The Life of Lou Ruppert

Lassitude

I was the ahh-counter and grammarian for the Toastmasters meeting tonight. Part of that role is choosing a vocabulary word to spring on the group so that they can practice using an otherwise useless word. The word I chose was lassitude, which means a kind of extreme sluggishness and lethargy. It described exactly how I was feeling today on my second sick day of the week. Regardless, I’m going to work tomorrow.

Rolling Thunder

While driving there in the freak blizzard we got today, I noticed that my snow tires make a kind of rolling thunder sound when driving over unplowed snow. If you’ve ever heard thunder rumbling gently in the distance, that’s exactly what it sounds like to drive over that kind of snow. Driving over the slushy stuff that’s been salted sounds more like a heavy rain shower.

Can’t hear your pesky truth, white earbuds are in the way

I probably would have stayed home from the meeting, due to not feeling well, but I’m supposed to give a presentation Friday on the Macintosh trojan I’ve been writing about, and I needed the speaking practice. One of my colleagues emailed me today to tell me that one of the students came to the help desk folks with a signed note from the Apple Store asking for the student to be made exempt from our requirement to reinstall the laptop. Amazing. What’s next, diet advice from The Apple Store?

GASP - Geeks Against Sick Purchasing

I ordered more memory for my server when I wasn’t feeling well last week and it arrived today. Apparently I didn’t read too closely and the memory I actually ordered was notebook memory and not desktop memory. The people at 18004memory were very understanding in letting me ship it back. So, for future reference, when you think you’re ordering pc3200 memory for a desktop, make sure it’s 184pin and not 200pin, because the 200pin is actually pc2-3200 for laptops. Good to know. Two lessons learned: Always know the number of pins for your RAM, even when you’ve ordered it successfully before. And never order expensive computer parts when your brain isn’t firing on all cylinders!

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