No escalation calls. I slept as normal people do.
Death Star duty tonight that should be short due to small scope of work but it requires me to be on site
to supervise the cabling vendors. Maybe I'll get out by 1am if all goes well.

Retirement Plan "L"Diversify your investments. Cash, Stocks, Bonds and occasionally...gambling ( Read more... )

No calls -Monday or Tuesday night. I'm officially bored. Three vendors threw a party in a large suite last night ( Read more... )

This is a part of my ritual for gambling -watch this and listen to
Sinatra's "Luck be a Lady" then AC/DC's "Sin City" and you'll bring down the house.

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In the right context, telling a woman that she's got “a loose trunk” won't get you slapped. This happened to be a
comment about a ladies' car while I stopped off at a convenience store to add to retirement plan “L”.

With today off, I arranged for my insurers, Blow-co, to assess the recent hail damage along with a parking-lot gouge
in the right front ( Read more... )

Officially bored and want to go home; less than 48 hours to go. This burg needs a few casinos and metal bars ( Read more... )

Scotcharina swam competitively in high school and continues to do so as her main fitness activities ( Read more... )

Everything played down to the wire today but I stayed within my timelines.

Beer smuggling is an art and a science. You've got to pack with a clear method that enables the TSA to repack your bags
with the same amount of protection that your loving hands did. And be sure to under 50lbs per bag. At the hotel, the large bag
still felt heavy and ( Read more... )

Rest and relaxation. Beer and German food. A nap. Cleaning out file cabinet of outdated files. Recycle bin.

Very blah but necessary for recharging.

I’d like to take a vacation and leave the state but don’t really have a yearning to go anywhere particular. Perhaps Maryland in May
for the DeathFest but I’m still on the fence. Aside from beer and metal ( Read more... )

The conference sessions are finished. Last night was the “zPub” party in which there was beer/wine/food and games. In the three hours the party was open, I finished off about seven beers and spent the bulk of my time playing vintage 80’s video games - I hogged Galaga for at least an hour. . Some people were dancing - not pretty, good thing I was ( Read more... )

My co-workers wanted to do a group dinner that -in the end- was a decent time. My manager, Mrs.Ed [highest rank buys], was nervous about putting an all-out Eye-talian dinner for eight people on her corporate card but went ahead anyways. The damage wasn’t too bad; she even ordered a third bottle of wine.

The beer run was successful, though not too ( Read more... )