*squee*

I repeat...*squee*

( Gilmore Girls )

Aliens like salsa

So now the Mexican airforce is seeing aliens.

Stupid aliens. They turned left at the border instead of right. Area 51 is the *other* way.

Lessons learned

This is the major lesson from yesterday. Keep in mind that Mo is our IT contractor. He is in his late 40s/early 50s and has an adorable accent. Half the time we have no clue what he's talking about, even when we understand him perfectly.

Heather creates PowerPoint on PC.

Heather does so because PC is much faster than Mac, plus PowerPoint will be playing on a PC.

PowerPoint must be put on another PC that is not linked to the network.

PowerPoint is massively huge.

First discovery that hugeness even means that emailing it doesn't work.

PowerPoint is transferred via network to Mac for burning to CD.

Burn, CD, burn.

Second discovery involving hugeness wherein burned CD doesn't work.

This time Heather makes sure to take PowerPoint from network to desktop before transferring to CD for burning.

Burn, CD, burn.

Third discovery that hugeness means no correct opening of PowerPoint.

Heather curses. Loudly.

Heather checks with interactive guys in same building.

Fourth discovery that hugeness means can't email to interactive guys for CD burning.

Heather curses. Inventively.

Hour after beginning of PowerPoint saga, Mo arrives.

Mo brings cool laptop for presentation.

Heather asks Mo if laptop can be hooked to server (thereby solving problems).

Mo says no.

Heather curses.

Heather explains to Mo the issues with CD burning.

Mo asks why Heather doesn't just burn from the PC, since that's where PowerPoint was created.

Heather curses because she didn't know PC had CD burning capabilities.

My weekly American Idol post

This is sort of related to last night.

( In which I bitch about knowing a person based on two minutes of them a week, plus disco silliness )