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Watch Drama

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After a distressing call with Tourneau yesterday I decided to show up at the store and find out what exactly is wrong with my watch. To may an agonizing story short they screwed up and the watch was still at Omega no work was done on it what so ever. I got the run around for a while, then I started to raise my voice and get a bit pissed off. The service manager stepped in and finally explained the situation since the regular worker was giving me the run around. When he said he couldn’t tell me when I would get it back until he called the service center monday I told him that was totally unacceptable. He gave me the option of taking the value of the watch I bought and buying something else. I originally thought about asking about that but I originally didn’t really want to do it. When he offered that I saw that as the only way I could get something without waiting another month and a half. Since I bought the watch used I figured I would spend more and get a new watch of the same model. At least it will have the manufacturers warrantee on it. I was then told that Omega didn’t make that model anymore. I told the guy that was a bunch of BS since they prominently advertise it on their website. He gave me store credit for the watch still in repair and then told me he would call me on Monday or Tuesday after he called Omega and found out if he could still get the watch.

I got sorta lucky and got a call a bit after I got home from the store. Turns out I was right and they still do sell the watch and I could order it and have it in 2 weeks. It cost more than I anticipated, but I still wanted it so I told them to order it. Hopefully in 2 weeks I will have my brand new Omega Speedmaster X-33 and my crazy repair drama will be over.

I now eagerly await the call from the store telling me the new watch is in…

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The Missing St. Patrick’s Day Post

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Yesterday was a roller coaster ride of a day. I had a tons of issues to contend with at work. Jayson & Danny where off because of work done during maintenance Friday morning (for those of you that don’t understand that, when you do work on a website you need to do it on off hours. That means like 1AM EST. By the time you are done and home it is like 5AM, so you don’t get up for work normal time the next day.) Of course Jay was up at 10 not sleeping so he helped a bit remotely, then Danny shows up around 2:30 since he didn’t want to stay home.

Semi related problems to the work done Friday morning plagued us all day but where annoyances more than major catastrophes. Can’t go into more details here. Then we had other minor issues that where fun to deal with while down two people most of the day. Jayson ended up coming into the office at like 7 with gretchen so we could goto dinner. We didn’t get out of the office till like 7:30, and headed over to Heartland Brewery for dinner and hopefully drinks. We stumbled upon (well she was stumbling) Gretchen’s old boss going to another bar. She obviously got off work and had a head start with the festivities.

We had drinks, food, and then desert at the brewery. It sucked that Danny had to head home early! I got really buzzed off of 2 drinks. All I can say is that I predicted it in my birthday post. Jayson’s no alcohol vow from Gretchen’s friends wedding last week lasted a whole 5 days!

I got home late and was so tired and buzzed that I didn’t couldn’t write last night.

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The Big 3 2

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Today is my birthday. I am now very much into my 30’s at 32. It was a relatively normal day. I got a ton of backlogged work done with Jayson out in the morning, and not many people dropping by for requests. A bunch of people from work took me out for lunch. I got a bit sick on some ice cream in the afternoon so I passed on dinner with Jayson and Danny.

I got the customary calls from my parents, sister, cousins etc. My favorite was the voice mail from Morgan singing me happy birthday. I missed the call but now I can keep the VM for a while. She is so cute.

My sister guilted my parents (my mom) for canceling our dinner plans for sunday so they are back on again and we will all meet in the city for dinner. Personally I didn’t care that much if they canceled, but my sister was right in saying the correct thing to do was to go to dinner and not do whatever emergency plans they had.

The birthday present I wanted didn’t happen. I was hoping my watch would be fixed by now. Saturday marks 7 weeks since it went in for repair. I will call them tomorrow to check on it. My other Speedmaster has been filling in nicely but I am still slow on the analog only watch:(

Beware the Ides of March

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Personally I don’t (see title). But the term sounds cool, and most people don’t get it. Julius Ceasar had a bad day on this date in 44BC. Generally this is the first of a 3 day holiday (self proclaimed) for me. It begins with a normal day March 15, that happens to have a cool sounding reference that was used by Shakespeare. Only other significance for me is it is the day before my birthday! Other stuff happened on March 16th. The Wikipedia has yet to list my birth on their page related to this date. I assume it is just an oversight. That is supposed to be a happy day. That is the middle day of this holiday. And to cap off the 3 day gala event is St. Patrick’s. Recently this is the day I can drink to excess claiming it is a holiday, but really because I am a year older. Who am I kidding. I am a light weight drinker anyway!

No major social events positive or negative happened today. Work was busy. See the work blog for more info. I returned the PCI DVR card I bought last week since it was having major issues with interference so sound was terrible. I tried everything I could think of to fix it. I am back down to 1 tuner for the DVR. I am researching my other options now.

Party Weekend Roundup

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This weekend was a busy one. I had my cousin Merric’s Bar Mitzvah yesterday. I rode out the Jersey with my sister and Morgan. For a 3 year old Morgan was so good during the service. She played with her stickers and was generally quiet. After services we drove to the party. I had a good time. I had a few drinks, and ate allot. I saw tons of cousins that I never see. After a party like this it becomes apparent why I don’t see some of them. On the other hand there are always a few of them that I wonder why I don’t get together with more.

Morgan and my cousin’s Arrielle and Cerina were dancing like crazy. They were all so cute together. My 5 year old cousin Jonathan only wanted to play with with the girl in the red dress (aka Morgan). it was very cute.

I didn’t dance, since I am not into that unless I am very drunk. But the food was really good. We where invited back to the after party at my cousins house, but my dad was tired and his back hurt. So we headed home. Since my nieces birthday party was today in Queens I stayed at my parents Saturday night. The trip from South Jersey wasn’t so bad, but my dad and I ended up waiting for my mom and sister at my sisters building since they had to stop and ended up going a different way that had some traffic. The rest of the night was uneventful.

This morning I got up early and went to breakfast with my dad. From there we went to cosco to pick up the birthday cake. Morgan’s party was at a gymnastics place. 15 running and screaming 3 year olds was not my thing, but for a kids party it was nice. I got to video morgan and friends doing some really funny stuff.

I got a lift back home from Carrie’s father in law. It was nice not having to take the train back. We are all meeting at Loren and Andrew’s place later for dinner. Since their place is just 2 stops on the train from my place I am not complaining. Overall it has been a good (if not tiring) weekend so far.

A Day Off

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I am taking Monday off. I have tons of days in my bank, and I am nearing the max I can keep, so instead of loosing them I will take a day and just relax. I haven’t been sleeping well, so hopefully I can sleep in tomorrow. Not much planned on the agenda. I want to research some new mutual funds, and then maybe upgrade or build a new DVR computer. I am not sure if I can get all the components I need for the DVR so I may just work on the investment stuff. Either way I plan on doing no work. Of course that I usually end up doing some.

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Food, and Some Drink

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Nothing eventful at work to report today. I did start getting a minor head ache late in the day. Some alive took care of most of it. I ended up meeting up with John at Heartland Brewery for some food and drink. I owed him for helping me with my xbox. Jay showed up also. We had a nice time hanging out for a while. I didn’t drink much since I wasn’t feeling 100%. We had a good time and planned out our next poker get together.

Canceled Plans

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I was planning on going ice skating today. I like skating but don’t go very often, so I said yes when asked if I wanted to go. Then I woke up and it is 27 degrees out and really windy, so it is not the best weather for outdoor ice skating. Thankfully my friends I was going to go with thought the same thing and we canceled. Now I have nothing to do today. Not that I am complaining, but I must amuse myself at home today. I could clean the place? Or just watch TV? Not sure yet, but I already blew 2 hours writing and browsing the web…

Sort of Free Lunch

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Twice this week I went to lunch with Cisco or a Cisco VAR. Free food is nice, but nothing is really ever free! We need to get allot done with these people so they think it is nice to do it at lunch. They are right, and we did make allot of progress. We are trying to shop around a new integrator for our Voice systems. The first meeting was to talk with my Cisco rep about the current issues we have and what we want to do. The second meeting was to meet with an integrator and talk a bit about what we want and what they can offer. I think both meetings went well. The first impression of this new integrator was a good one. I still have to meet another integrator next week that we are looking at but I think this group had a good start.

I want to get all the leg work of this phone system design done now before we actually have a lease signed and the powers that be at my company are asking for us to move as soon as possible.

Canceled Plans

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I was planning on going ice skating today. I like skating but don’t go very often, so I said yes when asked if I wanted to go. Then I woke up and it is 27 degrees out and really windy, so it is not the best weather for outdoor ice skating. Thankfully my friends I was going to go with thought the same thing and we canceled. Now I have nothing to do today. Not that I am complaining, but I must amuse myself at home today. I could clean the place? Or just watch TV? Not sure yet, but I already blew 2 hours writing and browsing the web…

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