Monday
It's POURING out - it's pretty cool actually (while being icky warm at 65 degrees at 5:30am). Taking Pixie to the vet at 2pm to get her blood sugar tested again, and find out where things stand - potentially changing up her dosage. She's getting used to the shots, the trick is to put her on the kitchen counter right in front of her treat bowl, and promise her a treat right after - she spends the 10 seconds trying to figure out how to open the heavy ceramic lid. =P
Crazy weekend. Friday Ty picked up the PS4 for us, and got it set up - I need to complete redo all the wires around the tv, we have too many consoles under there - XBox 360 (with kinect camera on top of the tv), PS3 (with playstation camera on top of the tv), Wii U (with sensor bar under the tv), PS4, Ouya, Dreamcast. Yay for a tv with lots of inputs. I have to say that I am VERY impressed with this console - I haven't enjoyed a console on its own (ie. regardless of the games) since the Dreamcast, the first one I can remember that went online with a web browser. I mean - the Wii U is pretty ground breaking the way it interacts with the television shows and all, but honestly it hasn't been on in months. This PS4 controller is awesome - fits perfectly in my hands. There are some basic changes that confused me at first - like where to put in the disk, where is the start button on the controller (hint - there isn't one - it's now what you use to share screenshots, videos, or stream your game live - really? Cause I don't suck enough at platformers, I want people to SEE that? LOL!). Plus, we got Knack (ok...I got it...no one else wanted any of the launch day games) and I'm addicted. It's a gorgeous new take on a game like Mario 64 or Sonic - Ty keeps getting amazed by the animation, which I enjoy but didn't notice in the detail he does now that he's actually trying to program it.
Saturday was errands, cleaning the house a bit, and running around the yard with the wicked awesome gas powered backpack blower. AN HOUR - that's all it took for our acre plus yard to be cleared by me working alone. (OK...and chasing the dogs with it, cause they're so funny when they try to bite the wind). Then Ty and I got ready and went to see Guster.
It was a fund raiser for the Boston Food Bank, and Glenn's company was hired to do the dinner - you could buy a seat for the dinner and the concert and get in at 6:30 - or buy a balcony seat and get in at 8:30. We went for the dinner, and had fun hanging out with the staff beforehand, making sure of course we got the good seats at our table - we were all of 30 feet from the stage, right in the middle of the floor. The concert was awesome - they played SO many of our favorites, with only a few from their latest CD that we don't know all that well (well - I don't - Ty did). They did two encores, the second one not planned but the place would NOT stop with the screaming/foot stomping/clapping, so we got an acoustic version of Jesus on the Radio. I filled my new camera with shots and videos, and then filled my iPhone with more.
The only bad thing is that because it was a fund raiser, you had two types of people there - the Guster fans, and the "rich people". You know the ones - in tuxes and gowns and dripping in jewels while I was in jeans and boots. We had 4 of them at our table, the rest of the 10 were fans (although 2 of those at least knew who Guster was). They didn't bother us all that much, many left midway through the concert - but when Kelsey got home from working the event, she broke down sobbing. These people were abusive to the wait staff, who wasn't ALLOWED on the floor once Guster took the stage, but they came back to the kitchen area demanding things - and many found Kelsey and yelled at her. In addition, there were a LOT of new people working, and the stress was high - they had just under an hour to serve salad, a Thanksgiving type dinner, dessert and coffee, and most of those "rich people' were too busy being seen to eat in time - they didn't care, they weren't there to see the band. I felt so bad for Kelsey who was trying so hard - and being an owners' kid, everyone was looking to her for instructions, only to see her getting bitched at by old men in tuxedos? REALLY? =( I didn't see it, which is good, cause I would have freaked out.
Sunday I went to help Glenn set up a baby shower in Salem, MA - then we visited mom for a bit - then we went back to Salem to get the setup and clean up the hall, and met Kelsey and Eddie for pizza. Back home to get Ty, and take him to upgrade his phone, and then we hit Red Robin (note to self - don't go to a burger place and order a salad, it is gonna suck even with the bacon and avocado and blue cheese).
I'm exhausted. =)
Crazy weekend. Friday Ty picked up the PS4 for us, and got it set up - I need to complete redo all the wires around the tv, we have too many consoles under there - XBox 360 (with kinect camera on top of the tv), PS3 (with playstation camera on top of the tv), Wii U (with sensor bar under the tv), PS4, Ouya, Dreamcast. Yay for a tv with lots of inputs. I have to say that I am VERY impressed with this console - I haven't enjoyed a console on its own (ie. regardless of the games) since the Dreamcast, the first one I can remember that went online with a web browser. I mean - the Wii U is pretty ground breaking the way it interacts with the television shows and all, but honestly it hasn't been on in months. This PS4 controller is awesome - fits perfectly in my hands. There are some basic changes that confused me at first - like where to put in the disk, where is the start button on the controller (hint - there isn't one - it's now what you use to share screenshots, videos, or stream your game live - really? Cause I don't suck enough at platformers, I want people to SEE that? LOL!). Plus, we got Knack (ok...I got it...no one else wanted any of the launch day games) and I'm addicted. It's a gorgeous new take on a game like Mario 64 or Sonic - Ty keeps getting amazed by the animation, which I enjoy but didn't notice in the detail he does now that he's actually trying to program it.
Saturday was errands, cleaning the house a bit, and running around the yard with the wicked awesome gas powered backpack blower. AN HOUR - that's all it took for our acre plus yard to be cleared by me working alone. (OK...and chasing the dogs with it, cause they're so funny when they try to bite the wind). Then Ty and I got ready and went to see Guster.
It was a fund raiser for the Boston Food Bank, and Glenn's company was hired to do the dinner - you could buy a seat for the dinner and the concert and get in at 6:30 - or buy a balcony seat and get in at 8:30. We went for the dinner, and had fun hanging out with the staff beforehand, making sure of course we got the good seats at our table - we were all of 30 feet from the stage, right in the middle of the floor. The concert was awesome - they played SO many of our favorites, with only a few from their latest CD that we don't know all that well (well - I don't - Ty did). They did two encores, the second one not planned but the place would NOT stop with the screaming/foot stomping/clapping, so we got an acoustic version of Jesus on the Radio. I filled my new camera with shots and videos, and then filled my iPhone with more.
The only bad thing is that because it was a fund raiser, you had two types of people there - the Guster fans, and the "rich people". You know the ones - in tuxes and gowns and dripping in jewels while I was in jeans and boots. We had 4 of them at our table, the rest of the 10 were fans (although 2 of those at least knew who Guster was). They didn't bother us all that much, many left midway through the concert - but when Kelsey got home from working the event, she broke down sobbing. These people were abusive to the wait staff, who wasn't ALLOWED on the floor once Guster took the stage, but they came back to the kitchen area demanding things - and many found Kelsey and yelled at her. In addition, there were a LOT of new people working, and the stress was high - they had just under an hour to serve salad, a Thanksgiving type dinner, dessert and coffee, and most of those "rich people' were too busy being seen to eat in time - they didn't care, they weren't there to see the band. I felt so bad for Kelsey who was trying so hard - and being an owners' kid, everyone was looking to her for instructions, only to see her getting bitched at by old men in tuxedos? REALLY? =( I didn't see it, which is good, cause I would have freaked out.
Sunday I went to help Glenn set up a baby shower in Salem, MA - then we visited mom for a bit - then we went back to Salem to get the setup and clean up the hall, and met Kelsey and Eddie for pizza. Back home to get Ty, and take him to upgrade his phone, and then we hit Red Robin (note to self - don't go to a burger place and order a salad, it is gonna suck even with the bacon and avocado and blue cheese).
I'm exhausted. =)