn't order a second pitcher at last call and left at a fairly reasonable hour. Problem was,cuteteenboy was feeling hungry (and truth be told, eating sounded like a good idea to me too) but rather than stay downtown, since the bus was coming, I thought it would be a better idea to grab something in my neighbourhood. So we came up here; problem was, McDonald's and Burger King were both closed, Pizza Pizza was just closing (and they wouldn't let us in to grab a slice, despite the fact that they still had customers in there and several slices of pizza sitting in the display cabinet), and nothing else in the imediate area was open. (I miss Fran's. :( ) So we schlepped three blocks east to the Golden Griddle, which was packed. We had to wait almost an hour just to get food. Pancakes are good at 4 in the morning. :) Though in retrospect we should have gone to the GG downtown, since they're used to handling huge crowds from Church Street after the bars let out, and have sufficient waitstaff working.
The next morning, all of the alarms went off at 9. And I mean all. I'd set both alarms on my clock, andcuteteenboy had set his PDA and cell phone to wake us up as well. Who decided that having meetings at 11 in the morning on a Sunday was a good idea? *glares at ozreison*
The meetings went well, though I felt we could have used another half hour for the Programming meeting. (No, Ozy, that does not mean we will be having future meetings at 10:30.) I know we had a full committee meeting scheduled for 1pm, but I do wish that people coming into the room early would take note of the fact that another department (and a rather important one, if I do say so myself) is holding a meeting, and act accordingly rather than chatting with each other at normal volume (or louder).
The committee meeting ended a little earlier than expected, but we didn't actually go for dinner (Swiss Chalet) for a little bit as a bunch of us just stood around in small groups and chatted. Eventually, however, we went for dinner (I had creamy chicken soup, a quarter chicken and fries, and was stuffed - I used to be able to eat that much, plus dessert, and still want more), andkosst_amojan gave me a ride back to the subway afterwards. I was so tired after two consecutive nights of 4 hours of sleep and a full day of meetings that I went to bed at 11:45 (I forced myself to read Saturday's newspaper before going to bed, though, as I hate it when the papers pile up, and I hadn't had my cryptic crossword fix in a couple of days).
Now, take note of that time - 11:45. I was asleep by about 12:05, I think. When I woke up today it was 12:15...
So you'd think that I would have gotten ahead of schedule in my usual routine today, no? No. Went for coffee at Starbuck's (one of the two tills crashed, and they were trying to figure out how to ring the previous guy's purchase into the other one, so they gave me my coffee free today :) ), then came right back home as it was raining. (Rain, in Canada, in February - WTF?) Read the paper, then called Sun Life to find out what was up with the tax form I found when doing my 2003 taxes. The customer service rep I talked to only had access to 13 months' worth of info, so she wrote up my inquiry and sent it to the people who work with the archive system. I should have an answer in a couple of days. She said it sounded like a cash withdrawal, but I can't imagine doing that. The only thing that makes any sense is that it was unvested money that was taken out of my CDS pension after the layoff/outsourcing. It's possible that the date on the form is misleading me - they may have sent me a cheque in April, but if I wasn't expecting it I may not have gotten around to opening it for a few weeks, thinking it wasn't anything important, and so I may not have actually deposited it until May or June. I have to look through the rest of my bank statements and RRSP statements to see if I deposited anything matching the amount on the form.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I still have about $10K in Sun Life funds - the vested money from my CDS pension, no doubt. I didn't know it was there. Apparently they've been sending me statements twice per year. I'll have to check my pile of unopened financial statements. (Yes, I know I'm bad. But unless I've actually done something that needs checking, like changed my investment instructions, I usually just file statements away without looking at them. At least I don't throw them out.)
I managed to get to the computer around 3:30. (Normally, I don't get to the computer until 7, after dinner. So I was ahead of schedule for a while...) I had left about 65 emails unread because I wanted to respond to them but didn't have the patience to deal with my computer having a hissy fit, but made a concerted effort to deal with as many of them as I could (plus the other 75 that came in since Saturday night). I still have about 30 which I've looked at but need to do something about. Many of them are auto-notifications from Workopolis for jobs I'm not actually qualified for (an assumption from the job titles), but I want to check on the site anyway. I didn't get through reading everything until about 9:30, at which time I decided to make dinner and watch QAF. I think this is the fourth time Showcase has shown S4? When the hell is S5 premiering???
Almost 1 AM now, and all this catching up on email, LJ, and TT Message Board stuff means I haven't gotten to TrekBBS yet. And because of my whirlwind of activity on the weekend, I haven't even logged on since Friday. There's going to be about a dozen pages in each of Misc and TNZ to plow through by the time I get there... never mind the other fora that I try to read. I really should go to bed, but after getting 12 hours last night, I'm not tired... :(
Oh, and I have to proof the TT Programming web pages. I knowozreison has already looked at them, but two sets of eyes are a good thing. That's why we have two Co-Heads, after all. :) I suspect I'm not going to get those finished tonight, though. Hopefully I'll be able to get through some of them, though.
On tap for tomorrow: the outstanding four items on my To Do list, some of which are still there from last weekend. I hope I can get those knocked off in short order...
Gakked fromterri_osborne:
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
However, I think there still might be something wrong with my computer, as this should never have happened in the first place.
twiddler is stopping by on Thursday evening to have a look. I'm pretty sure now that IE is the source of the problem, because before I downloaded Firefox, when I opened up a window and tried to log onto LJ, the browser got hijacked by that adult site I was talking about the other night. That didn't happen in Firefox, however. Maybe I need a patch? Though Yahoo was still running slowly even before I tried to open LJ.I wasn't online Saturday night or yesterday, so I'm finding that I have a lot of catching up to do. Saturday night around 11:30, I got a call from
cuteteenboy asking if I wanted to go have a beer with him, then he'd crash at my place so that we'd both be on time at Finch station to meet kosst_amojan to go to the Toronto Trek Programming Department meeting. So I went downtown and met him at the subway, then we went over to Pegasus. The bartender was going to card him but the bartender who had been working last weekend was in there drinking on his night off and remembered him. (What is it with bartenders? I know several who, on their nights off, go drinking in the place where they work. You'd think they would have had enough of the place.) I think cuteteenboy was disappointed.A couple of friends from my bowling league were in there - one of them was going to the airport almost immediately after leaving the bar as he was taking off for a Cuban vacation in the morning. (I think he liked
cuteteenboy. I didn't have the heart to tell him that he's about 30 years too old for cuteteenboy's tastes, or that cuteteenboy has a bf...)We actually didn't order a second pitcher at last call and left at a fairly reasonable hour. Problem was,
cuteteenboy was feeling hungry (and truth be told, eating sounded like a good idea to me too) but rather than stay downtown, since the bus was coming, I thought it would be a better idea to grab something in my neighbourhood. So we came up here; problem was, McDonald's and Burger King were both closed, Pizza Pizza was just closing (and they wouldn't let us in to grab a slice, despite the fact that they still had customers in there and several slices of pizza sitting in the display cabinet), and nothing else in the imediate area was open. (I miss Fran's. :( ) So we schlepped three blocks east to the Golden Griddle, which was packed. We had to wait almost an hour just to get food. Pancakes are good at 4 in the morning. :) Though in retrospect we should have gone to the GG downtown, since they're used to handling huge crowds from Church Street after the bars let out, and have sufficient waitstaff working.The next morning, all of the alarms went off at 9. And I mean all. I'd set both alarms on my clock, and
cuteteenboy had set his PDA and cell phone to wake us up as well. Who decided that having meetings at 11 in the morning on a Sunday was a good idea? *glares at ozreison*The meetings went well, though I felt we could have used another half hour for the Programming meeting. (No, Ozy, that does not mean we will be having future meetings at 10:30.) I know we had a full committee meeting scheduled for 1pm, but I do wish that people coming into the room early would take note of the fact that another department (and a rather important one, if I do say so myself) is holding a meeting, and act accordingly rather than chatting with each other at normal volume (or louder).
The committee meeting ended a little earlier than expected, but we didn't actually go for dinner (Swiss Chalet) for a little bit as a bunch of us just stood around in small groups and chatted. Eventually, however, we went for dinner (I had creamy chicken soup, a quarter chicken and fries, and was stuffed - I used to be able to eat that much, plus dessert, and still want more), and
kosst_amojan gave me a ride back to the subway afterwards. I was so tired after two consecutive nights of 4 hours of sleep and a full day of meetings that I went to bed at 11:45 (I forced myself to read Saturday's newspaper before going to bed, though, as I hate it when the papers pile up, and I hadn't had my cryptic crossword fix in a couple of days).Now, take note of that time - 11:45. I was asleep by about 12:05, I think. When I woke up today it was 12:15...
So you'd think that I would have gotten ahead of schedule in my usual routine today, no? No. Went for coffee at Starbuck's (one of the two tills crashed, and they were trying to figure out how to ring the previous guy's purchase into the other one, so they gave me my coffee free today :) ), then came right back home as it was raining. (Rain, in Canada, in February - WTF?) Read the paper, then called Sun Life to find out what was up with the tax form I found when doing my 2003 taxes. The customer service rep I talked to only had access to 13 months' worth of info, so she wrote up my inquiry and sent it to the people who work with the archive system. I should have an answer in a couple of days. She said it sounded like a cash withdrawal, but I can't imagine doing that. The only thing that makes any sense is that it was unvested money that was taken out of my CDS pension after the layoff/outsourcing. It's possible that the date on the form is misleading me - they may have sent me a cheque in April, but if I wasn't expecting it I may not have gotten around to opening it for a few weeks, thinking it wasn't anything important, and so I may not have actually deposited it until May or June. I have to look through the rest of my bank statements and RRSP statements to see if I deposited anything matching the amount on the form.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I still have about $10K in Sun Life funds - the vested money from my CDS pension, no doubt. I didn't know it was there. Apparently they've been sending me statements twice per year. I'll have to check my pile of unopened financial statements. (Yes, I know I'm bad. But unless I've actually done something that needs checking, like changed my investment instructions, I usually just file statements away without looking at them. At least I don't throw them out.)
I managed to get to the computer around 3:30. (Normally, I don't get to the computer until 7, after dinner. So I was ahead of schedule for a while...) I had left about 65 emails unread because I wanted to respond to them but didn't have the patience to deal with my computer having a hissy fit, but made a concerted effort to deal with as many of them as I could (plus the other 75 that came in since Saturday night). I still have about 30 which I've looked at but need to do something about. Many of them are auto-notifications from Workopolis for jobs I'm not actually qualified for (an assumption from the job titles), but I want to check on the site anyway. I didn't get through reading everything until about 9:30, at which time I decided to make dinner and watch QAF. I think this is the fourth time Showcase has shown S4? When the hell is S5 premiering???
Almost 1 AM now, and all this catching up on email, LJ, and TT Message Board stuff means I haven't gotten to TrekBBS yet. And because of my whirlwind of activity on the weekend, I haven't even logged on since Friday. There's going to be about a dozen pages in each of Misc and TNZ to plow through by the time I get there... never mind the other fora that I try to read. I really should go to bed, but after getting 12 hours last night, I'm not tired... :(
Oh, and I have to proof the TT Programming web pages. I know
ozreison has already looked at them, but two sets of eyes are a good thing. That's why we have two Co-Heads, after all. :) I suspect I'm not going to get those finished tonight, though. Hopefully I'll be able to get through some of them, though.On tap for tomorrow: the outstanding four items on my To Do list, some of which are still there from last weekend. I hope I can get those knocked off in short order...
Gakked from
terri_osborne:The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | Very High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Low |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Moderate |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Moderate |
| Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very High |
| Level 7 (Violent) | Very High |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Moderate |
| Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) | Moderate |
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
