earthquake! :)

I felt the earthquake in Northern California today. I was sitting around in Subway reading Ender's Shadow before heading back to work, when the ground just sort of rolled under me. I looked around, and no one else seemed to have noticed anything. Checked the hanging lights - they were just barely swinging. I figured it might have been a train or something, but when I got back to work, I found out that it had indeed been an earthquake - 5.5 out in the Sierras (which was actually about what I'd estimated - a 5 or so either a ways east or west of us - since it felt about the same as the Napa quake).

Since then, I've been mostly useless at work. Earthquakes do that to me. I get fascinated looking for information about them and so on.

I'm currently trying to get the lj client installed, since I switched computers yesterday. I think I may need to go and install openssl/ssh from source. Not a huge deal - that's generally considered a good idea, anyways.

The office stinks. Every so often a chemical smell will float through. Right now it's kind of a lysol/bug spray smell. I wonder how much time it's taking off my life?

Arrggggggg

Remember that server that stopped refusing connections every 4 days? It's still doing it.
Even after setting up a cron job to restart the samba once a day.

At least that gives me information - if restarting samba doesn't help, it must be something else that happens with the server itself every 4 days or so that triggers it.

On the bad side, this means that reverting to a previous version probably won't fix it either.

glittery

I'm debating whether my ex or Mike is the most infuriating person I know.

I think my ex wins.

Yesterday at work we were discussing nail polish. I said I liked sparkly nail polish. Not that I usually wear it - I just think it's fun. My co-worker said I wasn't the sparkly nail polish type. Hmmph. That's what she thinks. I think this is why I spent the evening drawing all over myself with pastel metallic gel pens and painting my toenails with green glitter polish.

The gel pens actually look pretty cool on skin. Not sure how easily they'd come off, or if they'd hold up at all under sweat, though.

Now to go read a bunch more Ender's Shadow, since everyone I have any interest in talking to has gone to bed. Damn time zones.