The thing I hate the most about rainy days in Connecticut is driving. For some reason, and this is pretty much the same reason in all metro areas, people can’t drive in the rain. For the Hartford area, where commutes at high-speeds among general speeders that-have-to-get-there-as-soon-as-possible, rain pretty much takes the average speed of a vehicle from about 80mph and knocks it down to about 50mph. Still fast, but my commute from Vernon to East Hartford, which takes about 8-10 minutes, feels longer. Guess I shouldn’t complain given the longer commutes my friends and family have to their jobs, but when we were in our old building in Vernon, it was kinda nice having a non-highway 5-minute commute to work and back.

Today’s adventure involved LCD monitors, we got three new 22″ Hannspree LCDs, two of which went to my manager, though I dunno why since he had two working Samsungs but I suppose it matters not, and the other went to me, except where it should have replaced my little Hanns-G and given me two delicious 1080p screens, he wanted me to swap out my new Acer for it. That went to replace the old huge like Xbox CRT our customer support and sales lady has, one of the Samsungs went to one of my co-workers, and the other will go to the new support tech we’re hiring soon. Personally I thought they should have bought four, given one each to me and one of my other co-workers to replace our little Hanns-G ones from the old place, the other two to the people I mentioned above, and given the two Hanns-G ones to the new kid for now until they get upgraded later on, but I guess the tradition of gimping the newbies ended with me. XD I can’t complain, I just got a new machine that no longer freezes every 10 seconds while Bomgar is open and can run my XP VM for testing stuff as well as everything else, and really, I use my bigger monitor for everything except the web, which the little handles fine, so it’ll do.

I keep hearing more and more about this Facebook privacy crap, and really, what annoys me the most is not that they did it or people bitching about it, it’s more the fact that most of these people who are bitching about it either don’t know what it’s about and just join the train, or kids who post every detail and facet of their life and then when someone points out that either A: No one cares or B: Guess what? Corporate America LOVES You! they freak out, retcon/blanking in progress/DELETE FUCKING EVERYTHING, threaten to boycott, and then go right back to using it like nothing happened days later. Why? People, especially kids that pretty much grew up with this and have it interwoven into their lives, NEED online validation of their lives by their peers, and they don’t understand that “Corporate America” has been exploiting this in present and past forms since forever. Facebook is free, it’s free because ads and CA pay for it, live with it, or pay $x/mo/yr to use it. Bandwidth doesn’t grow on trees. More on this at some later date on TL;DR Politics

Last, but not least, new photos of the apartment are online. I’ve posted them to an album on Facebook for the majority of the people I know to view, but if you don’t use FB or don’t like FB, I have a handy ZIP file I sent to a couple family members that can be sent to you if you like. Contact my email address if you are interested and I actually know you. Personally, I’m fucking awesome at cleaning apartments, and making things look symmetrical.