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Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, (And Sunday)

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I went out and saw mystic river with some friends last night. It was an “ok” movie. it wasn’t great, but the plot was good and the active was very good. we went to the outback for dinner, but after learning there was an hour and a half wait or more we took it to go (20 minutes) and went back to my friend Rich’s parents house. They were gone for the weekend and that was the closest place to the movies.

I didn’t get home till late this morning. That fact pisses me off since some dumb-ass called me at 9:45AM. Now I cannot sleep so I am up writing.

Not sure what is on the agenda for today. I wanted to goto the mall for a bit, but now I am not sure what I want to do. I will play it by ear.

This entry was written while listening to Right Now by Van Hallen

The Set Up

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There are a few things I don’t or won’t talk about on this blog. So far I have avoided dating completely. Not sure if the internet is the venue to discuss that very much. I bring it up because I felt compelled to discuss one angle of dating right now. The blind date and or the fix up date comes to mind. I am not against either in theory. Just I won’t accept being fixed up by anyone. Some people that are on the “not allowed to fix Scott up list” is my mom. Come on, do you really want your mom to set you up on a blind date? My mom has wanted to fix me up with daughters of her friends for a while. I have continually told her no. Not sure if it was a battle of wills, but finally I said OK when she said a friend of hers at work wanted to set me up with someone else she knew. I will know how it goes soon. I am still not sure about the whole fix up by a parent thing. if it was my sister I would be ok with it. if it was a cousin or my brother in law I would be cool with it, even encourage it. The fix up just doesn’t feel right coming from a parent. That goes out the window if the fix up is a hit, unless said parent speaks to or knows allot about the girl. That is the really weird part.

Well, there is only one way to find out how everything pans out!!! Thank for sitting through my ramblings.

Early Night

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I was tired after work yesterday so I just went home. I dropped off my dry cleaning and cooked myself a steak. Watched a little TV and went to bed. Nice eventful evening. I actually like that sometimes. No surprises.

Dinner

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I was planning on going to dinner with my parents tonight. The powers that be may have other ideas. I am stuck on the LIRR in Penn Station. There is a disabled train in the tunnel so we are going no where. We are already 15 minutes late with no end in sight.

This is the second time in 2 weeks that something like this has happened. I am not happy about this. I get to pay $150 per month for the privilege of sitting on a train and waiting.

I am delayed 25 minutes now and no end in sight. I wish I brought a book or synced avantgo before I left the office. At least I have 58% battery life on the powerbook now:)

The latest update. It has been 35 minutes delayed. We are now moving. They opened the doors telling passengers that they can get off and try to get on another one since we were delayed. I got upstairs and the entire concourse was packed with people. I ran down stairs and got back on the train just before the doors closed again. Like half the people on the train got off. 2 minutes later they announce they are going to back out of penn and go around to another track. then a minute later they said the tracks were clear and we left normally. the train was almost empty but we left. I am glad I decided to head back to the train, or else I would be stuck on a some packed local that would be delayed for ages.

Lets hope I can still make dinner. Well a cell phone call later confirmed that I did in fact miss dinner.

It’s Tuesday

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Today is a bit nasty in NYC, but it is cooler than yesterday. That makes me very happy. I got up early and made the really early train. I used to take it all the time but not it is difficult to make it. It is an express from my stop all the way to Penn Station.

Just saw something not so pretty. Some lady was doing her makeup. She was even plucking and pressing her eyelashes. I mean on a public train, what are you thinking? Some things never change either. Their is a group of older people sitting in front of me playing bridge. They always sit in the same car on the same train playing bridge. It is kind of cool. Whenever I take this train I sit in same car so I see them.

My mind is on what to have for breakfast today. My stomach is letting me know that it needs food soon. I might splurge and go for a bacon sandwich! We shall see when I get to work.

I saw my old boss Jeff yesterday while walking to work. He is going to come by the office Thursday to see everyone. Or everyone who has been around long enough to remember him. He thought I was blowing him off when I told him I was sick. But I really was so he just smiled and said, sure you were! I think we will go to lunch afterward.

Recovery

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So I found a bunch of the video’s that I thought I lost. I still have the video tape originals for most of what I didn’t recover. that is the good news. the bad news is that I only found 30% on backup’s.

My Application backup CD’s also had some error’s on certain program’s. I think they were older versions of stuff, so I am not worried that much. The down side is that I have to go out onto the internet and get ISO’s for Red Hat, BSD, etc. They are gig’s and gig’s of downloads that I need to do again. I will see if I have any of the missing stuff at work.

This recovery has taught me some things. One thing to note is that burning a CD or DVD as backup does not always work. I was able to recover most of what I did have on DVD, but some stuff gave me errors on the restore. I am going to keep everything I have on two different disks. I will sync them regularly. I have wanted to do that in the past but never had a problem with my DVD and CD-ROM backups.

Halloween

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I thought about dressing up in a costume for work today. Then I remembered that I was 29, and I never came up with original costumes when I was 19, so why start now. I am curious to see what my sister is doing for Morgan. Not sure what my plans are for tonight. I heard about a few parties, but I don’t know what my plans are. My cousin’s wanted me to travel to Jersey for their Halloween party but I don’t think I fit in with their married with multiple kid suburban family type friends they will have over.

The Review

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As with any company my company does annual reviews of each employee. My review was supposed to happen in early September. We started to do it and then it got delayed. 6+ weeks later it looks like it will finally be completed. I am not too worried about it, but anything like that gives you cause for the jitters. And that is all I will say on the matter. Some things are just not discussed openly.

Yet More Exchange 2003 Stuff

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I read a powerpoint last night that was part of a MSDN webcast on RPC over HTTP for Exchange. It looks like I have done everything I need to do. I can only see 1 or 2 thinks that may not be right, but I am being told they should be. 1: I don’t have a valid SSL ID. I am using one that posts an error when you bring up the site in HTTPS. The power-point vaguely mentions ssl has to work without errors. Also a checkbox in outlook 2003 is grayed out. The problem is the option is checked but grayed out. I need it checked, but I don’t know if it is bad that I cannot modify the option. All the documentation says I should be able to.

If I cannot get this working by the end of tonight I will put up an Exchange 2000 server until I can figure out this mess. I feel defeated right now:(

Tired, But Couldn’t Sleep

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Thankfully I do have my sleeping habits back almost to normal. Unfortunately last night I didn’t sleep very well. My pager kept going off about a problem that keeps correcting itself before I even get the page. (the delay in the page getting to me is short, but in this case long enough for the system to check itself again and find that everything is in fact working fine). Then I woke up at 4am and couldn’t go back to sleep.

Now I am yawning all the time and I haven’t even got to work yet. As long as I don’t get a head ache I will be grateful.