…seems to be seriously dragging tonight. I know it certainly is taking my sidebar forever to load because Twitter is hanging. It’s a cool little app but like blogcatalog also hangs sometimes I may end up dumping both if they don’t increase their bandwidth.
New York
A few months ago I posted a couple of pictures from when I went to New York. One of the things that my friends dad looked at doing when we went there to visit was possibly getting baseball tickets from a New York ticket broker. He ended up not being able to and we went to dinner at the Plaza instead, but I was sor of looking forward to it either way. One of my more memorable road trips.
More About Lighting…
Yeah, I know. Booorrrinnggg.
One thing I did install in the kitchen a couple of years ago was some temporary lighting on the top of my kitchen cabinets and hooked them to an X10 appliance module that would turn them on whenever it was dark and motion was detected in the kitchen. I know…pretty geeky stuff.
I do want to install some decent quality under cabinet lighting now though. I normally get up at 4:30 in the morning, and even with the accent lighting on top of my cabinets, that isn’t enough and I generally have to turn on all of the lights in the kitchen just to make coffee. Some decent lighting underneath the cabinet (where the coffee maker is) should solve that.
Lighting in the Dining Room
I haven’t had much of an opportunity lately to work on any of my home automation projects, but the next thing I want to do is start looking at Chandeliers for the dining room. I already have a bit of the kitchen/dining are wired up and right now I have a ceiling fan in there, but I am seriously considering replacing it with something I can control with my HA software. It may just have to wait until we get a new house, since the kitchen area and dining room are one big room and it gets pretty hot in there occasionally when we cook so I really need the fan some evenings.
Strange Things You Find…
…in restaurant coolers.
About a year after I started working for my company, I worked for a manager that needed to get a bit mellow before work. I cooked on the graveyard shift and every morning before work she and the entire day shift would all go back out on the back porch and burn themselves one. She would leave the keys with me at night, and once I found her stash. She kept them rolled up in the freezer in her commissary. Very weird.
I occasionally will keep a six pack of Dr Pepper in the cooler as that is what I prefer to drink. Last week I finally got around to cleaning and organizing the food storage areas in my restaurants and in one of the really nasty ones I found three gallons of ice cream in the freezer. Since old dude spends way too much time sitting in the office and eating ice cream rather than doing things like his job, I got rid of it.
One of the others had a six pack of some kind of Energy Drink in her cooler. I left it alone. She is very driven and organized and even though I probably should have gotten rid of it as well, I decided that it was the least of my worries.
Monday Manboobs
This one scared me…
At the ren fest…
Amy Winehouse…
A friend of mine, whom I am not allowed to link to had a post up recently with an Amy Winehouse video. It was pretty good, so I thought “Hey, that was pretty good” 🙂
I found several more videos over at Youtube and I really like her stuff. I don’t know anything else about her music or if it’s available on iTunes yet, but I will certainly check it out. Here’s my favorite so far…
Why am I still awake anyway?
Damn, that was Nasty,,,
One of the unfortunate side effects of working so many hours is no meals at home. I have eaten at McDonald’s a couple of times this week, and a couple of PB&J sandwiches at 11pm as I crawled home, but mostly at work. I have developed the worst case of farts that I have had in quite some time. Deadly. Nasty farts. I will probably end up sleeping with the dog tonight they are so disgusting.
I finally got home a few minutes ago, another 17 hour day. I am thoroughly enjoying a Sam Adams Summer Ale. It is wonderful, and what is even neater is the fact that not only will I get to entertain everyone at the Ren Fest tomorrow with my deadly wind, but I will be adding beer to the mix as well.
Would You Like Some Cheese With That Whine?…
Damn, this was a long day. I left the house about a quarter till five this morning and just got home a few minutes ago. I spent the greater part of the day cleaning that one store that I have been having the most problems with and doing a little bit of training.
One more day and it doesn’t look as if it is going to be any shorter. I am seriously looking forward to a bit of down time, although Sunday we will spend running around the Renaissance Festival. Come on down and hook up with us if you get a chance. It’s the last day of the fest so should be pretty cool.
I am pretty much physically exhausted right now. That has it’s ups and downs. It’s almost a good feeling sometimes though, because I know I have worked hard today.