MCOQueen's Ramblings

I will refrain from going into too much detail as to what happened last night at work. First, the analog alarm was going off continuously throughout the entire night. Transmitter took a power hit during network and we were off the air, though for just two minutes on analog and five minutes on our digital channels. Had to turn on the Transmitter Generator. Brother calls me right when I've just counted the news in at 10pm. He was with my cousin trying to find the bus station in northern Durham in order to pick up my cousin's girlfriend. 20 seconds after he calls to ask for directions, he finds the correct street. Meanwhile, M.B. is having a rough night in Satellite. Some dubs, but mainly, just lots and lots of feeds and some editing to do. By 9pm, we both were like, "Is it over yet?" Oh, yeah, had to dump out of our kids programming at 8:30 on the weather channel, because the weather was more important and RAL asked for it to be switched back and etc.

The weather was really crappy yesterday and it's even more crappy today. I had a hard time getting the door open to leave the building last night. The wind was really strong. Weather people are saying that there are going to be 40-50 mph gusts of wind today. Ugh! Our power keeps surging in the apartment. Thank Goodness I have a ups for my computer. It's so getting its money's worth of use right now.

Yesterday evening at work, I decided that I needed a better way to keep track of the many books that I have right now. What I have, how many I have, and which ones I've lent out and who has them? I found this awesome software that does just that. It's called Book Collector.
http://www.collectorz.com/ It's amazing. I can either type in the title and author to find the book (it automatically searches the sites you specify) in order to find the book or you can type in the isbn # of the book and it automatically finds it, downloads all it's information (cover, pages, publication date, title, author and etc). It gives you many options. You can select whether or not you've read the book, when you read it, and you can also rate the book. They do offer a scanner that will scan the isbn # for you if you don't want to type it in. It costs over a hundred bucks, so I'll just type it in for now. I put in about 71 books last night. I still have many more to go. They have a free trial version that will only allow you to put in a 100 books. I already went and bought the software. It doesn't cost very much at all. They send you a license key to unlock the full unlimited version of the free trial software. I can put in an unlimited # of books now. This site also has software for other types of collections as well (music, dvds, comics, games, and etc.) It will even let me export the list in several ways one of which is to my i-pod video. That way I can go to a book store and know exactly if I already have the book or not.

Well, seeing how my guests are sleeping, I think I'll stay in my room and continue to catalog my library of books. I will even put in my manga! Cool, huh? Later.

I got up this morning around 9:30. I got to the health fair around 11pm and was out about 15 minutes later. I did not do the Bone Density test this time, because it's really supposed to be for women 30 and over. I did it last year and my bone density was good. I then went to Regional and visited with my mom. I was starving at that time and decided to get some food from the Hospital's cafeteria. Their food isn't bad at all and they accept Visa and Mastercard now. Too cool! I ate in my mom's room and chatted with her and my dad.

Mom was in pain from being moved from hospital bed to a gurney and then into an ambulance and the ride to Regional was incredibly bumpy and painful for her. Then she had to be moved from the gurney onto her hospital bed at Regional. The Duke people didn't give her any medication before having her transferred. The Regional people couldn't give her medication until a physician checked her out and then ordered her meds through the pharmacy. It hurt her a lot every time she'd have to move in order to relieve herself. I just really don't like seeing my mom in pain. She finally got some medication this afternoon. I stayed with mom for almost two hours.

I stupidly left my cell phone in my car. As soon as I got to my car, I saw that I had a voice mail message from insignia_void. She had missed her health fair appointment and wanted to see what I was up to since she was in Durham and had to work at 4pm anyway. When I called her back, she was already in Cary. She did decide to stop by and stay until she had to go to work. I had her play "The Sims2: Pets" I'm pretty sure she liked it. She even created her own character and etc. I then cooked some before going to the hockey game with my brother. Yet, again, I had left my cell phone in my car and my brother had been trying to get in touch with me to see if I was going to be ready to go to the game on time. I was ready. The game was at 7pm. We got to the stadium around 7:10pm. By the time we got to our seats, :40 seconds had already passed in the first period. I thought we would have missed more than that. The Canes were doing really well in the first period and then fizzled out halfway during the 2nd period. Montreal scored two goals against them. We left before the 3rd period started. It was good that we did because the Canes lost 4-0. Yikes!

Well, I'm working 1st shift tomorrow. I haven't done that in probably 2 years. I haven't done a morning newscast for a few months now. I can't believe I'm going to have to get up early tomorrow morning. Oh well, it's just for tomorrow (supposed to be my day off, but my co-worker B.J. snapped his Achilles tendon and just had surgery to repair it. He's going to be gone for a few weeks). I have to sleep now. Later.