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End of week recap Jan 11th – Jan 17th 2010

Monday Jan 11th –

Dude. I hit snooze for an hour. I finally got up at 8am this morning and rolled into work right around 9am. It was a good way to start off! Got to my cube and checked my e-mail: surprise! No new e-mail to deal with!

I got my flight itinerary updated for my Shanghai trip. I’m currently traveling Sunday January 24th through Thursday Feb 4th. This should be an interesting experience.

I noticed that the cafeteria is now carrying the “Heritage” Dr. Pepper that is made with real sugar and it has an old school branding look to it. I personally still like the high fructose corn syrup version.

I did manage to finish up my performance review by 2pm. I didn’t have anything else to do for the day so I just left and went cycling for an hour. I got my ride fix, and it made up for missing it yesterday. It was mostly cloudy outside. It was around 46 degrees. Perfect. I posted the ride stats and route map. I spent the rest of the day shopping for stuff that I may need in China. It was one VERY relaxing day.

I found out that there’s an A-Team movie that’s coming out June 2010! I think i’m going to watch that
A-Team theatrical trailer: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808402981/video/17565315

-T

Tuesday Jan 12th -

I’m stuck in a conference room this morning! How fun is that? Work was really slow today. I had lunch at Soba with Heather. I think the last time we had lunch was back in the summer when we went to Thai Elephant and ran into an old coworker who moved to GE Health Care.

I did a dynamics problem this afternoon because I had nothing else to do I secretly still love that class.

I ended up prepping food in the evening and got the chicken ready for tomorrow’s party. I’m pretty sure I will not have time to do that tomorrow before the party and I am making sure I’m gonna be part taking in the party activities this time around I’m also glad that the number of people invited is substantially less… and way less chaos to deal with! (Sorry!)

-T

Wednesday Jan 13th –
Notable things for the day:

• Google Analytics report states that someone is still using dialup to visit my site! I feel sorry for ya since it may take a while to load the content and have it all rendered.
• I ordered the Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight album. It was weird to think the last physical album that I bought was over 10 years ago.
• The shared video memory for my work desktop is starting to crap out. I really should ask for a new work computer.

Wet Wednesday party at my place. Happy birthday Erik, Teanna, Jared and John! I made garlic lemon chicken breasts from a cooks.com recipe and served them with a side of rice. I think it turned out pretty well and it was good! Photos have been posted on Facebook.

-T

Thursday Jan 14th -
Went to lunch with Sue and David at Coyote Grill on Baseline. Had an interesting convo that went like:

• David (to Sue): What do you do?
• Sue: I work in HR.
• David (turns to me): So you brought the devil with you!.
• Me: Stunned, silent. Awkward.

Real nice, dude, real nice. LOL

Went to a CPR outing afterwork. Not happy. Keep your cool and move on, I guess. GRR.

-T

Friday Jan 15th -

The Linkin Park “Minutes to Midnight” CD arrived this morning!

I can tell you one common theme this week: the work day was boring. I’m still waiting for boards to arrive in the lab. I’ve been looking for any excuse to leave the office mid day ’cause I don’t have much to do at the moment. I guess I should enjoy that while it lasts for another 3 days – then it’s hardcore project time for the next 6-7 months.

Anyway, I checked my work e-mail late Thursday night and noticed some Blazer tickets were up for grabs vs the Orlando Magic in the RadiSys Suite. I got 2 tickets and took Sue to the game with me. It was a good! Blazers won 102-87. We went to Henry’s afterwards for a drink. I came home and watched a few hours of Firefly into the wee hours of the morning. Good times!

-T

Saturday Jan 16th -

Dude, waking up at noon is awesome!

I got the new defrost heater installed in the freezer today. The heating element works like a charm in bypass mode. Now I just have to wait a few days to see if the coils automatically kick in. If it does, then great, all is solved with my freezer issues. If not, then perhaps the thermostat is busted, or the control logic really isn’t working. If the issue is the latter, I’m just planning on connecting wire leads to the control board and have a toggle switch for a manual bypass. We’ll see I guess. It does, however, remind me of a light saber.

I hung out with Jessica and watched Firefly for a little bit then we headed on over to the Bridgeport theater to watch Avatar in IMAX 3D. That was quite an experience and my first 3D movie. The animation was wonderful and I found myself forgetting that it was mostly CG! If you haven’t seen the movie yet, I’d highly recommend going! I’d also recommend getting there EARLY. We sat in the front seats section, back row, right side. Not exactly the best place for the polarized lenses to work, but meh, it still looked great — especially the parts where you’re looking down into a huge revine! Came home and just watched firefly until 5 in the morning. Eh, had nothing else to do… sleep is overrated.

-T

Sunday Jan 17th -

Went out to breakfast with Jess / Kenny / Rene. Played Axis and Allies in the afternoon. I sadly started to do work that evening.

It was a good packed weekend spent with good company! Yeah, I noticed that my entries are a little short. I’m tired at at least I jotted down the highlights for the week. Good night.

-T