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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

My Internet presence is going away

Soon, as in April 30th, my company is going to shut off my ability to use any form of third party emailing. That means Gmail, Yahoo, whatever, gone. Going to work will be like being in a black hole where the only way I can talk to anyone is via txt message or by using my phone for email and IM. This is all being done in the name of "security", though what precisely we're being secured against I am not sure. The argument made by our corporate overlords is that third party mail systems invite viruses, trojans, worms, and whatnot into our workplace. This is nonsense.

Yes, if people are stupid enough to open unsafe attachments at work via third party mail systems, we will get hit by viruses. However, as our work provided email addresses will still work, most of those stupid people will probably FORWARD THEIR UNSAFE EMAIL TO THEIR GODDAMN WORK MAIL ACCOUNTS. Then, rather than having the added safety of third party email systems, which more often than not have impressive spam, virus, and worm detection and protection systems, they'll be opening those emails directly via Microsoft Office, THE MOST VULNERABLE MAIL SYSTEM KNOWN TO MODERN MAN.

This borders on the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of come from corporate, but there are so many painfully stupid decisions made by the retards upstairs, it's really hard to say this is the most ridiculous. Suffice it to say, it'll be a little more unlikely for me to respond to your emails during normal work hours after April, and I'm goddamn pissed about it.

I Am Legend alternate ending

For those of you who saw I Am Legend and thought everything was brilliant save the last twenty minutes, here is an alternate ending to the movie. I'm not gonna spoil anything save to say that this ending is FAR superior to the original ending as it actually resolves much of the details unresolved by the theatrical release ending and finished what was obviously started earlier in the movie. Amazing.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

The Lunesta trial: Day Two: Epic fail!

Fuck this. I don't want to eat, I'm tired, I have a headache, my post nasal drip is out of control, and I spent at least a couple of hours this morning, awake, rolling around trying unsuccessfully to try to get back to sleep. And this is day two! Imagine the fun I'd have tomorrow as the sleep deprivation starts to kick in. I'm still, technically, getting enough sleep to be considered "fine" by most people's standards. Well, fuck that, fuck this, back on the the hardcore drugs for a while. It's time to call the psychiatrist and say, "I know we normally wait much longer between meetings, but I gots a problem here." And to call my drug company and bitch at them directly until they actually answer my questions. Lots of fun on the phone for me. Whee.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

The Lunesta Trial: Day One

Due to the cost of Seroquel going up by 500% this year, I am forced to look to new options to see if I can't cut back my costs to some vaguely reasonable level. This is my story.

Day One: The old familiar feelings are back. Light sleep, marked by frequent awakenings and long periods of time waiting to fall back asleep; irritating burps; a large increase in my post nasal drip... Yeah, this is looking swell so far. I'm not sure I'll make it a week on this stuff. I'll give it at least another day, but my hopes aren't exactly high that this is going to be a very fun week. This don't work, I talk to my psychiatrist to see if he's got other cheap suggestions. If not, I may just be plain old fucked.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

In honor of Easter

Evil Easter Bunny.

MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!