Life, Kids, Technology & that move to another continent
Friday night Glenn our CEO took us all out to dinner. I had the surf and turf. It was a small but great fillet, and a lobster tail. Both were really good.
Then we saw John Steward in concert. He was awesome. I was almost in tears with laughter. It was 90 minutes of funny. I am going to start Tivo’ing the daily show again. He is just good.
For the past few days my status regarding a trip we are taking to Foxwoods casino has been up in the air. Most of the management team of my company is going to celebrate a good year last year. Some of the Tech department cannot go since we are releasing a major product on friday morning. My role would be as backup in the event something went wrong with the infrastructure. Today Gus decided that I can go to the casino after all since I have a cell phone and the hotel has high speed internet. Gus and Bob will stay back in NYC and go up to the casino Friday afternoon.
This is good for me. With Gus gone I have one less good poker player to contend with on Thursday nights game we are scheduling!!!
I now have to go home and do laundry and then pack. We leave Thursday afternoon at 3PM.
I saw the first episode of the new season of the Soprano’s. it was OK, not fantastic and not bad. I watch that show on and off. I saw most of last season but missed most of the 2 seasons before that. I loved the first season though. I have the soprano’s back in my season pass list in Tivo.
Another crime drama, or shall I say really bad ass bad guy as the star drama is the Shield. That was on again last night. I Tivo’ed that, and will watch it tonight or this weekend. I have actually watched the first two seasons of that show and it has been pretty good so far. I will season pass the 3rd season and see if it is any good.
Lets face it nothing else is on TV right now. All major network shows that I like anyway are in rerun’s for march and part of april. So I am trolling cable TV for good things to watch. Granted I am watching allot less TV these days but I am always looking for something good to watch…
Went to see 50 first dates last night with Alison. It was a really funny movie. I recommend it to all comedy movie fans. We did the low key dinner and a movie.
I did some work around the house all day Saturday. Organized some computer stuff that I have been meaning to do. Generally boring stuff during the day.
I need to clean my apartment up a bit. It is getting cluttered…
Yesterday was very busy. it was one of those days that you don’t remember where I spent most of my time, but I looked up at it was 3:30PM already.
Today and tomorrow will probibly be just as busy. Stuff is going on I cannot really discuss just yet, but the work will keep Keith and I busy for a while.
Jayson went to Dave’s again last night. His mom was cooking dinner. I declined to go. I was tired and had things to do around the house. I got some stuff done, but ended up watching some stuff I had on Tivo. I have not had a chance to watch much TV since last week, so I have allot of stuff on the tivo I have to see or take the chance that it will be overwritten soon.
Tonight Jay and I may goto Angilo & Maxie’s. it is a really good steakhouse right by my office. I need to talk with him later about it to see if he is still up for it.
I went to see Runaway Jury Saturday. It was really good. John Cusack is always good, and I didn’t realize that Dustin Hoffman and Gean Hackman were in it also. Very nicely done, and the best thing is that I didn’t guess the ending after 5 minutes.
I went out and saw mystic river with some friends last night. It was an “ok” movie. it wasn’t great, but the plot was good and the active was very good. we went to the outback for dinner, but after learning there was an hour and a half wait or more we took it to go (20 minutes) and went back to my friend Rich’s parents house. They were gone for the weekend and that was the closest place to the movies.
I didn’t get home till late this morning. That fact pisses me off since some dumb-ass called me at 9:45AM. Now I cannot sleep so I am up writing.
Not sure what is on the agenda for today. I wanted to goto the mall for a bit, but now I am not sure what I want to do. I will play it by ear.
This entry was written while listening to Right Now by Van Hallen
We played poker tonight at Dan’s place. Gus, Molly, Miguel, Keith, Rajive, Daniel, Glenn, Dan and myself played. It was chaotic at first since Rajive, Keith, & Glenn never really played texas hold-um before.
I ended up loosing. I got ahead quick with a hand that I almost didn’t realize I won. Then I lost it all to Molly with a pair of 9’s. I knew I didn’t have a hand that could win very much but I went all in anyway hoping I had something better than her. I didn’t and I got out. I was only down 30 buck so it was no big deal. When I left Dan, Glenn, & Molly were left. Molly had a huge amount more money then glenn so I assume she was going to win. Dan had almost nothing left but was assured 3rd place.
I had a good time. Gus is planning on doing poker next week at his place. I am down for that again. As my friend sean once said about going to a casino and loosing money. “we go skying and pay $50 for a lift ticket. I am spending the same amount of money in the casino. It is the cost of entertainment for a day.” now that works when you loose $30 bucks after a couple of hours playing poker. It is not valid when you blow $500 in 30 minutes at a casino. Thankfully that has never happened to me! Sean has had his share of crazy wisdom.
Dan wants to do poker thursday. We shall see if anyone gives the ok to doing it. I am in, unless I am wiped out from the Wednesday late night upgrade. I think we may also have a party at work that day so we may have a conflict.
So I still feel crappy from yesterday. I am still attempting to do poker with Dan and his friends tonight at his place. I missed the last poker session so I don’t want to be left out of this one. Missing too many may mean not being invited in the future. And I don’t want that. I will get some breakfast and see if I can turn this day around and feel a bit better.
Gus is away with Glenn in San FranCisco for 2 days. He sent a whole big email to everyone regarding attendance and then took off for work. He was not to happy about the lateness and people working from home. I cannot blame him. it is sort of out of control. People just email the group that they will be out sick. That is just not the way it is done. Changes are in the works, or so it seems.