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Monday Recap

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I woke up with a headache. Alive kicked it, so I was happy in the afternoon. Most of the day was taken up with shepherding along other peoples projects. I did get to deal with a few items on my ever growing list of items I am working on. The thing about the Getting Things Done system I am trying is that the list always gets bigger, and each task gets more specific. The purchase of Daylite has been very helpful in keeping things organized.

Some things I did get to work on today was some network port blocking projects I have had in the works. I also got some time to update some test virtual machines for some other tests. I also pitched to my boss a new upgrade to our network. I think he liked it, so we will take it to the next level. Not much more I can go into on this site.

I got to get home at a normal hour today. I ended up cooking dinner instead of ordering out like I have been doing the past 2 weeks. I also got to touch base with Amanda over IM for a while. She is back from her honeymoon so she was able to chat.

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Resting, & Cleaining

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I am so sleepy today. I woke up around 10:30, and I have been sleepy ever since. I tried to lie down and take a nape (not something I usually do) but I couldn’t fall asleep. I am done cleaning up my apartment. My parents are coming over later so I decided that my weekly weekend cleaning should be a good one. I finished most of the the work last night, but I put the finishing touches on the place this morning.

I would be watching TV now, but there is nothing good left on my Tivo or DVR. Oh I have about 100 hours of crap on them, but nothing I want to be watching now. I watched the latest episode of Spooks (aka Mi-5) last night thanks to usenet!!! All I can say is I love watching a show where no one is safe from getting killed off. Too bad US TV isn’t as good as some of the stuff coming out of the BBC.

Rich and Amanda are back from their honeymoon. They called and wanted to know if I wanted to goto a steak brunch. Now I am up for steak, but for sunday brunch? Who am I kidding? I would have said yes if it wasn’t for my parents coming over later and me being so sleepy.

At least it stopped raining in NYC!

Is The Date Too Much to Ask For?

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It is funny how you miss the little things. I have been wearing my new Omega watch for almost 5 months now. The one thing I miss off my old timex is the ability to look at my wrist for the date. I can get the date off my Omega, but I have to hit a button to get it and then cycle through the menu to get back to time. It is a pain so I never do it. Something so simple, yet so difficult. I find myself having to look at my mobile phone or the time preferences on my powerbook to get the date now a days. Bob got a good laugh at me when I commented about the new watch not giving the date, but the $40 timex does. Oh well, what are you going to do?

Back To Work

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I got back to work today. I feel better than I did earlier in the week, but my throat still hurt and I had a stuffy noise. I am still a bit foggy from the sleepy medicine I have been taking but I was able to make it through the day without any major incidents.

For some reason I didn’t eat that much since yesterday morning. I had breakfast yesterday, then a snack. Today I had breakfast and I just finished dinner. I just wasn’t hungry all day. maybe that was due to the cold? Not sure.

I had my office to myself today. Jayson spent the entire day at the data center doing work. I got caught up on paper work, and tried to move a few projects along.

I ordered freshdrect tonight for delivery tomorrow. I am not planning on doing very much this weekend. I am going to try and stay in since it is supposed to rain tomorrow. I hope to totally kick this cold and be good for next week.

Nothing

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I have been sick all week. Not bed ridden flu sick or anything. Just head cold feeling like crap sick. I ended up taking off monday. I also took today off as my floating holiday. It is a major jewish holiday. Not that I observed it or anything. I slept, and watched everything anywhere close to good on my Tivo. And yes I did some work. I can’t help it.

I was going to goto my parents for dinner last night at the start of the holiday. I called my dad around 2pm asking if he could pick me up from the rail road. My plan was to leave early and be at here place so I could lie down before dinner. He was like “why are you coming?” He didn’t think I should be traveling in the crappy weather when I was sick. I told him my mom wanted me to be there. He got off the phone with me and called my mom. then next thing I know she is calling telling me she didn’t realize I was in that bad shape and not to travel out to them. I am upset because it is two weeks in a row that I missed seeing them. Probably for the best so I don’t get anyone else sick.

Not much else to report. I have eaten most of the food in my apartment. I need to order freshdirect soon. I am so bored being stuck home. More later.

Some Catastrophy?

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Is the world coming to an end or something? It sure sounds like it from my apartment today. Since like midnight I have heard at least a dozen sirens. We are not talking like one police car driving by. Most of the time it sounds like the president is driving by my building with the amount of sirens going by. Maybe this is the sleep deprived me talking, but at 3AM when no cars are out do you really need to go full lights and sirens someplace?

Just one of the observations I have made sitting in bed (or my couch) today.

To Do, Up To Date

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Today was relatively restful. I bummed around in the morning, then did work in the afternoon. I also took a break and went to the bank and Best Buy. I even got stopped at Best Buy and asked if I wanted to take part in a survey. I said no when I saw the video camera’s. It didn’t matter that they offered me a $10 gift card. I got my DVD’s and left.

I also went through my to do list. I had allot of open issues I needed to work on for the office. I am mostly caught up. I wrote a bunch of emails to people, did 1 presentation, generated a report, and other “business” like tasks that I now do in my job! I look fondly back and think work used to be tinkering with some piece of software or hardware all day! Who am I kidding that would be nice too, but I still love my job. Even with all the stress. And it feels like more stress ever day.

I also have a bad feeling I am coming down with a cold. My throat hurts really bad. That is the tell tail sigh for me that I cold is on its way. I am not so happy about that.

Dinner

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Stayed at work late and then went out with Jayson and his in-laws to a nice restaurant in Little Italy. It was a nice night. We even hit the good desert place after dinner. Cari was going to come with us, but she got a bad head ache and took off from work.

Other than that I had an interesting day at work, but the contents of the day can’t be posted here. I have updated my Work blog (password only) with details.

Busy Days

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The past two days have been busy with meetings and very little tech work, or anything interesting enough to run and write about. I have been feeling like I am not getting anything done, but in fact I am being productive. When I feel like I am not getting allot done I realize I am doing office work, and not tech work! not bad, but just different.

I am trying to save money the remaining week of this month. For that reason I passed up going out with John and Jay to dinner last night, but then ended up going out tonight with other friends! I intend to safe the rest of the week! Really!

I was just finishing up going through my TO DO list and email backlog. I think now (at 10 to midnight) I finally am done. I am off to bed!

Light Friday

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It wasn’t that we were bored today (i actually got allot done) but it was a “relatively” slow day. Case in point Jayson and I were able to sneak out (not really since my boss knew where we were going) and goto the Outback for lunch. In NYC the Outback does in fact serve lunch.

We also got some time to work on a new cabinet we received for our computer room. I have to say that HP rail kits are the easiest I have ever had to install. I cannot believe that IBM still makes you screw things in and do all this work to get a kit in, but HP you just snap it in and you are done in 3 minutes. Now I have to finalize the cabinet layout before we put more gear in it.

Other than that, today was an uneventful day. And you know what? I don’t mind a few uneventful days every now and then!