TC the Terrible

And to top it off, his boss is out too. This bliss is only going to last today and tomorrow so I am really kicking back and doing lots of nothing. I’ll hit the gym this afternoon late, and most likely leave work from there. There is a brief for a four star tomorrow that our office has to do the prep for early in the morning. There was talk of the whole thing getting shit canned last night, but that got changed by the time we opened for business today. That’s what we consider business as usual around here.

The first of the golf lessons I got for my birthday is this Saturday. That is going to be too cool. I love hitting the golf ball and am a real sucker for the personal attention you get from a good coach. Which probably tells too much about my mental defects.

Later.

A friend of mine that I know only through the magic of electrons commented today on the fact that I change e-mail addresses more often than anyone she knows. I thought that was kind of a harsh thing for a girl named Halibut to say, but we’ve known each other for a few years so I can let her slide.

Like any good woman, she has a point. I got my first e-mail account back iin ’96 before I knew that AOL wasn’t cool. After a couple of months I got tired of the ads, and harrassment of my peers and moved on to Netcom with its cumbersome .ix.com extension. They got absorbed by somebody and the modem to user ratio went into the toilet, so I went with a local provider. My buddy owned it so the price was right and like all good things it came to a rapid ending. From there I hopped onto Memphisonline.com which was a national provider that named itself after each city it hosted servers in. That was pretty good for a time, but then they went to an e-mail only help desk which is pretty much usless. I broke my contract with those guys and moved on to BellSouth and entered the world of DSL. Now that address stuck for a couple of years. I did have the HotMail and Yahoo account, but kept losing them due to neglect. I had acouple of accounts that were tied to different newsgroups or websites. There was, of course, the work address even though I never gave that one out. Then the Army wanted me at Fort Bragg for a year so I got a .bragg.mil account and another account that won’t change even after the Army kicks me out.

BellSouth didn’t have service in North Carolina so I used one of those free AOL CDs just to get my new laptop on line. An hour later I had dumped the Yellow running man and had hooked up with Earthlink. That account got be through my days at Bragg and back to Memphis. I stayed with the DSL version of EarthLink untill Uncle Sam called again.

Earthlink didn’t have DSL in Northern Virginia at the time so I made the move to cable. Cox Cable gave me several mailboxes with the account but none have been activated. I used my .army.mil account for a couple of months then went to Yahoo which sucks except for the price. Now I’m using Gmail. A far better than than I’ve used before.

Like I said, despite being named for a fish, she’s a pretty sharp lady.

I’ve posted four times over the last week. None of them are on the site now. Crap.

Since I do all of this directly none of the posts are saved onto the harddrive. Oh well, it wasn’t anything that vital anyway.

Had a free golf lesson yesterday and the wife tagged along with her clubs. The female pro there was really good and the wife is going to start private lessons from her soon. That should be a good thing. I liked my guy too, but already have lessons booked (birthday present from the Mrs.) at another location. I’ll burn through those and see how they go.

My golf muscles hurt like hell today because dude made major changes to my grip and swing. The results were visible on the spot. That I really liked. Now I just have to practice the new stuff until they replace the old habits and become natural.

Spent some time with the boy yesterday. We shot the BB gun and built a bird feeder for the Mrs. Good stuff. The little guy is going to be somebody really speceial if he’ll just hang in there.

Just turned 20 is at work again. At least I’ll get to hang with her later today.

In the words of the not-to-be-missed-anytime-soon Dan Rather, ‘courage’.

TC

P.S. Wouldn’t it have been a better ending if Dan had went with ‘Peace Out” and flashed some anti-whitey gang sign? Just to show how out of touch with main line America he really is.