June 17, 2004

I left DC this morning and hit the road for NY. I have been away for a while and it will be nice to see my house again. But boy is there a lot to do this weekend.

I got into town and stopped by the house to drop off some stuff and to pick up some checks to take to the bank. I drove up to Henrietta and went to Tuxedo Junction to pick up my tux for the wedding. I managed to meet Bob up there which works out well since he is crashing at my place this weekend. Andy road along up to the city and we all went out to Red Lobster for some dinner.

After dinner, we hit Target to do some quick shopping and ended up running into Dana and Brandon. How funny is that. I haven’t seen Dana in months, six at very least. And then to run into them two nights before their wedding is pretty weird. For those who don’t know, Nate and Tammy and Dana and Brandon and getting married at almost exactly the same time on Saturday which means that Andy, Miranda, Eric and Amanda won’t be at Nate’s wedding.

Bob, Andy and I played some Call of Duty tonight. We have never managed to play with three players before and it was pretty cool. We had to get to bed early, though, because the weekend is going to be so busy. It was a lot of fun and we expect that that will be one of the big “Friday Night Game” games.

June 16, 2004

Today is my last full day in DC for at least a week and a half. John and I have started making the managers call me every twelve hours to check in and so I got my first call this morning at 6:00am. Maybe I should start going to bed earlier and getting up with these convenient wake up calls. I went back to sleep today and slept until Eric needed me to get up because we were having problems with the server in Geneseo again. So I had to try to fix that, which I wasn’t able to do from here, so I had to call Min and get her out of bed to fix it. She wasn’t very happy.

I was expecting to be spending the day in DC today but ended up being in the hotel all day. Luckily, I can do almost anything that I need to do from the hotel. As long as I have a decent computer and a decent Internet connection, it is like I am in the office. Which is good because I can’t be in DC all of the time. And now that Eric doesn’t have a laptop anymore, he is in really rough shape and can’t help me out at all.

Well, today I finally finished the updates to SGL. All of the pages have been updated, for the first time in years, to a consistent look that we have real control over. We can now edit things quickly and have the changes affect every page on the entire site, not just one. With the site having grown to such monsterous proportions, we really need a way to keep it all under control.

The Mozilla Project released the lastest version, 0.7, of the Thunderbird Email Client today. It has been a really busy week over there for them. I am already using it and havent’ noticed anything different from 0.6. It is probably mostly a bug fix release.

I was supposed to be going out to Annapolis this evening but John had a long day and I still have lots to get down out here so I just stayed in at the hotel. I was feeling lazy tonight and since I needed to get to bed early I decided to just order in room service. Since they add in the tip ahead of time and since it is lower than what I normally tip, it is actually a little bit cheaper to have it delivered (isn’t that ridiculous!) But whatever (or w/e as the kiddie bloggers say,) it works for me. I ordered the grilled tuna, the same that I had last night, with the chili tartar sauce but I got a salad instead of french fries. I haven’t had much desire for fries lately. Strange. I used to be able to eat them forever. It is nice to have to option of room service. Min and I were talking earlier about it. Sometimes the convenience is just nice to have. Lots of places will deliver but most places don’t have healthy food and small quantities like room service. Actually, room service is a bit cheaper than ordering a pizza. True, the pizza will feed me tomorrow too, but I am traveling so that doesn’t have the benefits that one would think that it would.

June 15, 2004

I tried to sleep in this morning but no doing. John had me up by 7:45. I don’t think that I have gotten eight hours of sleep in over a week. And I am not likely to get that this coming weekend either. I got out of bed and headed into the hospital getting there around 10:00. Dave is down from Goshen. He isn’t here to work on the Waste Watcher but we will be spending lots of time on it I am sure.

I spent the whole day at the hospital. We were working on Waste Watcher stuff and we are rolling out our instant messenger for Nicklin Associates so I have been doing that today as well.

After a long day at the office, John and I drove back to Bowie and had a few drinks at the hotel bar (that is diet soda for me since I am on the Lamisil.) I was starving after not having eaten all day so I ordered a grilled tuna sandwich (the only thing for me on the menu) and a salad. I have been doing really well at being on a diet since I have been down here. I have been eating only about 1000 calories a day which is hardly anything for a guy my size. And I have been getting more excercise than usual since I tend to go outside and walk quite a bit more often.

After John headed back Annapolis, I went for a walk over to Borders just to get out for a little bit. I didn’t buy anything though. I actually spent most of the time on the phone.