With little fanfare my birthday comes to a close in approximately 5 minutes. The day started for me at midnight when I was still at work. I was trying to conduct some tests during a maintenance window, but due to issues with other tests earlier in the window, the one I was waiting to run had to be scrubbed. I didn’t leave work till well after midnight, but on the bright side I got to sleep in.
My present to myself was going to get my new HD DVR box from my cable provider. It was no small feat in the snow and sleet. I ended up taking a cab back home since I didn’t want to carry the box on the subway. I then headed back down to work for a few hours.
Due to the inclement weather all my birthday plans were canceled since no one (to some extent even I) wanted to go out. It is not a total loss since several of us will get together tomorrow for St. Patrick’s day. This is not the first time this has happened, and for the most part I don’t really mind, but on some level it is a bit depressing to be home alone on this day.
I thought I had kicked my cold, but all the walking around in the cold and wet weather has gotten feeling not so great again. I am not in a full sick mode, but I do have the sniffles. I am off to bed in a minute but I wanted to stop and write a bit. I still find writing right before I goto bed to be very relaxing. I also find that I am my most productive at this time. I would say most creative, but I am just writing about stuff in my life and not writing a novel.