Archive for July, 2006


on July 27, 2006 in Uncategorized 1 Comment »

Yay! We now have A/C. The house feels much cooler. A lot of that is due to the dehumidifying of the air, but the temp is definitely lower too. The installers did a pretty good job, but I wasn’t impressed with their customer service … I wanted to get the bits of information I needed to investigate rebates but they were in too much of a hurry to leave. Grr.

Anyway, today was my first day back at work in a while (since last Friday). Still feeling a bit on the overwhelmed side but I think I got a lot accomplished on the computer lab side of my world today. Tomorrow morning I have some stuff to do relating to wireless deployment (lucky me is in charge of support and end-user documentation).

This weekend I’m hoping to get some more rock picked up in the yard (likely Saturday morning while it’s still hopefully somewhat cool). I’m not sure what Saturday afternoon will entail. At some point this weekend I’d like to get some programming work done on the church website. I want to make the announcements easier to manage and figure out if I can improve the calendar management. Saturday evening my aunt and uncle are coming to visit. They missed the open house because they had a wedding to attend. I’m looking forward to their visit. :)

Sunday we’re planning on heading up to my parents for my dad’s birthday. It’s actually on Monday but of course I have to work then. I’m also hoping to drop in and visit my younger sister. Her computer is showing its age (8 yrs) so I’m going to try and replace it with something a bit more up-to-date. Hopefully I have time for all of that.

Well, off to bed…. with closed windows! (it’s cool outside, but it’s also humid)

Update: just as I was heading to bed, one of the smoke detectors decided to have a low/dead battery (started chirping). Since I can’t sleep through that, I figured I’d better fix it. After determining which one of the 5 it was (thankfully, it turned out to be the one in the basement and not the one at the peak of the kitchen/living area), grabbed a battery out of the garage and replaced it. No more chirp. :)

I think God is punishing me for not picking enough rock growing up. He seems to have placed an extraordinary number of them in our yard for me to get rid of. I just spent about 75 minutes picking rocks. The sad thing is, I’ve covered maybe 15% of the yard so far. I have two blisters and a pile of about 8 gallons worth of rocks (not counting the rocks I tossed into the neighboring unoccupied lot. Oh yeah … and I also took care of about a dozen large thistles that thought our yard was a nice place to grow.