…. not literally though. I did some situps and pushups this morning. It felt good. I’ve been pretty energetic today, though I’m definitely winding down. I had to forage for food tonight … ended up having a peanut butter & jelly sandwich with a bagel and cream cheese to follow.
Tomorrow is Friday! TGIF! I’m really glad. I need to get some stuff done around the house. I had another encounter with my loose wiring on the porch tonight. Not good. At least it’s easy to fix.
I miss seeing Emily J. I should call her sometime.
Archive for March, 2002
First day back after a 4-day weekend. Kinda nice to be back at work, though I felt kinda unproductive. I got to install some beta software to try out. I can’t name what products due to NDAs, but suffice it to say that I was happy to try them out.
It’s going to be interesting the next couple of months dealing with the fallout of the budget crisis. Among other things, our dialup modem pool is going away on July 1st. Ouch. That’s going to affect a lot of people. We’re probably going to get hate mail. Oh well, but it makes sense from the $$ standpoint. I can’t say as I’ll miss helping people out with that either. Some of the problems can be a real pain in the @$$. We’re also going to phase out Novell Netware. This is basically means re-working campus file and print services for faculty and staff, as well as finding a new email and calendaring (calendar = primary problem) system for a significant chunk of them as well. I can’t say as I’ll miss GroupWise either. I hate it. I don’t quite loathe it … but it’s definitely up there on my least favourite software list.
I took my 4Runner through the car wash today to clean off the road salt from my trip so it’s nice and shiny again. 
I really like driving a stick-shift again. Yay!
Well, I suppose I should try and find something productive to do … maybe like playing Carmageddon 2 … oh wait … that’s not productive… ;D
Ouch. I hurt. My hip joints are sore from trying to keep myself in control going down the hill. It rocks though. Skiing is fun. I didn’t even take any breaks this afternoon, which probably doesn’t mean much being as I was only out there for about 2-1/4 hrs. I didn’t fall down and I didn’t get run over, which is always a plus.
Howdy!
Pretty nice weather we’re having, eh? Yeah, I know … I’m crazy for going to Canada on Spring Break, but in order to ski, you need snow, eh? Okay … ’nuff of the eh’s.
I drove up yesterday and it was pretty uneventful. I even managed to get those MN plates off my truck before we left and put on my temp Wisc. plate. It’s only held on by one screw, but I took some chewing gum and “secured” the other corner to the remains of a screw that the previous owner had snapped off. It seems to be holding up well, not that there’s a lot of stress on it.
I think I’m going to ski at Candy Mountain today. I’m probably a little rusty being as I haven’t skied in at least a year, so I think they have the best hills for me. I’m concerned about whether the snow will be nice for skiing on and not icy crap that you skid across when trying to stop. Stopping is kinda important, ya know?
Right now I’m thinking I’m going to try and relax tomorrow. I guess it depends on how nice the hill is and how tired/sore I get.
Yikes! I just checked the forecast and the high looks like it will be about 18. I’d like it about 7 degrees warmer. I guess it could be worse. Tomorrow is supposed to be what I consider ideal. The drive home should be nice though.
My apologies for not posting in a while. I’ve been rather busy. You might say I actually have a life!
I am in the middle of stuff gearing up for the annual UWRF Dance Theatre concert. It’s a lot of fun working with the crew and the dancers. My girlfriend is even performing this year. Yay! The new amplifier in the sound system kicks some serious ass … 2400 watts. *insert Tim Allen grunts here* The old one was 220 watts and had a tough time handling things for us, though I guess some wiring problems in the theatre itself didn’t help. We fixed those this year. I discovered tonight that somebody was a little careless and tore the plug off one of the speaker wires for the stage monitors so I’ll have to get that fixed .. grumble.
I am taking some time off and visiting a friend in Canada this weekend and going skiing. Yay. I hope they actually have some powder, ‘cuz otherwise it won’t be much fun and I’ll just end up sore.
I need to get to bed. I was up later than I wanted to be last night as I drove Liz 1/2way across the state. The weather sucked royally, so it was an exhausting drive.
Well, I shall endeavour to post more often soon, but possibly not until after dance theatre performances are done.
