Thursday, February 26, 2004
Today was a pretty crummy day. My new (trial) contacts were bothering me all day at work. So finally, I had popped out my left contact. It had a tear. Not good. So, I went across the street to the doc to get another one. Besides, I did not think that the lens I had was the right one (he had said that I could have one of two different scripts, so try this one). Well, he was out to lunch. Nice. So I went back to work, where at least I was able to rebuild a server no problems. Then, I had left a little early so I could stop back and get a new lens. He was out of the other script, so I got another of the one that tore. Okay, fine. Feels MUCH better. So, on the way home, the drive is good up until Sunrise Blvd. Total stoppage, just like last night. Ugh, what a pain.
Okay, enough of that. I went to my parents. I was supposed to go there, and then we all go to my place for dinner. But on the way over, my eyes were bothering me bigtime again. I think it was allergies. Felt absolutely miserable. Well, Beth and Mom bailed on me for dinner, so instead, Dad made me some dinner. I spend most of the time there laying on the couch, next to my sister. Was falling asleep too. So, finally I go home. Relax a little, and I got up the energy to write this.
Some points I forgot... This morning, I put my foot in my shoe to discover I had awakened a tenant. It scurried out after I jumped and dropped the shoe. A pushing aside of my recliner, and the delivery of a blow that no roach is immune against. heh.. Nice, eh?
And on the way home from the parents', I turn down Atlantic Blvd, approaching the FEC railroad tracks, just as the gates light up and go down. Great. Train. At least I am in the front, right at the gate. Train comes by, blaring his horn, and making a loud squealing noise. His brakes are engaged. He's slowing down. Wonderful. He comes to a complete stop. That just figures. After a while, a number of emergency vehicles start arriving on the other side, up the perpendicular street. He must have hit something or someone. That means the train is not going anywhere anytime soon. So, I finally start the engine, and jump the median for a u-turn. I was not the first to approach it, but I was the first to actually attempt it. I am not too sure if the Mustang that tried after me made it or not. Found a detour, drove past the "scene" and saw nothing more than a lot of people standing around. Prolly hit someone. And this is right around where the derailment happened a few years ago. Not a good area for the trains that is. heh.. At least I was able to get out of there pretty quick. bla.
Entry: 151 Posted by kelly @ 11:31 PM ET [Link]
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
What a nasty day out. Rain rain rain. It took me about two hours to get home. The Turnpike was no-go from the stadium to Hollywood/Pines. Craziness. And the people passing in the median... heh... After a while, I would stick out into the median making it difficult for them to pass. Made me feel better at least. Too bad there wasn't a ledge for them to fall off of.
I got a new pair of contact lenses yesterday. I looked up doctors in my vision plan's book, and saw the doctor that operates in the Costco across the street. So, I decided to go there at lunch. Did the eye exam thing, and found out they don't take my insurance. WTF?! I am due for a followup next Tuesday, and I am bringing my paperwork for confirmation. If so, I am calling the provider to find out why he is listed in their book. This kind of thing just pisses me off. Anyway, the doc said that my left eye could get one script or another, not sure which would be better. I don't like the one I have - I am going to ask to try the other. My left eye is just not right at all. It is better in my glasses, which are old enough as it is. We'll see.
Work craziness continues. I wasn't there for the 9am lynchingproblem report meeting. Yea, I had a yellow ticket the day before. I forgot about it. It was stupid. It should never have been yellow in the first place. It took me longer to get into the system and resolve the ticket than solve the problem. Whatever. They want me there and available at 9am for whatever reasons - sure fine. I'll just have to think about not being there and available at 1:30am when the phone rings again (my cell phone no less - and I HATE it when I get called on my cell when I am home, especially since I prefer people calling my home number which will transfer to the cell when I am not there). I mean one or the other people - I am NOT a manager! At any rate, my co-worker's last day is Friday and I need to get the brain dump on his projects. I better write this stuff down.
Tomorrow, I'm going to try the dinner with the parents thing again. They never came last night. My Dad got called into work. Instead, I BBQ'd up a burger, and promptly fell asleep on the couch. A few hours later, I snatched my laptop back up, which still had juice, and went up to the bedroom, plugged it in, started some music. Then, the TV went on for about an hour of mind-numbing, then I went back to sleep. Still, I managed to wake up late this morning and be tired all day. But at least I got another referral sent for a sleep specialist (I lost the last one). So, it's off to work early tomorrow. I want to be there early, so I can cut out a bit early as well. After a little pit stop, I'm going to stop at the 'rents to help paint the last bit of the house (weather permitting), and head back to my place for dinner. I also invited Nana and my Sister (and Brother-in-law). It should be fun, and Dad and I are going to look into a plan of action to install the dish. I'd rather do it myself than hire an installer! heh..
Entry: 150 Posted by kelly @ 10:49 PM ET [Link]
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Things at work are going kind of strange. My coworker has given his notice, and that seems to have finally struck a nerve with management as far as people jumping ship. I dunno.
Anyway, this weekend, I finally went and got something I've been wanting to get for quite some time. A nice digital camera. So some images are finally going to find their way into this multimedia journal. In fact, I'm going to start it out by posting something I see every day on my way to work. A fork in the fence, and a scene used in the filming of America's Most Wanted. Makes the walk to the car kind of... interesting.
At any rate, I am getting tired. Went to Dad's after work today, and did not get home until late. I invited the 'rents over for dinner tomorrow night. Nana may join too. Should be fun.
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Entry: 149 Posted by kelly @ 12:28 AM ET [Link]
Thursday, February 19, 2004
There are a few things I wanted to write about, but alas, they have fled my mind already. I hate that...
I went to my parents' place after work to see how my Dad was doing painting the house. It is coming along good. I got a call from MYG on my way over there, and he wanted to go to Wal-Mart tonight. He said later though, so I waited for a call, but he just sent a text message I did not read until it was too late. Ah well. My Dad made a good dinner, and we watched one of my favorite movies, What Dreams May Come. My Mom had never seen it. I don't think she was too interested in it, though, because halfway through, all she could do was argue through it, and missed a lot of the plot. Just wonderful. Anyway..
When I got home, I realized my ReplayTV upstairs had a brainfart. Last night, I heard the harddrive freaking out, and today I noticed it didn't record my show today. The guide was blank! That only happens if it can't connect for over a week. I checked the messages, and there were messages about it not being able to connect dated in 2010! Stupid unit. I manually forcecd a reconnect - twice - and it took the date update and guide. Strange though.
So, I went downstairs to watch the other show on the other Replay. As I was looking around in the kitchen for some munchies, I let out a loud and squealy giggle when I noticed the leftover (sauceless) pizza I had stashed in the microwave. I paused for a moment wondering what had just happened, and continued to heat up the cheesebread.
As my laptop has been pissing me off with the keyboard lately, I took it out and poked around at it a bit. I could not get it to act up. So, I put it back, and it has been behaving since (sans the spacebar glitch, but that is manageable). That is why I am putting this down now.
This morning, I let myself sleep in later than usual. After what work has put me through, I did not mind showing up an hour or two late. So, I got in a little extra sleep, combined with the early bedtime last night. It was awesome! heh.. So, when I went to get my towels out of the dryer, I noticed that the laundry room was incredibly dusty, and quite hot. The exhaust vent had fallen off the back of the dryer! UGH! I had to vaccuum up all the dust from in back, and there is a thin film of it all over the room. At least I had closed the door when it ran last night, which I usually do not do. I put it back on so the next time won't be so bad. This also reminded me of one of the nastiest things I've seen. A dryer that is in someone's kitchen, where there is no exhaust (was a condo in a hi-rise). The exhaust went into this contraption which blew into a pool of water which was supposed to catch as much fine lint as possible. It was disgusting. I didn't do that great of a job, and left the place stinking of laundry. (kind of what my laundry room smelled like this morning). And it did not help the heat situation either. Ah, well. If it were me, I would get a LONG tube or something and re-route it out the balcony door. That setup would be unacceptable to me.
Anyway, I need to get some sleep. I don't plan to be too late to work tomorrow. Today I deserved, but I can't make tardiness a habit.
Entry: 148 Posted by kelly @ 02:01 AM ET [Link]
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
It's been a while since wrote here. I've been pretty busy. Mostly, work has been really keeping me busy. Too much so in fact. But review time is coming up, and it better be worth it.
Anyway, I am quite tired tonight, and thus I am in bed already, and not far from going to sleep. Hopefully I can now slide into a normal sleep schedule again.
But, I am better. No more being sick. It was no big deal, and is long over now. Last weekend, I had some fun with Sean's birthday - we went out for a fun night on the town. Sunday was my brother's birthday, but I had to skip his celebration to go into work, and missed him before he left back for school. Again, not too thrilled. Especially since he beat me home, and he had to drive cross-state.
So, I will get back to a better catch-up later, not that there is much else going on. Also, it does not help that the laptop has been really bad about the keyboard lately. It is working now, but it often gets stuck and cannot type 8 i k , and sometimes some other keys. Also, the spacebar is sometimes skipping and double-pressing, and CTRL does not always work. There really enough for me to get a new keyboard. Soon enough.
Anyway, a little more TV and I'm off to bed for catchup sleep.
Entry: 147 Posted by kelly @ 09:16 PM ET [Link]
Tuesday, February 3, 2004
Bla. I feel sick today. I can usually tell when I am getting sick, but this time, I do not sense it, yet I am somewhat stuffed up, and have a slight headache. I think I'm just lacking in sleep. Some good sleep will fix this, I hope.
Softball was cancelled today. In fact, I got an email saying the softball was cancelled indefinately. Buh? I don't know why, but I am sure I will find out soon enough. I didn't see the need to harass the coach about it right away. Today I wasn't feeling too great anyway, and the field would have no doubt been mushy from this wonderful weather we have been having lately. So, I'll have to see what's happening. Anyway, I am off to bed.
Entry: 146 Posted by kelly @ 12:50 AM ET [Link]
Sunday, February 1, 2004
Today was a complete abortion on the productivity scale. But that's okay. It was gloomy out, and I had been pretty tired from a week of messed up sleep. I had slept in late, and when I got up, I just lazed around in front of the computer. Later, I went downstairs with the laptop, and started a little work on the multimedia computer downstairs. Boy, the laptop is working much better than it has ever been. After a while of that, I started to have a few conversations on IM, and realized I was once again sitting in silence. So, I fired up the internet radio again. I just love sitting, listening to good music. Laying on the couch with the laptop playing tunes. I ended up going back upstairs again for a while on that computer. Then, I came back down and started dinner. It wasn't raining anymore, so I fired up the BBQ and threw on a turkeyburger. It started raining. Wonderful. But, the food came out just fine, I just got a little wet making it. So, here I am now typing in the journal, watching (well, sorta) the miniseries Traffic on the Replay.
I was going to go to Tisha's to install the shelf in her son's closet, but I fell asleep. Had some interesting powernap dreams too. The one I remember involved some raccoons. Weird. I'll go there tomorrow. Normally, I don't like wasting the days away, but sometimes it is just worth it to relax and take some downtime.
