The Pre-Holiday lazy

What is is about a holidays that makes us just want to go home from work and do nothing. I'm sitting in my office, one of the few actually still here, fighting an all time low of motivation to get work done. I have this overwhelming urge to just go home sit on my comfortable sofa and stuff my face with frosted sugar cookies and hot cocoa. People in this office have been dropping like grease off a good burger today, as it is the last work day before Christmas. Why is it that this happens? Is it the stress of getting everything done before the holiday? I don't think so otherwise I would want to go home and decorate or wrap presents instead of over indulging on cookies and chocolate. I'm not sure what it is but I know that it's happening to me. Just look at how much I've put in this blog today.

I'm cooler than I thought

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I assumed I was pretty much a Geek through and through but apparently I'm cooler that I thought.

Sometimes my job can be really fun. I spent a couple hours yesterday playing with some software that my work has for a trail period. So I played. I made this 3D world which is not made up at all. This is actually a model of a real place and was derived from real data. I made a couple videos that would fly the viewer through the area but was unable to get them to load into YouTube or this blog. Technology is just plain fun.

It's been a while

So it has been one year since I have written anything in this blog. I stopped for a couple reasons. First, the typical reason to not do anything,"I'm just too busy". Second, no one to my knowledge, ever read anything that I wrote, so why write. Well I have found that it is some what therapeutic. It's nice voicing my frustration and if someone would like to comment that would be great. Could some one benefit from what I might say, doubtful, but I'll just keep talking because sometimes it just feels good. So here I go just keeping on talking......

I'm the Tech Team Leader at my local church and for the past few months I've been looking at presentation software to buy. I spent time trying out demo versions and what not. So I ended up buying some software arrogantly thinking that it was the primo top of the line stuff. While gloating in my pool of arrogance I figured my problems were over. I get this stuff installed,, bata boom bata bing a problem free presentation for Sunday morning. After an extraordinary large piece of humble pie, which included a video with no sound and media transitions that were not there but were there, and alot of hair pulling, teeth grinding hours I realized this is going to be harder than I though. I failed to remember the all knowing truth that technology is great and the user of the technology is usually the problem. In this case the user with new software that hasn't spent enough time using it to really know the ins and outs of it. Backing back out to reality now I see that the software purchased is not the problem but my expectations. Hopefully I'll learn that my expectations are not always going to come to fulfillment. I do have to admit that now that I'm starting to understand the software and that my expectations are basically gone I finding it quite powerful and really cool stuff.