Not a sunny Sunday so far...

The clouds are still hovering around. The early football games are on, and my team is losing 7-0 middle of the 1st quarter. Yesterday, Arkansas got their asses handed to them by Alabama. They looked like SHIT! It was a disgrace being a Hog fan and watching that game. I was trying to figure out which elementary school Petrino went to for his players, because they just didn't look like the 3-0 team that started out the season. Now granted, I know that Alabama has a great team, but come on! It looked a lot like we didn't care, and just wanted out.

Project at work is "almost done". I say that because next weekend I will be working ... on Saturday night ... until late! And Sunday ... early! After that, though, we should be running in the new system, but then it's a 6-week follow up with my co-workers to make sure they are not having any issues, that everything is working and they can access all of the screens they need, stuff like that. Here is the really sad part. While granted, I know there are many MANY people that have worked on this project more than me, deeper than me, longer than me, it would still be nice to know the ones that have been running the tests, teaching the courses, would be getting something. Don't think we will though. Ah well, such is life.


UPDATE 8:35pm CDT -- I had an altercation this afternoon with a sledgehammer, and the sledgehammer won 3-0. I now have 3 staples in my head due to my supreme ass stupidity. You see, I have a white picket fence around my yard that I want to get rid of. I have all of the tools to do it (a crowbar, a sledgehammer, and a regular hammer) and the tools I was not using I was hanging on the 6-foot fence that surrounds my back yard. Well, I was hitting a slat of fence out and the sledgehammer came loose because of the vibrations. It landed on the back of my head, and left me a wonderful gash (my wife has pictures on her cell phone). I immediately put my hand over the injury and ran in the house to get the attention of my wife. When we discovered I was bleeding (quite badly at the start), we got a towel, placed as much pressure on the wound as possible and made it to the hospital in 11 minutes. Thankfully I do not appear to have a concussion (there are no symptoms), I did not black out at any point. I do, however, have 3 staples in my head. They fucking HURT! I took a couple of pain pills that will hopefully help me sleep tonight. Tomorrow will bring new adventures I'm sure. I was able to communicate this information to my bosses at work, so they are aware. I hope this doesn't hurt this bad tomorrow!

51 down, 42 to go

Went to Downstream Friday night to see Dierks Bentley in concert. I got the tickets for Ann's birthday, which was also Friday night. The concert was good, but DAMN it was loud. Most people were standing up, I kept my head down and my hoodie hood over my head (it was raining, and yes the concert was outdoors). Ann thought I fell asleep but really I was trying to keep the music from splitting my skull open. We did stay in Joplin overnight, so at least we didn't have to drive home the same night. The next trip to Downstream is on October 23rd to see Brad Garrett (for my birthday). We got the VIP package, so we get to go to the meet and greet. Going to be wild meeting him, as he is like 6'6" or something crazy like that, and Ann and I don't go more than 5'3".

Going to be another crazy week at work. I cannot wait until the project is over. My brain (and mind) cannot take much more!

May as well tonight...

I will not be blogging tomorrow (I will get to that shortly), and it's been a few days since my last post, so I figure I may as well update SOMETHING tonight. A woman I know has a child in the hospital. Hopefully everything will end up just fine, and I'm sure it will. Still, a helluva scare. Brought me out of a training class when I heard about it. Thankfully I have a co-trainer so she took over for a few minutes while I found out everything going on and then talked myself down from the roof.

Today is football day. Watched Alabama defeat Penn State (that sucked!), now watching Arkansas play New Mexico. We are winning after the 1st quarter, should be an easy victory, but our quarterback is limping, so we could be screwed next week.

As you may or may not be aware, tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of 9-11, which was the day in 2001 (a Tuesday) when the U.S. was attacked with 4 commercial aircraft, killing over 3,000 people. I can tell you, I will never forget.

Boredom has set in WAY too early!

It's 10am CDT! TEN OF THE CLOCK! IN THE MORNING!! Going to be a very quiet day at work. There are (I think) 6 of us outside of marketing on my floor. We are having an "environmental sustainability" day, basically meaning you have permission to work from home today to save on CO2 emissions from your vehicles. OK, so while the power in the building is still going, now we will have the opportunity for people to use the power in their homes that they would not normally use because they are at the office. Does that work?? All I know is I am not able to work from home for a full day very easily because (1) no comfortable chair (2) kids screaming like someone is murdering them for 2 hours (3) wife will be there at some point. I will probably leave earlier than usual today and hook up at the house, but it won't have to be a full day thing, so my back is greatful/grateful (sp?).