There's one thing about myself that I hate more than any other feature I have, and that is my punctuality when it comes to obligations. I have a terrible habit of being late for things, like work, doctors appointments, funerals, etc. It's something I work hard on, but my biological time clock never knows when it's late, and I normally stay up later than I'd like, causing me to be overly tired and unmotivated the next morning.
Today though, it wasn't my fault. Today was probably the latest I've ever shown up for work, but I swear, it wasn't because of any lack of will to get to bed at a decent hour last night. No, I was up until - well, last time I looked at the clock - 3:00 AM with an unbelievably painful headache. Actually, it was bordering on the headache/migraine fence. And it hurt. And it wouldn't go away. And it made me late!
I was laying in bed, absolutely in agony trying to forget about this throb in my noggin', filling my mind with other thoughts, but it just wasn't meant to be. I assume that once I fell asleep, I still had the headache, because I had some pretty terrifying dreams last night. It was really because I was watching season 2 of Six Feet Under last night, which propelled the idea of my dreams, but they were pretty rough. One of those types of dreams where you wake up and think "holy shit, let this be a dream!" Luckily, it was.
The dream was that I had a kid. Yeah, and I wasn't married. Not only that, but I just couldn't tell my parents for fear of disappointing them, and I was obligated to marry a person I didn't love one bit. It was hell! Like most of my dreams, I only remember the highlights and I'm sure there was more, but I'm at a loss at this point. Just one of those very vivid dreams that you can't stop thinking about the next day.
It's amazing to me how 30 minutes in time can change or alter the amount of traffic on a road. As I said, I was late to work this morning and couldn't help but notice that the roads were so much clearer than they would have been if I had left on time. In reality, I probably shaved a good 5 minutes or so off of my commute just because I left so late. Crazy stuff.
Today, I'm coming home to Chattanooga for the weekend, and I'm extremely excited about that. Sunday I have to fly to Virginia, so I decided to take Friday off and go home for a couple of days before having to fly out on Sunday. It looks like it's a good plan and I really look forward to seeing my friends, and especially my family. Saturday night, I think I'm going to go riding with my brother, who is a police officer. I haven't ridden with him in a very long time, so I'm overly excited about this. Not only that, but I plan on hanging out with a girl from high school that I haven't really seen, well, since high school. We've become pretty good friends through email and myspace, so I look forward to drinking a few brews with her.
My company has an interior newsletter for employees that we're required to write articles for, and the last one I wrote was well written and informative, in my opinion, so I thought I'd post it here for your pleasure. It's a techy article but applies to everyone who uses a computer. Check it out!
We’ve all seen them, and some of us have them – search bars and tool bars. They seem glamorous and offer to make our life easier by providing advanced functions at our fingertips like weather reports and stock quotes, but more often than not, toolbars do more harm than good. Sure, there are a few pony’s in the race which legitimately help out, like the Google Toolbar, which offers fast web searching from any web page, but even the Google Toolbar has its drawbacks. Toolbars offered from reputable sources such as Google, MSN and Yahoo can become susceptible to spyware as hackers exploit these programs to spy on your internet activity and download malicious content to your computer.The names of my company has been removed from the document for personal reasons. Well, I'm off to see the wizard!Many times, software installations attempt to sneak onto your computer in a toolbar. It’s obvious the next time Internet Explorer is opened. However, these toolbars also download malicious content to your computer which spy on you and your internet activity. Also, toolbars can download viruses to your computer causing serious security concerns and cause your computer to run slowly or potentially crash resulting in the loss of your data.
If your computer is plagued with an excessive amount of random “pop-ups” and your computer seems to have slowed down, there’s a chance that you have some sort of application such as a toolbar which is creating spyware and causing these problems. Common spyware applications to keep an eye out for are WeatherBug, CoolWebSearch, Gator, Bonzai Buddy, KaZaa, and most toolbar applications. Also, a lot of programs camouflage themselves as helpful tools and pledge to rid your system of spyware, but actually create spyware.
It is against [company] policy to have these toolbars and any program not distributed and approved by [company] installed on your computer because of security concerns, so please inform the [tech support] immediately if you have one installed or suspect that you may have one installed. [Different tech support] can also assist you in removing them from your computer. Your computer is preloaded with the necessary security to help stave off most malicious content, but it can only do so much if you download unapproved items from the Internet.