Personal

Sometimes don’t you sit down and go “where did I spend all my money”? I am actually very good at keeping track of what I spend, but sometimes I still think wow I spent how much! Friday was one of those days, where things just were expensive. I had dry cleaning, cab’s, meals. That crap adds up. I learned really quick that when you live in manhattan cabs are your best friend, but are evil. They are great but expensive. that means you always want to use them, but know you shouldn’t. They are like a drug. So I use/have cabs like I do alcohol, very infrequently so I enjoy them but not so much that I am poor due to them.

Friday nights spending I blame Jayson, well maybe Gretchen. I am still sick and they invited me to Outback. Now they both know I cannot turn down an Outback meal. So I go. I really didn’t have any choice. With cabs and food I am out $40. But it was so tasty!!! So bad for you, yet so good. I had the crab cakes and cheese fries. Don’t tell my doctor that when he does my cholesterol.

The other spending was necessity. It was necessary to get my laundry done. Well I didn’t have to pay to have it done, but I don’t like to do the laundry. it reminds me of childhood horrors of having to fold laundry in the loud hot laundry room in my parents building. Well it was a horror to me, maybe not to most people. I could not do the laundry and smell like most people on the 7 train? But I don’t think people at work would like that, so I pay for laundry. I look on the bright side, my wallet is allot lighter now! Well maybe that isn’t a good thing.

See when I cannot sleep readers get my crazy ramblings about spending habits.

Puffs Plus (with lotion) is my best friend this week. I would not know what I would do without those gloriously comfortable paper products this week. I have had a head cold all week. The last few days it has been in my sinus’s. I was dying at work with the crap tissues they buy, so I brought some Puffs Plus from work. I still can’t breath right, but at least my nose isn’t killing me. Who would have thought (the makers of Puffs I guess) lotion on tissues?

Yes I am crazy. When I am sick the little things matter that much more!

Got 1 wrong on my first EMT quiz. Not bad, but nothing to brag about since this is the 3rd time I have taken an EMT basic course in 10 years. CPR class is boring. I got most of the scenarios right on the first try. It was like riding a bike, you never really forget. I just needed to brush up on what is the current protocol for things.

I am getting a cold, or that is how I felt this afternoon. I took some cold meds to try and head off the impending shitty feeling. I will know tomorrow if I get any worse.

I want to write more about stuff that happened at work today, but I am tired. Hopefully I will post this weekend and talk about the good conversation we had with some high up exec’s at Cisco. I always find it weird (in a good way) when very high up people at billion dollar companies spend time to talk to people at relatively small companies about buying their product. I felt the same way when Gus spoke to John Chambers last spring. More about that later.

I went to Bed Bath & Beyond with Jayson and Gretchen last night before dinner. I was planning on getting some towels for my bathroom and maybe check out the bedroom sets. I left the store 30 minutes later with new towel’s, and a nice comforter set to replace my aging Ralph Lauren Denim set I currently have. In return BB&B decided to keep a whole bunch of my money. I wasn’t planning on spending as much as I did, but I saw something I liked and decided to just buy it. It wasn’t what I set out to get. I was looking for another set of denim sheets and comforter. Funny how things don’t end up how you planned them, but you end up being happy anyway?

It is now the 2nd of the month and I will be watching my budget the rest of the month. But I will be sleeping nice and comfy in my new blanket.

On a side note, Ralph Lauren why did you stop making plan denim comforters? They rocked.

After shopping we went to eat at a decent Italian restaurant. Then we watched Dead Like Me on showtime. I like that show and it would be the only reason I get showtime. But I won’t spend the money showtime for just 1 show. So every so often I get to see it at Jay and Gretchen’s. Then I went home. With my traveling and the spending, it was a long day.

I have been looking for a halfway decent person to cut my hair since I moved. I can’t even travel back to my old neighborhood and use my old guy, I tried. he is not working there for a while. I have tried 2 different places. One by work that has like 30 people working there, and a smaller place by my apartment. I went to the local place by my apartment again today. I am lazy, the last guy who cut my hair there wasn’t very good, but I figured I would try someone new. Thankfully I went. I got an older “old school” hair cutter. He actually did exactly what I wanted and used the nice straight razor to clean up the back of my head. I am very happy. The little things make me happy. I nice haircut feels good, and looks good for a few weeks.

I need to live up the good haircuts while I can. Sooner or later (hopefully later) the hair will fall out, and then I will be really upset:)

The class was long. I really am not used to class. My but hurts from those dam hard college desks. Once we got into some lecture stuff the second half of the class went by quick. I hope that is how it is most nights.

I didn’t get home till after 10PM. I am hanging in there. I just plugged my schedule into Outlook. Man the next 3-4 months will be busy. More when I am not tired. Off to bed.

My EMT class starts tomorrow. I am looking forward to getting the certification again, but I am not looking forward to the class. It is allot of time commitment. I hope I don’t have issues with work regarding it. I also haven’t taken a class since I got right out of college. I am not a fan of sit down education so I hope I can sit through 3 days of class.

I also hope I can handle the medical stuff. I used to be able to do it no problem. That was why I wanted to goto medical school. Now it is years later and I am getting back into EMS, I hope I can handle it. it has been a while. I am probably just worried because the class is a big change for a few months, but I haven’t ridden on a call in years. It will be an interesting transition.

Of course if my last EMT class is any gauge on my knowledge (even if it is book knowledge) I will be ok. I got like an 86 or 88 on the last written exam I took, and a perfect score on my practical exam. High marks to live up to. I know I wont ever get a perfect mark on the practical. I don’t know how I did it the last time. I just want to live through the class and get my certification card again.

Tomorrow will be an extra difficult day at work also. Jayson is down in Baton Rouge cleaning up his house so he can sell it. He wont be back until Wednesday. Then I am off to Kingston for Thursday and Friday. That means we will be short handed at work all week. Him being gone means I will have to do some helpdesk work. I hate that, but I gotta do what needs to be done. Danny will hang out with me in my office while Jayson is gone. He likes our office since he can hide (if only a bit) from some of the developers. With him working out of my office, I am not all by myself. It gets lonely sometimes back there. other times I actually get allot done when no one is around. So after that all being said, I was looking forward to the quiet to get some extra work done with Jay gone, but Danny is cool, and it does get really quiet in my office when I am alone.

My typing hands are getting tired. It is also getting late. I was hoping to get some more writing into this blogging session, but I will call it a night. Hope to get some more writing in later this week, class permitting.

Howard sent me pictures of his weightless experience this week. He on the board of a company that is now offering commercial service that until now NASA only offered. For 25 or so seconds at a time you can go weightless. It looks cool, but some people loose their lunch. Slashdot, and MSNBC reported on it.

The cost of a trip is a bit much for me, but the concept is still really cool. I can’t wait for the next cool adventure Howard goes on so I can hear the stories!