Life, Kids, Technology & that move to another continent
Well, I did my tax’s for 2003. Turns out the government owed me a bunch of money. This year I once again used turbo tax. One of the best programs ever. I didn’t have a complicated return so I used the software.
Everything including the filing was done online. I should see my return direct deposited to my bank account in like 10 days. It is awsome. When you are getitng back money, doing your tax’s is not so bad!
Due to stuff going on at work that requires me to be up past midnight my sleep habits are all screwed up this week. I got up at 8:30AM today. I got up at 9AM yesterday after working till after 1AM. What is wrong with me? I hope to get a good night sleep tonight so I can be fresh for work on Monday.
As a thank you for all the crazy work we have been doing, my company took Keith and I to Best Buy and we got gifts. To tech guys this is a very good thing!!! We both got HP Ipaq 1945’s. Keith was going to get a portable DVD player but the check out girl said some bad things about it, so he got the same pocket pc that I was going for. I had the 1910 before but it didn’t have bluetooth so I got rid of it for my Treo 270. I like the pocket pc, but wouldn’t have gone out and gotten one on my own. As a gift it was a nice surprise.
I got out my old Xircom Realport2 Bluetooth card, and am trying to configure it to sync with the pocket pc. I am also getting my Sony Ericsson T-68i unlocked so I can use it with the bluetooth on the pocket pc. I will play with this setup until T-Mobile finally releases the Treo 600 sometime in March.
Normally we get steak dinners for our major projects, but this was a very nice change of pace. It is nice to get recognition for job’s well done!!!
I got my new furniture friday as planned. It looks as good or better than I anticipated. Most of my stuff is put away now. I only have 1 issue with were to put all my home entertainment components. My Tivo & DVD player don’t fit where I wanted them to go. I need to cut a hole in the back of the wall unit in order to move them somewhere else. Other than that things look good. I need to hang my large map now that I know where my couch is. I have a massive map of the US with marks on every city I have been to. It was fun doing and is nice to have around. I will probably move my DVD collection to the new wall unit also. It will make room in my front closet where they are now.
I need to have my old wall unit removed. it is in pieces in the corner of my living room while I figure out what to do with it.
The really big foot rest in my bed room is making it hard to walk around, but it goes with my new comfy chair so I am torn with what to do with it. I pushed it against the wall and am hoping it is out of the way. You really need someplace to put your feet up on when you sit in a comfy chair. My Pier 1 chair had a small foot rest. That chair is now on my patio. it will be for warmer weather use outside.
This entry was written while listening to Farmhouse by Phish
Spoke to my friend Jayson today. he is planing on coming into NYC for a week in february. He is going to take a Cisco Voice Over IP class. I think he is a punk for needing to take a class in it, but he owns his own buisness. In order to get clients he needs to not just prove he knows the stuff, he needs certification in it.
He may stay by me while he is up here. I don’t see him much so I think it would be fun. I need to get down to New Orleans and hang with him, joe and gretchen soon also.
I told him he should come to work with me and see a Cisco Call Manager in action. He was at the our "parent" company office when Jeff & Dave where there, but hasn’t ever made it to our current office.
Hopefully that will be a fun visit. I look forward to it.
Well not really packing, but I am lazy today. I know I need to break down my old wall unit so I can get my new stuff friday, but I just am not in the mood to do allot of manual labour. I will wait till tomorrow. Hopefully then I will be up for it. I need to carefully take apart all my electronics and store them for a day. I also need to make sure my cable modem stays on while I do this or else I won’t be able to get on the internet. And that would be bad.
It is freezing in New York City today. It is also currently snowing. I hope it doesn’t snow that much since I actually want to goto work tomorrow. I am working from home friday so I really could get stuff done tomorrow at the office. As of now it is a crap shoot. Who ever knows how much it will snow. The weather people have no clue and I have stopped listening to them years ago.
All I do know is it is freezing. And on that note I just got a new Pea Coat. My old one had buttons falling off and my new LL Bean one just showed up tonight. I am just worried it is not as heavy as the current one I have. For the amount I paid that thing better be warm. I have a real navy surplus Pea Coat I got from my dad. Unfortunately it is too tight on me now. That was an awesome coat. He got it from a Navy base in the 50’s. It was used in WWII and has the guys name still embroidered on the inside of the coat. You could seriously throw a bucket of water on someone when they are wearing that coat and they would still stay warm.
For some unknown reason I am still getting head aches. I was stuck in bed all day sunday with a migraine. I attempted to not take drugs since I was at home, but I ended up taking a bextra and sleeping all day.
Today I also took 2 fureset (butabital). I am hacking the spelling of these drugs! I felt better after taking the drugs today, but if I didn’t I would have a big problem. Butabital is a powerful pain medication. Thankfully I was able to make it through the rest of the day. Hopefully tomorrow I will feel better. I will try to goto bed early tonight.
I had one last day of rest and now work starts again tomorrow. I did my laundry and cleaned a bit today, but other than that I took it easy. I still have a nasty cough, but other than that I feel allot better than I did last week. Not 100%, but better. My parents came over to measure stuff. I am getting my new furniture (there old furniture) in a few weeks and we wanted to make sure that everything will fit. I did an awesome Visio of my apartment and all the furniture in it. it was to scale and everything. Unfortunately I cannot seem to find it. It was lost when I had my hard drive issues a few months ago. I cannot seem to find it in my backups. I am not happy about it. A work skill finally put to use for my house and it is lost. I found it so funny that my sister was amazed at that visio, and it only took me like 1 hour of measuring and about an hour an a half of work in Visio. 🙁
My mom talked me into getting more stuff than I anticipated on. I am getting this huge plush chair for my bedroom. I need to get rid of my Pier 1 papizan chair to make it fit. I love that chair but it is starting to break anyway. It is take this chair from my parents or buy another $300 papizan chair. The only think I will need after this furniture arrives is a small kitchen table. I am not even sure if I need one, but I will have the room for it. I can always eat on the dining room table.
OK, I am off to bed. This will hopefully be my last night on Tylenol PM. I need to wean myself off that stuff.
This entry was written while listening to American Girls LP from the album “Hard Candy” by Counting Crows
If you have been reading this blog you will have noticed that I have been complaining of being sick on and off since October. Well this is disturbing since I normally get sick with a cold once or twice a year and that is it. Well I have counted what can be 3 cold’s and the flue since October. Needless to say I am not happy.
This whole week I have been coughing allot and had a stuffy nose. It is weird, some colds you just feel like crap and don’t want to do anything. This one I just coughed like crazy and sounded like crap, but I was able to work. Thankfully I had off Thursday and Friday. I left a bit early from work Wednesday and started taking Tylenol PM. I have been in a haze ever since. I woke up this morning and wasn’t tired anymore but I could not concentrate at all. I ended up watching movies and lying in bed most of the day. I couldn’t do anything else if I wanted to.
Late this afternoon I felt a bit better and decided to rearrange my desk a bit. I took my Athlon XP desktop out of the closet and set it up on a corner of my desk. I totally cleared off my desk when I got my iMac but I decided that I had some use for my XP desktop to be out. So I shifted the iMac over and placed the monitor for the XP box in the corner. I have less desk space now and things look a little more cluttered, but it isn’t that bad. If I don’t use the computer I can always put it back in the closet with my server.
I am also giving the apple pro speakers that came with my mac a try. They don’t use a subwoofer and so at first I didn’t want to use them since my creative speakers have a subwoofer. The only thing the apple speakers have going for them is they don’t take up much space. They don’t actually sound so bad now that I have been listening to music on them for the past 2 hours.
The only problem I have now is that I think half of my computer table is not level. it is not visible when working on it, but I know that it is, so it is driving me crazy. I am to much of a perfectionist…
This entry was written while listening to Unwell from the album “More Than You Think You Are” by Matchbox 20