The last while

[dagibbs]

Seems I haven't been posting in my journal a lot lately. Not sure why, just didn't seem to fit my mood, I guess.

I've just spent almost a month in Ottawa, which has been a nice change. Spent the time dealing with issues left from teaching in Germany -- a bunch of product problems and suggestions that I had to track down, deal with, etc. I'm also being/have also been re-orged at work, no change in job -- just a change in reporting structure.

Among the problems I had in Germany was hardware failure from my laptop. Work has, finally, gotten me a new laptop. (I had some bitterness about laptops -- when I started doing training, they ordered a new laptop for me, and my VP decided he liked it, and gave me his old one.) The new one is a Toshiba P20. Work had given me a few choices, and I'd originally selected the P10, but apparently those weren't available, so I ended up with the P20 instead. It is a pretty sweet machine, but unfortunately is a bit on the large (and heavy) side. (Large cause it has a 17" screen, heavy because it is large.) And, despite all the extra real estate, it still has a shitty, compressed, strangely arranged, laptop keyboard. *sigh* Why couldn't they have used the extra space to put in a better keyboard?

On the high points side of things, I just had a wonderful 4-day weekend at my parents cottage with a bunch of friends. Some gaming happened, including Iron Dragon, Euro Rails, Bohnanza and Kill Doctor Lucky. (Donna is dangerous in the Lavender room with pinking shears.) We also swam, canoed, hiked and climbed steep hills, cooked and ate a lot of good food, rested, relaxed and all-round had a great time.

And, today, I'm recovering.

Comments

[fairydarkfire.livejournal.com]

I can understand about not feeling like posting. Maybe it was something in the air.

[con-girl.livejournal.com]

I had a great time! Expect for the insect bites that I got packing the car :)

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

If the insects didn't bite until the end of the weekend, that's pretty good. :)

[mycrazyhair.livejournal.com]

Hi, David! *waves madly*

It's great to see you back. Glad to hear you're surviving tolerably well. A whole month in Ottawa? What were the odds?

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

*waves back*

Yeah, the odds were pretty low. It required a customer to reschedule a training session at fairly close to the last minute.

[whynotsteve.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you had a fun weekend. We certainly did as well (as you have probably read). Welcome back to the land of the living, otherwise known as LJ.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I expect I'll continue to be undead (as far as LJ goes), with only sporadic posting... but this was a slightly more sporadic bit than normal.

I keep up on the reading, though.

[elizilla]

Sorry I missed out. I hope you didn't worry.

I was planning to go, but I forgot to print the directions before leaving my office. D'oh! Remembered it when I was a couple hours out, and decided it wasn't worth going back to the office since that's a half day lost right there. I stopped in Saratoga Springs NY to see if my friend Joey T was home and would let me use his computer, but no such luck.

Just as well. I was really tired and not feeling all that social anyway. I thought about hunting up some of my eastern US sabmag riding buddies but in the end I just didn't feel like it. So I just hung out alone, slowly picked my way across New York and Pennsylvania on the back roads. It was nice to have the down time.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

We did worry a bit. But, I figured you'd just been too tired after your training, and had decided to give the cottage a miss.

Hadn't figured on the missing map thing.

We missed you, too.