Last Saturday at work sucked. I got stuck on the OS split, as a 9, the same level as all the regular OS engineers rather than the normal 6 which would've had me as overflow only. The OS split crap really sucks. I wanted to try to help out sarahkitty and ended up not being able to do squat for her because I couldn't take Kernel calls, all I got was ( Read more... )

So we have a new manager at work and he starts out with a barrage of e-mails of all the things he wants us to do. Update your voice mail, update your calendar, update your info in the company directory, etc. So I whine about it to my co-workers and they all say quit whining and just do it, it's not that bad. So I do and today I find out that I'm ( Read more... )

More of the change in management at work. One moment I feel I'm being unreasonable, the next I find out several others around me feel the same way. It's been a roller coaster ride ( Read more... )

Another week gone. Didn't do much this weekend. Spent Monday running a few errands. Sherman Williams had a paint sale that ended on Monday so we picked up paint for all the projects on Monday morning. Monday afternoon I finally finished mowing the place, hopefully for the last time this season. Even though I wear a chemical mask while mowing, my ( Read more... )

At my violin lesson today my teacher handed me a new "challenge" piece. I haven't even mastered Jesu yet and now I've got the 1st violin part of Mouret's Rondeau (the theme from "Masterpiece Theatre") to add. My teacher takes students to one of the nearby assisted living facilities and plays for them. Having recently had my grandmother and mother- ( Read more... )

Where does the time go? I get three days off every week and it goes by so quickly ( Read more... )

An interesting week at work. On Thursday I was in class for this new system that is going to replace a lot of our current tools. The big push is to integrate a lot of separate systems across the company into one system. That way the Sales DB has the same data as the Services DB as the Manufacturing DB. As things stand, the data in our systems is so ( Read more... )

The cruise is all booked! Yesterday we booked our flights to and from San Juan and a hotel in San Juan for before and after the cruise. I also bought travel insurance to cover us in case the airlines still haven't figured out how to get somewhere on time by then, lose our luggage, etc ( Read more... )

Yesterday we booked the cruise! We're going in early February of next year. Departing from San Juan, going to St. Maarten, Dominica, Grenada, Bonaire, and Aruba. We also booked the Discovery SCUBA in St. Maarten, and dives in Dominica and Aruba. We wanted to dive in Bonaire but the ship doesn't arrive there until 1PM. Bonaire has a Marine Park with ( Read more... )

Saturday was my weekly violin lesson. My teacher wanted to know if I could have Jesu polished by mid October so as to be ready to play it at the recital in November. Yikes! I wasn't so sure so we settled on my working on Jesu *and* Minuet 3 from the 1st Suzuki book ( Read more... )