July 22, 2005

I had to pull myself out of bed this morning and get to work in Perry because I had a morning meeting. Turned out that I only had to go to the meeting because Verizon’s help desk was incompetent and told one of clients a fib instead of admitting that they had no service in the area. So I went in to treat the problem like it was a software error. Yup, just no service. I held the laptop up to a window and voila, problem solved. Scott saves the day again.

I thought that I was having a get together with Craig and Vonary (I am sure that that is not spelled correctly) but they were busy buying a new car today so they weren’t able to get together with us for lunch.

Dad came over this afternoon to get dinner at the Omega Grill like we usually do on Friday evenings. We did a really early dinner or more appropriately, a really late lunch. He brought Oreo over for the weekend when he came over. We love it when Oreo is here – he is so much fun to have around. And so snuggly.

Andy and I went and took eight (yes, EIGHT) large kitchen garbage bags of clothes to donate over to the St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church clothing donation thing in Geneseo this afternoon. That really helped to clean up the living room. Suddenly there is plenty of space in the house again. That was such a huge percentage of the living space of the house just taken up by that. On the way back we swung by Walmart because I wanted to pick up a cheap set of tumblers because we don’t own any and I am always wanting to use one. So I splurged and spent $6 on some. Min ended up really liking them so it worked out pretty well. While we were at Walmart, Andy and I ran into the Ralstons who were shopping there and were buying the Trivial Pursuit 90’s Edition to try playing later this evening.

The Ralstons came over this evening to hang out. Danielle made a tilapia dinner and brought it over. We all had dinner together and then gathered around the dinner table and played Trivial Pursuit. Min won, of course, as she always does. The 90’s edition was really bad with the answers being ridiculously repetitive, the subject matter being boring and an unbelievable number of the questions actually being wrong (with the worst case event of two consecutive cards that contradicted each other!) It really appeared that this edition of TP was made completely by the interns and the editors weren’t even allowed to get involved.

The Ralstons hung out until around 1:30 am before heading home. Min and I had to make our bed before getting into it since she had been doing laundry today. But we were quickly off to sleep.

July 21, 2005

I don’t have any free days this week. Which is good, I guess, it means that I am getting more busy than I have been recently. That is good. I can’t complain. Even though business has been picking up extremely slowly, it has been picking up. Speaking of businesses, I will be working in Ithaca next week for one night and probably staying there that day.

This morning I had a meeting up in East Rochester about doing some web site design work. I do so many different things, it definitely helps keep life interesting. I really enjoy that I have so many different things that I can do every day. I am so glad that things seldom get old.

My meeting was at 1:00 and I was on the road home around 3:30.

July 20, 2005

The Buffalo fun is almost over for this week. This afternoon, Andy wanted to go up to Rochester to go to Rowe’s to see if there was any new stereo equipment that he wanted to buy. They are having a two day sale there and he was thinking about getting some stereo components because he doesn’t really own anything now and he is planning on moving out relatively soon. Min slept most of the day and is on the South Beach diet so we really can’t eat together anyway so I decided to go up to the city with Andy. We made a pitstop at my bank and then went to Rowe to see what they had.

I wasn’t too impressed with Rowe’s selection or prices. They didn’t have anything there that I would want to own except for Anthem which is way out of my price range. So I convinced Andy to go over to SoundWorks in Pittsford so that he could see what the competition was.

July 13, 2005

I managed to sleep in with only minor interruption until 1:30 or so. Then I just needed to get up and get moving. I really wish that I never needed to sleep. I would get so much more accomplished that way.

I did some more work this afternoon and then around 4:00 Andy and I ran out to go to the Post Office to do some mail stuff and to get some stamps and then we went over to Denny’s to get some lunch/dinner. They were super slow today. We were the only people eating for about half of the time that we were there.

Dad IM’d me when we got back to tell me that a bunch of equipment that we had ordered had arrived including Min’s new desktop and some new toys for Mary and Andy as well. Min has been very excited about getting her new machine.

So Min and I went down to Grandma’s and met up with dad there to pick up the stuff that had arrived. There is a hot new laptop in there for me to work on tonight as well. Both the new desktop and the new laptop are AMD 64 machines. The desktop is about the same as one of mine but this is the first Turion 64 laptop that I have gotten to see so I am really interested to see how it is.

Then it was off to work for me. Lyle Ave. tonight, across from Nick Tahou’s. The job went quickly tonight and I was home at 1:30. Lots of work to be done so I worked until after 5:00 am again. Jeremy is coming over at sometime tomorrow to do some work around here. I have no idea what time he is coming. I have a phone interview at 2:00 tomorrow afternoon.

Okay, I seriously need to get some sleep so I am going to bed now.