Leaving Long Island
Today is Thursday. It's a good day. Cool, mild, nice. Everything that you could ask for in a day, but I am locked in a larger conference room without windows. I think I'm getting Vitamin D deficiency. ugh. But alas, today is the last day that I have to be here. Next week I'm off to glorious Columbus, Ohio to work on a project for two weeks. No more renting cars, not more dealing with Long Islanders, no more driving on the LIE.....at least for two weeks. The best part about not coming here anymore will be the fact that I won't have to deal with SAP BW anymore. It's been giving me so many problems in the past week that I'm about ready to write it off completely.
For the past 2-3 weeks, every night when I would go to bed, I would wake up in the morning and try to check my email. Annoyingly, it wouldn't work. I couldn’t figure it out. My computer is usually running in good shape, but this problem was just something that I couldn't figure out. So last night I spent 2-3 hours just cleaning up stuff and getting rid of all the crap that was on my hard drive. I started the process having around 15 gigs free, and by the end of the night I had around 95 gigs of free space. How I had 80gigs of wasted space on my hard drive I'll never know, but it's nice to be back to a level where I have some breathing room. Additionally, I killed my Ubuntu installation in favor to giving Fedora Core 5 a shot. I'm not going to lie... I don't like it. I'm thinking that I may go back to Ubuntu tonight when I get home. Not that Fedora was all that different than the Dapper Drake version that I had installed previously, but when it comes down to it, I already learned Ubuntu and I don't want to bother with re-learning a different OS....again.
Tomorrow morning I plan on taking the train up to my parents house in order to prepare for the weekend adventure up to Lake George. Of course, after a quick check on weather.com it is telling me that there is a 60% "chance" of rain this weekend on both days. I have this feeling that we're going to get up there and it's just going to be a wet mess the entire weekend. It's supposed to be a high of 60 degrees too, so it's going to be cold and wet. Not exactly the greatest weather for Labor Day weekend. Oh well, what are you going to do? I'm going to pack some sweatshirts and a rain coat and we're going to pack some tarps and say fuck it. We'll stay dry enough in the tents and we'll find things to do under the canopy during the days. Oh well... We'll make the best of it I'm sure. Nothing a 12-pack of PBR can't help out with.
So over the next week, because I'm going to be in Columbus, I am thinking that I'm going to have a bit of extra time on my hands in the evenings. Instead of spending those hours doing nothing, or watching the 3rd season of 24, I am thinking that I'm going to finally re-do the CSS coding on my blog and get myself a nice banner for the top. It's been over a year now of being swaddled in the typical Vicksberg MovableType theme, so now I'll finally have the boredom to do it.
Oh, and I have another admission that I must make.... I have lost my manhood...I knit. It's true. I'm making myself a scarf. It's blue. It's going to be nice, and when I’m warm this winter, you are going to wish that you had knit yourself a scarf. Why am I knitting? I don't really know. Laura and I like to make things and do crafty hobbies, and well... we're giving knitting a shot. The other night we were going to make those stamp things (if you don't know what I'm talking about, it's not really worth me explaining) but we had already had 3-4 beers, so we figured it wouldn't be the best time to be carving anything with sharp tools. So we picked up some knitting needles and are giving it a go. Pending how much time I have and how much TV I watch, I figure that I can be done with my scarf by the end of October. It takes awhile to knit... wow... I'm lame. Anyway, I am going to run out to the book store to get a book for the trip.