Author: Diana

Day 24 – Sunday Fun Day?

By Diana

Not so much really :)  I am going to do laundry today and that includes my bed sheets which is always kind of a pain in the booty just because I have to move everything off and also I have a duvet and that has proved to be more of a pain than expected.  I do really like that I can take it off and wash it so what the heck am I complaining about :)

I have so much still to do with my room to get it organized and ready for new stuff.  By new stuff I mean the new desk and a new bed frame and dresser and such.  I have some time though because I need to save up a little money first.  I am going to get the bed first because I already see that the new puppies have damaged mine a little.  Mine is really nice and I don’t want to get rid of it, but I want something a little better and pet friendly.

Time to start the laundry process – I do have only like 3 loads maybe 4 including the bed sheets.  Let’s GO!!!!

Update: Laundry is almost done, doing just bed sheets now.  That takes two loads by itself.  I put some books in my crates and it fits very nicely.  Have to get the rest of it done and also gonna get some more to put on another wall.  The only thing is that the wall I just used is one that has studs, the others don’t so putting stuff up will be a bit harder anywhere else.  Unless I re-arrange everything again :)

Day 23 – The Day of Computers, Fire Sticks, and Crates!

By Diana

 

Todays goals:

  1. Install the new video card and power supply.
  2. Get the Amazon Fire Stick working.
  3. Hang the new crates on the wall.
  4. Maybe do some laundry :)

So far this morning I have finished number 2 but I am not really happy about the video quality on my TV when it comes to HDMI.  I don’t understand what the heck is going on with it, but VGA from my computer looks so much sharper.  And that is supposed to be the lowest quality.

Alright, time to stare at my wall and determine how I am going to hang these.  Also, I want to stain them but I can always take them down for that.

Update – got all done except laundry and that is OK because really laundry day is Sunday not today!

Very happy with the way the crates look, just need to decide what to do with them finish wise.  I think I am going to stain them, rather than paint them, but I want to go look at the colors in person.

Gonna finish out the day with mounting my microphone on the wall :)  Also, forgot to mention that Paul did the computer upgrades and helped hang the crates and Carlos fixed a set of speakers for me and helped with the Fire Stick!  Love the brothers :)

We went out to get the microphone stand and stopped at Papa Murphy’s to pick up a pizza.  I hope it is good, it sure sounded good on the menu.

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Day 22 – The Day That Was Delayed

By Diana

I am currently sitting in the Indianapolis airport waiting for my flight to leave.  It was delayed about a half hour and we are now scheduled to leave in about 40 minutes.  This delay meant that I was going to miss my connection in Atlanta so I had to push that one back until 18:00.  I should have been leaving there at 14:45.  Not a huge deal, I just want to get home today :)

I FaceTimed with my mom for the first time today!  I think she really thought it was cool!

No snow here today, the delay was actually an issue with the plane so that is a good sign.  At the airport here they are running exercises, or were at least, with the bomb dog and I got all kinds of sniffed several times!  I was just happy he didn’t get slobber on me :)

OK, I am going to look online for stuff while I wait for this flight, just wanted to go ahead and get this started for the day!!

I finally made it home at 21:30!!  So happy to be home and those puppies were so happy to see me :)

I had a ton of packages waiting on me and tomorrow I am going to deal with them all – I hope :)

Day 21 – The Day of Laying in Bed!

By Diana

Today was an off day so I have been basically in the bed all day!  Not sleeping or anything, just playing on the internet and watching TV and doing nothing constructive, but managed to spend a good bit of money on clothes – oops :)

I think I have decided that I would like a new bedroom set.  The good news is that what I want is not terribly expensive and I think I can sell mine for a good bit.  I love mine, don’t get me wrong, but I absolutely HATE how disgusting under the bed gets!  The bed I am thinking about it a platform bed that is very very low to the ground.  You would not be able to put anything under it and more importantly see under it.  Also, I am not liking how high my bed is with the dogs jumping off of it.  It is gonna be too hard on them.

I had lots of decoration stuff delivered this week so I am very excited to get home and see how it can be put up.  It should be very fun and I hope looks nice and functions like I need!

I found out today that I will need to be out again on from February 2 – 4.  This time in a place called Madisonville, Kentucky.  Hopefully it doesn’t snow too bad because it is like an hours drive from the airport and I really don’t want to try that for the first time :)

Alright, well I am going to get back to watching TV and playing around!  At some point I will have to eat, but I will play that by ear :)

Day 20 – A White Day and A Night at The Library

By Diana

It snowed last night!!!  Like enough to have a good couple inches on the ground.  I woke up about 05:00 this morning to the hotel people shoveling the sidewalk…

Today was the last day of the training sessions and I was happy it was over!  Not because anyone was ugly or anything but because I have now completed 18 sessions in 3 weeks of the exact same material – that twice a day too.  Alex was a huge help especially since we got a new release of software while we were here.  That means he was able to write down all the issues while I continued through the training.

Tonight we are going to go out for dinner, we have been eating in the hotel all week.

We went to dinner at a place called The Library.  It was alright food, not anything amazing, but it was close and not the hotel so that was good enough!  It was super cute, they gave you the check in a library book – WHAT!!!!!!   Ha ha, I was impressed :)

I played in the snow for just a bit outside the restaurant, nothing crazy.  It was so soft, just powder.  When we got back to the hotel the group was playing bingo.  They were paying quiet bingo because they had already been complained about from other guests.  Outside the hotel I was trying to play with the snow except here it was all hard!  Could have killed myself :)

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Day 19 – A Day for Blueberry Muffins and Starbucks

By Diana

The hotel here has a mini Starbucks in it – so not the full blown menu but the lady made me a white mocha and it wasn’t perfect, but sure was good!!  Then for breakfast they had muffins out and I had an amazing blueberry muffin!!  Overall a great start to the morning.

Todays classes went very well too even if they did shut down the test environment on me!  We got through it and they got it back working before the last class started.

Tonight Alex and I ate at the hotel again, but this time they had a mexican buffet and it was pretty good.  I had the same thing back when I was here for a meeting I think in May.  It was good then too!!

I think it is supposed to snow tomorrow and I am kinda excited.  I haven’t seen snow in a while – well at least not a good bit of it.

Oh yeah and the lunch was very good today too.  I think this is probably the best of the three, but mainly because it seems like southern food.  We had fried chicken yesterday and today it was meatloaf.

Well, another day done and one more to go.  I am going to wrap it up and try to get some sleep!!

Day 18 – The Day Where Everything Was Frozen

By Diana

It is amazingly cold here in Indianapolis.  I am kinda shocked!  I think with the wind chill it ended up being -3 degrees and while I did not actually go outside today I had to walk by the door a couple times and the air coming in was enough :)

Todays class went really well so that makes me happy.  I have 4 more to do and then we are done!  I did do something very stupid today, I deleted or marked for deletion stuff in the production environment thinking I was in the testing environment :(  Well you can’t dwell on it, gotta fix it and move on!

Alex and I ate here at the hotel for dinner – burger and fries, again for me.  It was pretty good and the prices here seem reasonable to me.

As usual I am going to try to get to bed early, but I am not having much hope in falling asleep anytime soon.

Day 17 – Racing to Indy!!

By Diana

Today I am heading to Indianapolis for the last of the January trips.  They have all gone so good I am sure this one will be no different.   I have another long layover here in Atlanta which I have not had in a while, with the exception of last Friday and today.  Crazy how I am used to very short time and I am just not sure what to do with myself :)

I think I mentioned this yesterday, but I am so happy Paul helped me fix whatever I had screwed up with the website!  When you hold him captive, he does amazing things :)

I read a whole bunch of my book on the first flight, I was in the middle seat so I needed to stay focused on something.  It’s not that I didn’t have enough room, just for some reason I am always a little uneasy in the middle seat.  The Atlanta flight is the only one I would volunteer for that seat for sure!

I walked down to another concourse to get me some Starbucks.  I have been yawning all morning I wish I could go to sleep at a decent hour.  I think I am going to grab some food as soon as I get to the hotel and then go right to bed.  No technology in bed either!  Except my Netflix :)

Alright, I am gonna look at some organization stuff for my room and I will check back in this evening when I get to the room.  I know my dad is reading this every day so hello dad!!!!

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Day 16 – A Day Full of Laundry

By Diana

Here we are again on a Saturday doing laundry for my trip tomorrow! I am glad that this is the last week out for a little but at least. Not because I am tired of traveling or anything, but I am ready to try to get these dogs trained. I need to draw up the desk plan so I can see how much this is going to cost me :) I am also debating on some accessories – like bins or something to put some stuff to get it off the desk. I really need to get the stuff to move my desktop into the server room. If I am going to get in the attic it really needs to be while it is colder out :)

Made the cinnamon buns this morning and it was very good! It was just the canned type so nothing crazy. I am thinking about making the biscuit and gravy tomorrow. Will be a nice treat for sure :)

Day 15 – A Day of Ports of the Air

By Diana

I an currently sitting in the Baltimore Washington airport waiting on my flight to Atlanta. This airport is alright, but I really dislike when the terminals all have their own TSA screening because the damn Starbucks is not in my terminal and I would have had to go through it twice and the would not have let me keep my coffee!

I was on the phone most of the morning with a user, and friend, I was helping with the program I am teaching. We got it all done, but sometimes it takes creative thinking :)

I went down to the lobby of the hotel in hopes of getting some kind of breakfast and they did have some muffins, which are totally fine, but I was expecting blueberry and got cranberry instead. I HATE cranberry, they are so tart! But I was able to get most of them out. Now I grabbed a banana from the shop here so that will hold me over until I get home. I hope I have enough time in Atlanta to get coffee, otherwise I am going to have wait until Jacksonville.

I won’t actually get home I think until after 18:00 today. I am very excited to see mom and dad and those stinking puppies :) I am also very excited to see if my idea for my desk will work. I may be able to get that done this month!!

I am listening to Adele – she is so great and even thought I can’t sing I really want to sing along :) People would probably think I was a little crazy if I started singing Rolling in the Deep!!!

Alright, I am going to just relax here and continue listening to my music :)

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In Atlanta now – just got some lunch and now for a couple hour layover. I love how I finally get some place where I can get a coffee and now I don’t want it :( Oh well, that is probably better for me anyway!

I am very happy that Atlanta now has free wifi. I am not sure when that happened but it sure is nice :) They always had such poor cellular coverage in the terminals and even that seems to be better now. Or maybe it’s my super awesome phone!!

I am still very excited to be home!! I want to hug those puppies!