It's the age old battles with men vs. women... the Battle of Toilet Seat Downs, the Whyistheflooryellow Inquisition, and the unforgettable War of Ohnoshesatinpiss Runforyourlife. Many men have lost a limb over these things, and many women have experienced rage and fury beyond what she ever imagined she was capable of. And all for what?
Flush toilets date all the way back to the 26th century BC. The ones we use today date back more to the early 1900's but still... nothing has really changed at all since 1980, and the basic design hasn't changed since the early 1900's. That is a problem.
Here's where I think we solve the battle... Recognition that toilets were not made for men. Not for peeing anyway. If you understand the anatomy, you'd understand that peeing, for a guy, isn't as simple as point, shoot & aim. It's actually more unpredictable than that... the "stream" is different every time (just like it is for women). So women have to try to understand that it's not that he's necessarily being a lazy pig when he pees. If he's going to be a lazy pig, it's going to be when he fails or refuses to clean up after himself when he's done.
My big frustration is that men refuse to just SIT DOWN. It comes down to one of two things... their idiotic notion that it somehow threatens their manhood (in the privacy of a bathroom where no one can see them), OR the notion that it's less convenient to have to take another 5 seconds to sit down, and then stand up. Sitting down would solve everything.
But they won't do it. Most men are too lazy to lift the toilet seat & put it back down, much less actually sit down & stand back up (ugh what a nightmare!). It makes no sense, but whatever. We still love them in spite of their horrible bathroom behavior.
So back to my solution... toilets weren't made for men. What we need is something that attaches to modern toilets, that can be easily installed, and that is intended only for use by men. I'm thinking some kind of awesome funnel/hose design that attaches to the side of the toilet, "stretches" & is hand held when in use, and is reattached to the side of the toilet when not in use. Something that keeps clean & is easy to clean...
Something that is made for men, and that can attach to existing toilets would revolutionize in-home toilets, and would make for much happier men & women! So there it is... now someone needs to go out & invent it. Kthxbai.
1.27.2013
1.06.2013
Day 5: Good News All Around!
The last bit of news I received from Jay was that he managed to recover almost 5 GB, and it was trying to pull down the "broken" files. 525 of them. He's managed to recover a tremendous amount of files, and I only ended up losing a fraction of them, so I'm thrilled about that! My only last hope now is that the "lost" files are ones I didn't care about or need anyway :) Did I mention he's a god!
On another note, I've just been offered an opportunity to join the Meeting Play team, which is an incredible opportunity. Meeting Play is pretty much a separate part of the company I work with, and it's growing like a weed. We're looking at having to begin hiring on a bunch of people to support it.
I've been asked to come to the February 5 - 8 meeting for Worley in Dallas / Ft. Worth, TX to be trained, and see if it's something I might want to do. I was hesitant at first, because I've traveled on business a lot before, and it gets very old after a while. It's definitely got is perks though.... being paid to travel can certainly be fun, too :) I guess it just depends on where you're traveling to, and how often you're traveling.
Although I do have to give my former boss, Art, some credit... back in the day, when we were traveling so much on business, he did always try to take at least one afternoon to sight see or do something entertaining. We had a lot of fun on a few of our trips, but nevertheless, it ran its course after a while. Plus, the idiotic gossip back at the workplace just got to be unbearable anymore. That place was full of miserable gossips, with their Queen at the helm. Art always said it was fueled by jealousy, which I think is just as idiotic. It really was so much like high school. Everyone was always so cut-throat and out for themselves. It was just the culture there. Thank god those days are behind me. My life is SO much better now that I work with an entire team of such intelligent, talented, driven, and kind people. I couldn't ask for a better dream team!
Anyway, we apparently just landed our first white label enterprise account... Pepsi. This is huge. Really, really huge for us. We trusted Joe from the beginning, and this just goes to show exactly why. He is so ambitious, and he's a genius... he is destined for success, and we're so honored to be a part of the team from the ground floor. He's also such a great guy to work for in general. I really, really love my job.
So, after Dallas, if I decide it's something I want to continue doing, I'll basically have the opportunity to choose several meetings / places I'd like to be included in (to travel to & work at). It sounds like an awesome opportunity!! So I'm very much looking forward to seeing where this leads.
With that said, I suppose today I'm grateful for options, opportunities, and anticipating the future! Life is good :)
On another note, I've just been offered an opportunity to join the Meeting Play team, which is an incredible opportunity. Meeting Play is pretty much a separate part of the company I work with, and it's growing like a weed. We're looking at having to begin hiring on a bunch of people to support it.
I've been asked to come to the February 5 - 8 meeting for Worley in Dallas / Ft. Worth, TX to be trained, and see if it's something I might want to do. I was hesitant at first, because I've traveled on business a lot before, and it gets very old after a while. It's definitely got is perks though.... being paid to travel can certainly be fun, too :) I guess it just depends on where you're traveling to, and how often you're traveling.
Although I do have to give my former boss, Art, some credit... back in the day, when we were traveling so much on business, he did always try to take at least one afternoon to sight see or do something entertaining. We had a lot of fun on a few of our trips, but nevertheless, it ran its course after a while. Plus, the idiotic gossip back at the workplace just got to be unbearable anymore. That place was full of miserable gossips, with their Queen at the helm. Art always said it was fueled by jealousy, which I think is just as idiotic. It really was so much like high school. Everyone was always so cut-throat and out for themselves. It was just the culture there. Thank god those days are behind me. My life is SO much better now that I work with an entire team of such intelligent, talented, driven, and kind people. I couldn't ask for a better dream team!
Anyway, we apparently just landed our first white label enterprise account... Pepsi. This is huge. Really, really huge for us. We trusted Joe from the beginning, and this just goes to show exactly why. He is so ambitious, and he's a genius... he is destined for success, and we're so honored to be a part of the team from the ground floor. He's also such a great guy to work for in general. I really, really love my job.
So, after Dallas, if I decide it's something I want to continue doing, I'll basically have the opportunity to choose several meetings / places I'd like to be included in (to travel to & work at). It sounds like an awesome opportunity!! So I'm very much looking forward to seeing where this leads.
With that said, I suppose today I'm grateful for options, opportunities, and anticipating the future! Life is good :)
1.05.2013
Day 4 - HOORAY!!!
So far, so good with the hard drive! Jeff's genius brother was able to extract the ONE crucial file that I couldn't recover from losing. I couldn't be happier about that :) So, we're off to a good start.
The last thing I heard was that he was going to try extracting the rest via brute force, and basically just let it do its thing until it dies. I'm not sure if he was able to recover additional My Documents data (that was my 2nd primary need... the remainder of my work files), so I'm still keeping my fingers crossed. If I had my way, I'd at least get the rest of the My Documents data - all of it. Not just work related.
It goes without saying that I've lost my music, photos and video library, which crushes me, really. I had some great stuff in there. Some of it was at least backed up on my external hdd... maybe I'll get lucky and discover that the majority of it was backed up :)
I can always recover my movies & music... that won't be a problem. Just time consuming. The good thing is that Jeff has a LOT of the same movies & music that I did, so probably half of what I want is already on his hdd. The photos? I am not sure. I know I emailed myself a lot of my photos, to ensure I would never lose them, but I'm not sure I emailed everything. I'll lose some here & there in the process, but I still consider myself SO lucky that I didn't lose the most important things.
Anyway... Yesterday, I wished to blog about good news today. And I am. So for that, I am grateful :)
The last thing I heard was that he was going to try extracting the rest via brute force, and basically just let it do its thing until it dies. I'm not sure if he was able to recover additional My Documents data (that was my 2nd primary need... the remainder of my work files), so I'm still keeping my fingers crossed. If I had my way, I'd at least get the rest of the My Documents data - all of it. Not just work related.
It goes without saying that I've lost my music, photos and video library, which crushes me, really. I had some great stuff in there. Some of it was at least backed up on my external hdd... maybe I'll get lucky and discover that the majority of it was backed up :)
I can always recover my movies & music... that won't be a problem. Just time consuming. The good thing is that Jeff has a LOT of the same movies & music that I did, so probably half of what I want is already on his hdd. The photos? I am not sure. I know I emailed myself a lot of my photos, to ensure I would never lose them, but I'm not sure I emailed everything. I'll lose some here & there in the process, but I still consider myself SO lucky that I didn't lose the most important things.
Anyway... Yesterday, I wished to blog about good news today. And I am. So for that, I am grateful :)
1.04.2013
Day...3? God help me....
Well, that didn't take long. I got 2 days into 365 Days of Gratitude before failing to write (lol). In my defense, it's because I had no PC to blog with. My hard drive died on me. And I could just about die because of it... my whole life is on that PC. And of course it was one of those things where I kept thinking "I really should do a backup." Yeah.... too little, too late. Can we say cloud storage anyone? You better believe I'm already signed up for Dropbox... .
So, Jeff's brother is taking a look at it tonight. I hope beyond hope he can recover the data. At least SOME of it, anyway. There are several things on that HDD that will be very difficult to reproduce. I can recover from this, but it won't be easy. I will be devastated if I can't get some of that data back :(
And these are the exact types of days 365 Days of Gratitude is good for. The bad days. The days where it's really difficult to find something to be grateful for. I REALLY hope I have something to be super grateful for after Jeff's brother looks at my hard drive :)
So for today, I"m going to say I'm grateful to even have someone to hand my hard drive over to. I wouldn't trust it more in anyone else's hands. If there is a way to recover that data, Jay will manage to do it. He's a PC guru.
Fingers crossed! I hope I have something really, really good to write about tomorrow :)
So, Jeff's brother is taking a look at it tonight. I hope beyond hope he can recover the data. At least SOME of it, anyway. There are several things on that HDD that will be very difficult to reproduce. I can recover from this, but it won't be easy. I will be devastated if I can't get some of that data back :(
And these are the exact types of days 365 Days of Gratitude is good for. The bad days. The days where it's really difficult to find something to be grateful for. I REALLY hope I have something to be super grateful for after Jeff's brother looks at my hard drive :)
So for today, I"m going to say I'm grateful to even have someone to hand my hard drive over to. I wouldn't trust it more in anyone else's hands. If there is a way to recover that data, Jay will manage to do it. He's a PC guru.
Fingers crossed! I hope I have something really, really good to write about tomorrow :)
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