011010 (Intermission)
Posted on January 10th, 2010 at 11:02pm
Why, I do believe I’m sick.
Maybe all of this running around like a crazy person and wearing myself thin has caught up with me. Or maybe I just stood a little too close to my dad who has been sicker than a dog all week long. Either way, I woke up today with a small bit of the sniffles, and they’ve stayed with me all day long.
This weekend has been pretty nice.
I’ll include Thursday night only because I bought a new computer online that will serve as my very own media server. After long talks with Jamie and Marke, they’ve set me straight and pushed me away from novelty systems like the MacMini or Dell Zino to manage my media. It makes more sense to stick a box in a closet somewhere and have it function as a main server for everything I own. Then, down the road, I’ll pick up a pretty little machine (probably the Dell Zino, actually) and stick a BluRay drive in it, and that will be the end-machine that connects to the TV. It makes good sense to me, man.
Friday after work, Sarah and CB came over for beers and Mario. It’s always a good time when they’re here. The joke du jour was calling me a duck on a pond. Meaning that I’m cool and calm on the surface, but paddling like hell under the surface. Which…. is true, sad to say. But only under certain circumstances. This may end up being a subject of a later post, because there’s more on this topic than I want to get into right now. (By now, we’ve learned that usually means I’ll never get back to it…)
I slept in until 1pm on Saturday. I felt like I deserved it. It’s been months since I’ve done anything like that… and it was absolutely amazing. I then spent a few hours at my parent’s, further cleaning out the garage and re-organizing everything from the party. There’s still plenty more to be done, but I’m taking it rather slowly while I can.
Later, Tera came down. Been a long time since she was over. We got a quick dinner at Fridays, then back to my place for bottles of wine and The Billy Nayer Show. I introduced her to The American Astronaut, and Stingray Sam. It appears as though she loves both, which makes me happy. We tried to sit through one more movie, but the wine caught up with us, and we passed out around 1am.
And now… I’m a little sick. I’m doped up on a few different medications right now. I’m gonna finish this up real soon, and try to sleep it off. We’ll see how I feel tomorrow. I think I’m going to go see Avatar (IMAX 3D, of course) with Sarah tomorrow evening. I’ll be pissed if I’m too sick to do that.
Goodnight Moon.