Food commercials annoy me

I've been watching the tube this week and I've come to realize that I hate food commercials. They've become more annoying as time has passed. My two most hated commercials are Subway and Burger King. I don't eat Subway because I don't think its worth the money to get a sandwich from them but I do eat Burger King on occasion.

I hope they stop with the crappy food commercials, they're not making me want to buy their food in any way.

OK the Benedryl I'm taking is starting to take effect and make me drowsy. Hopefully I can stay awake long enough to make lunch and my two meetings this afternoon.

Work Computer Update

OK I mentioned in one of my last blog posts that my work computer was acting up. That was quite the understatement! This past week the damn thing just refused to work. I thought it was Firefox or even Xobni but to no avail, the computer seemed to be mocking me by being ON but eating up 100% of my CPU. Totally not cool!

As part of my ordeal, I had to go to the Atlanta office 3 different times this past week. The first was on Monday and they just tried to give it a tune up. I went back to the office and the thing was running like a slug again. I went to the office again on Tuesday afternoon and requested a re-image and I had to leave it over night. I went back again on Wednesday to pick it up and things seemed fine but it was not to be.

After installing some tools that I knew of things started to look a little better and for Thursday and Friday it seems to be working like a champ! Very very strange. Just so you know I was upgrading from XP to Vista and I found it strange that Vista would treat me like this after running so well on my home computer.

I asked my tech guy in Miami to keep my hard drive intact for now, I don't think I'm going to need it now that I have my computer running finally. I just have some other issues to work out that I've discovered recently but as long as the computer isn't eating 100% CPU, I can manage.

Life with contacts

It's been a week or so with contacts and so far it hasn't been too bad. I've been struggling with them in the morning sometimes but its no longer taking me 20 minutes to stick them in my eye. The one thing that is kind of annoying is that now I need contact solution and the travel size bottles don't last long enough. I'm thinking of buying bigger bottles at my client site and then leaving them at the office and just bringing a travel size one just in case I need it.

Things haven't been as clear though, not like when I had my glasses. I called my eye doctor and I have to go in and see her because she might need to make some adjustments to my prescription. Thats not to mean things are bad, they're just a tad blurrier than I'm used to. We'll see what happens on that front.

One of the major pluses is that I get to wear real sunglasses and not prescription ones anymore. I bought some Oakley Flak Jacket sunglasses that Ialways wanted (I think I mentioned this in another post somewhere) and I use them as much as I can. If the sun is out and I have to go outside I put them on. Part of the reason is because I don't have transitions anymore, I don't think they make them for contacts, and because they look cool. HA!

OK I think I've done enough blogging for today. I was going to blog earlier this week but my laptop died and I had to take it in to be repaired. Next week I'm off to Omaha!

Could the iPhone 3G be in my future?

Recently I got a communication from my company that they might be considering opening the flood gates and letting more people be on corporate cell phone plans. This is due to the fact that a majority of the people that work for my company travel and it makes having an office number totally impractical. There are a few caveats that I've noticed so far.

1) It's a voice only plan, so that means I have to pay for text messaging and data on my own
2) I can only choose AT&T and Verizon, thats not a big deal since I was going to use either of them anyway
3) My phone number would be owned by the company instead of me, some cause for concern but not a big one

The kicker is if I want my company to monitor all the calls and websites I'm looking at. I enjoy my privacy but this might be a bit much. There is an early adopter program and I signed up for it to see if they would pick me. One of the phone choices was the iPhone 3G. I already have an iPod Touch but this would make things more interesting since I would have the phone component and a lot of the apps that are on the app store require an internet connection all the time.

Only time will tell if I get one though. If I get it through my company thats fine but if I'm getting a plan on my own, I'm going Windows Mobile all the way.

Issues with Firefox on my work computer

I recently got an upgrade for my work computer and I loaded the usual programs that I use. My computer is running Vista Enterprise and I have Vista Home Premium on my desktop but for some reason my work computer doesn't like Firefox. It was rather strange because I use it at home without any trouble.

What seems to happen is that the program gets hung up on something and then it goes and eats all the memory on the computer. When it does this, my computer won't start normally and it takes half an hour to get going. Thats bull crap right there! I've un-installed it and things seem to be working ok. I'll test it a bit more tomorrow but I have a ticket in to tech support to look at it on Monday in Atlanta. We'll see how things go.