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Hung Out, Watched Elf Saturday

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Saturday I slept in. I wasn’t out too late on Friday, but I was tired from the week of work. I cleaned up my place and Rich came over to hang out. We haven’t hung out in a few months. Both of us have been busy, and he has been trying to conserve cash. We rented Elf on DVD. Neither of us had seen it, and everyone at work said it was great. I thought it was funny, but not outrageously so.

We walked down to Sassy Sliders for a quick dinner. It was a cool long walk, but we were on a budget. That place is like a wannabe White Castle, but the food is really good for fast food.

The plus side of having company over was that it forced me to clean up the crap in my apartment. It now looks halfway decent. I had a good day. I need to hang with Rich and Amanda more. I miss them:(

Home Reorg

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I took the day off today (Monday). Unlike normal people I didn’t relax or do anything special. I slept in. Then I proceded to attempt to fix my Tivo. After hours of agrivating over it, and messing up my apartment in the processes I gave up.

I was able to move my desktop computer from one half of my computer table to the other. Now it is closer to the TV wall unit so I can run cable to it. Most of the day was busy working on my Tivo. See post on Tivo & PVR Trouble.

The Jets Game

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Today I met up with Jay and Gretchen and headed over to Dan’s to watch the game.  Well I didn’t really watch the game, but that was the reason why everyone was over.  He had a good appetizer spread.  Jay and I took off and went to J&R Computer World.  I was looking for a laptop. The Sony Vaio I wanted to see did not impress me that much, so I am back to square one on my laptop search.

We headed back to Dan’s and played a round of trivial pursuit.  I learned that Jayson gets bored at games quick. Cari has tons of useless knowledge (and I want her on my team next time). Gretchen also has good trivia skills, and would be someone I want on my team.  I should have listened to her when she asked for me to be on her team in the first place.  Dam guys vs. girls game.  Jennifer should not be playing trivia, let alone be on my team every…  Dan was hot and cold.  I think near the end he was just tired.  We had a good time.  We ordered food and hung out for a while.

Thursday Night Out, Man I Drank Allot

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Thursday night a bunch of us went out after work to drink with Gus for one last time (at least as an employee of our company). We went to our typical bar No Idea? We drank. Some more than others. I may have drank more than others, or at least felt that I did. Yes, I got a bit drunk. I am happy to say I made it to work on Friday relatively on time (only an hour late). I didn’t even have hang over. That of course is because I couldn’t sleep and I drank about a gallon of water over the course of the night.

All in all we had a good time. Glenn picked up the tab for allot of the night. We drank, played pool, etc. I threw a drink at Jim. The usual stuff. Glenn said I was drunk and that I should probably not drink more. Then of course we held a conversation related to a big purchase we are in the middle of, so either I was not really drunk or I am just confused…

A good time had by all. I think Jim is dry now so that is good too…

Friday Night Team Dinner

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Friday night my team and I went out for the holidays.  Kai and Brian came down for the dinner.  We went to a Angelo & Maxie’s.  We like that place.  Cari tagged along since Bob could not make it.  All in all we had a good time.  Because of what we do, we never all get together.  Kai and Brian left the call center early and came down.  Thankfully nothing broke after they left.

We didn’t drink that much since most of us drank the night before at the Gus goodbye "party".  I had a filet, and the cheese cake for desert.  It was good as always.  Jayson was not happy with his food, but he was getting sick.  Danny had 2 potato’s and that was it.  I can’t see going to a nice steakhouse and ordering two plain baked potatoes, but he was happy so I guess it is ok.

I am so blacklogged on writting that I am going to cut this post short.  More happened, bla, bla, bla.  Fun had by all, etc.  You get the picture.

Bloody Sunday

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Well not really, but I was listening to U2 before so that stuck in my head. It is my last day before I go back to work. Today I went to the office to pack up some stuff I am selling on eBay. nothing has actually sold, but since at last count I had 9 items up for auction I wanted them all to be packaged and ready to go when I finally did sell the stuff. I have more, but I figured I wanted this stuff to go first.

Jay and I then went to Macy’s, and Bed Bath & Beyond. I had to get cleaning stuff at BB&B. We meet up with Gretchen for dinner at this nice italian restaurant near their house. We have been there a few times. it is good. Don’t remember the name. I then rested the remaining part of the day. Now I am off to bed, so I can do busy things at work tomorrow. Daily recap now complete.

eBay Selling Round 2

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With Jayson leading the way, I have decided to complete my eBay selling spree by going through my old computer crap stuff and putting it up for sale. Lets face it, I am not going to use 4 extra CD burners, or 18 Gig ultra wide SCSI drives any time soon. They are perfectly good gear, but I have no use for them. What person needs 4 Adaptec 39160 cards? They just accumulated over time. Now it is time to sell them and earn some cash.

Happy Turkey Day

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I am off to my parents in a little while. Then it is off to friends of the families for Thanksgiving Day Dinner. I don’t know how I did it (my mom did) but I got my dad to pick me up from the subway. No trekking over to Penn station to catch the once an hour rail road for me this holiday.

Now all I have to do is eat something before I leave. Did I mention I hate Thanksgiving food? The actual event is fine, just not a fan of what we eat. I will grab something on my way!!!

Firemen Climbing, and Me Watching

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The other night on my way home from work I decided to get off at the stop before my apartment and get some takeout and walk home. On the way back to my place there was a bunch of fire trucks and ambulances. I noticed people standing around and watching. I had no idea what they were looking at. Then I noticed firemen climbing up ladders and scaffolding into a building. I stopped for a minute and though, weird. then I continued on my trek home. What was really weird about the situation was that allot of people were standing around watching this happen long before I got there, and probably long after I left. Is it that you don’t have much else to do, or do people really like to watch guys climb buildings? I think it is the flashing red lights. it attracts people.

Handouts

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Why is it that there are so many people giving away “free” stuff near the subway entrances in NYC? As of today I am offered a free Metro, & AM NY. Also I get people giving me information about saving some (fill in name of oppressed, abused or unjustly treated foreigners here) group in some foreign country. There is another group handing out stuff, but I don’t know what it is for. I haven’t stopped long enough to find out.

At first I thought this was a problem near Penn station when I got off the LIRR. Then it started happening in Union Square. Now for months I have getting pestered up by my apartment.

Whose idea was it to place annoying low paid people at the bottleneck point of an exit/entrance to subway stations? I know it is a high traffic area, but come on. I am barely making it to work on auto-pilot half awake as it is. Having people mess up the routine is not good.

This is a down side of living in a crowded city I guess. To me is just annoying.