My ‘County’ Tis of Thee
Have you ever looked at word and thought there is no possible way it could truly be spelled the way it is? The other day at work I was working on a query and I mistyped the word country as county. A red flag went up in my head, so I looked back at the word, realized I spelled county and added the appropriate 'R' back in.
Then I just stared at the word. Country. Country. Country is really 'count' then 'ry'? Count-ry. It looked so foreign.
Even now, if I look at it too long, it starts to get funky.
Weird.
What Dreams May Come Over and Over Again
I have been at my new job for 7 weeks now and I am not exaggerating by saying I have dreamed about it almost every night since I started. It is seriously chapping my hide and making getting a restful night's sleep very hard. Every stinking night I am writing T-SQL, working with databases and tables and queries and blah, blah, blah.
The past couple nights I have really focused on figuring out how to stop this. Last night I kept telling myself that if I found myself dreaming about it again, I would just turn off my dream computer and walk away. So, I did. In my dream, I turned of the computer and was so excited that it work that it woke me up. Of course, then I fell asleep again and was back at my desk working.
I am at such a loss that I hate going to bed because I know it is going to suck. Maybe by writing this, I can exorcise my demons. Hopefully, I am not exercising them.
If only I could bill someone for my dream work.
Happy Valentines Day
To my valentine:
It may sound cliche... okay, it does sound cliche, but it is the truth nonetheless. I cannot picture my life without you. You are my meaning. You are my motivation. You are my happiness, my joy, my everything. I love you.
Cheesy? Sure. Sappy? You bet.
True? One Hundred Percent.
Moving A
It's done. It took three days, hours upon hours of hellish frustration, two tickets (expired tags and driving without a license), and more sore muscles than I can shake a stick at, but that's not saying much since I can't shake much of anything right now. In the end, we ended up cutting my commute by about 45 minutes, the four kids got their own rooms and a backyard, and we can now begin the next chapter.