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| Session Start (Succubus Club IRC Chat:#thesuccubusclub): Wed Jun 29 16:56:21 2005 |
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| *** #thesuccubusclub: @MattH |
| *** #thesuccubusclub was created on Wed Jun 29 16:56:20 2005. |
| *** Elais has joined #thesuccubusclub. |
| Elais | I'm gonna bookmark this site |
| MattH | Trillian still not working? |
| Elais | nope |
| Elais | anyhow, got my root canal yesterday |
| MattH | And? |
| Elais | no piccies available, though |
| Elais | it went pretty well |
| MattH | BTW - I haven't tried this one, but Mirana is an opensource multi-app messaging client - http://www.miranda-im.org/ |
| MattH | Supposed to work with Win95 & Win98 |
| MattH | I head back to the dentist next Tuesday - should be getting a crown installed on one tooth, IIRC. |
| Elais | heh |
| Elais | I go back to the dentis next Tuesday as well |
| Elais | for a crown |
| Elais | I'm going for a gold crown |
| MattH | I doing the standard white. |
| Elais | synchronized dentistry |
| Elais | my crown is a back molar |
| Elais | that's kinda why I'm going with a gold one |
| MattH | Yep -mine is one of middle molars on the lower left side. |
| Elais | the only way someone will see it is if they stick their head in my mouth |
| MattH | Well - you never know... |
| Elais | might go see War of the Worlds this weekend with my mother |
| MattH | I'm thinking about seeing Batman Begins - it is showing on the Imax at Universal City (although it may be bumped by War of the Worlds) |
| Elais | I'm sort of picking War because it might be something mom would be okay with |
| Elais | she's not the biggest sci-fi fan |
| Elais | but she did enjoy I, Robot |
| MattH | Well, the original movie was excellent. |
| MattH | I didn't watch I, Robot - I am an Asimov fan |
| Elais | so am I |
| Elais | have you been managing to eat alright? |
| MattH | Pretty much - a couple of times I bit down too hard on something and my temporary crown hurt, but other than that , no real problems. |
| Elais | I try not to eat stuff that requires a lot of chewing |
| MattH | I mostly chew with the right side of my mouth... |
| Elais | so do I |
| Elais | were we separated at birth? |
| MattH | Well - maybe our teeth were... |
| Elais | did you have to cancel the D&D sessions? |
| MattH | No - I just haven't posted the recap from the last one. The next session is on the ninth. I need to spend most of this weekend preping for it - I have used up most of the material I had created. |
| Elais | got any other plans this weekend or will the prep take up most of it? |
| MattH | Well, sleep plans to feature heavily in it. ;-) |
| MattH | And I really should clean my apartment. |
| Elais | yeah, I should do mine as well |
| Elais | when you kick stuff out of the way just to walk across the floor |
| MattH | What I really need to do is dust... |
| Elais | when my computer was in the shop, I had a chance to look inside it |
| Elais | I was stunned by the amount of dust in the tower |
| MattH | Nope - they accumulate dust - and the occasional cockroach (although they seem to prefer TVs) |
| Elais | I might invest in one of those canned air things |
| MattH | A blowdryer should work as well. |
| Elais | true |
| MattH | Be cheaper in the long run.... |
| Elais | any upcoming out of town work trips? |
| MattH | Nah - my boss does all of those - she will probably be flying back to Dallas in a couple of weeks for some meetings. |
| Elais | work going okay for you then? |
| MattH | Been a little slow, so I have been working on some of our databases. I am trying to automate some of our e-mail announcements, but it has been tricky getting Access to talk properly to Lotus Notes. I think I've got it licked (knock on silicon) |
| Elais | I have both lotus notes and Access |
| Elais | didn't know you could do that |
| MattH | It takes some effort, at least initially. Lotus Notes is COM compliant though, and Access can work with most any COM-capable program. |
| Elais | COM? |
| MattH | COM - stands for Common Object Model. It was a standard Microsoft developed for allowing programs to talk to/automate one another. |
| Elais | ah |
| Elais | when I have spare moment, I might try tinkering with that |
| MattH | It is how Microsoft Office communicates between Excel, Access, Word, etc. |
| Elais | did you have to use visual basic? |
| MattH | I used VBA, but a lot of programs can use COM. |
| Elais | so you just write the code? |
| Elais | or do you work within Access and/or Lotus notes |
| MattH | Yeah, although I swiped a lot of it off of the web - this page specifically http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/email/lotusnotesedit.htm |
| Elais | work has been going okay for me |
| MattH | Slow? |
| Elais | still fairly slow |
| Elais | I think we'll be getting more stuff next month though |
| Elais | still, your project sounds interesting |
| Elais | it's been a while since I just tinkered with stuff like that |
| MattH | I've been doing other Access stuff - this was just this week. |
| MattH | Been getting a lot of calls from recruiters lately - 5 in the last week and a half. |
| Elais | wow, five? |
| Elais | what list are you on? |
| MattH | Monster & Dice....thing is...I went months without hearing anything, now...lots. |
| Elais | odd |
| Elais | considering any of them? |
| MattH | Not really - the one today pays a lot more, but the commute would be a real pain - probably 90 minutes each way. |
| MattH | Plus I like who I work for. |
| Elais | 90 minutes? yuck |
| Elais | I'm happy with my 10 minute commute |
| MattH | My commute is about 45 minutes, but since I use public transportation I can zone out for about half of it. |
| Elais | have you ever had a car? |
| MattH | I have a car - it is just that the traffic since we moved to downtown LA is horrible. |
| Elais | gotcha |
| Elais | I would never want to try to drive around LA myself |
| MattH | When our office was in Glendale, it was pretty good. About the same distance, but I was going against the commute flow. Was about 20'. |
| Elais | I've done 20 to 40 minute commutes |
| Elais | but that was for college |
| Elais | i'm not sure I could ever handle a long commute to work |
| MattH | 20' worked for me...I had a couple of temp jobs that were longer, but they were short term. I definitely wouldn't want to do longer. |
| Elais | ;how many temp jobs have you had? |
| MattH | Five since I was laid off by Universal. |
| MattH | Temping sucks, btw. ;-) |
| MattH | The work is the same, but less regular, less pay and no or lousy benefits. |
| Elais | I've had a few temp jobs |
| Elais | they were alright |
| Elais | but a permanent job is MUCH better ;) |
| MattH | The jobs themselves were fine...it was the surrounding things - plus the fact that the Agency gets a huge markup. |
| Elais | no doubt |
| Elais | okay..got to get going matt |
| MattH | Yep - same here. CYA next week. |
| Elais | I wish us both luck for our teeth next week |
| MattH | Yeah..good luck with the Tooth Fairy. |
| Elais | she better cough up big time with the cash |
| *** Elais has signed off IRC (Quit: PJIRC forever!). |
| Session Close (#thesuccubusclub): Wed Jun 29 20:03:05 2005 |