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Did you ever think of me, as your best friend?

I never tried to feel, I never tried to feel this vibration;
I never tried to reach, I never tried to reach your Eden.
Hooverphonic, Eden



I do remember days when I was young,
I wish I was a child of ten again;
We learned of love of life of everything,
I wish I was a child of ten again.

I'm running far far away.
Marc Aurel, Running


I don't have much to talk about on a non-geek level. Last night I went to see Taking Lives. With a cast like Angelina Jolie (yes she bares her breasts), Tcheky Karyo, Olivier Martinez, Keifer Sutherland, and Ethan Hawke...you have to expect a good suspense-thriller like all those movies with Judd/Freeman. But no...this felt a lot like Bone Collector, only much worse. The writing sucked ass as nothing was given to the actors and the last 1/4th of the movie was preposturous. I checked...it was the writer's rookie outing. Go figure. In addition, the directing sucked ass...with so many good actors, how do you fuck them over? Bad writing and bad directing. Turns out this is the director's sophmore effort after The Salton Sea. Christ. All in all, barring terrible photography and editing in the action sequences, the movie is a bearable suspense-thriller for the first 3/4, and then just sinks in bottomless depths. Kudos to Angelina though...despite a tanked movie, she and the other actors put forth good efforts...they just get no help.

I saw a sigh on a church on the way home..."the passion of our savior, was to die for our sins," or something like that...I'll edit this when I recatch it. Anyway, in the few blocks it took me to get home, I thought about how ministers who may usually not view popular movies go to see the Passion of the Christ...and what motivates them. Then I think about how they feel all inspire to go talk about it for a sermon...much like the same artificial high and inspiration I always felt for the first week after some mission trip as a kid. Further thinking...and I'm not sure how I got there...brought up analyzing the parallels between adult rapture with Jesus Christ (who may or may not have done anything supernatural) and thus belief in a religion, with similar blind faith that children have for things like the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and the Tooth Fairy. Hell, I even capitalize them too...

Funny though...Easter brings with it blind belief in stories for adults tied to blidn belief by childred in stories for kids about the Easter Bunny. The irony...the irony that equally spills into Christmas and Santa. I wonder if it is coincidence that children are deceived with stories they are asked to believe during times when adults are asked the same things...?

geek alert...geek news forthcoming...

This weekend was pretty packed...as I was at work most of the time. I swept through with two helpers from Tech Support and performed hardware inventory for all desktops. Then, I put on my portable mp3 player (yes, it's an old one, Intel's old 128MB player...back when 128MB was nice) and wandered the deserted rows of cubes as I traced network cables through trial and error (get a baseline from the switches, walk up, unplug a machine, walk back, check lights, repeat). By the time my batteries were dead, I was happily holed up in our server room, down to tracing cables from patch panels to switches to machines to whatever. This normally shouldn't be a task, but this company has never done network tracing before, and the only diagrams to go by are 4 year old ones put up by the people who originally laid the wires...and it's changed since then.

Today was spent troubleshooting small pockets of issues caused by both of those above issues, and documenting everything all nice and pretty in Visio...whee.

In other news, sounds like our multimillion-dollar deal with the feds (like the third in a row) has been approved and we're nearly a green-light to start ordering and putting into place over a million in equipment...plus other projects. It's going to be a hectic mudslide of projects just for our team....scary and exciting at the same time.