Christmas Festivities

Christmas tasties, oh my! Various folks brought in cookies, cake, and misc trans fat goodness. I made the peanut butter cookies with hershey's kisses in the middle, quite good.

Tie Friday

Incredible Sand Art

Well.. I havent made any posts for a little while because nothing spectacular has happened (other than the TransSiberian Orchestra concert of which I have no pictures). So with that in mind, here is some incredible sand art from work that I created today.

Steve Mocha (version 2.1)

After many experiments, failures, and a near-death choking accident, I have come up with a halfway decent mocha recipe (for those of you who didnt know I was a Starbucks Mocha addict). This doesnt necessarily taste just like a 7-pump Venti Mocha from Starbucks, but it tastes good nonetheless for a chocolate lover.

Ingredientes:
1/8 cup sugar
1/8 cup cocoa (I used Nestle's, I didn't like the Girdelli cocoa)
1/4 cup cream (or half/half, milk, etc).. I like to use Hazelnut flavored International Delight Creamer
1 1/2 cup coffee (already made)

Instrucciones:
Put sugar, cocoa, and cream/milk in a microwavable cup and heat until it gets hot and the cocoa/sugar is dissolved (about 20-30 seconds for me). Stir well and then add coffee. Stir well once more and voila! You can change the qty of sugar/cocoa to taste. Makes around 2 cups of coffee.

Now you don't see that every day..

The floor...is get...ting slip....pery

Quitting my day job... now

Starbucks & Dale

Does it get any better than this? Seriously.

What? Another VAX Update?

After stealing some parts from a 4300 and r400x we found upstairs, we have managed to get a full functional 4200 up and running! Now we just need the quorum/vaxcluster running and we are back in bidness.

The VAX be with you...

Well, after a myriad of hardware swaps/replacements, we now have one working 4000-200, one bad 4000-200 and one bad R215F. This is not quite at square 1 where we started, but actually a little worse (since the R215F worked fine when we started). As such, I will refer to our current position as square 0. A special thanks to Jorge who visited the top secret VAX room for moral support while we got VAX #2 back up (it was down until about 30 mins ago). More parts coming in Monday, and the saga will continue....

The VAX continues

Vax Thursday

Today is VAX Thursday!

So far we have the VAXes prepped for surgery.. here are the pictures...


Both of the beauties:

The old...














The new...

steve in jail

This is the jail I was at Friday night playing bass with my church. This is my 4th year and it is always a blast!

Who's the man?

Jorge is the man, was there ever any question?

More British Hair

Will it ever end?

Carlos

Working ridiculously hard

British hair thursday

Today is British Hair Thursday at work, as well as T-shirt Thursday.

Wes

This is Wes tearing it up on his laptop at work. He always tears it up because that is what he does best. Wes is a tearer of it.

The great fence project, part 2

$330 later, we have completion!

The great fence project

After a day of hot, tiring work, the old fence (if you can call it that) is down, and we have all of the materials for the new one! New one is going up tomorrow morning bright and early. Here are some pictures

steve of steve's ramblings

Michael Knight

Michael Knight is cool. I have always said he is, and I will say it now. People tend to underestimate just how awesome he was. The jacket, the boots, the hair, it just all clicked, you know? End of story.