Wednesday I’m supposed to be getting my office at work re-done.  When I say re-done, it’s actually going to be re-done.

About 1-2 weeks ago the guy (Jordan) who is helping out (Phones and Desktop support while I focus more on servers and back him up) moved into my office due to space issues out on the floor (we just keep hiring people).  So right now it’s a little crowded with 3 full size desks.  Tomorrow we need to start moving things out to get ready for the re-do.

First they are going to slap some paint on the walls just cause it really needs a new coat.  Then they are installing some custom desks and matching shelves and a custom whiteboard.  Yeah I’m pretty excited.  Should give me some more space and for it to be a little better organized.

Tomorrow I will take a picture of the before shot and will take one after they are done.

Yeah…

For my wife’s birthday a couple weeks ago, I decided to replace her aging old p4 laptop that she has been using for awhile now.  She really needed something new.  Not to mention that every time there was an issue and I had to work on it, the slowness would always kill me.  Most of the laptops these days are pretty decent with the specs they come with, but with Vista I wanted to make sure it would handle the new OS.

So I found a pretty decent Toshiba on sale that was in a pretty good price range for me.  It came with a dual proc cpu and 2 gigs of computer memory, a 160gb hard drive which is a pretty good sized drive, DVD burner, and all the little stuff.

So far she is pretty happy with it and it turned out to be a good birthday!

I think I pretty much took care of my to-do list this weekend.  I’m still getting over my strep throat so my energy level just isn’t quite back to normal.  So here is the list:

Updated list:

• Coach Soccer Practice
• “The Hulk” Movie
• Shopping for Anniversary Present for my lovely wife
• Work on the Mountain Bikes
• Network Consulting at a local business
• Wash and Clean Car

As you can see,  nothing really changed after 12 yesterday as I didn’t do another thing on my list.  I was supposed to do the consulting tonight after my normal job but soccer has gotten in the way again, lol.  Well Actually we are having tryouts this week and we have to go watch 3 girls that are on one team and might come over and join ours if we think they will fit in.

So the busy week begins.

Tonight: Soccer Scouting
Tuesday: Soccer tryouts
Wednesday: Soccer tryouts

Well that’s the start at least……..

And for you that don’t know, I do work about 45 hours a week before any of this other stuff.. 

I was reading through some of my subscribed rss email feeds and ran across Lancerlord’s Site which he talked about a coaster accident at Six Flags Georgia.

After reading the article I wonder why people disregard the warning signs.  They are posted for a reason.

So 2 teens decided to jump 2 fences, I repeat 2 fences to get what witness’ say was a hat that he lost during the ride.  The Batman coaster was still operating and struck the boy at 50 mph. decapitating him.  The other teen was not injured.  He was there with his parents and part of the Oakey Spring Baptist Church near Springfield, S.C.

My prayers go out to his family for this tragedy but come on, 2 fences and various signs that say Do Enter…

USA Today Article

So far the weekend is moving along as planned.  I did miss one item that I wanted to get accomplished today which was the mountain bike tune-up, but that’s OK.  So after soccer practice this morning I went and saw “The Hulk”  I must admit that it was a really, really good movie.  In fact I would actually pay to see it again.

I can also scratch off the anniversary gift(s) as I took care of that today as well.

Updated list:

• Coach Soccer Practice
• “The Hulk” Movie
• Shopping for Anniversary Present for my lovely wife
• Work on the Mountain Bikes
• Network Consulting at a local business
• Wash and Clean Car

Update: Sunday (noon) - ok so I knocked out the Wash and clean car.  And I’m pushing the Consulting to tomorrow night, so if I get some energy to sit in the hot weather I will take care of the moutain bikes later on tonight.

May, June and July for us seem to have a bunch of birthdays and an anniversary or two.  The bad part is most of the family is spread across the US so it’s pretty hard to see one another every year for these events.  But we always remember everyone during this time.  If we ever have a birthday party we always like to send out invitations even to our remote family members so they don’t feel left out.

After thinking about it, there are tons of invitations out there for all sorts of activities and parties, etc.  Let’s list a few here, Birthday, Graduation, Party, Wedding, Corporate Events, Baby Showers, Baptism, and Quinceanera invitations. Of course there are many more but that is a good list to start with.

So it all started off with my birthday, my grandmother in-laws birthday, my parents anniversary, my wife’s birthday, our anniversary and we will finish this off with my mom’s birthday in July.  So like I said, plenty of parties to get figured out and get some invites out for so we can PARTY..!!!

Although I didn’t do a whole lot of work this week, it still seemed like a really long week and I’m glad it’s Friday.

So it’s strangely boring here tonight.  Not much going on except the TV.  Wife is in Oklahoma for the weekend and I’m sitting here thinking about the next sentence I’m going to write in this post.  The funny thing is that what you don’t realize is the pause it took between the last sentence and this one.  It was like 10 minutes.  And you can thank plurk and twitter for that, not to mention I’m checking out new plug-ins for the blog, etc.

OK so another 15 just went by, phone calls this time..  Tomorrow I’m going to take my little brother to see “The Hulk.”  (I’m a Big Brother, Big Sisters Volunteer)  He is pretty excited to see it.  This weekend seems jammed packed so hopefully my time management skills will be top notch.

Weekend to do list:

• Coach Soccer Practice
• “The Hulk” Movie
• Shopping for Anniversary Present for my lovely wife
• Work on the Mountain Bikes
• Network Consulting at a local business

I think I can pull this list off..  At least I hope so!

I was sitting here tonight and heard what I thought was thunder. Mazzie dog and I looked at each other and so I thought I would check out radar cause I didn’t think we were supposed to have any bad weather or rain for that fact for awhile.

After checking radar, I couldn’t believe there was something just south of us here, so I grab the camera and took probably more pictures than needed, but here are a few shots:

But the weird thing is this started about 845pm and now it’s after 10p and there is still thunder and lightning.. Just crazy… Glad I didn’t water the lawn today

So while I have been home sick, I like to watch court tv or I guess they call it TRU tv now or something like that.  So today they were having live coverage and playing some past clips of this murder trial that has been going on.  I somewhat remember this happening but with so many events that happen in the US Crime world some things just seem to go away.

So the trial was about Entwistle who killed his wife and his 9-year-old daughter and then fled to England.  According to his lawyers, they tried to say the wife did it in a murder suicide crime.  But the jury didn’t buy that one today as he was found guilty of murder.

Other than that, I’ve actually been pretty bored.  I have had to do some remote work cause it just can’t wait till I get back tomorrow.   I have done some plurks, and played some pogo.com and checked my email, and did a bunch of entrecard drops.  So I think now it’s time I take up a movie that we have recorded and needs to be watched.

But overall I am feeling better now that I have had 24 hours of antibiotics in me and I actually got some sleep last night.

Well the doctor could not get me in yesterday so today was the day.  I decided to stay home from work cause the pain is horrible and I have not been sleeping well the last 2 nights.  So after doing some checks the doc came back and advised me that I had strep throat.  ugh…

So looks like I get to stay home tomorrow as well.  Maybe I will have enough energy to actually do something and start getting back on track with my droppers on entrecard.  Sorry all..

OK I think it’s time to lay down again..

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