Back To Work

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I got back to work today. I feel better than I did earlier in the week, but my throat still hurt and I had a stuffy noise. I am still a bit foggy from the sleepy medicine I have been taking but I was able to make it through the day without any major incidents.

For some reason I didn’t eat that much since yesterday morning. I had breakfast yesterday, then a snack. Today I had breakfast and I just finished dinner. I just wasn’t hungry all day. maybe that was due to the cold? Not sure.

I had my office to myself today. Jayson spent the entire day at the data center doing work. I got caught up on paper work, and tried to move a few projects along.

I ordered freshdrect tonight for delivery tomorrow. I am not planning on doing very much this weekend. I am going to try and stay in since it is supposed to rain tomorrow. I hope to totally kick this cold and be good for next week.

Nothing

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I have been sick all week. Not bed ridden flu sick or anything. Just head cold feeling like crap sick. I ended up taking off monday. I also took today off as my floating holiday. It is a major jewish holiday. Not that I observed it or anything. I slept, and watched everything anywhere close to good on my Tivo. And yes I did some work. I can’t help it.

I was going to goto my parents for dinner last night at the start of the holiday. I called my dad around 2pm asking if he could pick me up from the rail road. My plan was to leave early and be at here place so I could lie down before dinner. He was like “why are you coming?” He didn’t think I should be traveling in the crappy weather when I was sick. I told him my mom wanted me to be there. He got off the phone with me and called my mom. then next thing I know she is calling telling me she didn’t realize I was in that bad shape and not to travel out to them. I am upset because it is two weeks in a row that I missed seeing them. Probably for the best so I don’t get anyone else sick.

Not much else to report. I have eaten most of the food in my apartment. I need to order freshdirect soon. I am so bored being stuck home. More later.

13 Months With Typepad

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Last week (or so) I passed my 1 year mark as a paying customer of Typepad. How do I remember this? I just glanced at my credit card statement and saw that they charged another year onto the card. I am not upset. I thought the renewal was coming up. I actually started using them in early September last year but I had a 1 month trial. I am normally against paying for hosting services since I could easily to it myself. But recently (actually starting with me using typepad) I have gotten lazy and figure it is just easier to let someone else deal with my hosting. that is why I host nothing at home anymore, and I have less stress to show for it.

Some Catastrophy?

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Is the world coming to an end or something? It sure sounds like it from my apartment today. Since like midnight I have heard at least a dozen sirens. We are not talking like one police car driving by. Most of the time it sounds like the president is driving by my building with the amount of sirens going by. Maybe this is the sleep deprived me talking, but at 3AM when no cars are out do you really need to go full lights and sirens someplace?

Just one of the observations I have made sitting in bed (or my couch) today.

Yeah, I am Sick

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I took the day off today. I feel like crap. I didn’t sleep at all last night. The final straw was at 6:30AM I was not able to goto sleep. I took more Tylenol PM and tried to sleep some more. I can barely talk. I hope I am better enough to goto the office tomorrow. I am bored. Whoever says staying home from work is fun?

Also the blog seemed to have been down for a while. According to Typepad’s site they are moving servers. Why they are doing that during the day I don’t know. They claim it wont impact the app, but from what I have seen on my site it has. Looks like I am up now though.

To Do, Up To Date

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Today was relatively restful. I bummed around in the morning, then did work in the afternoon. I also took a break and went to the bank and Best Buy. I even got stopped at Best Buy and asked if I wanted to take part in a survey. I said no when I saw the video camera’s. It didn’t matter that they offered me a $10 gift card. I got my DVD’s and left.

I also went through my to do list. I had allot of open issues I needed to work on for the office. I am mostly caught up. I wrote a bunch of emails to people, did 1 presentation, generated a report, and other “business” like tasks that I now do in my job! I look fondly back and think work used to be tinkering with some piece of software or hardware all day! Who am I kidding that would be nice too, but I still love my job. Even with all the stress. And it feels like more stress ever day.

I also have a bad feeling I am coming down with a cold. My throat hurts really bad. That is the tell tail sigh for me that I cold is on its way. I am not so happy about that.

More Data Cleanup

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I moved all my files off of one of my firewire drives this week. This was so I can format it to work on my Mini. Dam NTFS not working on the mac. It took 36 hours to robocopy the data off of the firewire drive onto another USB drive. Even-though it was a USB 2.0 drive, I think it was running at 1.1 speeds. 36 hours was an awfully long time to copy 90 gigs of stuff. Even if it was mostly small files.

I am in the process of backing up old backup files to DVD’s. I am also just deleting tons of old crap that I don’t need anymore.

Dinner

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Stayed at work late and then went out with Jayson and his in-laws to a nice restaurant in Little Italy. It was a nice night. We even hit the good desert place after dinner. Cari was going to come with us, but she got a bad head ache and took off from work.

Other than that I had an interesting day at work, but the contents of the day can’t be posted here. I have updated my Work blog (password only) with details.

New Used Blackberry

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About 2 weeks ago I got a new Blackberry 7520. Well it is new to me. Someone else at work had it, and never used it. They finally gave it up saying give it to someone who will use it. My group was having a new guy start so we were going to give him the Blackberry. Instead of giving him a new one, I decided to “upgrade” mine and give the older hardware to the new guy. Hey he is the new guy.

Well the musical Blackberry’s don’t end there. Someone else’s Blackberry broke this week. Instead of waiting for the replacement we configured my old one up for her to use, and we can wait for the refurbed unit for the new guy.

The new Blackberry is very similar to the old one. The major enhancements are the screen, and screen brightness of the backlight. It is a night and day improvement. Also the new unit has bluetooth so I can use my wireless headset on it, if I wanted to.

I also went out and bought Pocket Mac for the Blackberry. Now I can sync the Blackberry address book with my Mac!

New Guy

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We had a new guy start at work today. Allot of my day was getting him settled in, and other meetings I had planned. Not too much else to report for today. I need to keep my thoughts together so I can actually write about interesting stuff on this thing!