Clueless Wonder

Today for the first time in my life I drank an entire bottle of wine by myself. Actually I had started with beer, and then did a wine tasting, and THEN drank a bottle of the good stuff. It’s a Riesling that goes by the name Clean Slate. I loved it! Of course I didn’t bother to figure out what winery it was from as Zen has it on tap anyway. So now I’m just checking up on email before I head off to bed. Tomorrow morning I have to hit the road relatively early to head to PA to see some of the family for Turkey Day. I’ll be back in the area tomorrow night and then will be going out probably both Friday and Saturday nights just to be spiteful.

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Man, it’s harder to pick out clothes for work than it is for dates! Today we have a ‘dress-down’ day at work. Now I know that for some of you this means that you get to wear shorts or jeans or something. For somebody that wears a uniform every day, it means that you can dress-down to what? Business casual! Woohoo it’s time to celebrate I tell you what. So when some of your slacks don’t fit because they’re like 8 years old and the ones that do fit all need ironed it kinda sucks. Especially when most of the stuff you have is too ‘trendy’ for work. So I went for black Docker type pants with an olive turtleneck that has a thin black strip running horizontally. Maybe I’ll take a picture. Or maybe not. Either way, I’m off to work!

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This should be an interesting next 5 1/2 weeks. I will be working very minimally. Half day tomorrow, off Thanksgiving, probably a half day Friday and then I’ll work a full day Saturday. However both Friday and Saturday there won’t be much real work to do so I’ll mostly be doing database housekeeping duties and going over some of our weekend products with our newest hire. He’ll be covering the weekends on his own while I’m on leave from Dec 1-18th.

I can’t wait to have a nice long time off. I really need it after the hassles at work lately and the struggles that have happened in my personal life as well. I plan on spending my time in Florida just relaxing and reading mostly. Actually come to think of it I’ll probably take my little mac mini with me since I don’t have a working laptop. Just to continue to refine my overall computing experience and work out the last kinks. When I come home my time is going to be dedicated to cleaning up and organizing my life. My space really needs a through cleaning and I’m going to have to get rid of some old clothes, organize some additional stuff from the house, etc… My evenings will be spend either out meeting new people or playing WoW. Probably on alternating nights so that I can recover!

Once I head back to work we’ll be working a day on – day off schedule for two weeks so overall I’ll work less than a full week the entire month of December. I don’t know about you but I’m looking forward to feeling rejuvenated and ready to tackle things fresh.

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You ever have one of those weekends where you have things that you *should* do but just never bother with? That’s me right now. After going out late Friday night and having to work Saturday I still haven’t fully recovered. Add to that a case of the dumps and it makes for sitting at home doing nothing.

The only real bright spot was the fact that the Steelers won yesterday despite playing another bad game. I mean they TRIED to give the game away! We’ll see how the rest of the season pans out. Mathematically they are still alive for the playoffs but I just don’t see that happening. They probably would have to win the rest of their games to have a real shot although they could lose one and then get lucky too.

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