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Dinner With The Family

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Went to dinner with my parents, sister and niece tonight. Probably the last time we will do that before the baby shows up. My sister is due next week. I had a head ache since it was hot and I didn’t eat lunch. I have to stop doing that. We had a good time though. Morgan was great as always. Great as in really funny, but not behaving as good as she could tonight.

Other than dinner, work was busy as usual. I meet a rep from a vendor we started using. It was an interesting talk. I had a ton of other issues that I am dealing with, and things are busy. Hopefully the die down a bit after July.

Drinks With Friends

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Gretchen came into the city today and Jayson and I had lunch with her, her cousin, and her cousin’s friend. We went to Old Town. It was good as usual. Dealt with the usual busy stuff at work, and then I got an IM from John wanting to know if I wanted drinks after work. I didn’t have much going on so I said why not. Jayson was out at the Nextel store getting some new Blackberry’s for work but wanted to go also. Man we should not have waited for him. It took him forever, then he needed to go get Gretchen a new phone at Cingular so that took a while also. John and I ended up waiting for them for like an hour.

We finally hit a nearby bar restaurant we like. I didn’t drink much and had some appetizers. John wanted me to go play poker with him but I had an early meeting on Tuesday so I passed.

As a side note Jay got a new Blackberry 7100, and a new guy got one also. We handed down Jayson’s old 7520 to someone who destroyed their old one. I like the size of the smaller 7100’s, and I know it is easy to learn the keypad setup, but I just can’t bring myself to get one. My 7520 is big, but I am sticking with it for now.

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Bad Headache Saturday

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I had a migraine on Saturday that came up on me so fast. I was glad I didn’t go out. I ended up sleeping in the afternoon and trying to rest in the evening. I was still out of it on Sunday. I had migraines like that. I was just glad it was the weekend and I didn’t have to deal with work and being out of it. Because of that I didn’t do much this weekend.

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Dinner & Drinks

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After work Jayson and I meet up with John at some dive bar on the west side by his office. I don’t mind dive places. Especially ones like this. It had a nice crowd and wasn’t too crowded. The best part was the happy hour till 8PM. We where able to get a round (including 2 mix drinks and beer) for $8. This is NYC and it was that cheap. By the second round and a nice tip the drinks where pretty strong.

After a few rounds we ended up in little italy for some good dinner. Jay and John got some cigars at this little place on Mulberry street. I was full and tired by the end of the late dinner so I passed on going out for more drinks at a nearby bar. It was a good night all in all.

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Random Observations

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Gold was at like $635 yesterday, and is back down to like $610 today. It was at $600 last week when everyone was talking about it at passover. Man I should have bought some back then. I am following the market a bit more closely now!

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Passover Night 1

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Spent the night with my parents, sister, brother in law, his family, and my niece. We had dinner at my brother in law’s sisters apartment. It was nice. It was also nice that it was really close to my apartment. I wasn’t very hungry, and that was OK since I am not a big passover (or any other Jewish holiday food) food fan. I had a late lunch at like 3-4PM so I had very little. I didn’t even eat dessert.

Sad to say I was on my Blackberry a decent chunk of time at dinner getting updates from Jayson about a possible issue at work. Unfortunately the problem I thought was solved may not be. Not sure yet, but that is all I can say.

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New, New Watch

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I finally got my new Omega Speedmaster Professional X-33. it came in to the store and I picked it up on the 31st. I haven’t had a chance to write about it until now. It is basically the newer version of the one I had bought last year used. It was a bit more money (just a bit) but I was able to apply the price of the used on towards the new one. Having the warrantee, box and a brand new item really is better. I know I had a good deal on a used one, but with something that I use all the time and never leaves my side such as wrist watch I really want/need a new one that I can rely on.

So far it is working perfectly. Kind of like a precision swiss watch (sorry for the pun)! I will post photos in a few days. My original Speedmaster Professional (circa 1969) goes back onto the night stand as a backup. And yes I have become a watch guy, or so it seems. I used to be happy with my Timex indiglo, but I am now light years past them!

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Long, Long Day

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I had a really long stressful day at work. Absolutely nothing I can discuss here. I did write a long entry on my work blog, but since it is password protected and private it can’t be really discussed. Lets just say when I finally left the office it felt like I had ran a marathon. I was just physically and emotionally wiped out. I did get a chance to relax a bit in little Italy with Jayson, Scott, & Gretchen for dinner. They where cool enough to wait for me to finish work before ordering dinner. Thanks guys!

Due to one of the big issues I was working on today I am canceling my trip to our other office tomorrow. I need to make sure things are on track here.

I am still having trouble sleeping. I was up again last night. Not as long as some nights last week but it still sucked. It also didn’t help that I got woken up at a quarter to 1 with a problem at work. I wasn’t on the phone for long but the damage was done. I can’t get pissed about stuff like that because it is part of the job, but man I was actually sleeping. It is so rare these days. I was hoping for an early night tonight but it didn’t happen. I am off to bed now, but I wanted to write a bit before I goto bed. it does make me relax a bit when I write a little.

Brewery

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Jayson’s brother Scott is in for a week on vacation. He stopped by the office and hung out for a while. The more I talk to him about some of the cool stuff he does at his job with NDS and ZEN I really wonder why we didn’t use it, then I remember that it is Novell. They do have some really cool remote deployment options.

With Scott in town, we meet up with John at Heartland Brewery for some drinks and food. Danny also came out for a bit to hang. It was a short, but rather expensive night for me. 1 drink, food, plus their awesome desert sets you back.

Still having trouble sleeping so I am trying to get to bed early.

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The Waiting (For Food)

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I am sitting here catching up on my blogging waiting for my Freshdirect deliver. I am hungry and I will hopefully fix lunch with some of the good food I ordered. I just have to wait. 1 hour 22 minutes left in my delivery window.

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