If only I were a walrus…

I know people. I can figure people out. Women are people. It would stand to reason that I can figure women out. Who ever thought up logic clearly didn’t know women nor was he involved with a woman.

I am completely baffled at 4 women… and for once none of it is a situation I have casued… which is actually even more confusing. Usually I do something to make people act strangly around/towards me, but not this time.

Weekend was mostly good… assuming you can say most with just barely more than 50%. Had to work later than I wanted to on Saturday. My boss really wanted something done (although he would only tell me in a really stupid passive agressive manner) which ended up taking me almost 2 1/2 hours to do. I didn’t get to Falls until 5:45 so I had to rush to my Dad’s to get to my Sgts meeting on time… unfortunately Mike was with me so he had to sit through that a little bit. I dropped him off a friends in Stow then went to Tim’s till like 3.

I talked to my dad in the morning. He took the news about Tara better than I tought he would. I’m a little concerned how his conversation with Tara might go though. Given what I know about my dad, I just have a very bad feeling about it. I told my mom about Tara too. She falls into that group of women above… she got really strange on me. I would have understood and even expected it if my mom had been drinking, but she wasn’t. Its really hard to descibe and I think you would have to know my mom to understand why it was so stange, but it was really wierd.

Somehow my alarm didn’t go off this morning and I got to work 3 hours late. Joy!

“With great power… comes great responsibility.”

I have more than successfully penetrated AEP’s internal (and external) firewall and security measures. The method I used isn’t uncommon, however, the common method wouldn’t allow me to fully realize what I wanted to do so I had to get a little creative. Jo also introduced me to Hamachi which (after using a little bit of finesse) I’ve been able to use to completely bridge my home network and AEP’s corporate network… all I have to do is get the internal DNS server to register my computer and I would then have unrestricted access to the internal workstations/servers. Of course my proof of concept has already gone to too far already so I’m not going to push any more buttons… in fact I’m writing a report/tutorial for AEP’s security operations and engineering teams so they can try to plug the holes.

Dinner with Tara this week was awesome. Matthew is a lot like I was when I was his age (poor kid), but he’s a lot of fun. I also got to meet Tara’s cousin who is the daughter of the woman I found Tara through. There might be a very spooky connection between Tara’s cousin and myself. I am positive I’ve met her before (her name was even familiar) I just can’t place where. I’m not exactly petrified by the idea, more like masochistically intrigued, but it is entirely possible (given her age) that I met her in church or through someone at the church.