of the Two-thousand and Seventh Year AD? Just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Good lord is Internet Explorer ever horrible, I don't get anyone who can be a proponent of it after having tried anything else out there in the Web Browsing world (except perhaps Netscape Navigator) -- and good lord am I ever going to shoot this freaking HP Keyboard.
To expand on last time's post. That ever so wonderful of lunches was cool Chicken Salad spread over toasted bagels with chips on the side and a gigantic bowl of watermelon, plus the requsite iced tea.
Been reading a bit of Violent Acres, which is another one of those "caught my eye with a post linked randomly and read a bit more of site" sorta deal. Not going to become a mainstay, but I can say I liked a few of her writings. I dunno how many others saw the irony of someone ranting that the Internet and Blogs and our upbringings have made us selfish and distant and that it's hard to find real connections and friends. Not sure I buy into any of that, but the derision that PostSecret (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/) as evidence of this phenominom (is that spelled right? I refuse to try and check on IE, it'd take too long) seems a bit odd, those aren't really confiditory secrets for the most part (I'm fairly certain I invented a word, but more power to me for it).
--Anyways, I liked this secret a ton, and admit to agreeing.
I wrote the stuff below before the stuff above, but for the purposes of flow, moved it down, sorta prelude to the next act sort of deal.
So, it's been awhile. Let's talk about the background to California. Now you might wonder how that's going to work, but honestly I've got a few things I'd like to say, and much as the fun of Cali wants to be written, I can assure you I've already been sidetracked.
From day 1 of my employment (discounting the orientation that had little applicability due to my seperate destination from 100% of the other participants) there was talk of sending me out to California for program training. And it took a bit of time to organize, but it did happen.
Now, officially, the sanctioned path is to book everything through an online service but that requires a code which requires a user name which requires a corporate credit card, so long story short I skipped all of those steps (except for the flight booking cause that was more than I really wanted resting on my shoulders waiting for reimbursement) and actually saved a fair bit of money cause Enterprise apparently doesn't care that I'm not 25 yet.
Well, that did bring the thought that I know a fair deal of people through various functions (mainly, though not exclusively WoW) that are out there, perhaps I could find some time in the evenings to get some visiting done. Of course, reality intervened and some were busy and many were a good distance away (cause California is pretty much huge in comparison to Georgia, and let's face it, 2 hours each way is about where you draw the limit when you have to spend 75% of the day in "class").
