Month: February 2005

Today went better than I expected, though it was still fairly arduous… I still don’t see how we will be ready to test Monday, but I guess I’ll worry about that come Monday.

I’ve got a new hired gun coming in tomorrow, who used to work for the customer till he was laid off back in 2002. I’m hoping he’s “all that”, because I haven’t even had a chance to talk to him before he was hired.

Other than that, it was another day and I think I’m going to sign off early and do something silly like sleep.

Have a good evening out there…

It’s time for the weekend update:

Friday: Work as usual. Picked up a new cell phone on the way home (Nextel i860) so now I have a local number, emails to follow. The day ended with a drive up to Aryntha and Rai’s place for an hour or two while we plotted the Saturday phone trip.

Saturday: Left the house at 9 and was in Limon by noon… We got about 2 miles from Kansas, then drove back home, stopping by “3 Margaritas” for dinner. Got lots of neat photos too.

Sunday: Played Worlds of Warcraft all day with Jae, with a short pause to gas up the rental and run it through a car wash – twice.

Today: Dropped the rental off, paid the $250 for it, and drove to work.

It doesn’t seem like much, but it was a good weekend overall.

But now I’m at work, so I supposed I should get working… Have a great day everyone.

I’ve been driving a rental car for the past two days, a 2005 Toyota Corolla… If it was better than my 1994 Corolla, I’d be pretty spoiled right now, but it’s not.

Lots of plastic everywhere and it’s actually more cramped inside… It does hold far more gas though, 16 gallons as opposed to my ’94’s meager 9.

Aryntha, Rai, and I will take it out this weekend and see just how well it does things like a phone trip…

I’ll be limping my car over to the mechanic near Aryntha and Rai’s place tomorrow or Friday after work so that they have a few days to work on it before Monday when I have to take the rental car back.

Other than that, it’s another week…

Have a good evening folks.

Well, I’m happy to report that my first encounter with Denver’s public transportation system has left me no major scars.

First off, it’s cheap… $2 to get from southwest Littleton to far-east Aurora, or $4 a day round trip. It’s fairly quick too; I normally leave the house at 7:00 to get here at iBeta by 7:45-8:00. Via the Light Rail and bus I got here at 8:15… Not bad really.

I’m also in a much happier frame of mind, as I wasn’t the one fighting traffic to get here this morning. Best of all, I got to read my book which is a rare luxury for me.

So, after all is said and done, I might be mass transiting more often…

I just got off the phone with the local repair place and it looks like I’ll have to leave the car up here till Tuesday evening. They don’t have the belt for it here, and it’ll have to come up from Denver.

Fortunately, barring any damages from the belt whipping about under the hood and me driving the car a few miles without a water pump, this little adventure will only run me around a hundred bucks.

Why do I get the feeling it wont?

At any rate we did get some gaming in for a few hours yesterday, which almost offsets the car-crap. Then last night we watched several episodes of “Firefly” which is really quite the fun series for those of us who are into inventive space-opera type things.

I’ll be getting a ride back home here as soon as Aryntha or Rai wakes up (noon-ish most likely) so I can do laundry and whatnot before enjoying some mass-transit to work Monday.

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It’s always an adventure…

On the way up to Aryntha and Rai’s place my Toyota tossed the main belt… Fortunately there was enough battery power to get me to their place and the engine is efficient enough that it didn’t overheat horribly either… I hope.

The bad part of this is that it leaves me without a car for a few days, making getting back and forth to Sun a bit tricky, and it’s an expense I wasn’t really budgeting for.

I hate cars.

Aha! A weekend! I knew I’d find one of these some time this week! 🙂

Now, what the hell do I do with myself this weekend? The weather looks like it will be relatively ok, which means I should get out there and do something. Then again I could just entrench myself in the house here and do something constructive like draw, write, or compose…

See, Jae is at work, so today will be an excellent day to be creative.

But I really want to be outside…

Oh, the decisions. 🙂

Then again, if there were a game going on, I could probably be enticed into that as well, which is one half “going out” and one half “being creative”… Probably a good solution, I’ll have to coerce someone into running a game this weekend.

And with that, I’m off to locate a game…

So, here I am at work with an astoundingly light workload today. Nothing really happens till tomorrow, so I guess I’ll busy myself with research into some of the current project’s underpinnings.

I paid the rent last night and got the ok from “Wink”, our landlord, for the dog so now I can move forward with that plan. It’ll be nice to have someone to take walks with of an evening.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled web surfing…