Just slowed my breathing down to a normal pace, after running for the train. I had to ditch my coffee on the floor of the car. Not again. I can’t keep dealing with late nights. I get to sleep at 12:30 and that means I have a grand total of about 6 hours’ sleep in the morning. I don’t like being at work after three days and 18 hours of sleep.
Jen’s neighbor gave her his old Mac after upgrading his model; it’s an 8100/80, a venerable machine, and it comes with a quick hard drive, modem, Zip drive, and a Deskwriter 550c. I installed a fresh copy of System 8 on it last night, and I need to upgrade that to 8.1 with new modem and printer software.
From the Los Angeles Times this morning: Today’s sign that it could have been worse:
“In Menlo Park, home to billion-dollar venture capital firms, new faces are appearing at a state unemployment and training office. “We’re getting a few PhDs and MBAs coming through the door,” said Arlene Borg, a local official of the state Employment Development Department. “There are some marketing folks who were making $120,000,” some of whom are stunned when they learn the maximum unemployment compensation is $230 a week.”
No kidding, guys. Didn’t they teach you in Business School that the first people to get laid off in a downturn are the marketing staff? Makes me glad I went to an art school where they taught you how to eat PB&J and Ramen on $20 a week.
OK, and how frightening would it be to have to visit a government official named ‘Borg’? Imagine somebody named ‘Borg’ at the MVA…
I have to say, it is still blowing my mind how stupid some of the people out in Silicon Valley were with the whole Internet boom. Sure it was a great ride, but did they really think they had ten years to blow through venture capital and become profitable? And I think of all the jackasses over here on the East coast living like they thought it was the West coast. I had a VP who told me a high-powered business exec friend of his called in a bomb threat to a departing airplane they were late for, just so they could make the last flight out of town. He thought that was so cool. What an asshole. I can understand people being rockstars over on the West coast about a year ago, but to work in Laurel, MD and act like you just got back from delivering the keynote at SXSW every day is foolish.
Just got the SMC unit I was talking about a few days ago. Looks good! If I have time, I’m going to try it out tonight- pull the 3Com hub in the office and drop this in its’ place. We’ll see how easy it is to hook up…