quick update

i figure i should put something up here so that those very few of you who actually manage to waste your time reading my drivel can have a brief sense of what is going on in my relatively lowly and pathetic life.

item: my vpn connection to work is really screwed up right now and i don't know why. i can make it work, but the hoops i have to jump thru to make it work are irritating. but then i'm sposed to be on vaca, so why am i bothering to care? good question.

item: RB had to call me twice about the phones. someone decided that the receptionist could go home early on xmas, so she wanted the phone forwarded to the answering service. in the past before we got the new phones, it wasn't an issue. now that we have new phones, it's an issue and RB was stuck, so he called me and i helped him sift thru things, but in the end, RB was able to find the solution, so he gets an extra chocolate chip cookie with his milk. then there were issues the following day with our Wells office not forwarding to the answering service, but the main office. after fussing with things (and this is when i discovered the vpn issues), again, RB was able to come to the rescue, so he gets an extra cookie for the next 2 days.

item: the entire family was together for the first time for xmas in several years. it's been at least 4 years since we were all together for xmas, so mom was pleased as hell. me, i felt like my brother was an intruder and that he shouldn't be here. dog was dog, and discovered that he likes the real egg nog (cream, sugar, eggs, rum, none of this cooked stuff). he tends to be underfoot and mom spilled a little accidentally. she cleaned up most, but there were a few spots she missed and he found. he went from being attentive to full bore attentive with ears in full "oh boy do i like that!" perk very quickly.

item: found out a little more about mom's side of the family. insanity really does run in the family, so that may help explain why i can be so fucked up at times. heard a few funny stories about my uncle (whom i have not spoken to/with since 1988) when he was a kid. learned a little more about my grandfather who died when i was 2. found out that i made my great aunt very sick when i visited her for the first and last time.

item: xmas presents were fairly laid back, a few useful things, a few whimsical things, nothing overly exciting. i can stuff them all into my new tool box which is useful (as my current one is having issues).

well, time for bed. i can't sleep in today as i have stuff i need to do in the morning. i'll see about filling in some of the details after i get home tomorrow.