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I’m taking some quality time to get rid of some excess stuff that would probably serve someone else far better:

D-Link Wireless Router
Honeywell Fan
Grey Fan
AT&T Headset
2 Wireless Keyboard/Mice
2 Radio Wrist Watch
PS/2 Mouse
Radioshack Headset
USB Secure Digital Card Reader
IR Keyboard
TI Graphlink
In Ear Headphones
Targus PDA Case
4 Small Car Speakers
2 Super 8 Nintendo Controllers
USB Controller Converter

In addition to the above:
30 lbs of Dungeons and Dragon Ver 2.0 source material (mostly Planescape)
3 ATX Computer cases
Vampire: The Masquerade V 1.0 core book
An absolute shit load of 2-4 inch binders in superb condition
18 slide projectors
16 overhead projectors

If you’re interested in any of these, email me.

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My 2 TB home server has been on the fritz and I’m convinced it’s getting Munchausen Syndrome.  Somehow, the motherboard generates a wailing beep that doesn’t correspond to any normal beep code that’s only placated by rebooting.  It then lost my backups (go entire point of the damn thing!) and corrupted my system backup.  I’m not sure what’s wrong but I’m scared to death to let the thing wail when it’s possibly about to light on fire while deleting everything I hold digital.

So right now, I’m sitting here staring at my computer with a glass of Pepsi Max in one hand and a fire extinguisher in the other knowing that if I fall asleep, the power supply will break, hobgoblins will spill out and individually rape each of the four hard drives that hold my precious 5-Color deck ideas and a meticulously sorted collection of hard-to-find por…. pictures of kittens.  Yes, kittens.  Only another hour before everything transfers to my external hard drive, but that’s Microsoft’s estimate.  As anyone who used Windows 95 or newer knows, that the last 2% of a file transfer take three times longer than the rest combined.

At least if my room lights on fire I already have recovery experience. (Note to self, post pictures of room having lit on fire)

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I’m briefly returning to my place of previous employ to complete a project.  I received an initial salary offer from the staffing firm that was unappetizing so asked for some time to chew on it.  I replied the next day that it was below what I wanted and I contacted the staffing firm and left a message that I was looking for more and then the employer (without telling the staffing firm) to discuss a new wage.

I talked about what I was looking for and why with my contact and he agreed to put in a new request for a bit more.

I later received a message from the staffing firm: “Hey, Terry.  This is Matt and yesterday I sensed you weren’t happy with your offering. (No shit, I said I wasn’t) So I contacted your employer (which he didn’t) and talked to their staffing director (which they don’t have) and wrestled (?) a new rate our of them that I thought you’d find more appealing.  Just wanted to know that I’m fighting for you.”

Nice to know that this firm’s going to get paid probably $4.00 for every hour I work and now more because of my work.  Thanks, douche.

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I was trying to track down an high resolution copy of the OSR logo to put onto sign posts and so on and tracked down a vector graphic of the logo from the guy who prints our shirts.  He sent it to me saying it was “the graphic he used” but the file I received didn’t include an extension.  Time for trial an error!

BMP – No
JPG – No
TIF – No
PNG – No
SVG – No
VML – No
XPS – No
PDF – No
JP2 – No
RAW – No
PBM – No
EWC – No
CGM – No
DCS – No
SWF – No
GIF – No
ANI – No
PAT – No
CFA – No
DNG – No
GIH – No
TGA – No
PGF – No
EPS – GOOOOOOOOOOAL!

Yep. Encapsulated post script.  The graphic equivalent of storing a term paper as a spreadsheet.  It’ll work, sure.  But no sane person would do it.

He included another image that I’m yet to figure out what it is.  I’m confident if I open it in a hex editor it’ll just be pseudorandom data.

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As many of you associated with my camp life now know, Bill Mischke is stepping down as a Director of Camps and Properties for Bucks County Council on September 30th.  He’s going to Baltimore Area Council to hopefully work his magic again on a larger scale and I wish him the best.

In other news, I worked on doing more after camp clean up and found some documents form the summer that I thought I’d store on Flickr.

whit-imissyouThis is a cry for help I received from Whit during his starting time at Kirby

TomPaintThis is a picture Joe Naylor did of Tom Leitz in paint

IMG_0622This is a picture of the sun setting over Furlong in a day where I drove from camp to home and back four times or so for Nick Gramiccioni.

IMG_0654This is Nick Gramiccioni looking really fat.

IMG_0648This is an absolute pile of food decimated during the staff banquet

IMG_0656This is Mike Spinrad chucking A1

I hope to have more pictures up shortly once I figure out how to make Lightroom cooperate on network drives.

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I reinstalled Vista a day or two ago as an attempt to fix  problem with Team Fortress 2 that was actually being caused by RAM.  As I slowly installed each program suite and appropriately entered the registration code I realized I now have enough legit Microsoft and Adobe licenses that I can participate in the Customer Experience Feedback without fearing the Business Software Alliance busting down my door.

And it only cost about $1100 is software to do.