Wednesday, October 02, 2002
Published on Monday, 07 November 2011 13:49 | 
Written by Jim Finch
Shhh ...
An hour and a half to go until my shift is over. I'm goofing off and venting. The usual stuff. Shifting communities around and craziness at work. Suddenly there's half a dozen new changes coming our way and I'm sitting here wondering what the hell is going on.
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Saturday, October 05, 2002
Published on Monday, 07 November 2011 13:50 | Written by Jim Finch
Welcome to my nightmare
Saturday morning and I'm both at work and installing service pack 1 for xp. I know, I know, most everyone knows I went through hell a couple of weeks ago with service pack 1 but I finally got it to work with a lot of handholding from microsoft's tech support (and yes, I had to buy a new copy of xp's upgrade because they refused to support my OEM version -- those rat bastards), I got it running.
But there were problems. I think I screwed up in the very last reinstall (don't ask how many times I've reinstalled in the past month) and didn't install the drivers for my AGP port until AFTER I installed my video card stuff. I was getting all sorts of graphics card related errors and sometimes my system would completely reboot after taking a CD out. It was really really weird and really really annoying.
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Sunday, October 06, 2002
Published on Monday, 07 November 2011 13:51 | Written by Jim Finch
Blog it
Sunday night, winding down. This morning I spent two and a half hours throwing 2 cords of wood down a very large hill. This is normally a three day job but I'm on a deadline of next sunday to have it all stacked and done for the winter. Next monday I'm going away to parts unknown to spend a week or so sleeping. That's all I want to do right now. I'm so exhausted and ready to give up on everything.
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Monday, October 07, 2002
Published on Monday, 07 November 2011 13:54 | Written by Jim Finch
Outch
It's the 2nd day of dealing with the 2nd batch of wood for the winter. We typically get 4 cords of wood a year and this year. We had about 2 cords left over from last winter already stacked outside, so I'm trying to be creative in where I stack it this year. We just don't have the room out there. I'm afraid that I'm going to have to stack higher than I want to (right now it's up to my shoulders -- I'm 5'9" tall). If I go much higher it becomes unstable and the last thing I want to do is have the pile collapse on anyone.
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Tuesday, October 08, 2002
Published on Monday, 07 November 2011 13:55 | Written by Jim Finch
Day 3 from the front lines
Blogger seems to be down so I'll write this to myself then post it later. Right now it's 12:19 on a teusday afternoon and I just came in from day three with the wood. I'm beyond tired.
It was cold this morning. Too cold to get off of my ass and out the door to do wood. I waited until after my allergy shot to go out and start on the pile again. I'm seriously running out of room. Even though I errored yesterday by saying it's up to my neck in places (it's really up to my chest in some, waist in others, depending on the slope), it's still a whole hell of a lot of wood.
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Wednesday, October 09, 2002
Published on Monday, 07 November 2011 13:57 | Written by Jim Finch
It's over
Got up early this morning in order to take my dad to the doctor's. Sat in the car while he was in for his appointment and just sorta stared blankly. Had to make myself read something and turn on my AOL Pager in order to NOT look like some creapy guy sitting in the car by myself. But I was zonked, I still am. Got home and dropped my dad off then went to work on the final part of the wood pile.
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