8/22/03

Okay, I’m really sick of the Microsoft Service packs installing the Outlook Express Quick Launch on my Quick Launch bar in Win2k. I don’t have, use, or even like Outlook Express. Well, okay, I take that back I do, once again have Outlook Express, thank you Service Pack 4. Uninstalling this retarded program isn’t an option either, at least not the easy way. Microsoft has decided everyone needs Outlook and they’re going to take it upon themselves to shove it down our throats. It makes me not want to install Service Pack 4 at home. I had no choice but to install it at work. They have this software on our machines now where the help-desk sends us the install and cancelling is not an option. Drop what you’re doing and run this, doesn’t matter if you’re in the middle of a support call, or hard at work on a release of something, drop everything and run this 10-20 minute install.

I need a Bill Gates voodoo doll. A voodoo doll of the help-desk people where I work would be helpful too.

I almost didn’t come in to work today. I didn’t think I had anything to do and then I remembered the leaning tower of files. Damn, can’t hide from it now. So, that’s what I’m going to be doing today, filing. Somebody save me!

My neck is feeling better today. I can do everything but turn my head all the way to the right, that still hurts. Taking corners in the car hurts too. I think I must have pulled a ligament or something like what happened to my back a few months ago. I need to work out more, straighten and tone all my muscles because then shit like this won’t happen when I simply try to get comfortable in bed. My back was good after a week or so, I figure my neck will do the same. I’ve got to quit injuring myself.

Tonight we’re getting digital phone installed tonight. Their estimate for our monthly bill is 22 bucks, not bad considering we’re paying 45 right now with the other company. Our long distance rates are going to be cheaper too. Saturday hubby has to install a firewall on his mom and step-dads computer. It’s sitting wide open right now. I wonder how many people with DSL and Cable connections are sitting there with their computers wide open to the world. If you have Cable or DSL you have to have a firewall of some form, otherwise you’re wide open and anyone that knows how can probe your ports (ooh baby) and get access to your system. Have you seen that AOL commercial where it’s raining in the people’s house over their computer and stuff? Stupid commercial but the point is valid. I don’t recommend fixing it with AOL but a firewall, definitely. We’ll be taking Sara with us so she can play with their dog Daphne while hubby works. Sara loves other dogs so she’ll have a blast! Sara also loves frozen carrots we discovered. Last weekend we were talking to our neighbor who said their golden just LOVES frozen carrots on a hot day. Their vet recommended it because rawhides are high calorie and contain chemicals from the processing. So we’ve given Sara two, she wasn’t sure of it at first but she devoured the one hubby gave her this morning. Hehe, Sara got away from hubby this morning. She did really good though, hubby yelled for her to come back and she did. Yay for Sara, I think we can trust her off leash, just not in our yard, she’d run up to bikers and joggers in the street and that’s no good. Sara loves people! I’m really glad she turned out to be so friendly, one of my fears was that since we don’t go out around people a whole lot that she wouldn’t get that friendly. I think taking her to Petsmart and hiking helped when she was tiny, no one could resist the adorable little golden so she did get a lot of interraction.

Sunday we’re going to go to Gillette castle. They’d been renovating it so I haven’t gotten to see it yet. Hubby says it’s neat so we’re going there. It’s supposed to be 73 degree’s on Sunday. That’s a nice change, I was beginning to feel like I was back in Oklahoma, it was 101 here yesterday. And our A/C in our car STILL doesn’t work!

So that’s pretty much that.

My foot is doing much better. I can run and jump and stuff, I don’t know if whatever was there still is there or not. Now as soon as my neck stops hurting I’m going to get into a work-out routine of hiking and using my stationary bike. I feared hiking when I was having the dizzy spells before but that appears to be over. I haven’t had ANY since I started the Magnesium, which is awesome. Once again another ailment is fixed by holistic vitamin/remedies. I’ve had better luck with vitamins and such than going to my doctor. We fixed hubbys eczema, mine too for that matter, my leg cramps, and now my dizziness. I can’t help but wonder how many people out there are suffering from the dizziness that I was that simply have a vitamin deficiency. To me, that’s the place to start. Not with 100 dollar allergy medicine prescriptions. Of course if they come back while I’m still on the magnesium I’ll see the doc and if my neck does that thing again or doesn’t stop hurting I’ll see the doc. I just don’t have a lot of faith in doctors anymore, except with severe things that can’t be fixed by this stuff, or when the holistic remedies fail to work. Hubby had been plaqued by eczema for about 20 years, we fixed that with dead sea salts. Now instead of applying steriod cream after the outbreak he can stop it by taking a nightly soak in the tub all winter. I had broken out with a bad eczema rash too in 2001, a thing of steriod cream and a package of steriod pills couldn’t get rid of it, the sea salts softened and got rid of the rash within a couple days. I healed my leg cramps with Magnesium. I had also gone to the doctor twice about the tinnitus and dizziness only to receive things that didn’t work. They were getting so bad I was having 4 or 5 spells a day, I went back on Magnesium and within three days they were over. I’m most definitely a holistic remedy/vitamin type of gal. My doctor is my last resort and the guy I go see when I have bronchitis or something I obviously can’t fix myself like broken bones. 🙂 So anyway, that’s why you’ll rarely find me calling my doc. I believe in the power of natural remedies and so far they haven’t let me down.

Anyway, *looks at fish tank*. I should uh, get to that filing in the closet. Have you ever had a fish stare at you? It’s weird. Clyde is hungry. He’s constipated again so he’s on a another little fast and he keeps coming over to the glass and staring at me with his beedy little fishy eye. You’ve never had an interactive fish until you’ve had a betta. Oh, now he’s inspecting his bubblenest. hehe Anyway, the filing. I’m off to do the filing, really this time, uh, after I read my comics that is! 🙂