December for some companies is rather slow, some companies are rather busy.  Most times the company I work for is about medium pace.  However yesterday I made a list of the projects that need to be completed.  Some of them sooner than later, and of course all of them will take more than 1 day to accomplish.  Let’s not also forget the daily issues that come up.  Kind of like yesterday.

I had planned to start down my project list and then it happened.  “A Problem” hehe.  I get an email from our accountant and she was having some issues with quickbooks enterprise.  So I start to check into it and soon realized I was going to have to call their support line (which is a total pain).  That call lasted about 1 hour and to make a long story short, I worked this quickbooks issue from 845am till about 2pm.  Not really what I had in mind, but it’s my job so what can I do.  So moving along, here is a list of some of the projects that I need to start working on.

• Upgrade to Diskeeper 9
• Upgrade to Quickbooks Enterprise 9
• Upgrade our in house instant messenger (OpenFire)
• Patch our Domain Controllers
• Finish packaging up Adobe 9 to be installed by Group Policy Push
• Upgrade our VMware software
• Upgrade our LeftHand Networks software
• Quarterly maintenance on our Exchange Server

So as you can see I have a lot to work on and this is about 50% of my complete list.  I cannot pay you but if you would like to help any in way, I will greatly accept it, lol.

Side Note: I meant to post this on Monday or Tuesday but the work and family schedule has been busy this week so here it is.  [my little disclaimer]

This weekend we decided to do some project work around the house since we actually didn’t have any major plans on Saturday.  Over the course of the last year, storm winds and erosion have pushed our back fence the other way and it had a major lean.  I talked with a good neighbor that we have and we looked at it and figured out we both could just do the work and save tons of money hiring someone to come out and do it.  So we decided that we would tear it down and clean out the post holes and then re-cement the holes and put the fence back up.

Fence Project 1

Fence Project 2

Hammer Problems

We started about 6:45am when it was getting light out and finished up about 11:30am.  It was so hot out.  Between the 2 of us we took down about 18 bottles of water.  Have to keep hydrated you know!

Saturday afternoon I had a soccer practice to attend to for about 1.5 hours and then after that Lou, our friend in our community group had invited some people over for some dinner feasting and then to finish up the night watching the UFC fights [#87].  That was a lot of fun, hanging out with friends and meeting new ones.  I had never watched an UFC fight before and wasn’t sure I was going to like it, but it was really interesting and fun.  The drawback though I was so tired and exhausted that after the second fight I was starting to fall asleep and we had to call it a night.  Overall it was a nice and exciting party.