K. Close III

Thursday, May 26th, 2005 | LiveJournal Archives

Work has been hell lately, I’m surprised any of us are still in the office.

The network has decided that the Art building no longer belongs to the rest of campus, the internet or even the servers in our back room. It’s been crazy the last two days with people coming by or calling about how they can’t do anything as if they expect us to pull stability out of our asses, save their lives, and still smell like roses. Really, all we can do is put our heads between our knees, and hope the network stabalizes as the campus networking crew does everything they can do to fix it. It’s out of our hands, people.

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If you haven’t heard of Nochnoy dozor (Night Watch), then you should see the trailer. Its this Russian, big budget, Hollywood Quality movie that just also happens to be the first in a trilogy. Its dark, its moody, its gothic, its awesome! It comes out this summer in limited release (in subtitles no less!) but if you have the hook up, you can snag a copy of the Russian release DVD with english subtitles. Some of the translation is a little awkward, but after your third viewing, it doesn’t really matter anymore. I’m actually interested in getting the original novels now, because the movies seem to gloss over a bit of the background.

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I pulled the projector out for tomorrow. The bulb has 1000+ hours on it, but I think there’s very little chance of it exploding. The other projector we have has 1500 and it hasn’t exploded yet so we should hopefully be in the clear. Just to be on the safe side, though, everyone be sure to wear your nomex hats to movie night tomorrow. As always, movie starts at 7:45 and if you need directions to my house, be sure to either email me or post a request in the comments.

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Heather and I are getting closer to being able to to on vacation this summer. We just really need to get away and we’re hopefully going to be using my parents’ timeshare to do so. If that fails, we’ve actually found a timeshare system that we’re genuinely interested in and may end up buying into after a 90 minute demo. Silverleaf Resorts is a small collection of resorts around the easter half of the US and all of them, at least at this point, are pet friendly with a $55 fee. It’s so tough to find places to go and be able to take our dogs with us, so we’re really excited to find this company. Also, they seem to appreciate the same type of getaway that I want, usually fairly secluded and surrounded by nature while still being withing driving distance of a metroplex (yeah, isn’t that what everyone wants?). We requested to attend a 90 minute presentation on Silverleaf Resorts so that we could win some crappy prize, but moreso so we can actually find out how much it would cost us to be a member in the system. I’d love to be involved in something that we wouldn’t have to worry about “where are we going to go this year to keep from going crazy?” They were trying to call me earlier to confirm our visit, but I was running down the hall to save the Dean from our network issues when they called before.

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