Alice

One of my friends who lives here had her mom come in to visit this past week, so we decided we were all going to see Alice in Wonderland together after work one day.  It turns out they have family members that are basically from my hometown and we’ve probably met at some point.  I’ve always heard ‘it’s a small world’, but who knew that was true?!

The movie was really good though, so that was a lot of fun.  If you’ve read the book, you won’t be disappointed; they change things but give valid reasons for doing so.  I realize I just used the phrase ‘valid reasons’ with a book where a girl falls down a rabbit hole and meets a cast of talking animals while drinking liquid to become tiny and eating cake to become huge, but it’s all about what you’re willing to accept as reality in a story.  Also, they did mercury-induced insanity justice.  The Mad Hatter wasn’t just insane, he was also kind of moody.

To compound our problems at work with slow Internet speeds, we went to work on Wednesday or Thursday morning this week to find that the power was out for exactly half of every room.  That means two of the computers in our room were turned off and two were working, half the lights in the building were on and half of the printers worked.  We decided it was time to work from home that day.  We were also wondering who creates schematics of a building that has one circuit powering half of each room and then presents it with a straight face to the building planners?  It just seems you would be bettered served with rooms that either were powered or weren’t.  The half power idea just seems absurd.

I got put on a few more mailing lists for a couple web projects I work with and it has DRASTICALLY increased the amount of spam I am receiving each day.  We’ve skyrocketed from approximately 50 messages a day that my account automatically got rid of to around 300 a day.  Of those, about 20 a day make it to my actual inbox.  I’m flagging them all as spam, so hopefully the adaptive filters get good enough to start catching it soon.  I don’t typically get too many valid emails a day on my personal account (I’d estimate 20 or less a day) but when you have to sift through all the crap and ads for various erectile dysfunction pills or ways to increase the size of certain body parts, it gets old quick.