Now that Jayson is in NYC for a while working with me, that means only one thing. Lots of Outback and other really bad (for you) food. We went to the outback after work today. I don’t know how I walked to the Subway. I can barley keep my eyes open let alone walk. I feel so full. We put in a decent days work and got stuffed. Just like old times. We used to goto outback like twice a week and just eat appetizers. Man was that good food.
Food
Mmm Outback
Now that Jayson is in NYC for a while working with me, that means only one thing. Lots of Outback and other really bad (for you) food. We went to the outback after work today. I don’t know how I walked to the Subway. I can bairly keep my eyes open let alone walk. I feel so full. We put in a decent days work and got stuffed. Just like old times. We used to goto outback like twice a week and just eat appitizers. Man was that good food.
Monday Dinner
Monday Passover dinner was nice. I went to my parents house. My sister and brother in law were there. Mike’s father was there also. A couple that my parents are good friends with were also there with their 2 daughters and one of there parents. My niece morgan was also present, but she was not a happy camper. She has a cold and a fever. It is not fun watching a little one when they are sick:(
As far as the “official” Passover service goes, we skipped it. That is what I like about religious gatherings run by my dad. We don’t have any!
Carrie made my favorite desert. Crackers with melted chocolate on it. Normally you take saltines and melt butter on top of them. Then you take chocolate and put it on top of the butter and bake until the chocolate is melted. You then spread it evenly around the crackers. Put nuts on it and let settle in the fridge for a while. Simple and it tastes awesome. My brother in law jokes around and calls it the white trash desert. I don’t care if it is cheap, because it tastes so awesome. For the holiday my sister made it with matza. it was not as good as it is normally but I still liked it.
Friday Drinking
Work Friday was well work. The mail system upgrade thursday night went off ok, and we had no problems to clean up on Friday. That was good.
I had a meeting with our AT&T representatives. Gus suggested I take them out to lunch to show our appreciation on getting them back as an account team. We were happy to get them back so I suggested lunch. I figured Dukes or Old Town Tavern. Nothing super expensive. They are after all vendors of ours:) They had other ideas. Two of them came down. So it was Keith & I with our voice & our data reps. They weren’t going to let us pay, and then they decided to go across the streak to City Crab and get some lunch. I had never been there even though I have worked on and off in on that block for years. If they were paying, we weren’t going to stop them.
The food was fantastic. I was sort of worried about the price. Both reps were like don’t worry at all. I got the crab cakes as an entrée. So did one of our Rep’s so I didn’t feel so bad. We had calimarie for an appetizer. The food was great. I will go back there again.
I was fighting a head ache all afternoon. Not sure why. It was probably the temp. I get sick (Migraines) allot when the weather turns from Hot to Cold or vice versa. Cari wanted to go out drinking since it was her first weekend living in the city. She got an apartment across the street so her commute would be better during the week. She is our Comptroller so she is staying in the city all the time burring tax season. So she was all pumped to go drink. I went because I figured if 1 drink can’t kill the headache I will go home.
The running joke at work is that when ever cari and I go out drinking together we both get sick. This has happened 2 to 3 times since we started working together. I can safely say that Friday broke the trend. A bunch of us went to No Idea! It is our standard Friday night bar. it is right around the corner from work.
We had AJ, Aaron, Cari, John, Jenn, Matt, Myself, Rajive, & Gus come out. It was a good time. I ended up missing like 3 trains I wanted to catch. By the 4th train I was like I need to catch a train. Rajive was like you need another drink. He almost got me one when I finally convinced him I was really leaving this time. Conclusion of this night: Cari & Gus think I am a loud drunk. They are correct:)
A fun time was had by all…
Make Up Steak Dinner
I was sick the Sunday before my birthday (I had a migraine) so my family was not able to take me out for my birthday dinner. Last weekend my dad worked sunday so we couldn’t go out then. We have make up plans for this sunday. We are once again going to try Peter Lugars. The steaks there are fantastic. Hopefully my cold will be gone by then. I think it broke yesterday and I am on the road to recovery.
Hot Chocolate Or A Frapachino
My throat hurts today so I am debating if I want hot chocolate or a starbucks frapichino? The frap will wake me up from my drug induced sleep from last night, but the hot chocolate will ease my throat a bit. I will have to hit starbucks and find out.
Its funny, I hit the starbucks in Union Square. There are two of them, but I always goto the same one. That place is like a starbucks commercial. There is always one or two people with the laptops (one always a big powerbook) on the T-Mobile Wifi, sipping some concoction of coffee. I always find it amusing. I can’t believe that the majority of starbucks across the country people do that, but they are making there money back at the one by my office.
I will admit I have never done the coffee house wifi experience. Actually don’t think I have ever used a hot spot anywhere. I have used high speed internet at hotels, and at Laptop Lane in airports but never a wifi hotspot. Maybe I am not as big a geek as everyone thinks I am:)
Birthday Continued…
Alison took me to the Outback for my birthday Saturday. Nothing fancy, but that was where I wanted to go. I was really good and didn’t even order the blooming onion. Mmmm fried onion. She likes the cheese fries so I went for those instead. I had the lobster tails. They were good as usual.
I got the simpsons season 3 from her. I can’t wait to watch it. To me that was the beginning of when they started getting good.
Comedy
Friday night Glenn our CEO took us all out to dinner. I had the surf and turf. It was a small but great fillet, and a lobster tail. Both were really good.
Then we saw John Steward in concert. He was awesome. I was almost in tears with laughter. It was 90 minutes of funny. I am going to start Tivo’ing the daily show again. He is just good.
Birthday Dinner, Well Almost
I was supposed to go to Peter Luger’s for dinner with my family tonight to celebrate my birthday. That got canceled. I woke up this morning with a headache and it developed into a migraine. I took Zomig, but it didn’t work. I ended up sleeping most of the afternoon. Once I got up I was feeling ok and was thinking about still doing dinner. Little did I know that my dad called about an hour and a half before the reservations and figured if I didn’t answer the phone I was still sleeping the migraine off. he said if I was still asleep I was still not feeling well and canceled the reservations. He was of course correct, but I wanted to get some steaks. We are rescheduling for 2 weeks. My brother in law and my dad both have to work next sunday, and this week is bad for everyone so we cannot go during the week.
Because of the migraine I did very little today. I had a food delivery from Fresh Direct, and looked at a server problem after my afternoon nap.
Of course it is now 10:30PM and I am not tired since I slept most of the day due to the migraine. I am hoping to goto sleep soon so I can try and get a normal nights sleep.
The Early Train
Now that Jayson is gone you would think I would leave my house normal time. Think again. Today I got up and ended up on the early train. It is funny because 2 years ago this early train was the normal train I got on, but now to me it is the early one.
Hung out most of the day sunday. I got Quicken to finally work on the Mac. I even figured out most of the online banking issues I was having.
Meet Alison for dinner. We ended up at Chillis. We always try to go there after the movies and never stay since the line is so long. Today we hung out for 30 minutes and got a table. It was a nice low key dinner.
I was going to see my family during the day, but my mom and sister took morgan shopping and they didn’t get back until after I left for my plans, so I missed them. Morgan is walking now. I can’t wait to see her. She is so CUTE!!!