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Day 253: password

October 22, 2009 / / 0 Comments

So here’s a story of me losing to technology today.

My work password needed to be changed.  Every month or two months or some other arbitrary amount of time, our work servers force us to change our password.  Some of you probably experience this at your work as well.

So, this morning, with 1 day left until my password expired, I went ahead and changed my password.

At some point in the late afternoon, I went into a meeting and locked my computer, as I often do when I’m going to be away from my desk for an extended period of time.

When I returned, every password I attempted to put in to unlock my computer failed.

Here’s what must have happened.  I must have made a typo when changing my password.  And then, miraculously, I must have somehow made the same typo when entering my new password into the second field.

Either that, or I’m incredibly stupid and can’t actually remember what I changed my password to.

Still, I left work today (a rather productive day, overall) feeling sad and defeated by a simple string of letters and numbers.

Day 252: cholesterlol

October 21, 2009 / / 0 Comments

I got my flu shot at work today and had a free cholesterol screening at the same time.

It seems my overall cholesterol is a bit high.  My overall cholesterol is at 205, which is above the 200 (or below) that is considered desirable for adults.

I guess I should have seen this coming.  I like to eat fried foods, I never exercise, and I don’t eat enough fruits or vegetables.  But it’s a bit of a wake-up call.  After all, I’m only 26 and if my habits are this unhealthy now, I imagine I’ll be a walking sack of heart attack in another couple of decades.

So, here’s to a renewed effort at a few cholesterol-lowering habits:

  • Making exercise a routine, either at the gym at EA or with Wii Fit or EA Active at home (or both!)
  • Eating more fiber, as well as a serving of fruit or vegetables each day
  • Eating more salmon or walnuts to try to boost my healthy cholesterol levels
  • Try and cut back on meat and egg consumption
  • As a corollary to all this, try to go to bed each day before midnight – this will help make time in the mornings for exercise as well as potentially eating something healthy

I’m not overly concerned, as I’m just above the cutoff for a healthy, desirable cholesterol level.  And, I am young.  I still have plenty of time to make the necessary adjustments.

Still, it was a bit unexpected and did fill me with both a sense of sadness and a tiny bit of dread.

Day 251: cheesy blasters

October 20, 2009 / / 1 Comment

You take a hot dog, stuff it with some jack cheese, fold it in a pizza…you got cheesy blasters!

Am I the only one that wants to attempt to film some kind of hybrid live-action/animated version of the commercial for cheesy blasters that was described on 30 Rock this past week?

I’ll take on the task of filming the live-action portion and editing the things together (both video and sound) if someone else is willing to draw meat cat and potentially find some children to be in it.

Man, I could go for a cheesy blaster.

Day 250: day care fsa

October 19, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Each year, the company makes us look over our work benefits and decide which benefits we want to keep, which pre-tax spending accounts we want to deposit money into, and things like supplemental life insurance.

This year is the first year that I’ve had to actually consider the Dependent Child Care FSA.  It would be a pre-tax account that I could put money into directly from my paycheck to help pay for child care.

From an informal poll of child care costs from my co-workers with children, the cost of actually sending a child to a day care is something in the ballpark of 20 hojillian dollars.  That’s a lot.  That’s way more than I’d be putting into a FSA.

So, I waived putting any money into it this year.  Our child will just have to deal with actually being cared for by us, I suppose.

Or we’ll just have to pay for it post-tax, if we sell our house.  And kidneys.  Or I can fake my own death and Katie can collect on the life insurance policy?  The options are limitless!

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