Yet again I end up being just wiped out at the end of the day and didn?t do this blog. At least I am writing this in the morning. So I finally got the packing information to send back the bad stuffed animal I got from my niece. It should be picked up while I am at work. Now lets hope the new one is good. I was trying to get over to my sisters yesterday for dinner but that didn?t happen. My dad was over babysitting the baby while my mom and sister went shopping. By the time I was ready to leave work it was too late. When I got home I just sat in my comfy chair and watched a bit of TV. Still unable to get to sleep before 11pm. For some reason this week I have been unable to goto sleep early, or get a good nights rest. Not sure if it is the allergies I am starting to get again, or stress or what? Lets hope this weekend is better.
So apparently my big new project to add another office at work is finally a go. We are having a meeting about it today. So much to do, and probably a really small amount of time to do it in.
I got a voice mail this morning from Dan (a guy I work with who runs the operations of my company). He is up looking at furniture today, and getting bids for the interior construction. I am going to have to get used to that train trip. We are getting space up in Kingston NY, it is about a 90 minute train ride from Penn Station. So it is like 2-2:30 hour trip for me since I have to get to Penn station first.
So Gus challenged me to learn Linux, for real. He meant the command line stuff. This is something I have talked about for like 3 years and haven?t had time or motivation to do. I know I need to, but always have the windows crutch to fall back on. I am thinking of taking a project and doing it only on my red hat machine at work. I moved my mail onto it yesterday. I want to get as much stuff on it as possible so I can try to use it. It sort of worked for my mac, when I was trying to get into that. Now I am sitting here on a powerbook writing this blog. The difference is that in Linux there is no Microsoft products, no shinny install shields, etc. I can handle that, but I need to be motivated. I built a red hat 8.0 box at home last weekend, and I have one at work. I think I will spend time this weekend trying to use them. I will keep you posted.
OK, so I am on the rail road doing this blog. I covered that in earlier posts. What I don?t understand is today I got the early train, the one that is completely express from my stop to penn station and yet it is taking a long time to get there. We sit on the tracks as other trains pass by. This always happens. If they know this dam thing will be late, why don?t they adjust the schedule. The train 15 minutes later is only arrives in penn station like 5 minutes after this one. What is up with that?
Not to get political in this blog, but I asked a bunch of people at work a question I thought of yesterday while writing this blog. On TV you see all these people in Arab countries in protests burning American flags. If we are so evil, where do they buy those things from? Do they buy them from us? Does some company in those countries make money by making American flags? Does the governments that sponsor those rally?s buy them, thus helping our economy? I was just wondering.
I think that is it for today. More tomorrow or later tonight.