While dinner last night was really good and tasty–I think something I ate didn’t quite agree with my bizarre temperamental stomach. This said–it shouldn’t be taken as a criticism of the restaurant–rather it’s just my messed up physiology.
Long day at work….literally and figuratively.
The California Aunt was in town, and she took a cousin, the Sister and myself out to dinner at Noi Due
Nice place and nice company.
I’m tired though–so it’s off to bed I go…more tomorrow.
I had an almost “Office Space” like experience briefly at work these past two days. With the end of every month comes the requests from various departments for statistics on the previous month–so I must prepare all these reports.
Then today as part of an internal audit, I had to print up and coalate more reports (it was easy to do; but just mostly busywork)
Fortunately though, there was no need to attach the “new coversheet” to the reports.
The Little Brother turns 20 next Saturday.
As the older brother, I am obviously obliged to get him a gift.
Here’s the thing: he doesn’t read, and is a very inactive individual–so I refuse in principle to get him a video game (like he wants). He’s too sedentary already!
Any ideas?
Things he like include but are not limited to: trains, subways, the Yankees, the Cavs, eating (which he does too much)….
Why must you have construction crews outside jackhammering at 9pm at night?
It’s night time for goodness sakes!?!?!?!
/rant
The Jets “magical run” came to a screeching halt in the second half this evening–mostly in a demonstration of how Indianapolis had a better team.
The Jets D just couldn’t contain the Colts after giving up that TD late in the first half–and it was all downhill from there.
Now time for the NFC game…
Last night I went out to a music concert, where one of my friends, who shall be dubbed “The musical genius” (because that’s what he is)–had a guitar piece he composed performed.
The event was a combination of pieces form different local composers–some vocal some simply musical (flute, a quintet, piano).
It was nice and didn’t go on too long either (also a plus).
The office inbound phone system (or as it’s called in the industry the “voice mail”) crashed today.
As luck would have it, our guy who handles the phones was out today (tending to a home plumbing issue). Since our IT guys don’t handle the phones at all…guess who was dispatched to the server room to try and figure things out?
Armed with my cell phone, my boss sent me to the server room to try and work with our vendor to troubleshoot things.
Granted, because of some construction work going on right now at the office the server room is in a bit of dsarray–which didn’t help me much.
So the tech says to located the “voice mail computer”–whcih he says won’t be in a rack. I look at all the PCs…and well, guess what, none of the non-racked PCs are this machine.
I start searching the racks and find the machine. The tech then starts to access it remotely. He has me go run back to the desks to change the phone settings and then back ot the server room. (Little did he mention that the change he had me made totally eliminated our queue and menus–resulting in telephony chaos).
So the techs looking at the computer and he says he has to download the event log, but that it’ll take a while for him to parse through it. He sets-up a backup to get the phones going. He leaves me with the reassurance that there is a technician coming in person and that “oh, your phones will likely crash again” (*facepalm*)
So a little while later the tech comes, and I have to supervise him in the server room. We look at the computer itself and the hardware is all intact, fans running, alls well. So then the remote support department guy decides that he’s going to upgrade our software. Problem is, loading the software onto this machine for some reason took forever!. So for the next 90 minutes or so, I’m stuck around the small server room. Sigh.
At least the phones work again….for now…
The sister and I had sibling time tonight, where besides sharing workplace stories (I had heat today, she didn’t) she showed me her new favorite TV craze/show/
Something called “conveyor belt of love”. Seems like the Gong Show mixed with the dating game all taking place at a stereotypical conveyor-belt sushi place!
She (who is into this kind of this stuff) loves it. Me, while finding some parts humorous, found it a little tasteless. I’im wondering how long the show will last for.
Why I fear tomorrow at work:
It’s the first day of the new year, meaning patients have their deductibles start anew, which is never pleasant to deal with.
I’m addled with all my end-of the month work, on top of my regular duties.
It’s Monday….
So it’s finally snowing here. It didn’t start to come down until this evening (save for some earlier flurries).
I was just out in it–and it’s not some sort of ZOMG BLIZZARD!!!!11 storm. It’s regular snow–you know, the precipitation of winter.
Silly media…
So, we’re supposed to get some sort of “massive zomg blizzard!1!1!111!!!!”
Not too worried about it. It’s past due for snow here.
We had The Company Holiday Party this evening. Very exciting to have a party this year after not having had one last year.
Good times.
Tomorrow should be interesting to see the aftermath at the office.
Pictures of last night’s party at the apartment have already appeared online. With respect to The Sister’s privacy, I’m not going to link to this other blog (as her first name and picture appear there). Sorry. It was quite interesting last night though–especially the addition of the megaphone.
Laid low all day at home…to re-cooperate from my overly stressful week at work.
Plan on going out tonight–location TBD.
Felt a bit better this morning in the gym. Still erred on the side of caution in terms of my lifts. Also increased my overall non-green veggie carb consumption slightly. I’ll be doing this for a few days and then I’ll see how I feel.
Work…well…it was a Monday. What more can/should be said?
The Browns put up 27 points in the first half against the Lions.
The Browns are capable of scoring 27 points?
Okay–they are playing the Lions…but still. Oh, and the defense yielded 24 points….
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