It's been an eventful few days. The cold I began to feel coming on early on Tuesday morning was in full effect on New Year's Eve, and while it seemed to disappear for a few hours, once the hangover was over it was back for good. I am only now fully recovered, I think.
Because of my illness I spent most of Friday in bed instead of working. That meant that Friday night, when I was finally up and at 'em, I had to do a whole bunch of work, which I didn't finish. One thing I did finish in between all this was the last of the commentaries on my Two Towers Extended Edition DVD set. All 4 of them, plus the appendices, means I enjoyed over 30 hours of viewing for less than $40! I can't wait for the next set!
Saturday I pretty much did nothing but keeping working on the work stuff that I didn't finish. Bernie called me so later that night me, Bernie, and Jae went to the library where we watched Lost in Translation. It wasn't a spectacular movie by any means, but it was neat, had a great soundtrack, and starred Bill Murray. If he did a movie that was two hours of knock-knock jokes I would watch it and beg for more! It was a kind of sad movie for me too since it reminded me a lot of being in Mexico since the movie is set in Tokyo and much is made about not being able to understand anything, which is much akin to my experiences down south.
In order to rectify the above situation, I've registered for Spanish 100 at the university this semester. That's right, I'm a student again! A buddy from URSU is going to lend me his text so I'm all set and ready to go. The class is every Saturday from 11:30AM to 4PM (a lab, break, then a class). I'm looking forward to being able to finally learn Spanish!
Late Sunday night I FINALLY finished the work I was supposed to finish on Friday. Like is always the case with computers, it took a thousand times longer than expected and in the end started working for absolutely no reason that I can perceive. I hate computers!
Last night I played around with GnuCash, a free (like most things Linux-related) personal finance software package for Linux. I gotta admit it takes some getting used to, but I think I'm getting the hang of it. It's based on open standards, so I should be able to take its information and switch to another program someday if I so choose. You can't beat the price, anyway!
I am intrigued by Blair's renewed interest in getting some kind of group website going, a la Jesse and Clay's swank.ca. I am up for setting up something if there is enough interest (I know Janson expressed some interest in it before I think, too), mainly because I really want to learn how to host multiple websites with one box. It would cost about $35/year for the domain and maybe a few beers thrown in my direction - any takers?
The other big news that happened today was the Vancouver project that I worked so hard on this weekend and for the last five-odd months, which I was supposed to be on until the end of June and then until the end of this month, was unexpectedly cancelled this morning. For me, that means I don't have a whole lot to do at work anymore until I get a new contract/client. The good news is that already I hooked myself up with a buddy who got me an interview with a manager in Philadelphia this afternoon, so who knows - maybe in a few days I will be headed to the City of Brotherly Love? As usual, you'll hear it here first.
This weekend there are plans to celebrate Stef's birthday (which was last Friday) on Saturday night, and Blair made some mention about maybe getting together with Jerrod to do up some baseboard action and collectively put baseboards in both Blair's house and mine, which I am totally up for, because I really need a hand and it's one more thing I can cross off my long-term "to do" list!