Vacation Day 1
Well, today wasn’t bad. Hung out at Au Bon Pain and had a coffee and croissant first thing in the morning. Then wandered around a bit and zoomed up by work to pick up my oxygen tanks. Then had some sushi for dinner and swung by Tokyo Kid to find out that the Utena Movie is out already. And they threw in a poster with it!

Tomorrow my parents are coming by to visit and help me get a rug.

Feeling Restless
Ya know, the thing with taking time off without exact plans is that you tend to spend too much time trying to think of things to do. I had wanted to drive out to western MA, but I just don’t really have the energy. I still need to decompress from work. I’m thinking I’m also going to take a few days off around my birthday.

I should see if I can find anyone to have lunch with then maybe go wandering around Boston. I think that might help me relax a bit.

Testing… 1..2..3..
So I found two cool tools for OS X tonight. The first is this menu app, and the other is an applescript app that uses XML-RPC for posting to my blog. I’m trying it out now.

Uhhh. No Comment
Well here’s an interesting new accessory for your Handspring Visor.

Free at last
I’m on a few days vacation. I’m not sure what I’m doing, but I am going to try and NOT think about work at all.

Annoyed at work
So I’ve been stressing about work way too much lately, and finally told my boss I need a few days off. I feel like I am so close to snapping. I can’t seem to work for more then 15 minutes without getting interrupted by someone who needs my help for something. And I’m scared that even though I’ll be taking two days off this week, I will be called at least two or three times each day.

This is the part of work I hate.

This is the day…
I get to start my vacation. It starts today at noon. I’m not sure what I’m going to do. It’s only really half a week.

I’m thinking about seeing if I can talk some random friend into taking a day off and driving to western MA with me I kind of want to go to Amherst and do some record shopping at Growroom Records. I also would love to head up to my old High School and just check out the campus. It’s been forever since I’ve been up there. I just remember there always being something very centering about being there. I also want to be able to go and get a new sweatshirt from there.

Getting back to normal… slowly
Well, today was still a bit hectic, but things are getting better. I do still feel like everytime we fix something, something else breaks. Today it was our phone lines to the outside world. They just kept going down for no reason, and AT&T couldn’t really explain it so they were going to send out a tech.

Nimda reared it’s ugly head again today. An employee who’d been out all last week turned on her computer and it started trying to infect people. It was one of the few systems we hadn’t upgraded virus scanning on. The cool part was that Norton kept it from infecting any new computers, and notified us as soon as it started to happen.

The Buffy season premiere is tonight and I’m kinda psyched for it. I’m thinking it might be a night for some pizza while watching it.

Overwhelmed Again
Is it too much to ask to just have one day at work where everything isn’t falling apart? This is driving me crazy. I have hardware failing all around me, machines needing to be rebuilt, people out sick, my pager seems to be gone (I need to try and find the number for it and page it to see if I get a response), too much to do, my apartment is a wreck, I feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day.

I hate continually bitching on my blog, but right now it feels like this is the one place where I can just let stuff out. I’m just pissed off at the world in general right now. Probably a bit overtired. I haven’t slept soundly in days because the pager on my phone keeps going off with machines dying at work.

On the plus side, my boss said that I could take half the week off this week. I so need it.

Lazy
Today just ended up being fairly lazy. I wanted to try and track some people down to hang out with, but just couldn’t get myself motivated. I’ve been cleaning up around my apartment finally. It’s looking better now. Still cluttered, but cluttered moving towards something.

So now it’s 12:15am and I’ve got the munchies. I have a craving for a tuna fish sandwich, but no bread. Bah. Time to finish watching this episode of bebop and then I’ll go to bed.