Project Miner

Haven’t been on the bloggy in a while, so here goes random updates…

• Was in Mobile, AL this week with the government project.  Mobile, errr, isn’t the most happening place in the world.  Good meetings, but was quite ready to get home.  Amazing how good I realized my life is after being away from it for a day.
• Katy and I are going on a vacation!  Crazy.  We’re going to Vegas next week.  At least we’ll be too drunk to worry about Ona?  My Mom is going to watch her, and I’m more worried about Mom than the kid.  Though, I guess if Mom lived through “Eric the spawn of hell baby”, she should make it out OK.
• Ona is almost 14 months old, but still hasn’t reached what should have been her first birthday.  That’s crazy.  She’s still not interested in walking, and that’s just fine with us.  She has some sort of pseudo pink eye right now.  Yeeek.  Poor kid.  She’s still happy and cute and fun, though. 
• I’m still running.  I don’t even know myself anymore.  I love it.  Though, my body still hates it… still getting numb foot at about the 2.5 mile mark.  It’s time to consult a doctor.  I’m scared.  It seems that’d be just my luck to finally start getting in-shape and enjoying running and my body reject it.
• Read “The Final Solution” by Michael Chabon on the plane to Alabama.  Fun book.  I dig Chabon.  About to start the Yiddish Police Union book.
• Been watching The Wire on DVD.  Am half way through season 2 and hot damn that’s a great show.  Much the fun.

I guess that covers it.  I’ll recap Vegas next week!

Rant alert…

Lately I’ve run into several error messages that were smart enough to know exactly what I wanted to do, but just called me an idiot and offered no help.  The one I consistently get is from our stove when I try to use the timer.  There are two start buttons on the oven, one is “start timer” and the other is just “start”, which tells the oven to start heating up.  To use the timer, you must hit “timer”, enter the time, and then hit “start timer”.  If you hit “start”, it beeps and a little message scrolls by saying “press ’start timer’ to start timer”.  If it knew enough to beep and scroll the message, why didn’t it just skip they annoyances and start the friggin’ timer? 

I hate it when a system knows enough to tell me exactly what I was trying to do, but just calls me a donkey and irritates me.  If it knows that much, it should just go “ok, I know what you meant, lemme go do that for you”.  It’s different than asking “did you want to do a?  or b?  or…” because there are options for what you wanted to do.  I refuse to believe it’s easier to develop a system for displaying the detailed appropriate error message than to build the system to fire off the operation for you.  Sigh.