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[which_chick]

Meme from cousin_sue via tgreenwillow, five things. Assuming anyone wants to know this much about me, here ya go.



~ 10 YEARS AGO: ~ (1995)
1. I was attending Morgan State for a degree in Industrial Engieering.
2. I was working an internship at Aberdeen Proving Grounds doing audiology-related things.
3. I was mostly unaware of the internet.
4. I did not own a horse.
5. I was driving an Audi.
~ 5 YEARS AGO: ~ (2000)
1. I owned and operated an ISP.
2. I staffed for Otakon.
3. I owned a horse, a kitty, and a house.
4. I was still getting laid regularly.
5. I did not watch anime and had not yet discovered the glories of YBP.
~ 1 YEAR AGO ~ (2004)
1. I'd become a non-smoker.
2. I had a livejournal
3. I stopped staffing for Otakon. Creative differences, you know how it is...
4. I taught myself to knit.
5. I learned a shitload about dragonflies.
~ YESTERDAY ~ (Sunday, September 25, 2005)
1. Tried out the brand-new gooseneck hitch in the bed of my pickup.
2. Rode the IRH at the Shady Trails ride and scored a second-ever victory over her bucking. YAY!
3. Tried out my brand-new horse booties which were largely successful and didn't budge during the bucking.
4. Got up at quarter to six, as is usual.
5. Ate a peanut butter and jelly (grape, that I made) sandwich for breakfast, as is pretty normal.
~ TODAY ~ (Monday, Sept. 26, 2005)
1. Fixed three toilets (two fill valves and a wax ring) at work.
2. Also loaded up logs from tree from 200 into truck, spoke with Mr. Harris regarding the lateness of his rent, fixed a fuse at TA3.
3. Got bank statement in mail, considered plans for when current 3.5% rate expires at end of month.
4. Was pleasantly surprised to see that I made almost fifty bucks in interest this month on that account. YAY!! I are damn thrifty.
5. Forgot Moving Pictures for Maryalice. D'oh.

~ 5 SNACKS I ENJOY ~
1. peaches
2. tomato & mayo sandwiches
3. butterfinger candy bars
4. venti vanilla latte
5. avocado slices with salt

~ 5 SONGS I KNOW ALL THE WORDS TO ~
(I know the words to lots of songs, but there aren't that many I can do without any music to go along with.)
1. Happy Birthday
2. The Doxology
3. The Wild Rover (Clancy Brothers -- this is the No, Nay, Never No More song)
4. Itsy-Bitsy-Spider
5. Ballad of the MTA (Kingston Trio)

~ WHAT I WOULD DO WITH 100 MILLION DOLLARS ~
1. Invest it mostly in tax-advantaged bonds.
2. I can't pay off my house or my car or my truck. They are paid off. I do not want a different car or truck because if I did, I would have them already.
3. I wouldn't go buy tons of consumer goods. I don't want more stuff. More toys does not make for more fun. More toys makes for more hassle and more toy maintaining. More fun comes from playing more with the toys one already has, assuming one already has a few toys.
4. I might get a horse trailer, but they're like five, six grand which is not that much and I'm shopping for that in real life. It's not like a fantasy purchase. I don't *want* a fancy expensive one. I would not want a fancy expensive one even if money were not an object. (Money is not currently an object. I'll pay cash for whatever trailer I buy.) I want a basic three or four horse sized gooseneck stock trailer and that's what I would want if I had a hundred million dollars, too.
5. I could buy a horse farm around here (Ruth Fletcher's place is really pretty) but then I'd have to maintain it and such and I don't know that I'd enjoy the maintaining thing very damn much anyway. I also would not enjoy interviewing and hiring and supervising someone ELSE who could maintain the place. Not sure that'd result in a net win on the happiness front.

~ 5 PLACES THAT I WOULD RUN AWAY TO ~
1. I don't want to run away. I like where I am now.
2. I am not a huge fan of change.
3. Running away seems very disorganized. Would there be an itinerary?
4. How about meals-with-tablecloths?
5. Certainly there would be indoor plumbing, right?

~ 5 THINGS I WOULD NEVER WEAR ~
1. thong underwear
2. gold lame (I am not a gold lame person)
3. jockstrap
4. honest-to-god velvet (too easy to destroy)
5. virtually anything in the color green

~ 5 FAVORITE TV SHOWS ~ (in no particular order)
1. BtVS
2. Highlander (yes, dork quotient huge)
3. My So-Called Life
4. West Wing
5. X-Files

~ 5 BAD HABITS ~
1. procrastination
2. gluttony
3. distraction
4. petty cruelty
5. rather a sharp tongue

~ 5 BIGGEST JOYS ~
1. competence
2. independence
3. praise from unexpected quarters
4. fresh, ripe tomatoes
5. having the right thing

~ 5 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS I WOULD DATE ~
1. Methos (so pretty!)
2. Van Helsing as rendered by Hugh Jackman (again with the pretty)
3. Akio from Utena (yeah, he's a whore. Totally. Betcha he's a blast in the sack, though...)
4. The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork (who doesn't, I don't think, date.)
5. Captain Jack Sparrow (The pretty. I am such a damn sucker for the pretty.)

~ 5 PEOPLE I TAG TO DO THIS ~
1. I am not particularly comfortable telling other people to do this.
2. Most of the people I know have already done the damned thing.
3. Those who have not yet can do so if they feel motivated.
4. Sorry. I'm just not very good at the whole peer pressure thing.
5. But, y'know, if you feel motivated, please go ahead and meme.

Comments

[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

I'd do it, but I've already done it. Probably should have written cooler things, but couldn't think of any.

[tgreenwillow.livejournal.com]

Since I have also done this, it is senseless for me to repeat it. My life has changed not a whit since this morning to any major extent.

[brni.livejournal.com]

so... whatever happened with the ISP? you seem not to talk much of it nowadays, so i'm presuming you are out of that scene?

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

We still have it, it still makes money, and I do the admin stuff for it on the side when I'm not off doing the landlording thing. It currently has about 1100 users, down from a high of about 1800 before we got cable and DSL around here. I track the stuff it uses and shut off things (PRIs, T1s, etc.) as they are no longer needed. The ISP thing doesn't require a full-time babysitter and I spent the last year and a half that I took full-time wages from it sitting on my ass and reading porn online. While that was amusing as hell, it wasn't a particularly productive use of my time or the business's money.

From my perspective, being-a-landlord and being-an-ISP are pretty much the same -- I spend my time finding the broken spots and fixing the shit that other, dumber people have broken. My new job (being-a-landlord) has more, y'know, actual shit, which I guess is a downside. On the plus side, I do not have to explain to the tenants what the fuck a mailer-daemon is and why they might be getting mail from one. I do not have to explain (over the phone) how to move the fucking taskbar from the right hand side of the screen back down to the bottom... invariably to some elderly woman who does not understand the whole click-AND-drag thing. I don't have to explain why just changing the NAME of the file from .tif to .jpg does not convert the file format. I do not have to explain, yet again, using small words, what spyware is or why it gets installed on someone's computer. I do not have to control myself when I ask what browser someone is using and he or she says "Windows".

While I am very, very good at it, I despise doing dial-up tech support and I say this having done it from Windows 3.1 to Windows XP, forty hours a week, for nine years. From 0 to 1400 users, I was the only tech support for the ISP, day in and day out. I was tech support and I was the network admin. (We had someone for accounting because I was hopeless at that part, still am.) I've done. The internet is a fun thing but I will be happy if I never, ever have to explain it to another human being.

[brni.livejournal.com]

the trick is to get a job doing fun geek stuff that doesn't require talking to Delores Brown (my nemesis when i was doing dial-up support - she used 640x480 resolution, and if the "ok" button was below the bottom of the screen, she'd just click the "x," but SAY that she was clicking the ok button... grrrr).

'course, then you get to deal with the tech-school certified network admins who resist all clue and have a certificate to show that they don't need clue...

but at least eviction notices can be executed with a few keystrokes, rather than a sheriff and crew of movers.

[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

I'll consider myself tagged. I never do these things, but this one isn't too cutesy and seems easy enough.