Weekends Aren't Long Enough
Even though I took a half day on Friday and left at about 1:30, there still isn't enough time in the weekend to get in enough relaxation to recharge for the upcoming week. It doesn't help when I haven't slept all that well either. Hopefully today should be really quiet and boring. My parents left the house at 3 AM for Hawaii, and won't be back for 2 weeks. By that time, I'll be gone as well. My little brother leaves sometime today to go back up to school, so that just leaves myself, and my older brother and Keyser, and at the moment Randy is still at his girlfriends (I guess she's his girlfriend, he doesn't really say much about it.)
OK, so what is new the past few days? On the work front, I have our replacement server ready to go. All that is left is to transfer any data that changes daily and move some hardware from the old one to the new and it should be good, I hope.
Friday afternoon I met Shari in Babylon to check out the house. Its definitely a lot different than I remember from my five second walkthrough two months ago. I didn't even see the room that Shari claimed as her own until Friday, and had I known, I may have fought her on that one (not really, but she got the nicest and biggest room). I decided that I'm going to keep the room we all originally agreed on, only because its smaller than I remember, and the other bedroom in question is even smaller and I don't think it would fit all my stuff comfortably. As it is I'm having a hard time imagining my room setup. My only pet peeve in that arena is I have to have my dresser on the same wall as my bed, because I don't want to see myself in the mirror while I'm in my bed, its creepy, especially if there was a girl in my bed with me (lets just say I made that mistake once, and it wasn't pretty). I have the room measurements and measurements of all my stuff, I'll figure it out.
I'm hoping Randy will want to head over to IKEA with me this afternoon to check out some armoires. I'll need one to store my clothes in, as my room has no closet. I'm also going to need a new TV stand, but thats not a big deal. I'm not going to go crazy with a huge entertainment center, I just need something big enough to hold my TV, DVD player, cable box and Game Cube, thats it. Thats about it on that front.
Had my guitar lesson yesterday and it went well, and long. It almost went an hour, when I only pay for a half hour, so I feel kind of bad that I only paid for the half hour, but honestly, I don't wear my watch when I go or play as I'm afraid it gets in the way. This week I'm working on the opening to John Mayer's "Why Georgia" which as my teacher put it, its both harder and easier than it looks. OK. Also working on the intro to Tonic's "If You Could Only See" to work on getting my rhythm back after a few weeks of not really focusing on it, and damn do I need to get it back. I'm also just working on some ska chords from Sublime's "Santeria" as practice for that. I'm supposed to do a full up and down motion with the pick in my right hand, but only hit the strings on the upstroke. I'm not too good at it, so a little practice will be nice.
Last night my parents and my brothers and I drove over to the apartment/house to check it out, but only from the outside and we grabbed some dinner and a restaurant/bar that is right around the corner from my place. Like a five second walk, no joke. And there's a branch of my bank right next door. Not a good combo if you ask me, but oh well. Food was good though, so thats a bonus. Then we all headed home and I passed out. From what, I have no idea. I've just been tired all weekend. Maybe it was all the shopping I did yesterday with my mom. I used her last day in the lower 48 to get her to pay for any odds and ends I thought I would need. Only thing we didn't get was an air conditioner. I may just order one online.
Thats about it over here. Going to try to relax today. Hopefully buy some stuff I need, then enjoy the series finale of Six Feet Under and the latest installment of one of my favorite shows at the moment, Entourage. Have a good rest of the weekend everyone!