George Washington Was The First You See

Original Title: Big Statue Of George Washington? THE HELL???

Gale has some plans to write an essay about four years of the beef repository here. keep yon eyes open!in the meantime,
Goodnight Sweet Readers, And A Flight Of Angels To Sing Thee To Thy Rest
-Gale
Also I changed the page title...

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And Shine

¡Yo!
I just found out that someone else has signed my guestbook!
She wrote out most (if not all, i have to check it over) of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd. I wondered just how much of this was inspired, to some degree at least, by some song or other.
At least 23 of my entry titles are song related. My last 5 entries thing is, and that, may be that. There is probably a random quote or 3 that is too. Whoo!
Gale misses the Army. The food might have not been the best ever, but the meals were constant. There was also something resembling healthy junk in that food. I have basically been living off microwave buritos and tortilla chips the last week or so. I feel so bad!
Ah well. Gale needs to go to sleep now.
He has to be at work more or less in five hours. He gets to deal with the people who are going to be rebuilding our freezer!
Remember when you were young?
You shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes,
Like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire
Of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target
for faraway laughter,
Come on you stranger,
you legend,
you martyr,
and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, You cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night,
And exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome
With random percision,
Rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver,
you seer of visions,
Come on you painter,
you piper,
you prisoner,
and shine!"
Sorry. Better make that 24 titles!
Goodnight Sweet Readers, And A Flight Of Angels To Sing Thee To Thy Rest

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And The Joke's On You

I was thinking about something to write while I was reading this banner. I held the right shift button for eight seconds I guess, and some stupid box popped up. Who in their right mind would want to slow down their keyboard repeat rate speed? Stupid microsoft and their stupid (albiet free) product...
NETSCAPE ROCKS!
Anyway, now that that is out. I am now boycotting the use of internet explorer. If my brother and sister were not so lazy, I would be putting Linux on this computer instead of making this entry. They are not all about learning something new though, so, sucks to be them!
I guess I am not going to Missouri next week. My boss said I could go with them, and then she proceeds to schedule me to work those days. I almost cried about that one. I was so sad! Ah well, I guess I will go to California at some point in the future.
There would not be the thing with her family being around, so it might work out better...
Anyway!
I have been thinking about altering my template again, but I don't know yet. I really like the one I have. I just feel as though I could do better!
I think tonight I am going to change the one that says "Date & Time OF The Entry" to something more outlandish like the rest of headings in that column.
ah well
Goodnight Sweet Readers, And A Flight Of Angels To Sing Thee To Thy Rest

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How I Wish You Were Here

I had an interesting, if not humorous (surprise surprise) entry laid out in my mind for tonight.
It is all gone now though! YAY!!
Anyway.
I think I will go to Missouri next week to attend my friend's graduation from Basic Training. Oh how I miss her!
Oh how I wish she was here...
So, So you think you can tell?
Heaven from hell?
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
from a cold steel rail
a smile from a veil
do you think you can tell?
and did they get you to trade
your heroes for ghosts
hot ashes for trees
hot air for a cool breeze
cold comfort for change
and did you exchange
a walk on part in the war
for a lead role in a cage
how i wish you were here
how i wish
how i wish you were here
ohh how i wish you were here
i wish you were here
how i wish
we're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year
running over the same old ground
but have we found
the same old fears
how i wish you were here
...
Anyway
I will probably take my blue binder with the Pink Floyd lyrics on the cover so as to write about what happens over the course of those few days.
Fun stuff there.
I am thinking about spreading the word about this happy little site. Should be interesting.
I need to do some writing on comradcommisar pretty soon...
Maybe while I am gone some inspiration will strike me.
Anyway
Goodnight Sweet Readers, And A Flight Of Angels To Sing Thee To Thy Rest

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Ready The Army

Original Title: 20030506 - DEP Here I Come!

• May. 16th, 2003 at 8:53 AM

Weather I was drunk, ill, or suicidally insane would have not been obvious to the casual observer. For indeed, there are no casual observers at the M.E.P.S. There were observers who were bent on my joining the Army. My pal Jessi was also there for some reason. I was not arguing.Also, for the record, on of 20030506, I entered the United States Army's Delayed Entry Program.
Whoo!
Been meaning to write about that one sometime before now.
I went to see X-Men 2 yesterday.
I think I am going to end up taking my friend Jessi to see The Matrix Reloaded one day next week.
Whoo!
I think I am going to go to Meijer and Starbucks here in a bit.
I need to talk to my mother about storage of stuff at her house while I am away for a long time, but that may be able to wait until tomorrow.
Goodbye for now!

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"I had a really good time!" Part 1

Wow. Just wow. That is the best description I can think of for a day like today (or rather yesterday now). I would say it got off to a fairly shaky start, but I accomplished one of the major things on my to-do list (severely clean my room), so that was cool.

Probably the beginning is a good place to start.

Lets go there now shall we?

All set?

Yes? Good

No? Well, too bad! Stop reading until you are!

Here we go!

I wanted to get up at something like 8:30 this morning. Seeing as how I did not get to bed until almost 5 am saw to it that I slept until almost 10 am.

I figured that would be fine. I could still be ready to go talk to these Army people that I mentioned before.

I called my friend Jessi around 11. No answer. I tried something like six times. When 1 rolled around, I said "Eh. There will be another day I am sure. No more calling for me today."

Between 11 and 1 I got my room mostly put back together, and made myself a new "Turn Of A Friendly Card" cd. I was happy with just that.

The day got severely better from there though!

You guessed it. She called back at 1:21 pm (I looked at the Caller ID just now!). I figured, it would not take too long, and it turned out to be closer than I thought. We got there around 2. We left there in the neighborhood of 3:30.

Between 2 and 3:30 many an interesting thing happened. I talked to one man. He asked me many questions. He wrote the answers down as he went. He asked what I wanted to do with my life, where I wanted to be in five years. The usual stoof that those sorts of people ask. He showed me how the pay scale works out. We decided a bit later on that Gale could indeed do with a few hundered dollars more a month than what he is currently seeing, but that is just a "fringe benefit."

When asked what sorts of things I was looking into, I said that many people believe I should do something pertaining to computers, seeing as how there is not a lot that I cannot do in that particular department. I failed to mention a few of the other things I can do, seeing as how I had no job list in front of me at the time.

He asked me if I had ever heard of some test that has a name which currently escapes me. I said that I had in fact taken the test in question a few years previously in high school. He asked me to remember what I got on it. I told him that it was not going to happen any time soon, and that I would probably be better off doing it again. He also felt that this was the best course of action.

So he let me take some, for lack of beter name, pre - test who's name currently escapes me. He just happened to have it on his computer that wasn't. He told me what to do and how to do it. I said ok. I took the test in question. I emerged something like 20 minutes later and said that he needed to go back into there and start doing his thing again.

He made a show of pushing buttons and looking professional - like. I looked at him waiting for him to say something. He got this look of disbelief on his face. Then he looked again.

Shortly thereafter he proceeded to announce that the score I had gotten could more or less guarantee me any computer - related job that I should please.

Whoo!

Go Me!

I spent 20 minutes messing with this thing. I shall finish it tomorrow (later today? who knows. who cares!)

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We Haven’t Had That Spirit Here Since 1969

My Microsoft Office System Beta 2 Kit 2003 has arrived!

My goodness but this thing is a beast!

I cannot wait to explore all the shiny!

We Can Dance If We Want To

Microsoft Office System Released to a Half-Million Beta 2 Testers

March 9, 2003

REDMOND, Wash., March 9, 2003 — Microsoft Corp. today began distributing a half-million copies of the beta 2 version of the new Microsoft Office System to customers and partners worldwide. The Microsoft Office System is a set of programs, servers and services designed to better connect people with each other and their organizations, information and business processes, to transform information into business impact.

Developed to address the productivity challenges in today’s enterprises, large and small, the Microsoft Office System will enhance users’ visibility into business information so they can gain deeper insights, make better decisions, improve their ability to effectively collaborate, respond to change faster and increase their personal impact to make businesses more productive and successful. Companies and information workers interested in trying the Microsoft Office system can learn more at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/.

Having reached the beta 2 milestone, Microsoft is inviting business partners and customers worldwide to begin evaluating new versions of the software. Seven core Office System products are provided in the beta evaluation kit, including beta 2 versions of the new Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook® , PowerPoint® and Access), the two new Office System additions, Microsoft Office InfoPath (TM) , Microsoft Office OneNote (TM) , as well as Microsoft Office FrontPage® , Microsoft Office Publisher, Microsoft Windows®
SharePoint (TM) Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server “v2.0,” with final versions expected this summer. By collecting the beta products into one evaluation kit, Microsoft enables customers to evaluate the Microsoft Office System as a set of coordinated tools that, when applied together, result in productivity benefits for organizations.

“Today’s work force is geographically dispersed, information-hungry and constantly striving to be more effective and efficient,” said Joe Eschbach, corporate vice president of the Information Worker Product Marketing Group at Microsoft. “The applications in the Microsoft Office System are central to addressing these problems, and by offering them all together, we are giving customers the opportunity to experience firsthand how deploying the Microsoft Office System can improve communication and collaboration across enterprises — small and large.”

The Microsoft Office System marks significant progress toward Microsoft’s vision to create productivity software that quickly and easily evolves with today’s constantly changing business environment. The products were developed with four key design goals in mind:

• Information intelligence. With XML in Office applications and the research task pane, people in an organization have better visibility into information. SharePoint Portal Server provides personalized access and delivery of business information.

• Process management. With industry-standard XML support in Office applications, the ability to streamline the information-gathering process with the new addition of InfoPath, and the ability to create and graphically communicate smart documents, organizations are better able to adapt and respond to changes in the marketplace.

• Effective teaming. A collaboration infrastructure with SharePoint products and technologies and integration with Office applications provides document and meeting workspaces, as well as the ability to search and find expertise in an organization. New tools such as Information Rights Management also empower people in organizations to collaborate more effectively.

• Personal impact. With improved inking support for the Tablet PC, the introduction of the new digital note-taking application OneNote, critical improvements to make Outlook a better tool to read and manage e-mail, new intelligent junk e-mail filter tools, and a new focus on the mobile, the Office System will help individuals make greater contributions to their business.

Business Partner Opportunities

The release of the Microsoft Office System to beta 2 testing provides an infrastructure and platform that enables Microsoft business partners to build the next generation of information worker solutions that incorporate collaboration and portal capabilities and improved desktop tools. Business partners also can begin testing the new information and research services they will be able to offer as Web services through the world’s most popular productivity suite.

“Information is only empowering if a business or information worker can use it in the right place at the right time to make or influence a business decision. Today, that doesn’t happen often enough. Incredible amounts of content are lost or lie untapped around the world because businesses aren’t equipped to manage that information,” said Clare Hart, president and CEO of Factiva, a company working with Microsoft to deliver its global collection of news and business information from the new Microsoft Office System, as well as integrating it into other Microsoft platform products.

“The compelling value of the collaboration with Microsoft is in being able to address a real need among users of business information,” said Allen Paschal, president of Gale, a part of the Thomson Corp. “Searching for accurate, current and vetted information and news on companies — particularly private companies — is time consuming and often ineffective.

Delivering must-have information directly into Office applications will create a new experience for users, creating a real impact on productivity. This issue goes far beyond company profile information, and we are excited about how we can begin to solve similar problems with our vast array of content assets.”

The Microsoft Office System

Building on the tools already used today, the Microsoft Office System includes servers, services and new desktop programs designed to work together to help address a broad array of important business problems.

The Microsoft Office System applications available in beta 2 today for evaluation are these:

• Microsoft Office 2003 connects people, information and business processes, making it easier for people to take more effective action and get better results. The core suite includes Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 messaging and collaboration client, Microsoft Office Word 2003 document authoring application, Microsoft Office Excel 2003 spreadsheet, Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation graphics program and Microsoft Office Access 2003 database. Also included is Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager, which helps small businesses better manage their customer contacts and sales opportunities.

• Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 offers the tools people need to easily develop a sophisticated Web site. With professional designing and coding tools, people can design the Web site they want and code more efficiently, using the world’s first WYSIWYG XSLT editor and by developing rich Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server solutions.

• Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 streamlines the process of gathering information by allowing users to create and complete dynamic forms and submit them to the XML-enabled systems and business processes that need the information.

• Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 will enable people to capture thoughts and notes electronically on a laptop, desktop or Tablet PC and work more naturally to organize and search those notes.

• Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 helps create professional marketing communications pieces using design tools, improved e-mail support, and Web authoring and posting features.

• Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server “v2.0” connects people, teams and knowledge across business processes. SharePoint Portal Server provides a secure enterprise business solution that integrates information from various systems into one solution, through single sign on and enterprise application integration capabilities, and provides flexible deployment and management tools. It facilitates end-to-end collaboration by enabling aggregation, organization and searching for people, teams and information. SharePoint Portal Server also enables users to quickly find relevant information through customization and personalization of content and layout in the portal and audience targeting.

• Other Office System Products not included in the beta 2 kit, but fundamental to the Microsoft Office System, are Microsoft Project and Visio®
  . Microsoft Project consists of Project Standard, the desktop project management program for effectively planning, managing and communicating project information, as well as Microsoft Project Professional and Microsoft Project Server, which work together to provide an enterprise project management solution. Microsoft OfficeVisio 2003 is a diagramming solution that helps business experts and technical professionals understand and communicate complex ideas, processes and systems graphically so they can take more effective action. Visio provides a single diagramming tool for the entire organization, automates data visualization for more effective analysis, and offers unmatched extensibility for addressing individual and enterprise needs. Both products are on a different development and release cycle and will be available later this summer, after the other Microsoft Office system products are released.

Supporting Microsoft products and technologies that play a key complementary role in the Microsoft Office System include these:

• Windows Server 2003 is a comprehensive, integrated and secure infrastructure designed to help customers reduce costs and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of IT operations. Building on the strengths of the Windows 2000 family, the new server platform helps customers extend existing resources while laying the foundation for building a new generation of connected applications and collaborative systems that improve business and information worker productivity. More information is available at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/.

• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), formerly SharePoint Team Services, is the engine for creating Web sites that enable information sharing and document collaboration, increasing individual and team productivity. It is a key piece of the Information Worker Infrastructure delivered in Windows Server 2003 and provides additional team services and sites to Office and other desktop applications, as well as serving as a platform for application development. WSS sites take file storage to a new level, from saving files to sharing information.

Pricing and Availability

Microsoft Office System products are scheduled for release in mid-2003. Pricing and availability are unavailable at this time.

About Microsoft Office System

The Microsoft Office System is an easy way to help more people use information to positively impact their business. Through a system of familiar and easy-to-use programs servers and services, users can connect people and organizations to information, business processes and each other — helping to ensure they derive the most value out of information. The Microsoft Office System consists of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office FrontPage, Microsoft Office InfoPath, Microsoft Office OneNote, Microsoft Project and Project Server, Microsoft Office Publisher, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server “v2.0,” Microsoft Office Visio and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software — any time, any place and on any device.

Microsoft, Outlook, PowerPoint, InfoPath, OneNote, FrontPage, Windows, SharePoint and Visio are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries.

The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

For more information, press only: Rapid Response Team, Waggener Edstrom, (503) 443-7070, rrt@wagged.com

For more information on Office System products:

Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 Virtual Press Kit, http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/2003/onenote/default.asp

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Virtual Press Kit, http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/2003/infopath/default.asp

Note to editors : If you are interested in viewing additional information on Microsoft, please visit the Microsoft Web page at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/ on Microsoft’s corporate information pages. Web links, telephone numbers and titles were correct at time of publication, but may have since changed. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Microsoft’s Rapid Response Team or other appropriate contacts listed at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/contactpr.asp .

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