The Treo 600 is out for Sprint. My dad still say’s he is happy with his choice of the older Treo 300. I await the 600 being availible for T-Mobile. Rumor has it that will be on the 13’th or sometime next week. Not sure if that is rumor or if it is true. Either way I will get it as soon as it comes out.
Day: 10 October 2003
I Survived My First Day Back
Well, I am tired and things were hectic for a while but I survived my first day back after being out for what felt like a long time. Keith was out sick today. Whatever I had is going around. Justin left early because he felt like crap also. I was left catching up on everything I missed since monday.
I fixed some call center issues. Did some sysadmin work that I don’t normally do. AKA tapes, and updating software versions for some applications we use. I don’t like having to do that all the time. Others are supposed to, but I do like doing it so I keep up on what is happening on my network. I learned that updating IPL’s (software we use to search for stuff) is still not hard, but you need to verify that it works before everyone can use it. I also learned that our new SDLT tape drive is still very cool, but very slow in loading and spitting out tapes.
I also configured Office 2003 Pro to autoinstall with paramiters I set. It is nice. Now if we upgrade (we can thanks to software assurance from Microsoft) I can easliy deploy it to my desktops. The real reason I was playing with the configuration was to get outlook 2003 to work with Exchange 2003 over HTTPS. Not there yet, but I am getting familure with the tools I need to do it correctly.
A bunch of people went out to No Idea for drinks after work. I went and had a coke. I was not ready to resume drinking after being so sick. I saw David P, and Jeff from my Y&R days. We were all pissed at each other since we work around the corner from one and other and I never see either of them. I really do want to see them, so I am trying to setup lunch with Jeff next week.
I am tired and going home. I caught the 7:29PM train out of Penn and hope to get lucky and catch a cab without waiting too long at the train station. It is hit or miss with the car service company, so we shall see.
My plan is to rest this weekend and be normal for next week.
Feeling Human Again
After 3 days of what felt like agony I am feeling just about human again. I have been sick since Monday night. What started off as a really bad migraine headache now most likely was the flu and a migraine. I left work early tuesday because I felt like crap. Feeling like crap for me is unable to keep my head up due to intense pain and or the feeling that I will puke at any given moment. Tuesday was both. I won’t go into graphic details of how bad it was, but use your imagination.
I made it home tuesday only to realize my cleaning lady was there vacuuming and stuff. I went down to my parents place and slept there till late Monday. By then I had enough strength to get back to my place. I figured I would sleep what I figured was just a bad migraine off and be fine in the morning. That is what normally happens. Well my body didn’t agree to those terms. I woke up Wednesday feeling just as bad as I did tuesday. The entire day was that intense discomfort I get when I have a migraine. So I took all the migraine medication I could. There are maximum amounts of these drugs you can take in any given day / week / month and I don’t want to find out what happens if I don’t follow the directions. By mid Wednesday my dad and my doctor both thought that it was more than the migraine. My inability to keep food down was one sign. Stomach issues are common in migraines, but not common for me. I get it sometimes, the really bad ones. But 2 days in a row was weird. So I switched drugs to Tylenol and some migraine stuff just in case. I was finally able to sleep sometime late Wednesday. I cannot remember when.
I felt a bit better thursday, but in the morning I was still a bit out of it so decided to stay home from work and get it out of my system. I was sitting up watching tv by the afternoon, but still felt sick. By thursday night I felt allot better, but tired. I tried to sleep and here I am friday morning going into work.
My dad didn’t want me to go in today. He felt I should rest through the weekend and be 100% for monday. I promised I would stay in this weekend and take it easy at work today. I hate being home sick. Usually I am bored, but this time I was in too much pain to care most of the time. I just don’t like being cooped up inside that long. Hopefully everything works out ok today.