Sheep Guarding Llama

Tons of work around the hotel today. I have tons of paperwork that needs my attention so I worked on that.

Tonight I had to go in to work late at the hospital. I am doing some work at both hospitals so I am planning on it being a really long night. I ended up working until about 3:00am and then heading back to the hotel to catch a nap.

I know what you are thinking, “Holy cow there are updates!” – and it’s true. There are updates again. Life in the hotel inspires me to communicate with the outside world one way or another. This is about the only medium that I have at my disposal so it gets all of the attention.

After going to bed around 5:00am this morning, I wasn’t about to hop out of bed early this morning. I did get up long before expected, at least, and got straight to work. I spent most of the day working at the laptop. I was so busy in fact that I didn’t get a chance to shower until after 6:00 this afternoon. Showering whenever it is convenient is one of the perks of working out of a hotel room. I had some lunch over at McDonalds since I haven’t had a chance to put anything into the fridge yet. I need to find some of the vegetarian psghetti o’s that Min found in Ithaca. Those would be perfect now that I have a microwave. John was supposed to call this morning but never did so I didn’t have to leave all day. Not leaving makes me a million times more productive anyway. Stopping and starting and travelling all cut into the day something fierce. I actually get a couple days worth of work done when I don’t have to leave the hotel.

I had some shopping that I needed to do this evening. I hit Walmart and the grocery store to get some much needed supplies. Namely, soy milk and cereal. Now that I have a fridge the simple pleasures will not be denied me. Luckily the grocery store, Giant, that is right around the corner from me is really nice and has a good selection even though it isn’t really all that, umm, well, giant.

I headed into the office really late tonight. We have a new night manager working and I was training him tonight and setting him up with his accounts. So the best time to do that was in the middle of the night.

I went for a walk tonight at around a quarter to two in the morning. It was a beautiful night for a walk. I went for almost an hour and a half. The last twenty minutes were spent in pretty decent rain. By the time I got back to the hotel, I was soaked. But I didn’t mind. I like the rain, even when it catches me by surprise. It was warm enough that I didn’t get cold, just wet. I like walking in the rain. It is very soothing. I think that rain is very isolating. It is easy to feel alone when it is raining. As if society cannot penetrate the shield of water. Kind of like nylon in that respect.

Andy has been working on the video game tonight. I am not sure what his plans are but he got some of the networking working tonight. That is a big step forward. Andy also got his Exodus instant messenger working this evening. That is a big help. I am able to actually talk to him now while I am out of town. That should be nice for him too since he is at home all alone now with Min in Ithaca and me in DC.

Ok, so this is like my biggest backlog of all time. Sorry about that, really couldn’t be helped. I can’t believe how busy I have gotten recently. I am in Bowie, MD today. I got in around 5:30 this morning. Man was I exhausted. I set up the laptop and sent some quick emails before going to bed. The room that I got was flooded and smelled horrible. But I was too tired to care. I should have dealt with it right away, though, because the hotel made me get up at 11:30 so that they could get me into a better room. So, by noon I was into a matching room down the hall that was a bit dryer than the first. I have learned a new trick here as well. I now request a room in the south tower because these rooms are newer and have a refridgerator as well as a microwave in them. That should help out immensly with me staying down here so much. One of the biggest problems that we have had has been me not being able to keep food here or even order food to be delivered because I couldn’t keep the leftovers. Now I can really make use of the room. I plan to get some soy milk to put in there and some cereal soon. It will be nice not to have to leave for every little snack that I want.

It is a warm, humid, overcast, drizzly day here in Maryland. I slept at a really odd time and now it seems like it is perpetually late evening. It is really heavily overcast. No sign of the sun at all but it is so humid that going outside isn’t very nice. I am just working in the hotel room today, for the most part. My cell is dead and barely works in the hotel anyway. As always, just call the hotel to get me, that is the best thing to do. (301) 464-0089 room 132.

I spent a few hours this afternoon helping get some things working in Min’s office. Pretty much anything that lets me procrastinate from doing my homework gets me. I really don’t want to do it so I end up avoiding it if I am not really careful.

I managed to get some work done this afternoon as well as watch some DVDs while sitting at the desk that I never leave. I ordered out for some pizza from the really good place just a mile away and had it delivered. I decided that I wanted to take advantage of my refridgerator as soon as possible. I also got 2 liters of Pepsi. I would have died from caffeine withdrawl otherwise. I had about 32oz. of Barqs and two Amps during the drive to keep myself awake last night. So I need some extra boost today.

I did make it out for a short walk tonight, not very long but enough to barely qualify as a cardio workout. That is enough for me.

Today is driving day. I got up this morning and got Min packed up so that she could get off to work in Ithaca. She is taking a load of stuff down there to fill out her new apartment. She already bought a little microwave down there but she needs a television and DVD player so that she doesn’t go completely insane. She is also taking down a microwave. But it is for the television, not for the microwave.

I spent the morning packing my own car and doing laundry. I have to get a load of jeans done before I go to DC. It took me until early afternoon and I finally gave up on getting the jeans completely dry and just packed them and took off.

I had a late lunch meeting with Proximal Technologies in Dryden today. It worked out well to meet with them since I was going to be in Ithaca already today. It was a long drive down to Ithaca, lots of really slow people out on the road today. I was really tired driving too. I only got about three hours of sleep last night which might account for it.

I made it out to Dryden pretty close to 3:00 and we had a really late lunch. Our meeting went well, lasted over three hours. And we are planning on getting together again sometime in about two weeks from now.

After my meeting, I drove back to Varna to meet Min. We were planning on going out to see a movie and there isn’t a lot of time left at this point, so we had to get moving. I did take a minute to get the $.50 tour of Min’s new apartment. It is a two bedroom, one bath deal down at 959 Dryden Rd. in Varna. It is pretty nice. It is especially nice that she got an end unit because it has the extra windows and that gets tons more light and more breeze. It is a nice roomy place, gives you that cottage at the beach kind of feel. She has one bedroom completely empty, nothing in it at all. Which would be handy if we could think of anything at all to put in there. As it is, the living room is empty as well. Space is the one thing that Min has in abundance. It is nice because it gives us flexibility there.

We ran up to the mall to see what was playing when. We decided on going to see The Bourne Supremecy because I really like the first one and Min really like Franka Potente (famous for her role in Germany’s most famous film Run, Lola, Run). We had a little bit of time so we ran over to the Dollar Tree and Target to get some needed supplies for the apartment. Like a shower curtain.

I grabbed some pizza on the way back to the theatre. We made it just in time for the previews. The theatre was packed, we could barely find a seat. The movie was really good. I still like the first one better but this one was very good for a sequal. Min liked it too but not as much as me.

After the movie we went back to the apartment and moved in the television and DVD player and microwave stand. I also brought in my laptop to see if Min would be able to get a wireless connection from her apartment. I finally managed to get it to just barely work if the laptop was right up against the wall. It is a relatively annoying place to have to put the computer but I think that it might work. When Min brings her real computer down she will have a different type of wireless card and I am hoping that that kind’s antenna will provide better gain and maybe do a better job of picking up the signal. If she just got the tinyest bit better signal strength, she would be all set. So, we will figure something out. That is what I am good at.

I left Ithaca sometime after 11:00 and headed south towards DC. I realized pretty quickly that I was way too tired to be driving. I napped in a reststop somewhere in Pennsylvania but Maryland doesn’t have any reststops along the route so I was out of luck once I left the civilized north. It made for a really long trip of struggling to stay awake.

It is Friday, Min’s only “day” off all week. Normally she keeps herself awake on Fridays but she was so exhausted that she slept most of the morning. When she did get up, we had to run up to the city to run some errands to get things ready so that I could be out of town for a while. Mostly just banking.

This evening, Min and I went over to dad’s for a picnic dinner with my family and the Case’s. We hung out there until about 8:30 or so and then swung by my aunt and uncle’s in Leicester to pick up our small television that was over there so that Min can take it to Ithaca tomorrow. We ended staying for than an hour because my cousin and aunt were over visiting with grandma and Min hadn’t had a chance to see them yet since they had driven up from Ohio.

Min and I ended up staying up awfully late tonight. I didn’t go to bed until after 3:30. She fell asleep before that but just out on the couch in the living room.