Telecommuter on Lunch Break

One thing that telecommuting allows you to do is be a little productive around the house during lunch breaks. Lately I have spent my at-home-lunches recording music. Today I took out some trash, brought the barrels in from outside so that the hungry wild kingdom can’t spill them all over the yard, and I cleaned out the cat’s litter box. It cannot be said that our Patches is full of shit. No way.

Anyway, when I walked outside I strolled around to the back of the house to make sure the yard survived the winter and I saw something I’d been seriously hoping to see… longing to see… needing to see.

Color.

Actual color. Not the drab winter brownish/nothing color, but actual green.

Check it out! There are actual green places in the woods behind the house! Oh Happy Spring!

Oh yeah, and there is also a kitty named Patches.

Spring. It’s here. It’s really here. Granted it’s pretty cold out there right now, but it’s still Spring. Screw you, winter!

Interesting

Interesting, a set on Flickr.

Did Flickr change their “interestingness” algorithm? It seems to me that for ages most of my top 20 were taken with my iPhone, and most of those were bad panoramas. Now my top 20 is down to only three iPhones and one Kodak. The rest are from the D90. I don’t know when that happened, but I just noticed.

So Close… So Far

photo, a photo by robj_1971 on Flickr.

Finish this week…
Survive next week…
Then…

Vacation.

Let’s go away for a week! Ideas are being exchanged. No decisions have been made. I don’t care where we go, as long as we get away from reality for a week.

It is so close… yet so far away.

Two Events in June

I learned of two events happening in June.

Richard Thompson is apparently playing in Lowell. I haven’t checked the date on that one, so I haven’t mentioned it to my beloved wife yet. I’d like to see him live.

Also, my beautiful beloved wife just blind sided me with a request to go to a Star Trek convention. I’ve never been to one, and used to say I would never cross that geek line. Perhaps it’s time?

Tired

As my lunch break nears its end I sit here thinking…

That I haven’t posted today.

Yesterday was nuts. I was crazy busy all day and didn’t have time to eat anything prior to about 8:30 at night, never mind post to this page. Today has been crazy busy too, but not as bad. It feels about the same though. I’m tired. I’m back into one of those sleeping-is-difficult stretches that I sometimes get into.

I had hoped to maybe catch up on a little sleep over the weekend, but I ended up sleeping less than normal. This coming weekend probably won’t be much different. Two weeks from now though… we’re on vacation. I have to survive nine more work days (including today) before I get there. It’s going to be rough.

We had planned to go to Quebec City on the vacation, but taking children out of the country when you have shared custody and the other custody sharer is not going too involves more paperwork than we expected and we aren’t going to have it ready in time. That means we need to rework our plans to stay within the US. I asked my beautiful wife if we could try to at least get ourselves to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls before the summer ends. She thought we could pull that off. We just need more documentation than we realized when we started thinking about Quebec, and now we really don’t have enough time.

So where should we go? Jen mentioned Virginia last night. Virginia Beach sounds nice. I’ve never been there, but it’s in the South where it’s warmer and it has… ya know… a beach and stuff. That works for me.

What other options are there? We could always go back to New York, but we’ve done that a couple of times now. There are always the mountains in New Hampshire or Vermont? Those are always great, but it’s still April. Maybe we want to chase the warmer weather this time. I don’t know.

I would prefer to avoid Pennsylvania, other than to drive through it to get to somewhere else. We haven’t had bad luck there, but some of their roads have annoyed me enough that I’d rather go elsewhere. There is always upstate New York. We haven’t gone there with the kids. Is it too cold for Lake George?

I’m looking for ideas, folks. Feel free to add suggestions.

Almost Missed a Day

It’s 9:53pm and I haven’t posted yet!

We went to my step daughter’s chorus concert tonight. It was great except for the feedback. Apparently the chorus director wasn’t listening because no attempt was ever made to fix it.

The Red Sox won their home opener today. Things are going well for the old towne team to start the season. May they continue to erase the bile that was last season.

The Bruins spanked the Whalercanes tonight, 6-2. Everyone and their uncle scored for the Bruins. It’s nice to see offense like that. It’d be nicer if they continued to score at will, but they will probably lose their next game 1-0.

There… I posted something.

The streak continues!