I finally got my appetite back from being sick. I defrosted a steak (filet of course) and am warming up the George Forman Grill. From meat to a cooked steak in 3-4 minutes, but I want it now:)
Written while listening to REM, The Great Beyond…
Food
I Spoke Too Soon!
I was feeling better. I tried to stay in and rest this weekend. It wasn’t that difficult. My body would not let me do much else. I caught up on some email and watched some TV yesterday. I also got to chat with my friend sean on MSN for a while. I haven’t spoken to him in a while so it was good to catch up. By the time I wanted to go out and get some dinner I could not sit up straight without getting dizzy or nauseous. I ended up going to bed like 8PM. It was that or be in lots of pain.
Because I went to bed so early I got up at 8:30AM this morning. Still felt tired, but couldn’t sleep. I got some work done before 10AM. The call center I support opens at that time on Sunday’s so it was good to get some maintenance work done.
I went over to my Dad’s to get something and to fix his palm. he couldn’t sync. I couldn’t fix it. My head wasn’t in problem solving today. I got to see Morgan. he was watching her for the afternoon. It is funny to see him on the floor playing with a 7 month old. She is still so cute. Every time I see her I can’t help but smile!!!
The walk over to my parents place took allot out of me. It isn’t even a long walk, I am still not fully recovered. That walk proved it. I went home and took an nap for 3 hours.
I just ordered in dinner since I am not trekking out anywhere today. I just hope I am up for work tomorrow. I just need to get through a full day. I don’t know how I am going to make it to Kingston tuesday. I am seriously thinking about not going or sending Keith up there. I am just tired. Monday will be the test to see if I can do it.
Dinner With The Family
My family is meeting at my sisters tonight for dinner. As much as I want to go, I am not sure if I will get to them by the meeting time. I am also tired from working today. I do want to play with morgan. Thinking of her just now I can’t help but smiling:)
Update. So I wrote this when I was on the train. Turns out I didn’t go to dinner, since I was tired and it was late. I will catch them next time, when I am not traveling.
Steaks
After much delay our telecom integration company, Gus, and I finally got together for steaks. We went to Keens chophouse in Manhattan. It was really good. The team we got finally has a clue and it was actually enjoyable to sit back and eat with these guys. I don’t think I have ever been that full after a meal. I had a hard time walking the 4 blocks to Penn Station. My paints feel tighter today!
We still have allot to do so the get together was also productive. We are looking at a bunch of other solutions they can provide assistance for.
Stress And More Stress
Yes I am stressing over this move. Dan and I just got back to the hotel from work. We went to the Hotel restaurant for dinner and drinks. We stay at the luxurious Kingston Holiday Inn while we stay in Kingston. It is ok as motel’s go. What is funny is that it is supposed to be the best “hotel” in the area. Everyone we ask says it is without any argument. I guess it is ok. Nothing special. I just like my apartment. I like travel, but travel for work is old for me now. I like working up in kingston. The new site is cool, but the staying overnight sucks. I just like sleeping in my own bed at night.
I hope to get to bed early for the first time in over a week. I wanted to blog a bit before then. I haven’t been writing much recently. I have been crazy busy as I have described, but also because for some funny reason I don’t feel comfy writing on my thinkpad when I am on the train. I commute with it every day now. That is good since it is my main machine with all my work on it, but because of that I don’t go many places with the power book. That means I don’t blog as much. when I get home at night I am tired allot so I haven’t been writing. Some people don’t know why I even keep the power book if I have a company laptop, but I like it and don’t think I would use my mac any different if I sold the power book and bought an imac. Well off to bed. Hopefully tomorrow will be as productive as today.
Sleep Habits All Screwed Up
So I got home at 3:30 Saturday morning from my crazy day at work. I slept till 1PM. I awoke to problems with 2 servers. One just needed a reboot because terminal services was not working. The other one wouldn’t return from a reboot. We have had issues in the past with that machine and its onboard RAID card.
Gus was nice enough to run down to our data center and fix the problem. I cleaned up my place and tried to rest for the remainder of the day.
I went to my parents for dinner. Carrie and Morgan were there. Morgan is still so cute! We ordered italian and sat around watching my mom freak out about all the dirt left behind by the construction crews from their kitchen/bathroom renovation. She won’t listen to everyone telling her to get a cleaning crew in to fix the place up. The place does look nice though.
A bunch of people are going golfing again in Princeton NJ sunday. I was on and off about if I wanted to go, but I didn’t have a car today to do the stuff I needed to do, so I need to go tomorrow. I called Dan and let him know. I want to golf but this turned out to be a bad weekend.
Its Friday and things improved, finally!!!
Thank goodness things got better today. I was having a bad week, and today turned things around a bit. My new linux admin started today. I spent allot of time bringing him up to speed on stuff. He seems cool. I also got some decent resume’s for our kingston office. Finally!!!! I have some interviews setup for next week. I also got some other misc stuff out of the way today. It is always good to close out some lower priority issues and keep the task list down.
We took the new guy out to eat today. We went to Dukes. It is a bar / restaurant across the street from our office. It has good (but greasy) food. And the waitress’s are usually really hot. Hey we tip well so I can say that! One thing I don’t do that often recently is go out for lunch with people. Keith has been starting to go out with some of the dev staff but they usually goto indian food and I am not into that. I am a more steak or burger kind of guy. Of course we need to try the seafood place across the street from my office. I have worked in this area for a combined total of 3-4 years and I never ate there. Go figure.
I still stress because I need to continue to push our kingston project along. Everything seems to take so long to do. I know that is just the way things are, but I hate waiting around for crap. I am just dealing!!!
Busy but good day, and good food Too.
I was so packed with meetings today, and I still missed 2 because it was so busy.
Gus invited me to lunch with Howard Morgan. Howard is an investor in our company and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Besides being super smart, he reads almost everything and knows tons of people in the technology field. It was cool that he invited me to lunch with them. Never get enough of talking to Dr. Morgan. We ended up going out with his assistant Tori, and our CEO Glenn. We ended up at a Greek restaurant near our office. Gus wanted to take Howard to a authentic Greek place. Turns out it wasn’t authentic enough for Gus, but the food was awesome! I had some octopus, shrimp, steak, and this really good tasting cheese thing. We all just tried different entries. it was fun. I found it interesting to watch two really smart tech guys (howard and Gus) explain what a blog was to Glenn. Now glenn is not a tech guy but he does keep up on some aspects of the technology field. Internet culture such as blogging was not one of those fields!
I also got 2 tentative dates for some of my T-1 installs. That made me happy also. Still one more date to go. I also interviewed a guy to do some linux admin work for us. More on that later.
I am hoping I don’t get sick. everyone at the office is coming down with or recovering from something. I was glad I was away last week! The AC not working in the office very well can’t help either.
Dinner was good too. I defrosted a steak last night so I george forman’ed it up tonight. That is an kick ass little device. I need to order more steaks and stuff from freshdirect. They are a great food delivery service in NYC. The fresh meats and stuff are freaking great.
OK, time for bed. More tomorrow when my hands don’t hurt anymore (i hope).