| Productive weekend |
[Aug. 13th, 2007|10:25 am] |
My arthritis is killing me, especially my arms, wrists, and hands. My sinuses are agchk! I am also so cold for some reason.
But this weekend I got a lot done. In order to avoid paying taxes I don't owe, I had to find my old e-Trade paperwork, which I did find, so I'll probably give them a call this week to yell at them. But in the process, I shredded almost five 13 gallon trash bags worth of paperwork. In addition to some old bills I had, I had a lot of catalogs, convention materials, and printouts of various projects I had at work. When I left AOL, I sort of did this whole paperwork dump to a box that contained work reviews, network diagrams, project charts, expense reports and the like. I went from 5 boxes down to one and a half. It felt good.
I also cleaned out a hallway closet somewhat. One of the reasons I clean is that when others clean for me, the "out of sight, out of mind" mentality seems to predominate. Thus, I had a hallway closet that was little more than a trash heap. I am not kidding: I ran into broken yogurt containers, pizza boxes, broken bottles, plastic cups, old busted shoes, crushed boxes, almost a dozen plastic soda bottles ranging from 16oz to 2 liter, and residue from a Hollywood-themed party I had in 2004. There was also a motley collection of old video game systems that date back to the NES and Sega 64 (none of them work, I am sure, but I boxed them anyway). That closet generated 2 bags of trash on its own.
 I also straightened out the utility room in our house. I had made quite a mess upgrading our home network to GB LAN and re-installing my SETI array, and so I cleaned that up, and the result you see to the right. There's still a bunch of crap to throw away, but now it's not all on the floor anymore :).
The rest of the night, I played Dungeon Keeper 2. I hadn't played that in a long while, and I saw on a board how to play it on XP (when I upgraded to XP a few years ago, it wouldn't play, which made me very sad) with a patch. I really love that game. That and Quake 2 are games I have never found a decent replacement to. Overlord looks a lot like DK2, as far as gameplay, and Serious Sam kinda replaced Quake 2 for me, but not really.
Of course, I still haven't found a decent replacement to M.U.L.E. either, so I am stuck in the past :)
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From: (Anonymous)
2007-08-14 08:43 pm (UTC)
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Grig, hope all is well with you.
I have you beet for the weekend though.:-) Spent all weekend in the hospital with a kidney stone. Damn thing was stuck between the kidney and bladder and it hurt like a bitch to put it nicely. I got out Monday night and had to go straight to another place to get the stone blasted. Stayed home for 2 days after that. Then while me and the kids were playing with a brio train set, the 3 yr old decided the throw/hit/smash his older brother in the face with Thomas the tank engine. I never did get a straight story on just how it happened. My son did not even know the tooth was chipped. Damn thing had chipped one of his new adult teeth. Got him in to the dentist the next day and they took care of it. It saved me the trouble of having to rename the boy Cletus.
Tyndale Mike
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