Weekend was good and I finally got some me time in. I had so much house to organize. This was the first weekend where I was NOT working on the damn kitchen! I finally got the lights up on the tree Saturday night in time for the niece and nephew to get the rest of the trimmed on Sunday. I need to make a few adjustments to balance things out, but ( Read more... )

Friday night I worked late and crashed at home. I turned off the front light and tended to my headache. Fortunately, trick and treaters respected the "light off" policy. 400mg of ibuprofen later I was good again and headed out to a party with Jay and Barry. Had a really good time out there and crawled into bed around 0330 ( Read more... )

First and foremost, thanks for all of the wonderful messages and thoughtful comments with the passing of my grandfather. At first it was sort of hard to write that entry. After I wrote that I went upstairs to wake my brother and tell him and pretty much broke down again. When I later watched some of the comments go by and almost teared up at ( Read more... )

The transfer of Blackboard is done! It actually took less than 24 hours. Only a few small bumps with the process, but nothing to write home about. I'm actually very glad this is done. This relieves me and my group from a major resource hog. It seems so weird not to worry about that huge application any more ( Read more... )

I had a productive Saturday getting errands done. Needed a new jacket from Kohl's (zipper on old jacket broke, but was still able to return to Kohl's) and got one I really liked from Columbia (and a much better zipper). I must say, there is something to be said for the quality of YKK zippers--everything else is crap. Needed new bed sheets for ( Read more... )

Another quiet weekend on tap for me.

Thursday morning Consumer Electronics came by and verified that my new TV definitely was not working properly and opened a case with Sony. That afternoon I got my car back from the shop! The repair is seamless with the rest of the car. That's why I choose this shop--Triangle Auto and Body in Durham. I was ( Read more... )

Saturday was spent all day helping mstutts and zavyn move from their old home to their new home. I was just thinking it would have been nice to take some pictures of the whole event. I definitely got a good workout from moving stuff and my back is ok. I got there about 0815 and got home last night a little after 2300 ( Read more... )

1. Got up this morning and actually fixed myself French Toast from scratch (eggs, milk, vanilla, sugar and flour) and that was quite tasty ( Read more... )

Actually, I got quite a few things done today...

• Mowed, edged and trimmed the lawn
  
• Did lots of laundry and ironed
  
• Replaced the speaker in car door
  
• Replaced wiper blades on car
  
• Burned some DVD's for my brother
  
• Started getting some items on eBay
  
• Organized some photos
  
• Fixed home alarm system

The only annoying part was the alarm system. I decided to ( Read more... )

Friday was a weird day with the Apex Chemical Fire/Explosions. In short, a small plant that stores lots of hazardous chemicals went up in a fiery explosion. About 17,000 people had to be evacuated because of a chemical cloud that formed around it making everyone very sick. Fortunately, no one was serious injured. Fired burned for about 24 hours ( Read more... )