April 12, 2003

Min and I had a very busy day today. After staying up late last night watching movies (Min actually stayed up later than I did for once.) we got up early (sort of) and drove up to Syracuse to meet Amanda and Laura for lunch. Laura went to college with Min and Amanda but has since moved to San Diego so Min hasn’t seen her in years. We sat at Denny’s for about four hours. After lunch, Min and I drove out’ to Frankfort to do some dog sitting. We didn’t end up getting out there until about 5:00pm. We didn’t expect Min’s parents to get home until at least 10:00 or maybe not until the morning. But they ended up getting in at 6:00pm so we didn’t really need to watch the dog. But it was nice to get to see Dexter anyway. He was excited to see us. After her parents got home, we watched Frequency which was really an excellent movie. I was really surprised by how good it was. We also watched some of The Man with Two Brains – but that wasn’t very good. We hit the road to head back to Ithaca around 11pm – I was pretty tired so Min drove us home.

April 11, 2003

A very busy day today. The phone rang almost continuously all day. It was a long day. I got a lot done, though. Emily, Craig and Ellie stopped by this afternoon for a visit.

Min cooked up a really good big dinner for us tonight. Loopy had a job in Victor this evening. He is working for Deutche Telekom (T-Mobile) at the mall. He is working through the night tonight. Min and I watched The Majestic finally. It is really good. Neither Min nor I thought that it had anything to do with the McCarthy Red Scare era. It is a rough movie but it is really good. We were pleasently surprised to find that Bruce Campbell stared in the movie that is shown inside of the movie. It is a hilarious 1930’s style swashbuckler style action flick. They show bits of it during The Majestic but the DVD has a ton more of the black and white film that you can watch seperately and it is much longer than the footage that is used in The Majestic. If anyone borrows this film, be sure to take the time to check out the fine work by Campbell hidden in this movie. Campbell is totally Errol Flynn.

After The Majestic, we watched About a Boy with Hugh Grant. That was a lot better (and different) than I thought that it was going to be. It has a really interesting plot. After that we were still wide awake so we watched Exit to Eden because Min has never seen it. I fell asleep a little over halfway through the movie.

April 10, 2003

Sorry about the delay in getting updates. It has been a crazy week and I am all but burned out. This morning I finally got around to taking the psych evaluation for the job in Cleveland. That is the last thing that I am waiting on before everything is final and official. Hopefully we will hear something in a day or two.

I spent much of the day dealing with getting computer parts ordered for our facility in DC. What a chore that has been. I can’t believe how much work has gone into getting a few parts. I have been working on this for months. I am going down to DC on Tuesday to wrap up as much as I can down there to make sure that they aren’t going to need me at all while I am away in Cleveland and not accessible to everyone.

With the new house in Geneseo, the plan is that we will be relocating all of the equipment that is currently in DC to Geneseo which will make life a whole lot easier for me. I will have easy access to the equipment on weekends and Loopy and Min will be living in the same building as the servers so if anything goes wrong they can deal with it right away. And dad and Eric are only minutes away too, most of the time. It is just a much more manageable situation than having them in DC. I am really looking forward to having them all in NY very soon.

April 9, 2003

Well, it is official. Loopy and I drove out to Lakeville first thing this afternoon and I put a deposit down on the house in Geneseo that we have been looking at. They have agreed to remove the ugly (and brand new) carpeting and counter tops and will let us pick the ones that we want. We are scheduled for move in on July 15. Loopy, Min and I are really excited. It is weird to be buying a house. Of course, the mortgage hasn’t gone through yet so there is plenty of time yet for something to go wrong. But we will cross that bridge when we come to it. One thing at a time.

For those of you who are wondering where we are going to be living in the near future, the address is 15 Hathaway (or something like that) in Geneseo. It is just off of Lima Road to the Northeast of downtown inside of the village. It is the new Thornapple townhomes and ours is the middle one of the five that are currently built. We have a paved driveway and a two car garage.

After dealing with the house, Loop and I went up to Avon to visit with his family for a little while. We had a good time and then went out to eat at Tom Wahl’s before driving back to Ithaca. While we were at Wahl’s, I ran into Jeanie Pirano who went to York High School with Josh, Eric, Arti, Mary and I. She had been living in Cortland for a while and now is living in Lima and going to school at SUNY Geneseo. That is really cool so maybe we will get to hang out after all of these years.

April 8, 2003

Today is my day to hang out in Rochester at the Oracle Technology Day at the Hyatt. Oracle is doing a show on Unbreakable Linux in conjunction with Red Hat and HP. The show started at 8:00 am in Rochester so I had to get up awfully early and drive out there. The show lasted for six hours. I had a good time. It would have been a lot better if I hadn’t been so tired. I ended up drinking coffee all day long trying to keep myself going.

The show wrapped up around 2:00 pm (yes, Oracle fed us breakfast and lunch) and I drove down to the UofR to meet Eric. We did a little work at the hospital and then went to Jay’s Diner so that he could get a bite to eat and so that I could get more coffee. We hung out there for a while until he headed home and I headed up to Webster to meet Josh after work. Josh and I hung out for about three hours before Joanna arrived to join him for dinner. Once their food arrived, I hit the road to get back to Ithaca. It is going to be a long week and I don’t want to be away from home any more than I absolutely have to be.