Or so it seems. It’s positively chilly outside – rainy, foggy, and cold. It hasn’t even gotten above 70 degrees today. I’m wondering whatever happened to Global WARMING…
I do enjoy this cool weather in the middle of August, whatever the reason for it. I hope that Summer doesn’t come back with a vengence and try to make up for the cold.
But at least I’m feeling better now. I was somewhat sick all week long, but I still went to work since I felt I couldn’t leave the customer at such a critical time. So, I toughed it out and worked a full week – even some overtime. Now that I’m feeling better, there’s more work around the house that Laura and I will do today. We’re going to reorganize the pantry and maybe even organize the physical CD media in categories into some fancy storage boxes. I say physical media since most of our collection has been digitized and put on our server. I suppose that means that I should buy a media player for the stereo/TV system.
We also have ordered some new furniture to fill out a sitting room off the kitchen. It’s really the first whole room that Laura and I have done together, and once the stuff arrives at the end of the month, I think she’ll be very pleased.
2012-01-08 23:30:13
Today, I’m not really feeling very good. I’m a little under the weather. I have some kind of Summer cold or something, but that most likely means that I need more rest. So, since I worked the weekend, I had plenty of hours and was able to turn in at lunch time.
However, the day is turning out much better. As the afternoon passes, I’m starting to feel better. And of course, it’s always fun to buy new things… which I did! I had sold so much stuff on eBay and Craigslist, that I had saved up enough money to buy one of the lenses I’ve been waiting for: the Canon 24-105mm F4 L IS USM lens. It fills a void in my lens collection and will act as a great “carry around” lens so that I don’t have to swap lenses nearly as much. It will also do very well for wedding photography. I ordered it and it’s on the way. I can’t wait to try!
And, of course, you’ll see the pictures I take with it posted here…
I’m sorry I haven’t posted for a while, but my job has recently been taking up a good amount of my time. In fact, I worked long hours this weekend for a customer who was upgrading their systems. Mainly, they wanted me there just in case something went wrong… which it didn’t. So, I worked late Friday night and into the wee morning hours, and then was back on site again at 8AM. I think I’m still tired from that day.
Working for Microsoft is sometimes very interesting. Take this weekend, for instance. I didn’t actually do anything, but the customer was very glad I was there. They simply wanted someone from the company there “just in case” and so that they’d feel better that Microsoft was responding to their needs. And so, there I sat. It wasn’t too bad – except for the lost sleep.
And I don’t mean for work!
I’ve finally gotten Laura’s desk set up and her computer assembled down in the dungeon/office space at the new house. There are some “fitting” issues we need to solve – like a longer ethernet cable for her and some more space to store our stuff [unless we get rid of some more stuff…]
All in all, though, we like the place pretty well. Very well, in fact. We just need different furniture in this place: not everything we had fits very well in it. Of course, it was like that in the old place, but not so bad. We’re looking at having to buy some furniture to replace some of the pieces that we were borrowing in our old place, like a second couch and the wardrobe that I kept my motorcycle gear in.
So, here I am – downstairs with all computers operational again [except the Toshiba laptop, which for some reason is very unstable] typing on my blog. I know I’ve been remiss on my postings, but hopefully things will settle down some and I’ll have some more time to let you all know what’s going on ’round here.
I’ve finally posted the pictures of the fireworks from the DC celebration of the 4th of July. It’s taken a while to get to them, and I probably shouldn’t have since I have so much unpacking to do, but… Well, call it creative procrastination.
Fireworks are hard to do and one thing we learned is that location is everything. Next year [or next time whenever that may be], we will have a much better idea of where we want to be. If it’s near this bridge, we have a spot picked out already – one that will give us a view of both the Lincoln and Washington memorials with fireworks over them. We’ll see how that works out whenever we get down there again.
We’re all moved into our new place now, and after a week’s worth of vacation around the moving weekend, I’m back at the office. It’s much more physically relaxing here, that’s for sure. No carrying heavy book boxes… oh -wait. I didn’t do that – the guys did that. See, I have friends… lots of them. And they all showed up of Saturday to help me move. They did a bang-up job. Really fast, too.
So – here’s to you all who helped: THANK YOU!!! (and I’ll try not to move again any time soon…)
We love the new house, and my ride into the office today was not bad at all. Only too about 15 minutes to get back to the Reston area where I’m working for a while. I even have some cool neighbors – I can walk to my friend John’s house… not that I would actually walk or anything…
We may be moved in, but we’re cetainly not settled. There are many hundreds of boxes to finish unpacking yet. My work away from work.
After a few hours of downtime today, the servers are up and ready at their new location. I’m not impressed with the speed, so you might see some slower download times, but all in all, I’ll get by.
So, if you had any emails bounce today, please resend them – I’m ready to receive again!
It’s already “begun”, but now the packing/moving begins in earnest. We have 3.5 floors in this townhouse, and we’re completely done with 1.5 of those three. We have two to go and today, I hope to finish the vast majority of those. The basement is kind of half done, but the garage isn’t touched and the only thing in my office that we’ve packed are the books. As for one floor up: I’ve packed some clothes from the bedroom and we’ve done the dining room. The two biggies remain: kitchen and bedroom.We should get those knocked out today.
I’ll be leaving the computers up and running here for the time being until I get my new Internet service up at the new place. So, you have a few more days to browse the pictures at a higher speed.
I hope you had a good one! I know we did. We spent the day downtown with some good friends and then hiked out to the Arlington Bridge to watch the fireworks. We got a hotel room and it made the day go by easier – we got to rest in the middle of the day between the touring downtown [at a fesitval and a couple of museums] and the night of fireworks.
I’ll be posting pictures once I process them. It will take some time to get through them all…
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