There has been the worst stench in the refrigerator at work all week. Turns out someone spilt milk in there sometime late last week and didn't bother to clean it up. Chumps. Now it's turned all sour and if that doesn't smell akin to small dead animals, I'm not sure what does.

Worse yet, is the fact that when I go to get my lunch, opening the fridge is like opening some tomb of decaying horrors. That stench clings to everything. Yesterday I put my lunch in and I think it got on the bag because back at my desk I couldn't seem to shake it.

This morning I had enough and took the sponge to clean some of it up. God forbid someone else, say the owner, actually try to account for his/her mistake. But I'm sick of almost vomiting when I go for my lunch.

Speaking of the fridge, some new guy has taken to putting an entire case of Diet Coke in there. And not those slim, fridge cases either, the old-skool cardboard tray of tonic. There's barely enough room for everyone else on a normal day. It's almost gone now, but if next week there's a new case, I'm just pulling it (when nobody's looking of course) and putting on the counter. The same counter where if food appears, it's community property.

Mutherfucker, is that fridge just for you?!?

It's probably your milk isn't it?

I am just not on top of things this week.

Lets see, Mike's injury turns out not to be so bad. The doctor told him to just take off the sling and use his arm normally. Which seems a bit odd, but that's what you get when you go for medical advice out of the back of a van.

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I got sick of the shitty wireless reception with the Netgear router, so I bought a Linksys one and, while it does does a better job broadcasting it doesn't have the same reporting Netgear does. Which means I have to figure out how to spy on the kids some other way. Netgear would give me an entire log of websites access thru the router if I wanted. I picked up on a whole bunch of things that one of them was doing. Although, so far they haven't figure out how to turn off or delete the IM chat logs. I got a ton to go through still.

If you feel like judging, don't. Have kids old enough to look you in the face and lie, then talk to me. If we didn't invade privacy every now and then, we wouldn't know what to be looking for.

I'm not sure why I feel defensive about it either. The person that keeps popping into my mind doesn't ever read this. But he's generally convinced himself he'd be fucking Father of the Millennium and whenever I do these seemingly hypocritical things, I see his smug face telling me how he wouldn't treat his kids his way - ever. But he has no children (well, he does now, but infants don't count in this case).

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We have Alfred's Star Warz BrikWar game coming up this weekend. This is probably the most low-key BrikWar game to come along in quite awhile. There has been almost no buzz, no chit-chat. I blame it on the summer, but part of me has never been excited about playing anything Star Wars related.

Don't get me wrong, it'll be a good time. But I like scenarios that generally don't take place in anything Lucas-related (although a THX-1138 game would rock). There's something so closed-circle about Star Wars that makes it somewhat inaccessible for me. Although, we're making the stormtroopers ridiculously easy to hit and ridiculously terrible at aiming (in other words, keeping it true to the story). I still have to spec out the troops and it's Wednesday already. :(

Frankly, I'm waiting for the P.A.R.V. game, which for the actual P.A.R.V. should make admission alone worth it. DaveE's descriptions sound freakin' fantastic.

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Got some prime Battlefield 2 time over the last week. I've been playing only ranked servers and have gotten up to Lance Corporal. Which unlocks the first weapon; I choose the SpecOps gun and had to have DanB tell me how to actually get to use it in the game.

Last night, Dan, Jorge, Joe and I got onto a server as a squad and has a freakin' blast playing together with a TeamSpeak server going. Flew a lot of helicopter missions with the Cobra. Although I get a little overzealous sometimes and try to come in on ground targets at too steep an angle. Telephone poles, street lights and flagpoles are the bane of my piloting career.

Strangely, the best I ever did was when the server switched me to the other side and I bombed the bejesus out of everyone with the Chinese fighter. Include the three stooges as they were all piled into a tank or jeep (I was going too fast to really notice).

I'm really looking forward to doing it again.

I fixed the archive. Sort of. 

For some time now, you couldn't access anything later than February of this year. 

I found the file that blogger writes to in order to create the archive and had to manually edit it. Blogger is still archiving the pages and months, but for some reason I can't determine, it's not writing out the header file for the archive script to read. I've tried changing the pathways, the method or archive and still nothing. 

Luckily for me, the header file is only a matter of repeating the same commands just changing the dates. 

At least I hope so. While I'd be happier if it just did it all on it's own, having to change it up once a month isn't that bad. My only concern will be if at the end of the month Blogger rewrites the file with the bad info from before, setting me back to square one. 

Well, I issued my final orders in the Diplomacy game.

I believe that I'm the first person eliminated from the game at this point. Which is fine with me. I royally screwed up from the word go. Plus, I had the additional handicap of playing Italy. 

My first major mistake was not reading the rule thoroughly. The game is about controlling territories with supply centers and I missed that. Not to mention that the map I was using didn't have the little dots to make me wonder why. Instead, controlled territories were the color of your nation (mine was green). So when the game started, I thought it was like Risk. You move into open territories and capture them to add to your count. 

It wasn't. Instead, I left my supply centers undefended in a vain attempt to control as much territory as possible. And that let Austria in. From there it was a slippery slope down as I never had enough troops to completely dislodge him from the country. 

I tried making alliances but no one was close enough to help Italy. At least no one that I completely trusted, that is.

My second major mistake was putting my faith in France as an ally. I was even willing to concede territory for his support. It was my only hope to stay in the game and force Austria out. But during a crucial mission to retake part of the homeland he stabbed me in the back, causing me to loose a supply center and a key unit.

After that failure, I was doomed. There were a few movements and I tried to say afloat by at least bouncing Austria's armies from territories, but I was really just rearranging deckchairs. 

So the final blow has come. Austria actually has screwed up and left a supply center open, but I'm not taking it. Because it's pointless.

If there's any hope left, it's the hope that Austria will smash and enslave the vile, backstabbing French.