go ahead, ask me anything!
I have to credit Brad for a great find. However, I also have to post the video inline to show Brad the greatness that is Google Video (and visit Hersch for examples of the greatness that is YouTube). For all you Trekkers (mind the suffix, please), enjoy:
Update: I just searched for picard song and found DarkMateria’s Audio Files, which has a copy of The Picard Song available for download.
So, instead of laying in bed (in the second bedroom, to prevent me from getting sick), I am typing away at my laptop. After running around all night to help out Chris, I sat down to work on one of my side projects. I started making a lot of headway, and then I hit a wall waiting for some database restorations to occur.
So, while waiting I went to check out /. and I found the following comment on one of the posts:
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up the remaining space. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous ‘yes’.
The professor then produced two cans of beer from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the space between the sand particles. The students laughed.
Now, said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things - your family, your children, your health, your friends, your favourite passions - things that if everything else were lost, and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else - the small stuff.
"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take your partner out to dinner. Go out with friends. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the washing. Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the beer represented. The professor smiled. "I’m glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of beers."
Besides that last point about the beer (I’m more of a Gatorade or Dr. Pepper person), the fictitious professor pretty much explains how I’ve been living my life for the past four and a half years. That’s why I came home for lunch to take care of Chris. That’s why I ran around all night visiting the doctor, the school and the pharmacy. That’s why Chris and I run the halfway house the way we do. Our friends and family come first, and then all the other stuff.
Don’t sweat the small stuff, because you’ll always have the more important stuff to keep you afloat (yet another life metaphor).
I brought Chris to the doctor, and she’s not doing so well. Her coughing from last night has gotten worse, and it’s been accompanied by a fever. So, to prevent any delays to her getting well, I’m limiting hours at the house to 9PM and to one or two people until she’s better. With luck, Chris will be up and moving by opening night of Cats.
I came into my office to do a quick e-mail and blog check, when I saw a link to the following video:
All I gotta say is, "Awesome!"
Vision is touted by GenevaLogic as a classroom management suite, allowing teachers to supervise, demonstrate on and remote control student computers, among other things. Needless to say, teachers would love to have it in their classrooms with computers. I have been working on getting some form of Vision working on our computers since I started at CHS. It has not been a fun ride.
Vision 6 was supposed to change all that. It was supposed to be easy. It was supposed to solve a lot of the problems that plagued its predecessors, such as broadcast storms, static port assignment and lack of support for multiple master stations per client. It seems to be doing an OK job at solving most of these problems. I can almost get it deployed without a problem using the MSI installer, we can now manage client machines from multiple master machines, and I have found less problems with network utilization while running Vision 6.
I’m still working on the minor problems that I am having deploying Vision to mixed computer areas and to computers that have problems after Vision is installed. I’ll post some things later, because I think it will help to actually have documentation that can be found via the major search engines. I was not so lucky these past couple of weeks.
Those were the words Chris uttered when she came home today, catching me singing along to George Strait’s All My Exes Live in Texas while I was running on the treadmill and playing Hexic (for me it’s the new Sudoku) on the tablet. Yes, I do indeed not hate country music. What can I say? I don’t like to exclude music from my playlists simply because it has been categorized into some narrow genre by an idiot in a recording studio. No, I don’t like all country music, but I do like some of it.
Grant said it best when he came over today: it was like you cheated on her or something. Yeah, that’s the impression I got from her when she had that look of disgust coming through the door 
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