Well, well, well. First, I want to thank the members of the family, friends, and others on the internet for visiting this blog from time to time. Again, I can’t say it enough, thank you! Please spread it around to the others, as this is one of the ways I communicate what’s going on in my life (as the blog heading suggests).
Right now, I’m listening to Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here”, kinda fitting for what I was just writing. Finally, I got around to setting up my music mix on the computer with iTunes so I have a four day long random mix of all kinds of favorite music. Classic/80’s/Pop/Hard/Progressive Rock, Prog Metal, Trance, Instrumental and other assorted goodies (Did I mention I love music?). I had this all set up before, but when I got the new iPod, I tried finding ways to painlessly move all the information from one iPod to another and accidentally erased all the track info from iTunes! All my music files were fine, not to worry, but all of my playlists that I painstakingly put together were trashed! I still have some work to do in order to bring my music library back to the way it was. What a pain.
Anither pain that I’m just now dealing with is my Palm Tungsten PDA and the sync to the computer. I’ve put off fixing this for awhile because it seemed that whenever I had this Palm perfectly synched with the computer, soon thereafter I’d get a new computer, or a new OS, or have to re-install the OS for some bone-headed reasons I won’t go into here. Believe me, it’s a major PAIN to have to re-install everything three times in a year. Now that I’ve reassured myself that I won’t be getting a new computer or a new OS, I can finally synch everything without much fear. I liked using the Palm to track finances, write documents, and synch all that info for backup and use on the computer (not to mention photos, too, which I have the iPod do now anyways!). Now that I have a Bluetooth phone, the realization dawned on me yesterday that I could literally be on the internet anywhere using the phone and the Palm PDA, which also has Bluetooth! I tried it out last night and, after some futzing about, works perfectly. I was able to go to some favorite sites and check email. All I’m worried about now is making sure I don’t incur a high phone bill!
Work, work, work! Where shall I start? As some may know, I don’t talk about, or let on, about where I work. Sooooooo… all I can say is that it’s been a month from hell! It seemed that no matter how I scheduled things, or how my team and I had to change the work schedule to avoid time constraints, we ran ourselves ragged. This next month, we have a lighter schedule due to our hard work this month, so I may take advantage of it. I also have to work on being a better supervisor; I have slipped a little in this area. Sometimes, when I’ve worked with some people for quite a while, I can be a pushover. I also may not fully notice what they’re doing from time to time. This is something that I’ll need to focus on rectifying, starting in the beginning of November.
Taking care of myself is another issue in itself. I’ve already put off going to the doctor and dentist for too long. I’m starting to see the ramifications of not seeing the dentist, not so much the doctor. However, in order to see the dentist, I need a doctor to prescribe Clindamyacin to me. Without it, no dentist will touch me because of a heart condition. Oh well, gotta get on it! At least I still excercise. That big yoga ball, that sometimes is called a body core trainer, is great to work on the abs with. It still feels great to have a flat stomach and V-shape even at 33 years old! (insert more worthless bragging here!)
Oh man! Was typing so long that I didn’t notice that Progulus.com is playing a band I just heard of recently. I just tuned in now, on iTunes, with several minutes left of a 20+ minute song, called “The End Of Light”, by the band Dreamscape. They’re from Germany, and sound a lot like Dream Theater, except for different singing. I heard this song in it’s entirety yesterday, and I was very impressed. I’ll be following up on these guys, and I may get some of their music soon! Another band I’ve discovered recently is Dragonforce (from the UK). Their music, unlike the last band I mentioned, is full-on Speed/Power/Epic Metal. Too bad the one recent album I checked out, all the songs end up sounding the same at the speed they’re usually going! Only good for those certain moods I’m in.
My last few posts have been about the Chicago White Sox and their World Series win. I did some research, and it seems that they are only the last out of ten ballclubs in history that have ever swept a World Series! It’s still awesome how well both teams played, especially the pitching. The whole series was a piching battle from start to finish! Neither team had a blowout or a slaughter. Simply a great run of games!
Well, that’s all from my end of the world. Hope your end of the world is going well (all of you!). Cheers!
