Wow, what a drag it is to come in to work after having a great weekend of general screwing around and non-productivity! As much as I'd love to pin it to my usual rather-be-working-for-myself rant (which is getting really old), I'd just in the general sense rather not be here today. We're in a lull and I'm doing uninteresting work. I'd rather be doing anything else.
We had a rough plan for the weekend as far as going to two events for Diana's niece's birthday, but that was the extent to which we planned anything. Saturday morning we thought we'd go to Tommy's in Conventry, but instead decided to go to the zoo. She lives all of two miles from it, and I do love my zoo.
To satisfy the breakfast requirement we went to this little greasy spoon place called Gus'. It wasn't terrible. Reminded me of the place I worked in college, and also the little place on Mackinac (only at one-fifth the prices). While the food was nothing to get excited about, it gives me warm fuzzies that places like this still survive in a McDonald's world.
I covered the zoo with about a hundred photos, and I know that I've shot the same stuff before countless times, but I guess that's what makes it a great opportunity. You can see what you're doing right or wrong that way. As I mentioned, too slow of a shutter too frequently when zoomed in. I gotta stop doing that.
Sunday, the niece had a surprise bear building party. Seven-year-old girls just eat that up. It was pretty cool though, I have to admit. I'd totally do that for my own kid.
I can now be completely certain that I hate Windows. Diana bought a Dell laptop earlier this year and I was frustrated because it was so slow. The first problem is that it only had 512 MB of RAM. Dell should be ashamed of themselves for selling a Vista laptop less than a gig. Then add in all of the crapwear (like the Symantec crap), and it literally took almost ten minutes before you could do anything useful with the computer. It was completely intolerable. But I turned off a bunch of non-useful stuff and uninstalled the Symantec crap, and it got significantly better. Diana ordered RAM, and I think it'll be speedy and sweet by the end of the week.
I've gotta tell you, we sure have a good time together. We have very similar qualities in areas that could cause mutual annoyance, like our tolerance for filth and disorganization. We communicate very openly and honestly. Even with different interests and hobbies, it just generally works. I'm a pretty lucky guy. It's about time eHarmony came through for me. :)
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