Well, there’s not a lot going on these days, but I thought I should update this thing anyway. I got the 24th-26th off from work (today being the 26th, of course), and I really haven’t done a thing in the last 5 days. Watched a bit of football on Saturday and sat at home watching television from Sunday until today. I did go over to Jenny’s place for dinner with her and her dad last night, which was nice. Some sort of a crabmeat casserole and some scallops, and a bit of catching up with Herb, who’s having more trouble getting out of a chair than he used to – and he’s not as light as he thinks he might be; I can attest to that having helped him up a few times. As he said when I was helping him into the car, “It’s amazing how fast your strength goes, and how much you don’t even realize you used to use it,” to do things like get into a car. Speaking of Herb and cars, Jenny and I are going to try to get his started and sold on Saturday. He’s also been talking to a realtor, so I guess he’s finally letting go of the house in Dunwoody.
Found out from my boss sometime last week that I’ll be getting a $750 bonus in my next paycheck, which is nice. Also getting a 4% raise starting with the January checks. Still nowhere near what I was making a couple of years ago (example: my last bonus at AT&T was just a bit over $9,000), but it’s a nice gesture and I do appreciate it. Got to give almost all of my direct reports raises for next year, too, which was great. The X-company just doesn’t pay their level 1 employees enough – which is probably why we can’t keep the good ones.
The photo for this post, should you be wondering, is of my buddy Brett during a trip we took to Huckleberry Knob in, I think, Tennessee, in July of 2009. I was going through some old hard drives today and found a bunch of old photos. Spent quite a bit of time reminiscing about everything from football games to camping trips to band concerts. It’s hard to believe how much time I spent with a camera in front of my face for the first 15 years of this century. Maybe I’ll pack one of the Canons the next time I go camping.
I toyed with the idea of going in to the office today to play around with a script that I’m trying to write for our infrastructure team, but that idea lost its luster over the last couple of hours, and now I’m thinking more about getting my hair cut and going to play trivia in a bar and watch whatever sports are on today. I just don’t feel like coding – or sitting in the office – before tomorrow.
And now I’ll dig into one of those old hard drives a bit more and see what other interesting things I can find. Sounds like a good way to waste a morning.