Day 27 – The Day of the Drills!!

This is going to be on the wall that currently has my dresser. I am not 100% sure what will go in them, but I am sure I can figure it out soon :)

I had this great idea to replace this horrible shelving, that I absolutely HATE, with crates – it is to hold cook books so that should be perfect.  Then I decided to do a shelf for the printer so we can get rid of this horrible little black table :)

I didn’t really get much accomplished today, did a good bit of work but nothing like personal.

Will try very hard to get more done tomorrow :)  Here are some pics from today :)

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This is going where the dresser behind it currently is. I am not 100% sure what all will go in it, but I am sure I will figure it out :) Also, there is 3 crates missing, they will be like the bottom ones I think.
This is going where the dresser behind it currently is. I am not 100% sure what all will go in it, but I am sure I will figure it out :) Also, there is 3 crates missing, they will be like the bottom ones I think.
Dime refusing to be outside!! She is standing on the door step!!
Dime refusing to be outside!! She is standing on the door step!!

 

Day 26 – The Day I Stared at Holes…

Today I am working from home.  I have been traveling a lot over the weekends so I wanted to try to get some of that time back.  I have already helped someone today which is why I am sitting in my room staring at holes in the wall.  I had to move one of my monitors and it left these huge holes in the wall.  I have been so focused on getting things where they need to be in the room I haven’t circled back around to cleaning up the damage :)

I wanted to paint my room as well, but now I am really unsure what I am going to do.  It is a lot of painting  and gonna be a good bit of smell.  I don’t know – will figure it out later I suppose.

I just looked over and saw Dime napping under my bed…  I order that new bed and it basically sits on the ground.  Now I guess I am gonna have to make some spot for her under my end table.  I think she is hiding from the other dogs.

Today starts the many packages that are coming for my room.  I need to clear out some of the stuff I have now to make room for everything.  Then it will be organization time :)  I am so happy, I hate feeling unorganized.  I want my room to be very tidy.  Nothing on the floor to have to worry about vacuuming around.  Well, except the treadmill, but really that folds up to make it much easier to clean around.

On a side note, I am really dreading February because I will have to pay better attention to the day numbers for my blow.  I know, not really a huge issue, but everytime I go to write one I think about it :)  I have also been trying to write at least a review every night to get some content done.  I can pretty easily do the book ones as most are still pretty fresh in my head :)  The longer I wait the more I will have to re-read to refresh myself.  There were so many good ones.

Will check back in later!

A little later :

I really need to do something about cable management in my room!  I have too much stuff that is plugged in – 4 monitors, two sets of speakers, desktop and laptop, 2 printers, a lamp, alarm clock, phone / ipad, watch, kindle, and 2 usb hubs.  This doesn’t even account for all my camera chargers, 3 of those.  I certainly don’t want my UPS and power strips on the ground.  Those should mount well to the wall and maybe I can find something where the “extra” bit of each cord will live neatly.

A while later:

Alright!  Right after I finished up my earlier post I decided to wrap up all the crazy wires by my desk, well not ALL of them but most of them.  I will be able to do more when I get the final stuff in place.  I just can’t say enough how happy I am to be getting stuff really done!  I am really hoping that it will inspire my mom to clean her room just a little bit so we can do something like this for her.  Getting organized feels good.  I still have a lot to do, but I hope to be done completely by the end of February :)

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Day 25 – A Day Downtown

Today I went downtown to the office for the first time in 2016!!   There were 2 things that SHOCKED me today.  The first was that the parking garage was the fullest I have ever seen it and supposedly it has been like that all this year.  The second thing was how warm it was in the office.  Normally I am absolutely freezing in there and today I was so very hot!  But it was a good day today!  I fixed a couple mistake I had made on the road and I helped one of my two favorite users :)  I was supposed to help both, but had to postpone the other until tomorrow :)

Traffic was horrible on the way home because of all this construction, but not anything like Blanding, thankfully :)

The dogs were pretty good today.  I had two of the three go potty when I took them outside and the one didn’t go any of the times and she is the trouble maker with that.  So just about 20 minutes ago she went in the house :(

I am having a little bit of a hard time blogging today, I am not sure why.

I booked my flight for next week too, I hope it doesn’t snow on me in Kentucky!  I also ordered me some more crates for my room.  I am so very excited about that.  I should be getting them this week I think since I had ordered the other ones early in the week.  I am not sure when they will go up but maybe in a couple weeks I will have that project all done.  I have also ordered several things for the room.  A new bed, dresser, drills, and clothes :)

Alright, I am going to get the puppies outside one more time to see if they wanna go potty and then I am getting in bed!!  I am hoping to fall asleep kinda soon, but I am not betting on it.  GOODNIGHT!!!!

Day 24 – Sunday Fun Day?

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!

 

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

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!

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

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

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

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.