fredlet

My Yahoo!: “fred’s Daily Leo Forecast
Quickie: You’re unique. There’s not a single person who’s just like you. Yep, you’re special.”

Yes, you are unique, just like ALL the other Leo’s out there.

I get the whole Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy thing now…

I always thought he was good, but after seeing him in Pride and Prejudice, it makes more sense why my friend calls him “The thinking woman’s chew toy.”

Heh.
He’s not that perfect (I have other candidates for that phrase in mind), but still, not too shabby.

I still have inappropriate crushes on the following:

Michael Palin (Taurus)
Christopher Eccleston (Aquarius).

Please deliver them to me.
Thank you.

let’s see…
this is the first weekend I haven’t had guests or been a guest.
I still kind of dread work.
My ulcer has returned with a vengeance.
I’ve made some serious decisions that I think will not be popular with a certain set of people, but you know, its not their job to like my decisions, its their job to do my bidding.

I was in Seattle on Bastille Day and visited Wendy. Fremont is an interesting area of Seattle and it was good to see Wendy after missing paths for about a year. Of course it was about 3,000 degrees and humid. It really didn’t seem humid, but I sweated my brains out (thus explaining some of my lack of decision making of late) and Seattle does have a bit of water around it.
My cousin didn’t make it down from the San Juans, but we faked it and I called her on the phone and we ’shopped together’ while I was at Half Price Books.
Last week, Jason was in town and just couldn’t face the flight back to the east coast and back to the west coast again. When Jason is in town there is always good food.
Unfortunately after all this activity I had a release. Fortunately it went fairly well (despite having had to have moved it to the beginning of Mercury Retrograde), I didn’t think it was exceptional, however the feedback I got back from a lot of people was good.
My standard response to any compliment was, “Thank you, I have a fantastic team.”
I can’t decide if they are actually pleased or feeling sorry for me because I have been kicked repeatedly in the ass by my situation for the last several months.
Whatever.
I’m exhausted and not feeling like there is any reason why I should stay with a company that does nothing to support its own people…their missions statement to the contrary. Such a bunch of hooey on their part in my experience.

Today is the first day that I have had alone to rest.
I need it.

I also have come into a big pile of Carte Noire… it cost a lot, and I’m not just referring to the dollar value.
I haven’t decided if it was worth the cost.
Given the state of my stomach, I’d have to say no.
I hate hurting like this.

Haven’t heard much of the new pope lately… I wonder what he’s up to.

And I see the light at the end of the tunnel… however, its a train.
Not a fun time.
I really want some good sleep followed by a day where I don’t dread
going into the office and finding out more awful things.

I’ll write about this last weekend later. I don’t have time right now…

my webmaster is an imbecile.
he lost the contents of my site (and others) due to hardware failure…
that’s just par for the course (Merc Rx… natch) but what really makes him an imbecile is the fact that he had the backups mistakenly routed to the same physical drive… for the last four years.

fredlet.com is down for a while, luckily my webmaster doesn’t run blogspot.com or we’d really be in trouble.

Deadprogrammer’s Cafe: “My thoroughly virtual (could you believe it, we chat and exchange emails for almost 10 years and never met him once)”

I don’t think this is uncommon…. but then again, pen pals were that way before…

and I am slapping the heel bed of the right one against my heel.
flop.
flop.
flop.
flop.

like a crawfish slapping its tail to get away quickly.

mischa the panda
Originally uploaded by traceytakesphotos.

HoustonChronicle.com – Horoscope: “LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). If being in love is an addiction, you’re an addict. The pleasurable symptoms (rapid heart beat, heightened senses, euphoric obsession) visit you again today, but it doesn’t necessarily mean this is the real deal.”

aqnd yes, once the initial rush is over, I am typically back into ‘only child’ mode (living in my own little world to the exclusion of everyone else – or is that high funtioning autistic mode?)

Daylight-saving extension draws heat over safety, cost – Yahoo! News: “‘This is an ultimate disaster for airlines and all of our customers, who will be horribly inconvenienced,’ says James May, the group’s president and CEO.”

This man is a complete and utter drama queen.
Jeebus, dude, get it together.

When you find “the one” you know it.
You know it viscerally.
If you are lucky to find that one, NEVER let go. Do anything possible to keep that one in your life.

I have suffered through pretenders, through “not quite as good, but still ok” and all variations from the one, but none ever came close tothe amazing one that I fell for so long ago.

The “one” is Carte Noir coffee… and I realized all of this today in a blinding, caffeine laden rush when I opened one of the few bags I had left this morning. I had run out of my standard coffee that can be found here (and without me having to fly to some place with a passport) and decided to break into the stash as a treat for me
trudging to work day in and day out with a smile plastered on my face.
I am reaching the end of my tolerance for this job and the related politics.

Joyful USB Lava Lamp
Originally uploaded by fredlet.

for me to be sick, have PMS and have Saturn beating on me all at once.