Personal

I actually left work early today. I was as amazed as the readers must be. I needed to go and get my keys for my new apartment. I am actually moving next week. It is cool and a pain. I want to move and the new place is great, but I feel like I just got everything where I like it in the current apartment. I need to go over to the new place and check out the paint job.

Being home early had an added benifit. My sister and the baby were at my parents house so I went over and we all went out to dinner. Morgan was being fussy so we didn’t get to actually eat till after 8, but we were trying from 6 PM on. She is so cute. It drives me crazy when she cries because she puts on this really cute pouty face and gets all upset. Everyone will have their hands full with her when she grows up!

I had a close call yesterday with my Apple Powerbook G4 12″. I ran the airport extreme update to get the wireless device to comply with the final 802.11g spec that came out last month. So I run the update and reboot my powerbook only to find out that I can no longer get on my wireless network at home. I didn’t play with it because I was tired, but I was able to get it working at work on our regular 802.11b network. I get home and redo the network and all of sudden I get the network working. I was a bit scared for a minute. Rolling back from an update can suck or sometimes is not possible.

I am using a Linksys WRT54G 802.11G Wireless Route/4 Port Switch. I love linksys. This is my second router from them. When I got my powerbook I figured I would get an all in one router/wireless point that does 802.11g since the powerbook could do the faster G. I still need to ebay my old router and Lucent/Agere AP-1000 point. I still have to wait for the linksys wireless point I have to have the firmware update to comply with the 802.11g standard.

I love wireless and use it for tons of stuff around the house and work, but I will take this time to say that if you need to copy tons of stuff from one machine to another, get a 100 megabit wired switched connection. You will save yourself hours of waiting. 802.11g rocks (in my house I get double the speed from 802.11b while my laptop sits on the desk above my wireless point) but it is still not that fast for corporate use. At home with 1 computer on a network going to the internet, it is fast enough. Of course in that situation 802.11b is fast enough since the limiting factor is your internet connection. Just my two cents.

All in all I had some issues and I got some luck back today so it almost fixed itself overnight! How about that for Mojo?

A bunch of us ended up going out after work. We ussually goto a bar by my office called No Idea? It is cool. We are creatures of habbit. Today I bumped into a few friends from when I was working at Y&R / BM. Dave and Nick were out playing pool. I didn’t speak to them much today. I need to hang out with them more. People out and about were Keith, Jenn, Rajive, Sam, Matt, & Vijay. We had a good time, but we cut out early. Jenn had plans, kieth was tired, and rajive had a train to catch and Vijay went to some sweedish party (no joke). I was exhausted from the week. We are looking to meet up on Saturday to goto some club Vijay knows about. Gus was MIA due to a long day of travel. Others were also MIA. Not sure what was up with Mark. He was in the office, and then didn’t end up out at the bar. I guess that is what happens when you have a new born baby at home.

What I need to do most this weekend is get a good night sleep. I used to get good long sleeps over the weekend. I am not recently. I can’t seem to get up in the morning during the week, but the weekend comes along and I get up at 10-am. When I mean sleep late, I am talking about 1pm or so. I used to love doing that in college. I even could do that for years after college. Maybe I am getting older?

I am all set to move on July 1. I have 2 guys that work in my buildings maintanence department who will move my furniture from one building to another for a small fee. I don’t have that much big stuff so they can do it without hiring movers. I will move the rest of the stuff myself. My new (parents old) living room and dinning room set will arrive sometime in September. My mom was not just ready to redo her living room, so I don’t get stuff till then. I am getting an awsome couch and wall unit. The dining room table is ok, but I need one so I am not going to be picky. This stuff is sort of old. They bought it when I was in Junior High or early High School. I think JH. But my mom is a crazy cleaner and neat freak, so it looks like it did back then. The style is modern so it looks good.

I still need to call the cable company but other than that I think I am on target to move. More updates later.

Do you have a special favorite spot you like to go? Where you feel the most relaxed, or at “home”? I do. It is not anything fancy. I am most at peace sitting on my bed at home with the pillows propping my back up. I sit in this weird position with legs propping my laptop up. I am doing this as I write this blog. I put a pillow on my lap and play music, and just type. Recently, it is the blog I write, but I can write anything. Emails, letters, etc. Hand pain aside I could do this for hours. It is calming and I always fee at peace when I am done. I don’t know why I just thought of all this. I did a thing in school once where they asked that question “what is your favorite place to go that makes you feel at ease or safe”. I had no clue to the answer then and came up with some stupid response, but now I know what the teacher was talking about.

This is an entry that either you will go “what is Scott talking about”, or you get the gist of what I am getting at. I can say that I am relaxed sitting here now. I am going to bed in a few minutes. I hope to get a good night sleep and do some Scuba Diving Class research tomorrow. I want to take that class more than ever now. I need a good hobby, and I liked diving better than golf. More tomorrow.

So I went to the eye doctor. The results were not what I expected. No I cannot get La-sec surgery but the reason is not what I expected. Turns out my prescription changed. And it actually got better. So Dr. Marks (my eye doctor) does not want to do surgery since I am still slowly improving my eyesight. I can’t blame him, but I am still unhappy. He also gave me a new person to check out contacts with. her office is right in Union Square (3 blocks from my office).

I also got instructions for putting this gel goop in my eyes at night since they are really dry. I knew they were dry but I am being told that it is bad for them and I need to keep them moist or whatever if I want contacts. This stuff is supposed to help when sleeping. I will goto the drug store and get some. it will be weird putting on but I will try it.

Everyone at work thought I was crazy walking around inside with my sunglasses on all day. the drops never wear off quick with me. Dan thought I came from the matrix. he is a freak.