Changes to Larrie’s eWorld

I was waiting for some great idea to hit me and I’d have a humorous entry worthy of your precious blog-reading time. Nothing has hit me.

Sorry.

I tried; really, I did.

I didn’t want to talk about the BYU-Utah game because Kaakun already said enough. Or perhaps Hall threw the game on purpose so that the U could become the biggest donor to BYU’s program via a second trip to a BCS bowl…

I even tried reading old blog entries to spark an idea. And by old, we’re talking an ENTIRE year ago. That was ages and ages ago. Can you believe I’m even still blogging? Since then, though, I’ve had many changes to my eWorld. Or at least, I think there have been. Let’s make a list, how ‘bout?

1. Changed blog hosts, leaving behind the restricted Live Spaces for more freedom from WordPress
2. Ended my use of MSN Messenger following a company lockdown when an IT Support personnel (no less) clicked on a link from an outside contact and started spreading a virus to all his company contacts
3. Now use Communicator at work and therefore no longer know what DFunk is up to
4. Still have a Myspace account, but what’s the use?
5. Probably overuse Facebook for event invitations, sharing pictures and poking people
6. Blog every work day
7. No longer have my own webpage; isn’t a blog as fantastic as mine good enough for you?
8. Log online at home through my very own Comcast connection because I live all alone
9. Use a new online stalking tool: iSearch
10. Neglect my online-hosted email accounts because when I get home from work, all I care to do online is school
11. No longer leave comments on my friends’ blogs (even when I have plenty to say) because they’re all blocked at work
12. Use flickr for all of my online-photo-hosting needs
13. Frequent Google Reader
14. Stopped reading some blogs (like dooce and yourheartout) because for some reason, I got bored of them
15. Stopped reading other blogs (like sarahnielsen and seriouslysoblessed) because they didn’t send entire feeds via RSS (BOO)
16. I now post a Political Link of the Day, but does anybody ever read them? Does anybody even read this blog?
17. And LAST, I’ve found this AMAZING product online that I will purchase for all of the men on my Christmas giving list this year: the Uroclub. For a great image of the club in action, click HERE.

So that was a good list, right? Sure… why not. I thought maybe it would be a better list, but trying to remember what I did a year ago compared to now turned out to be way too much work. Besides, I’m at work and I already have work to do.

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Political Link of the Day: “Anatomy of a Meltdown: Ben Bernanke and the Financial Crisis”

Over fifteen months, beginning in August, 2007, the Fed, through various novel programs known by their initials… lent more than a trillion dollars to dozens of institutions… The programs, which have received little public attention, were supposed to be temporary, but they have been greatly expanded and remain in effect.

Episode 27: Rivalry Friday

It’s a big game this weekend, right? I mean, we’re talking HUGE. It is such a big deal that people’s salvations hang in the balance because it’s a holy war of sorts. You’re either blue or red—no purple allowed.

So an email went out to my entire company yesterday.

Subject: Rivalry Week Team Colors

Dear Colleagues,

In the spirit of college rivalry week, we encourage employees to wear their team colors to work on Friday and Saturday. Enjoy the excitement of the week and cheer your team to victory.

As always, please stay professional, respectful and safe at work.

Go Team!

I’m wearing my professional BYU shirt today. It has a collar, therefore, it is professional. But, it’s always a bit cold in the office so I have on my BYU sweatshirt, too. Just wanted to make sure that my boss (who’s wearing a big read Ute sweatshirt) doesn’t forget that her subordinate is cheering for the enemy.

I’m so glad they told us to be safe. Otherwise, we might start wrapping statues in saran wrap and guarding Y Mount. Oh… right. That’s what they do on campus at the Y because of the big, bad U students that are sure to go down to Provo and paint their “eternal family” statue all red. What would happen to all those Cougar fans if they woke up in the morning to find the Y on the mountain painted red and all of the ROTC cadets that were SUPPOSED to be guarding it, knocked unconscious? Rivalry week is a scary thing.

Really. It’s SCARY.

For me.

My eternal family is red. So what is the blue sheep of the family to do tomorrow if my Cougars lose to the best Ute team since Urban Meyer?

(When I was little, Jarv and Thane used to cheer for the Cougars, too.)

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Political Link of the Day: “What is the average hourly wage of a UAW auto worker?“

Look What I Wrote Today

You would think after another busy weekend, I would have massive amounts of rambling to do. Perhaps I would share all the intimate details if I wasn’t so tired and coughy. (It’s my blog; I make up my own words.)

Don’t get me wrong, though. The weekend was rather fabulous although I should have slept more.

Plus, the cherry on top was seeing some of my Unspeakable pals, Kow, Bean and fam Sunday night. It was worth the drive to P-town.

Now I’m at work. Surprise. And there’s plenty to do. Surprise.

So rather than take the time to create a witty post about something that happened this weekend, I will simply cut and paste what I wrote this morning for work. Now, you will see why I’m so good at my job… because of the YEARS of honing my mighty writing skills as I earned my English degree from the prodigious BYU. Enjoy this brief, but enormously interesting SQL query:

select distinct

cast (masterSetting.setting_value as varchar(32)) as

’setting_value’,

mastersetting.CLTD_ID,

test.test_number,

test.test_name,

test.ARUP_TEST_NUM,

test.USE_ARUP_TEST_DATA

from

dbo.tblCLTDMasterSetting mastersetting (nolock)

inner join dbo.tblCLTDSetting setting (nolock)

on mastersetting.setting_id = setting.setting_id

and setting.setting_name = ‘LTD Name’

inner join dbo.tblCLTDTest test (nolock)

on mastersetting.CLTD_ID = test.CLTD_ID

where test.use_arup_test_data <> ‘0′

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Political Link of the Day: “Big 3 Bailout: The Ultimate in Lemon Socialism…”

Portland knows how to make a mother’s lounge

This “mother’s lounge” was hidden off of a bathroom at a MALL that we went to in Portland. The only downside? No long benches for napping. I always liked a certain bathroom in the library at BYU for THAT reason.

How all the thievery at BYU began…

“Where’s the bucket?” ~Shanny

It was the good ol’ days: freshman year at BYU, and Shanny, and I (along with our four other roommates) were preparing for another cleaning inspection when low and behold, NO BUCKET! Who purloins a cleaning bucket? This FORCED us to filch a bucket from one of the men’s dorms across the street and probably started a chain reaction of pillaging and plundering of buckets throughout the dorms. AT BYU! *gasp*