Enjablog

So, in the mail today, I received my ticket for admission to the PE exam. There was a long, detailed list of things that are and are not allowed in the testing room. Highlights of the contraband list: slide rules, hoodies, pencils, and friends/relatives. I don’t even know what to say.

In other news, I finished making a Power Up Mushroom pouch for my laptop mouse. The USB key attaches conveniently to the bottom of the mouse and the mouse is cleverly designed to turn on when the key is removed. This, of course, caused problems when I would just throw the mouse into my bag and wear down the battery inadvertently. Clearly, I needed to make something to protect my mouse:

It took about 6 hours to figure out the dimensions for the pattern (I use the word “pattern” very loosely) and to put it all together. I think actual construction time was about one day of commuting — 1.5 hr round trip.

Wow. If they weren’t so ridiculously expensive, I would totally get this:

Tetris Shelves: Modular Furniture Never Looked So Good

Excessive emails and text are a mental illness:

PEOPLE who send excessive texts and emails may have a mental illness, according to an article in a leading psychiatric journal.

2 more weeks and I’ll be back to blogging. I have such a backlog that I’m not even angry about all the rants I had prepared. Sigh…

And I thought I was so clever…

So the latest thing is this gcal to outlook synching program that google just came out with. Except that I don’t have outlook on Dellilah, which is what I sync with. But I do have it installed on my old computer, which is sitting right next to me when I have Dellilah on my desk to sync. That seemed like a reasonable solution. Except that the program doesn’t work with Windows 2000. Then I thought maybe I could copy the files over from my old computer and not have to find my install CD from when I installed it… 4 (?) years ago. No dice. Then I tried running it on Dellilah by sharing over the network. No luck there either.

Now my options are to install outlook on Dellilah for realz or sync with my computer at work. Not sure I want to fill my work calendar at work with all my personal appointments. I’ll try to think up a better solution.

Sigh.

Happy birthday, Juniorita!

(My niece turns 1 today!)

Ian and I went out with a bunch of his friends last night to see Jonathan Coulton at the Birchmere. Paul and Storm opened for him. I had never heard them before, but they were similarly nerdy and hilarious, so I will definitely be listening to them in the future. This was by far the Aspergeriest show I’ve ever seen. I laughed through pretty much the whole night. It was fantastic!

I don’t even know what my favorite parts of the night were… Highlights included having snack cakes chucked at us throughout the night, a sold out room of people emulating emotions through pirate noises, hearing my favorite songs performed by Jonathan Coulton, being part of a live zombie chorus, the girl picked to be on stage as excited about Chiron Beta Prime as I was… Then the priceless scene as the entire audience started throwing stuffed animals at the stage and Coulton sprinting off-stage. Followed by Jonathan, Paul, and Storm returning to the stage and asking a guy in the front row to post a picture on the internets.

Also, at one point Paul mentioned that people would be blogging about the show and talking about how Coulton turned left and it was *awesome*. And, really, it was.

Oh, and Sonny — listen to the Mother’s Day song. It reminded me of you… and what you said on Mother’s Day last year.

And, finally… Happy birthday, Ian! :)