Month: August 2006

  • The late show…

    Today promises to be very odd… See, I’m going in at 4pm to run a test for a client after hours. So, I have the ‘day’ off.

    I’m fairly impressed with the amount of stuff one can get done during the day – stores are open and most folks are at work which makes for a much more pleasant ‘out of the house’ experience for me.

    Over the weekend I attended my first company function… I’ve officially been working at ‘xXxxx’ (I can’t use the name) for over two years now and I figured it was high time I went to one of the bi-monthly company functions.

    The picnic was nice and about half of the folks I work with every day were there. There was far too much food available and Jon worked the grill for about 90% of it. All in all I was there for about 2 hours, which is really the upper limit of my ability to deal with lots of people in one area, and all of that time was hanging out with Jon.

    After my time at the picnic I meandered over to Wolf and Lyons place where we watched a few movies, had some ice cream, and generally ‘shot the shit’ for a few hours before I made my way back home.

    Well, I need to rotate my laundry and head across town to work.

    Have a great day everyone!

  • Getting away from it all…

    I took the day off today to take care of the house and just relax a bit.

    So once I had the house cleaned up I decided to gas up the car and head for the hills… See, I got a new camera a while back in the hopes that it would provoke me into getting out of the house a bit more often.

    Well, once I’d purchased $40 worth of gas and a bottle of water, I went westward up Deer Creek Canyon.

    I spent about 5 hours just sitting on a rock and reading a book. It sprinkled a little bit on the way up, but remained dry while I was there. It was also serious jacket weather up there as the outside temperature, according to the car, was about 40.

    All in all it was a very nice trip – I’ll have to do it again some time. 🙂

  • Posting because I should…

    Well, it’s another week…

    Absolutely nothing has happened that warrants writing about, but I should post once a week at least…

    I worked, I slept, I bought groceries, paid the bills and rent…

    There ya go, the high points of the last 7 days.

    Well, ok, I also spent the last few days at work figuring out how to configure a DSLAM (a thingy that makes DSL happen) via trial and error… There’s no documentation for the thing, and it has it’s own programming language, so it became my problem. I did get it working yesterday though, so that’s a good thing I suppose.

    I guess I should fix my sandwich for lunch and get moving. Have a good day out there.