Crazy Couple of Days
Wow. I've barely had time to catch my breath for the past two days at work. We had an application server crash and spent a good chunk of Monday trying to fix it, get a replacement part that may or not fix it when it came in, restore a partial backup from Friday or Thursday night and pray it had what we needed and order and configure a new server to replace the broken one. Thankfully the replacement part came in, we installed it and the server came back up. The only disheartening thing is we did the exact same thing less than two months ago when it had the exact same problem. Hopefully this one will last long enough to get the replacement into production. We shall see. Regardless, the last two days have been quite busy, and hectic, but at least have gone by pretty quickly.
Unfortunately I wasn't sure what time I'd get out of work on Monday, so I had to cancel my get together with S. I'm not sure if I'll even bother rescheduling, as like I said, I just wasn't that into it in the first place. Besides, I have bigger things on my plate at the moment, like work and moving. I move in two weeks, and I haven't even begun to think about packing. I have my mover set, and I have boxes to pack with. Now, all thats left is the packing. I spoke with Shari yesterday and today and we're going to try to get into the house on Friday to check things out, take some measurements, that kind of thing. I need to order the cable tomorrow morning, as well as call the realtor guy to see if we can get in to do what we need to do.
Also, on a similar note, the living with women thing just got its first strike against it today, well sort of. One of my future roommates, the one who I have the most degrees of separation with, I shall just call her A for now to protect her identity (for those wondering, I know Shari, Shari works with K, and K is friends with A, so thats the chain), called me today to talk about a few things. Shari and K are taking the two rooms upstairs, on the third floor, so there are two rooms on the second floor. When we all went out to dinner we decided that A would take the official bedroom with a closet and I'd take the living room and just convert it into a bedroom. That would involver moving a door onto the empty door frame and buying an armoire, as there's no closet. Well, A called me and said she was able to get into the place to take measurements and whatnot and she decided that she likes my room better, and has better ideas for decorating it than the room she agreed to take. I was like, huh? I told her I'd tell her if I was OK with switching after I get to have another look at the place, because honestly, I barely remember my one and only walkthrough.
But, according to A, the place looks nice. They refinished the wood floors, and are replacing all the kitchen appliances, not just the fridge. Turns out the people we're renting from eventually want to live there, so thats why they're doing it while there's no one in there. I don't know how I feel about someone trying to steal my room.
I had plans for it too. A claims that its not much bigger than the bedroom she was going to have, and each room has its pluses and minuses. But we'll see. I was kind of hoping that my room would be big enough for like a futon or something, so it could be like a bedroom/living room. I don't know, I wanted someplace to relax and watch TV and movies and play videogames and play the guitar that didn't involve my bed. Why? I don't know. I just do. So we'll see after I take a look at the place. Technically, I had first dibs on it, and I did shoulder a whole lot of risk by putting my name on the lease. So we'll see. I hate to pull that card out, but dammit, if I want that room, it'll be mine!
Alright, I'm exhausted. Going to relax for the evening.
Comments
Now you know what it would have been like to have sisters! I think, after living with 3 women, you might want to become a monk ;)
Posted by: Jenniy | August 17, 2005 1:15 PM