#74

ark_keeper said...

Death of a blog. Tonight at 7.


Ok, so maybe I have been a little negligent with my blog. That is ok, right. I mean it just sits here like an obedient little dog who waits, and waits, and waits for the master to come home and I am definitly master of my domain. Or something like that. Anyway, this has been a hectic month for me. This will be the first Saturday that I am at home in November. Err, except that it will be December. Oh sweet. Friday night we are soooo going to LR for Dinner and a Bank Deposit. Maybe we can squeeze in a movie as well. I do not know what is playing this weekend, but i know a nice theater and a great BBQ place to hit, so maybe that will be our plans for this Friday night. Ok, maybe not Friday night, it depends on when I get my paycheck. The company has to mail me my check, but they should get them in the office on Thursday and then get mailed out to me, hopefully I will get it on Saturday. Then we can go and deposit my check and The Princess' christmas money and eat some dinner and watch some movie. Yipee.
What else have I been up to. Well, there was the trip to Puerto Rico(ok, almost the last time I rub that in your faces). Then the next weekend I drove up to Lexington for a volleyball tournament at UK that we lost. Of course there was the other team that we beat so we were not the losingist losers, but still we did pretty bad. Also, there was the team that, well, let us just say that they were fond of the company of men. We figured that gave them an unfair advantage, you can have a very tight nit team when you have all that bonding going on. Anyway. In Lexington there is this restaurant called Rafferty's and it has the best steak ever. So, even though we lost at volleyball, we won at eating. Then this past weekend we were in South Dakota to visit my in-laws. I like my in-laws. They are a nice family who, for the most part, get along pretty well. We eat a lot when I am up there and the past couple of times we have gone out shooting. Boy, do I like to shoot guns. I am always a little timid when I start because I do not remember what all the buttons are for and what order I have to do things and I do not want to kill anyone, because that would be a bad holiday. Well, now I am back at work, just working away. Well, I think it is about time for lunch so I will talk at you later.

#73

Ok, well, it has taken me until today to get caught up with my catch-up list. So finally I am now almost caught up. In celebration of this feat, I am going to upload a picture of the Yacht club I was at.




Hurray, now you can look on in amazment with the knowledge that I spent 9 hours a day in their office after which I hurried to my hotel room where I continued to work. Staying out of the sun and staying in the A/C. What a great way to experience Puerto Rico.

#72

Well, I am back in the great 48 today. I survived four days of terror and misinformation and I hope I came out on top. This was probably the most difficult installation/setup I have ever done. ***Warning I am about to whine and complain about my stressful week in Puerto Rico*** First, my companies software requires QuickBooks(QB) to run. Because of this all of our customers have to be running QB. Well, this new marina was a new installation and they will be transferring all of their info, by hand, into the system. Well, Intuit,the company that makes QB, decided to screw me and not send my the installation codes inorder to install this important software. So, I get there and I install our software and wait for the codes. Oh wait, when they said they were shipping them to us over night last Friday, what they really meant was that they were going to set the box on a table and do jack. That is ok though, because we were able to get a new set of codes over the phone and I was able to have everything installed by the end of day one. On Day two I discovered that QB now has a brand spanking new database manager that needs to be installed to make everything work properly. Well, no one told me. Oh yeah, and the installation did not run properly, so I had to hack around in the admin tools to fix the bad install. The second hurdle of day two was the virus software NOD32, which is a very impressive virus software, but it kills the communication that QB does. Again after several hours on the phone with Intuit we finally got it working. Day 3, we start some training. I go through the property managment side of things and everything kinda work ok, except now our software will not open up on all of the workstations. Fantastic. So I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to figure that out. Several hours on the phone with intuit later, the office assitant tells me that there is an update for QB. Ok, this is the newest version(7.0, as in 2007) and this is actually the 3rd update so far. Wow, R&D people, R&D. well, we get that all worked out and on the fourth day I sat down with two of the people and we went through and answered their questions and trained as much as I could***Thus ends my stressful week*** After we were done in the office last night, we went out to eat. The first place we tried was a little Mexican restaurant downtown. Well, that restaurant no longer serves food. That is ok, and it does not stop us from getting our drink on. Well, ok I guess it was on, but we did have a margarita. Then we headed over to another mexican restaurant and ate some seriously good food and had another margarita, but I went with the strawberry variaty. Let it be know, that I do not typically drink, but there is just something about being in a foreign country and when I am not in America is the only time I have ever really had a drink, so these margaritas were more then enough to get me giddy. Then back to the room to call the wife, go to bed, wake up, eat leftover mexican food and head home. Except my plane flight was not scheduled for today, but for tomorrow. Blessedly, I was able to change my first flight time to today for no extra fee. My other three flights were scheduled for today, so it was a good thing that I was able to change it. For future reference the Orlando airport has free wireless that if full access, you do not get this in Little Rock, Atlanta, or Cinncinati, which are three airports I frequent. If I can remember I will post some pictures from my trip. Mostly of my planes, I think my next flight is a 747 or something, it has seven seats across and is probly the largest plane I have been on. Atleast until my next trip(Dominic Republic???) or our trip to France in the spring. Man, I really am blessed. Oh yeah, I think I am going to start learning Spanish. The reason for this is the fact that I feel like I am suppose to speak spanish. I will try to expain. When in spanish speaking countries I pick up a couple of the common words, Buinos Dias, Hola, Como esta, things like that. The problem comes when I try to use them, once I get to the end of the words I know, there is nothing and it is a pretty sick feeling to want to say something but have no words and no way to make up words(which I do ALOT). Anyway, I am going to try to watch a movie with sub-titles, I think my laptop speakers went out on me. Grrrrr. Later.

#69

Ok, I am still here in Puerto Rico. I am watching tv and I have seen some interesting things. On one station there is rooster fighting. I mean this ESPN of the islands or something CRAZY. On the other station I now know the terrible things serveral senators have done in kentucky and georgia and idaho through the commercials of their competitors. A nice little mix of mainland and island. Later.

#69

I just wanted to post and let everyone know I am doing ok here in PUERTO RICO. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I think it was 80 something today. Very nice day outside. Anyway, I will take some pictures of stuff with my phone and post them when I get home. I think I have to pay for internet access here at the hotel, so I will probly not post for the rest of the week. Ya'll have a good one. I know I will. HEHEHEHE. Hey, I am watching president bush in Arkansas in Puerto Rica. Now that is funny.

#68

Ok, this post is mainly for Josh and Noah. While I was speaking to my boss yesterday, he asked if I knew anybody in the area(meaning VA) that would be good for hiring. I said I did not know, but would put feelers out. Then I said, wait you mean here here or there here. Oh, he replies, I guess here here and there here. So, hook me up you two, I left my fax number in your comments. I do not know if you can, but can you delete those comments after you send me that info. If it is possible, I want my number sitting around as little as possible. If not, then that is ok. Or, if you are not looking for anything in the job market. Also, this has the potential to be a pretty perminant job(if it is even available at all, it is possible my boss does not even remember the conversation). I mean like a retire from job, or at the least wait until our staff doubles before leaving us in the dust for a greatter and better kind of thing job. Of course the whole, only having an office here for two years, might make that interesting when it all comes down to it. Also, I can not guarantee that I will be working with this company for that long. I have no intentions of quiting, it is the farthest thing from my mind, but you never know what tomorrow will bring. Anyway, I will talk to you guys later about this. Do not get your hopes up, this is only the scarcest of chances that anything will come from this, but I have to strike while the iron is hot.

#66

Ok, I do a fair amount of internet browsing. I am also a ginourmous LOST fan. So, very frequently I come across things on the internet that combine these two. That is why I have brought you here today. This is kinda spoilery for last weeks episode(incase you havent' seen it), but it is pretty funny. Also, I did not do this it comes from http://www.wheelchairromeo.com/. I am in no way endorsing any of his/her other material, but the LOST comic he/she puts up on saturdays is usually pretty funny. Ok, here we go.

Well, scratch that. I guess you will just have to be satisified with a link. So, without further ado, The Lost Scene from LOST