It’s been a crazy busy week, so I haven’t really been able to write. I’m having a relaxing night at home while Kelly is at class. Last night I went out to Moon & Sixpence with my brother T, and later were joined by a coworker (who was celebrating his birthday) and his wife. I Had a great night out, perhaps a bit TOO great (if you know what I mean).
Category: Work
I spent my day today working (yes, Saturday). It all started when I woke up at 8:30, sat down at the computer with my coffee and thought “maybe I’ll get a couple hours of work in”, and it ended up a full 8 hour day… I kind of got ‘in the zone‘. The reason I got started was because this last week wasn’t anywhere near as productive as I’d hoped (or needed) due to various interruptions (meetings, last minute design tweaks, etc). Today didn’t end up quite as I had intended, I was going play some Call of Duty 4, maybe watch a movie, go run some errands, etc, but once I got cranking on work I just couldn’t stop. I’M A MACHINE.
What finally stopped me was BEER. Just as it started to get dark out (about 5pm) my friend Miranda called me and invited me to join her at Moon & Sixpence. I ended up walking most of the way (since the bus I was going to take never arrived or had shown up early) but ended up finally getting there, and we were met by Snooks & L shortly after I arrived. Had a good time chatting, and it was good getting out of the house for a few hours. After I got home I talked to Kelly for a little bit (who’s in Arizona until Monday afternoon… you can read about her adventures).
Yesterday early afternoon Kelly picked me up from my work so I could driver her to the airport. After dropping her her off, I got halfway home before noticing her phone sitting on the passenger seat. Drats! So I turn around and speed back to the airport, park, rush in and find a paging phone. I hoped she would hear it, I never ever pay attention to those things myself. Fortunately a few minutes later she came walking out of the crowd. Crisis averted.
I went home from there (figured it’d be quicker for me to get back working if I didn’t drive all the way back into downtown.
Later I took the bus to Greater Trumps to hang out with Snooks on his birthday along some some other friends. Later my brother T showed up and we buzzed over to Rose & Thistle for a couple more pints and some food (mmm… sausage roll).
Felt a bit, ahem, delicate all day long. It was a long day.
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4 gigabyte Horse Brass
Last Friday I ordered some RAM for both Kelly and my laptops (through my work’s IT department, saving about $40 from what I’d have paid otherwise). After ordering I was told it would be 3 to 5 business days. I arrived to work this morning and had the RAM already. Woohoo! So I borrowed the tiny screwdriver required and upgraded my MacBook Pro from 2 GB to 4GB (the maximum), and later tonight upgraded Kelly’s MacBook too. So now we’re both maxed out on what we can do to these machines, and it was massively cheaper than adding such an upgrade through Apple (each 4 GB kit I just bought came to just under $100, the same upgrade when ordering the laptop at Apple’s site is a whopping $700!)
Before going home I met Snooks at Horse Brass for some beers, joined later by Kelly. Mmmmm… delicious Beamish on nitro.
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Working for the weekend
After two whole days of work I’m already pooped, however it was a good couple days. My energy level was at 11 (versus the usual wavering between 6 and 9) from all the time off. I wish I could have a week off every couple weeks to re-energize. It does the brain good.
For some late Friday fun, be sure to check out this post by my friend Snooks. It will make you smile. No, seriously. It WILL make you smile. Unless there’s something wrong with you.