The last week was kind of a blur.
Monday and Tuesday were okay, but I had to do an upgrade late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning, and then I ran trivia Thursday night. Between Wednesday morning and Friday night, therefore, I think I got about 6 hours of sleep. And I’m not as young as I used to be. Pretty sure I was in bed by 7:00 on Friday and I got another 5-hour nap yesterday afternoon. Feeling a bit better today.
After literally three years of trying to get the television feeds at the call center fixed/upgraded, I managed to do so some day last week (I’m guessing that it was Thursday, but I honestly don’t remember). The problem was that the account was setup around 5 years ago by someone who left the company 3 years ago, and nobody knew any of the account information – ergo, we couldn’t get anything done. As it happened, I was searching through my intranet forums for something (I don’t remember what), and I stumbled across a post I’d made about three years ago with the subject line, “Avalon Ridge U-Verse Account Information.” Imagine that. I’d never thought to look in my own notes.
Long story short, I called support, gave the information, and by the next day all of our set-top boxes had been replaced, and we got two new wireless ones to put in the break room.
Maybe people will leave the floor televisions alone now that there are two that they can control. I’m not hopeful, but that was the plan.
I think I’ve decided not to film the football team this year. The decision is still somewhat up in the air, but realized that I’m starting to feel the wear and tear after doing it for the last 16 years. The first game is at Michigan State, and I was kind of dreading quick up-and-back jaunt anyway, but I got swayed to just call it off since Jenny’s going to be out of town and Herb has his hands full with Andi. It’s kind of a relief to have an excuse not to make the trip, and the more I think about the rest of the games, the less excited I am about getting up every Saturday and driving a minimum of 3 hours to stand in either blistering sun or a downpour.
Not to mention that I lost nearly two grand on equipment rentals last season because everybody and their mother has their own DSLR cameras now, so nobody’s buying my shots. So yeah… I might just stay home and either watch the games on television (everything’s on ESPN3 these days) or not pay attention at all.
On the vacation front, I’m still planning to take a couple of days off on the week before Labor Day, and I’ve got the first week of October off (going back to Lake Superior), but I have 8.5 days yet to schedule and my boss is leaning on me to get them on the calendar. I have no idea when I want to take them or what I’ll do. I’m really kind of comfortable just hanging at the house and I hate taking vacation days to do that. If I don’t use them, however, they’re lost forever. So maybe Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks? No idea.
If you’re reading this and have a suggestion, I’m all ears.
The picture for this entry is of the GBB at the Great American Brass Band Festival (Danville, KY) four or five years ago. We were invited to play, and we got Brett Baker, trombone player from the world-famous Black Dyke Band, to hang out with us for a week and play some solos. Great guy, and a good time.