The Cat's Nuts

It's 11:30 and I'm at work. Decided to put in some hours doing some work before I took off for Texas. I'm pretty excited about it. Going to watch some bull riding and some calf wrangling and such at the rodeo. We're also going to head up to Laura's father's ranch to go horseback riding. Not that I'm at all qualified to ride horses, but it still should be a good time.

So this morning I had to run up to Columbia with all my bags for the trip so that I could drop off my religion paper. Pain in the ass, I have to say. Not even the fact that I had to go up there, but I was hauling around like 50 lbs worth of crap. So I finally made it down to my office in midtown to get into work and I thought to myself "Wow..you are a stud. You went up to Columbia dropped off your paper, and made it to work by 8:15....but you are a moron who forgot the keys to your office." So I sat outside the office for close to an hour before someone finally showed up to let me in.

I actually didn't mind it because it gave me the chance to play with the laptop that I had gotten from my father. It's this old 233mHz Pentium laptop that was running Windows ME (I know, right?). So I figured that it wasn't really worth having, but then I realized with my latest experience in Linux, this may be a good platform to test out a different distro. So last night I had downloaded DSL (Damn Small Linux) and had it on a bootable CD. So I threw it into the computer and off I went. I had time to run two separate installs (a testament to the speed of installing DSL) and by the time someone showed up I had the system configured. The only thing that I really couldn't get working was the wireless internet which DSL is notorious for not being easy to get going. I figure that with some tinkering or perhaps a $20 wireless card I can get the thing working and be all set.

So I had a recruiter call me this morning and I just had to laugh. He was your typical sleazy recruiter (unlike myself). He pulled classic lines like "your resume was very impressive" (I'm thinking to myself... I have two years at a no name law firm, and 6 months at a no name recruiting firm and don’t' even have a college degree yet...the only thing that's remotely impressive is the fact that my degree happens to be from Columbia...but notice no GPA). Once I told him what I was going to be making at the Consulting firm, he quickly replied that this job was offering $10K more than that. I just had to laugh because it's like... ya know...lie to someone that doesn't do your job for a living. It would be like me going into a chef's kitchen and telling them what the best kind of flower is. Oh well. Terrible person that I am, I passed on the info to one of the other recruiters so that she could see if she would be interested in the position. HA! If that happened, that would be the second recruiter (of 4 that are here) that I have aided in their departure.

I should actually do some work now that it's getting to be almost noon.