KingLou Drops Science 2.0

Greeting friends. Sorry for the too oft delayed entries. My annoyance with this blogware combined with the holiday crush and general malaise has lead to a lack of bloggable urgings. But now, now I am back!

So. How was your holiday? Mine was pretty standard fare.

School wound down and there weren't many last minute calamities or freak outs. Maybe one or two students who didn't plan and wanted me to make their DVD's. In past years I would have set them up to do it but after 3-4 years of dealing with these future builders of the world I have decided to let survival of the fittest prevail. One great example is this one major retard I have to deal with who never ceases to amaze me with his dumbness. How he has managed to live so far is beyond me. At the end of the semester he wisely decided to back-up his semesters worth of work. So be put everything into a folder and then what do you think he did next? If you are a normal person you probably said "He backed up his work to an external drive!" or "He burned it to DVD's, Lou." and these would be normal answers! Nope he took all his backed up stuff in his folder and dragged the folder over to the trash. The computer warned him that some of the stuff was too big to fit into trash and that it was going to delete the larger files and he clicked okay. So POOF! No more backed up data. Then he came freaking out about his work and my boss told him to go buy the data recovery software himself.

My cousin Amanda has started he official blog now. For a long time she's been sending out her emails detailing her life abroad as she and her family live their interesting lives in what seems like a new country every 3-4 years. Hopefully now the entries will be more frequent and less lengthy! Check it out at http://argentinastories.blogspot.com. I kid, I kid.

Christmas was the usual. Three separate gift sessions in one day followed by a trip to Milwaukee for the 4th gift giving session. Its pretty over the top. Of course with all the gift giving I made out quite well. No complaints.

In other news Jodi and I both just got over our bouts with the flu. Jodi started feeling crummy on New Years Eve. Which sucks. We made fondue and Jodi tried in vain to stay away until midnight. I managed to hold off on the getting sick for over a week by overdosing on Zicam and Airshield (CVS knockoff), I really believe that helped me stave off the real illness. Jodi was totally wiped out by this flu. She was weak and achy and feverish. When I finally got it I was sick but not to the same degree. Perhaps living with it in a super dosed body for a week took some of the punch out of it when it finally hit.

School starts in a week and I am not ready to begin the non-sense again. One of the big new thing in the office is we got this bar code system in place. Hopefully it will reduce the amount of loss due to laziness on the student employees parts. Unfortunately it's a klunky unalterable piece of shit so almost every idea we've come up with to make the system better has been answered with a "you can't change that" from the developer. Total inflexibility. And it's PC only which is extra lame. We've gotten it working for the most part but its pretty lame. Of course after we spent all this money and got this beast in place the guy who used to have my job let me know about a way better web based solution. Sigh...