This thing is finally working again, sorry for the delay.

Let’s see, work must have once again read this because I can no longer get on hotmail or gmail. Those seem to be the only things that I normally go to that I cannot get on, so I guess it isn’t that bad. I guess I shouldn’t use those emails as much as normal since I can hardly check them. So if you need to get a hold of me while I’m working use my work address.

I took off a little early on Friday so that we could catch our flight. That was the first step towards a good weekend. We got into Cincy and our friend Amy picked us up from the airport in her brand new Jetta. It’s pretty similar to the one that I cruise around in, but it has all of the features like automatic windows and a sunroof. We headed out to my parents house for a bit. I knew that I wouldn’t have much time this weekend, so getting in a couple of quality hours was on the top of my list. I also needed to pick up the Mazda, so I could get all around town. Man I miss that car, 264 thousand miles and still going strong! I picked up a group of friends from Chicago at the airport later that night and headed downtown to the hotel. We dropped everything off real fast and headed down to the Hofbrauhaus. We only had an hour or so down there, but we made the most of it. Liam and Fighty met up with us down there, and even made a little guest appearance with the polka band. Good night out in Cincy, besides the fact that the bar was dead.

Saturday we had lunch at RockBottom and later on ended up in the hotel bar. All of our friends began arriving and we had quite a party going on in the bar. Some came and went, but a group of us stayed there until show time. The show was at the Taft Theatre, a older theatre right in downtown. We had great tickets in the second row, and most of our friends were all within the first 10 rows. I got the band to play a song for me including a little shout out! They were a little rough but that is expected since it was the first show in months. We had fun being so close to the action!

Sunday I went to Skyline, and even drug most of the Chicago crew along. They did not like it though, but at least Liam and I did. Afterwards we drove up to Columbus for the next show. I borrowed a pair of big blingy earrings from my friend Noelle, and that completed my costume. The paint on the shoes didn’t last too long, but it did the trick. Only a few of my friends dressed up, but it was fun regardless. Of course we hit up Chipotle that day. Free burritos yesterday if you went in and bought one on Sunday! This show was all general admission, so we would of course be hanging out in the back of the venue. The Shantee opened the show and were great as always. I just found out that they are breaking up soon, so that might have been the last time I see them. At least I saw them play in front of a large crowd once. OAR came on the stage dressed as pirates, and played a good set. I could hear this show much better, but that was probably just because of location. We went to a cheap bar afterwards and soon called it a night.

Monday was my travel day. I drove back to Cincinnati and dropped the car off to my dad. My mom picked me up and we went out to meet Kim and her mom. From there I went over to visit with some of Kim’s family for a little bit and to get everything packed and ready. We flew out later that night, although we almost got bumped to the next flight. Maybe next time. We had dinner back in KC at Flat Wok which is a Mongolian bbq place. I loved it! Kim has wanted to take me to one of these, and I’m glad we finally went. I tried to find a website for this place, but haven’t had any luck. I would highly recommend it…

Yesterday we had to go back to work. It was a pretty quick day however and we followed it up with a quick workout. Later in the night we went to Todd’s for an election party. I think everyone just was looking for an excuse to throw a party. I tried to stay up last night to watch all of the results, but ended up passing out on the couch. I’m kind of glad the election is over, now we don’t have to deal with the protestors and all the political discussions that have been popular lately.

Today has been very uneventful. I finally got the stereo that I won on eBay, so I’m going to hopefully install that tonight. I need to make sure it all works before I cancel my complaint. I’m still waiting on the check from the Hyatt. Is 2 weeks too long? I may call towards the end of the week if nothing shows up. I need my circuit city gift card as well. Maybe all of our mail is just getting lost somewhere…

Someone from work must check my blog. I complain about Websense blocking too much, and the next day I can get to most of the same places that I could before. Woohoo! Work went by really fast yesterday. :b

Yesterday I got my pimp Halloween costume delivered to me here at work. I was afraid to open it the entire day, I figured someone would see it and make me try it on or something. Then knowing my luck the boss would walk in, point and laugh at me. Thinking back I should have just put it on to see what would have happened. Maybe I’ll wear it tomorrow.

I’m having major issues with the person I bought the stereo from on eBay. This is truly the first problem I’ve had with someone on eBay. Anyway, I went ahead and filed a complaint through paypal. Sounds like I’ll have my money back in a week. In the meantime this must have scared the crap out of this seller, because they attempted to send a tracking number to me. The tracking number doesn’t go anywhere though, it doesn’t appear to be valid. My biggest complaint is that I still cannot play CDs in the car! Edit: I just checked and now the number appears to be working. The package was shipped yesterday, unbelievable. I won the auction close to a month ago, and they are just now shipping it. I’m gonna keep the paypal complaint open for now just to be sure that I don’t have any more issues.

So I guess we are going spinning tonight. I also need to paint the shoes I bought for my costume. Nothing like waiting until the last minute. We leave tomorrow to fly back to Ohio. Should be a great weekend, and I even have Monday off of work!

I’m having serious issues with Websense here at work. I’m actually surprised that I was able to get here, so I had to write since I can’t do much else. I cannot get to my hotmail or gmail. I cannot get on ebay. The list goes on and on, basically I cannot have any fun while at work. They call it “beefing up security” I call it “making work even more boring than it already is.”

Jeff was not teaching spinning last night, so we skipped it. I think he is teaching on Thursday though, so we’ll likely give that a try. We actually decided to do a whole bunch of nothing. I did do a little more to the sonic site though. I like it much better now.

I thought this cold was gone, but I guess it doesn’t want to die so easily. My body aches and I have felt tired for the past day and a half. None of the medicine I have taken has really helped with that. I no longer have the nose issues, but my throat is sore and I just feel like crap.

Tuesday night I got a little preliminary work done for the Sonic website, but I definitely need to put some more time into that. Last night I went to hockey even though I really didn’t feel like it. I thought that maybe I could sweat this disease out, but no such luck. I still had a hard time falling asleep because of the aches in my legs and back. I wanted to go to the Carbon Leaf show last night, but after hockey I really didn’t feel up for it. The last straw was when I went to the now infamous $1000 ATM machine, and needless to say it didn’t have any money in it. Someone must have come through earlier in the day and emptied out their account. So without the money required to get into the show, I just went home and tried to get a good night of sleep.

Tonight I’ve got a dinner meeting with my boss and a co-worker. It’s for the Kansas City Quality Assurance Association. Sounds exciting huh? :b Hopefully it goes by fast, I’m ready to take some knockout drugs and sleep for hours and hours. I need to get better by this weekend. Robert Randolph is on Saturday!

So I’m sitting here eating Kim’s leftover Ponaks, pretty good even when warmed up…

Yesterday I took a field trip for work, something I haven’t done since high school. Were they still called field trips in high school? I can’t remember. Anyway, we went to Columbia, MO to visit a television station that is one of our clients, to see exactly how they use our software. For those of you not familiar with the area, Columbia is about 2 hours away. So 4 hours in a car, along with a 2 hour tour and an hour lunch means very little work was done yesterday!

So we moved office buildings for work. My drive is still about the same, but the new site is much better than the old. We have part of the 3rd floor of this building and no one else is on the 3rd floor. There is room for us to expand as much as we need to. So far it hasn’t been very productive since we’ve had to be trained on the new phone system, setup our workspaces, etc. I’m liking it all so far…

I still haven’t got my new cell phone. If I have to call back and wait on the line again, I will not be very happy…

I’m gonna try and get a little done today, although I still have to setup my new phone. Oh yeah I do have a direct number now it’s (816) 434-4076, although it may not work until tomorrow…

Oh yeah, I won a new Nomad on ebay, for just over $100. I think I’m going to use the circuit city gift card to get a new camera, and then if I get reimbursed from the Hyatt for my old camera I will just have that money to do whatever with. I think I’m going to go with a different camera though. Time to do some research…

I’m guessing that most of you saw the pics of the blue fountain. The city is pretty obsessed. :)
I think that we are heading to a Royal’s game this weekend actually, on Easter!

Work has been really busy lately. I’m searching for the perfect automated testing tool for our company. It’s pretty cool that they are letting me pretty much decide what software we should purchase, but it is also kind of stressful…

Kim and I have been contemplating going on the rock boat this year. It’s an extended weekend cruise with something like 30 bands on the boat as well. It sounds like it would be nonstop fun, and for a pretty reasonable price, I think. You can check it out here and let me know what you think…

Pomeroy is awesome live! I recorded it and should be releasing it soon enough.

I think I’m a little sick or something. I keep sneezing and it sucks. I can’t be sick, because I don’t have any sick days at work, haha.

Here is a challenging game to play if you have extra time. It took me over a half hour to beat, so make sure you have time…

Woohoo! We are leaving work early because it keeps snowing and snowing. I think we have well over 6 inches already today…
Perhaps some snowboarding is in my future?!?!?!

It’s like a blizzard here today. The weathermen must have just been off by a few days. :b I think we are supposed to get up to 6 inches of snow today, which should make the drive home fun…

My boss is out sick today, so I’m not really busy at all. The two guys that I need to talk to about a bug aren’t in yet either. I wonder if they are taking the day off as well.

Last night Kim and I cleaned out my fish tank in preparation to set it up again…