Was told yesterday that my last day is actually Wednesday and not Thursday as originally promised. I'm kindof sad about that. As you all know (if you read this crap at all), I really love my job and the company I work for, so taking a day away from me is like shortening my vacation. I'd rather keep the days thanks. That said, I could go in the extra day but won't but whatever.
So Wednesday is going to be a sad and boozy day. Thursday I'll go back to the office and collect my things as well as the things I'm buying from the company. I'm buying my Aeron chair. Look it up, ahh, here, I'm too good to you. We have a bunch of them at work, and they're allowing us to buy them and for the price they're asking, I'll never, ever be able to buy a better chair, so yeah, I'm buying mine. And I'll pick it up on Thursday.
Today is Saturday, so again, if you read this crap at all, you'll understand when I say that I bought Wall-E. Watched it tonight with the kids (not that I bought it for the kids, I love it for myself) and it was excellent. I think its the best of Pixar's movies so far.
I also bought an Airport Extreme Wireless base station today too. Had an old gift card for Future Shop and was going to get it when the office was built, but given that we've been having wireless problems, I thought I'd get it now. I already had/have an Airport Express, and it extends the range of an Airport Extreme base station so it was a logical choice. Funny but I've had wireless for many years and have struggled with the range of the networks. Our house is older and is quite large and is all on one floor. So some of the other wireless routers I've had over the years have had range extenders, the problem with them is that when you use them, the extender becomes a different network. So if the family room has a signal, it might be on a network called steve but when you install an extender, it needs to be it's own network, , so you might call it steve1. Well when you move from room to room, you need to disconnect from steve and connect to steve1. Not acceptable.
Apple's Airport is the only one that allows you to have range extenders (called Airport Express) that just extend the range of your network without them becoming a different network altogether. Email me if you want to full picture. As usual, Apple have really thought this thing through and although it certainly wasn't as easy to set up as promised it sure works well. Airport Express'es have a whole other bunch of really cool features too, look it up if you like. No, do it yourself. Dammit, here! I really do care too much.
Having a few glasses of wine tonight, that's something of an exception for me too. I don't usually drink at home.
My project for when I'm out of work (apart from my office construction project and finding a new job) is to digitize all of our video. We started shooting video before our first son was born, and he's now 7. I've never done anything with all the video, but now it's time. I have a project in mind called my son, from 0 to 5 in 5. A 5 minute video of his first five years. I want to do this for my second son too and he's 5 in February, so I'd better get my thumb out and get busy.
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