Having fractional taquitos for lunch.
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Ookson asked for a long while ago for an Old El Paso Taco Kit. Bought one last week, and he was most happy to make the mince and dish it all up.
He was so excited when we showed him the taco kit. First time Iâve had taco as well, something quite different.
At home we allow our children to help with preparing food - and I believe it is a most neccessary skill to have. Ooksonâs culinary skills is good, he want to be like Jamie Oliver and have his own restaurant one day. Bless.
Reading the phrase, âPrincess death clownsâ. The Daily WTF provides examples of badly-written code and todayâs example is about dissecting an auto-complete textbox that wasnât working. Someone decided that using âprincessâ, âdeathâ and âclownsâ in their IF-ELSE statements was appropriate.
As Dave Barry might say, âPrincess Death Clownsâ would make a great name for a rock 'n roll band.
Mandatory, kids donât learn if they donât do.
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Princess Death Clowns sounds like the name of some awful zombie movie 
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I finally closed my old Yahoo account. Itâs been pretty inactive but I finally just pulled the trigger on it.
The Dragonlady uses hers as her junk email address for signing up for stuff she never wants to hear from again. Itâs the black hole of email.
Can I still apply for an AOL account? I wonder.
EDIT: Yes, I can. How retro/futurist/triggering/anarchist.
Spark (our main national telecom company) just posted a video on their Facebook page supporting our LGB(âŚ) community.
Someone posted this on their Facebook page - and check out Sparkâs response
Itâs a little disappointing that the bigot got 34 likes, but 400 or so for Sparkâs response makes up for it a little bit 
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I accidentally deleted some spreadsheets off a USB thumb drive, then found out when I put them there, I did a move isntead of a copy, so I lost about two months worth of work.
Why Iâm happy about this is I found one of the earlier versions and I was able to rebuild and significantly expand it with some calculations I didnât know I needed before. Itâs going to work out a lot better this way and will highlight the points I need more effectively.
I have it set to skip the recycle bin on most of the partitions and just delete the files. I also have an undeletion program, but even if it works with USB thumb drives, that one is so heavily used, the files were long gone. Anyway, it doesnât matter. As I said, I got to put in new sections I hadnât realized I needed before and would have been difficult to squeeze them in and make sure all the links got updated correctly.
Zuma is out.
B&M have got more of the green-can Arizona Iced Tea in, instead of their usual three stacks of the red-tin which nobody likes nor buys.
I was a guest on a podcast for the first time tonight. I think I managed to keep my foot out of my mouth and not embarrass myself.
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Weâve had some stability issues w/ our systems lately. The database server hasnât come crashing down, but weâve pushed it to the point of exhausting the memory allocated to SQL Server (and this box has 0.75TB of RAM).
Figured out today that one of our most common queries, which has been causing us agita for several reasons, is being granted 15GB of RAM (sometimes more) each time it runs. And itâs sometimes being run several times by the same user as they get impatient waiting for their web page to run, andâŚwell, itâs a big part of why weâre running out of memory.
Itâs a trivial query, but I slapped an index on one of the fields it uses and the memory allocation dropped to at most (so far) about 300MB for it.
The query still sucks and the developers are working on it, but my database server is happier now.
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I had one of those MS support calls today and used an idea I got off Not Always Right.
Him (in a very obvious Indian accent): This is Ben from Microsoft support âŚ
Me: Thatâs ironic, I was just looking at a web page about Microsoft support scams and they recommend either saying I know itâs a scam or just hanging up. Which one of those should I choose?
Him: (âŚ) <click>
That was surprisingly satisfying
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Something close to that for me a couple of weeks ago. I go in for a haircut and am told that theyâre pretty busy, with a recommendation to come back the next day. Didnât look like they were busy, but I decided to go do other things. Did come back the next day. The same employee remembered me and thanked me for coming back.
I notice that the employee seems to be apologizing a lot for me having to wait, even though it was only about 10 or 15 minutes. She apologizes again when Iâm paying, so I gave her some reassurance taken from seeing countless examples on Not Always Right and tell her, âIâve got a choice. I can be one of those customers that raises a big stink over a tiny little thing, or I can realize itâs a tiny little thing.â She seemed relieved that I didnât get upset.
I donât think any of us like waiting while in line for service, but yeah - we all HAVE to sometimes. Itâs like the saying; âWant to get the real measure of a person? See how they treat the wait staff/ subordinates/ service people.â
On a toot-my-own-horn theme: My barber takes appointments. The whole shop does, except they always have a designated âwalk inâ guy.
The previous guy (had to move home to WV, curse the luck) took appts by email⌠even better.
Someone turned in the security pass I lost yesterday, so I donât have to spend $25 for a new one.
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My contract got extended so Iâm employed for at least the next six months.
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âMyâ podcast was posted today, I listened to it, and I A) didnât make a fool of myself and B) didnât find my voice totally obnoxious (though I was speaking fast, and I listened at accelerated speed).
Editor deserves a lot of credit for making me sound good 