http://blog.mrjoeliec.com Philanthropist, World Traveler, Bon Vivant Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:17:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I remember the day vividly. The day our company decided to upgrade our phone system to incorporate a “page” feature. What at first was a novel convenience for our “Donut Guy” to serenade us with a poem about donuts on Friday when he brought them in for all of us, ... http://blog.mrjoeliec.com/?p=172 You know? Fundamentally I’m actually a pretty healthy guy… I mean for the most part I don’t get sick very often.. It’s usually a major sickness when I do though… But I got the “you’re always sick” comment. The other day… Sigh… Really? So I started to do the mental calculations ... http://blog.mrjoeliec.com/?p=170 OK so most of you have seen the basement... Well the Overhead projector was getting very very tired... Besides the fact that the bulb was turning yellow it had a power issue at times that it would not recognize inputs at power up unless it was off for more than ... http://blog.mrjoeliec.com/?p=167 This is an open letter to my fellow coworkers. Some of you may not like what I am about to say and if I offend any of my coworkers.... Tough Shit! Get over it! Or more to the point, Grow the fuck up! Look I get it. The recent changes have ... http://blog.mrjoeliec.com/?p=164 So this is now the 3rd year of me using the "Power of Technology" also known ast "PoT" and thus all I have to do is edit a few pages and not worry about feeling guilty about using the printer at work. Some of you that have never experienced this ... http://blog.mrjoeliec.com/?p=162 But I can catch Metal! F@%&!!!!!!!!! Ok so Today after getting up and looking outside and realizing it's wet outside and not what the forecast was the day before (partly sunny).. I decided to hop in the truck and head to a motorcycle superstore. I ended up picking up some Boots and a ... http://blog.mrjoeliec.com/?p=156 We actually arrived late in the day on Saturday. I discovered that Towing your pride and joy for 14 and a half hours is rather stressful. Towards the end the tongue loosened up on the trailer side. It's really fine but to watch the bike moving more than it was in the rearview mirror ... http://blog.mrjoeliec.com/?p=146 So this past weekend with the rain coming in heavily on Saturday it put a real damper on me doing any work on the trailer. With my daughter's birthday party on Sunday afternoon I was concerned about time but with a bunch of help on Saturday my wife was nice ... http://blog.mrjoeliec.com/?p=141 One of the Perks of getting into a small company when it's growing and staying with it after it has taken legs and gets absorbed by a large company is that You tend to be well known.....Especially if you are loud mouthed Dork like me.... But again, that has it's ... http://blog.mrjoeliec.com/?p=136 So a few weeks ago the wheels were put in motion of whether or not we were going to load up the family and head down to NC for Thanksgiving to visit my In-Laws. To be honest at first I was not really looking forward to driving for 17 hours ... http://blog.mrjoeliec.com/?p=130