WTF?!?

So there's this lady, or rather girl, in our Edmonton office who has been talking about getting a little dog. She was looking at getting a little shi-tzu or bichon.

Yesterday she found a lady giving away a pair of them, male and female, 2 years old, and it was okay if she split them up. So she went and looked at them, and they were super cute, and she took the male one home.

I ask her today how her new little puppy is doing and I hear "I took it to the SPCA." WHAT?!? Yup, she figures she's not ready for the responsibility. Which is all well and good, some people are not fit for raising dogs, but seriously... I'm sure it'll get adopted, and find a nice home. But could you imagine what the previous owners of the dog would have thought? Give their dog away to what they think is a nice home, and the next day it's at the pound. Give your head a shake woman! WTF?!!!?

So yeah, that's my rant for the day. My give-a-shit factor for work has run out, and I'm exhausted and sick and tired of dealing with all this stress and bullshit. All that travelling and server upgrades and whatnot have drained me. I'm off tomorrow, and will work half day Saturday and take Tuesday off. That'll give me a long weekend, and allow me to recouperate a bit.

enough to make your head spin

Fly to Vancouver Friday morning at 7 and spend the day rushing to get a software upgrade done in that office.
Flight to Kelowna at 6:30, then a 30 minute drive to Vernon Friday evening. (ended up cancelling the flight and driving the 5 hour trip from Vancouver to Vernon in 7 hours, saving a few hundred dollars, but having to sit in horrible traffic)
At work for 7am, spend the day stressing about finishing the software upgrade in this office, then drive to the airport for a flight at 5 pm to come back home for Calgary.
Have a day off to recuperate and spend a little time with my wonderful wife.
Will be at the car rental Monday at 7am to drive the 3 hours to edmonton, finish the software upgrade, and drive back to Calgary.
Hopefully home by 10pm.

P.S. My tattoo is healing and is VERY itchy.

Raising my badass quotient

So on Tuesday I went out and made a permanent decision. A rather awesome one I might add. I got myself a tattoo. My very first, I might add. How awesome is that? Well it doesn't really matter what you think, because I love it.
For those of you who don't know (and yes, there've been a number of ppl to ask me what it is) it is a bass clef. Being a bass player, I thought it suitable. I put it on the inside of my forearm because I play a 5-string and so it's the clef at the beginning of the staff. :) I'm so clever. Though I'm realzing that I need something on my opposing wrist to balance it out, which made me wish I played piano b/c then I could get a treble clef on the right wrist and it would be perfect. The clef to suit the hand that plays it. Again, yes I'm clever.

Anyway, it was super exciting. I was so very nervous about the whole thing, especially since everyone says it's so painful there. It really wasn't, so in the scale of things, if that was painful other places will be a breeze. Teika at Impact Body Art did it for me. She was amazing. Very calming, explained it all to me, talked to me during it and generally was the best tattooist I could have asked for for my first time. I'll definitly be seeing her again.

It was sad that Mama Bean wasn't able to be there to share the experience with me, but we'd gone on our day off and they were too busy. They are one of the places in town that take walk-ins (the others being very skizzy, and the non-walkin ones booking into November).

So I'm quite happy with it. Now I'm off to Vancouver tomorrow, then Vernon tomorrow night, then home on Saturday night, home for a day before driving up to Edmonton for a day or two. Gotta love being the only IT guy, and having to travel around to do te big software upgrade alone. And she bitches when I ask for a raise...