Was it 15 minutes or 14?

Woo woo! Let my 15 minutes of fame begin. Actually, it'll probably last longer than that, I hope. If you haven't been following the past few days, SporTruck.com asked to use my digital photos from this past weekend's East Coast Nationals for their show coverage. And, of course, I agreed. They've finally posted their (well, MY)gallery over at their site. So what are you waiting for? Go feast your eyes on their higher quality (and quantity) images than I had space to post over here on my site.

Today was awesome at work. Until the last half-hour. You see, we've been having this terrible server/network problem that has been causing MASS havoc for our users. Without getting too technical, our computers are randomly getting kicked off of the server for no reason. They'll be saving a file, printing, or some other server-intensive task, and *BOOM*...they just get booted off the server. So, I've been spending a great deal of my extra time at work trying to figure out a reason why this is happening. Well, Jack made a stunning discovery this morning. The primary ethernet card in the server was configured wrong, causing network activity to that server to be severely crippled. He fixed it and server performance seemed great all day long. Until 5:00. Then I started getting calls from people getting kicked off the server and slow performance. What a let down. I really thought we had it fixed this time. Now, it's back to the drawing board. How depressing.

Oh yeh..more new computer stuff showed up at work this morning. Our department really DOES look like a warehouse now. About 20 more 17" Dell monitors arrived to go along with the 15 17" displays that arrived yesterday. I'll try to take a picture of it sometime tomorrow. It's a shame that my webcam doesn't see any of that. I wish I could find a new place to point my cam.

And, finally, in the spirit of my "weird friends" theme this week, I made yet ANOTHER friend this morning. A big ole' horse-fly. Yep. When I started up my truck this morning, there he was, perched on my hood. He was absolutely the largest horse-fly I've ever seen; probably about the size of your thumb (no joke!). So, he rode with me all the way down the parkway, onto Route 1, onto the 295 access road, and finally blew away when I got up to speed on I-95. What was even funnier was the fact that he looked like he was putting on a dare-devil act the entire time. Every once in a while (even at 55mph!), he'd lift his front 2 legs (arms?) up and fiddle with his antennae. I could almost hear him saying, "Look, Ma! No hands!" over the roar of my 2.4L beast. Pretty funny.