Catching up
So much has happened over the last month that it would be really hard to catch up on it all. I've been working some nuts hours and when I go home I usually don't want to sit and type at a computer.
Brief Highlights:
Memorial day weekend Jenni and Mike invited a bunch of us over for a Luau. Dezi looked very cute in her bikini and grass skirt. Saw a lot of friends I hadn't seen in a while and played water volleyball until I was too pruny to play any more.
The weekend of June 3-4 I worked all weekend. We changed our production environment from Windows to Linux (Fedora Core 3). This includes changing an application server, a web server, 2 database servers and an ftp server to Linux. Each and every on of the servers gave us a hard time. Three of us worked from 8:00 Friday morning to 8:30 Saturday night non-stop. At one point we had given up, but we decided an act of God made two of the computers start to work for us.
That weekend was particularly frustrating because my mom, brother and his wife Sam were all in town and I didn't get to see them. Fortunately I get a second chance this weekend.
I took last Monday and the previous Friday off. Dezi and I had plotted and schemed about where we would go and what we would do. In the end neither of us had the energy to plan an excursion so we just enjoyed quite time. One of the few remaining opportunities before the wedding.
However relaxing does not mean I won't go buy myself a new toy. I bought a DVD burner and connected a computer to the TV in the living room. I now have a ghetto media center. I'll put all my mp3's on that computer and connect to my PVR to watch shows. I tried out the DVD burner, but I don't know that I'm as impressed as I wanted to be. I'm sure I'll use it, but just not sure how much. For some reason it took 4 hours to burn 2 TV shows to a DVD. Seems a little long to me.
I think I'm getting the hang of being a manager. A large part of it is that we've really worked hard to get our tasks under control. Things will still blow up every now and then, but I'm learning where and when to push back on some of the requests. The guys that are reporting to me work very hard and I really appreciate it. It makes my job easy when they do theirs so well.
Across from the new office is an LA Fitness center. I joined as part of my work benefits and have been trying to get over there at least twice a week. I'm still doing Jiu-Jitsu on Monday's but I've added the kick boxing class on Wednesdays as well. Dezi says she can tell a difference, but I'm waiting on the scale to tell me something positive. It's not that Dezi would lie, but I like to have definitive proof for myself.
