Weekend update

I felt down most of the weekend. I must have enjoyed the cruise because a spent a lot of time recollecting what I was doing last week at this time on the ship. So I think that bummed me out somewhat. Also, Ali is considering quitting her job because of issues with her boss. I told her I support her if she wants to do so, but this weekend I was dreading the financial impact it would have. If we weren’t in the process of paying for our braces it wouldn’t be so bad. Doing so right before the holiday crunch is another daunting idea. We talked about it a little bit and she may try to hang in for a little. I guess it all depends if there are any more incidents.

Saturday was chore day, we mowed and cleaned up stuff inside. It was a 3 snake day. As I was going to inspect our water cleaning equipment I saw a snake head pop out of the top of the cleaner and retract back in, nice. A 6 foot long black racer snake had got in there. I carefully popped the lid off and scared him away. Later, while weeding, I was about ready to pull some clover from around the base of some decorative grass. I saw a curled up pygmy rattler! Upon further inspection, I saw another one! After some careful work with a broom and a flexible rake I relocated the rattlers across a trench. It’s a jungle out there.

Our office has been a disaster area for the past few weeks. I had cords, boxes and computers everywhere as I have been working on getting my new server up and running. On saturday night I was ready to finalize the switch over so I pulled everything out and relocated it. What a mess. It took awhile but the final result looks much better. So I will be selling my Dual P3 750mhz 2U server with a half gig of ram on ebay shortly. It looks like if I get 300 for it I will be lucky, a bit disappointing as I originally imagined I could get 400 or so for it.

I did some more tweaking on my Audrey as well. I have most hacks that I need, done on it. It looks good on our counter. It makes a great caller id box and it’s very cool to check the weather on my way out the door and use it as a mp3 player while we are working around the house.

On Sunday I had planned to mow the back area of our property but was derailed when the battery for the tractor decided to die. So we planted our new garden where the compost pile used to be. Broccoli, tomatoes and eggplant are our crops of choice.

We watched the Eagle game. In one word, pathetic. The defense and special teams saved them again. The offense and Donovan McNabb was terrible again. Terrible just as they have been every single game this season. I really hope they sit McNabb, it’s time. 64 yards passing, horrible.

This weekend we experimented with letting the dog in the bedroom at night. It didn’t go very well, Friday night I heard her collar jingling so it woke me up multiple times, Saturday she decided to wake us up at 6am and last night she licked my face at 2am and my feet at 4am. After both times I couldn’t fall asleep for a good hour afterward. I think she will be moving back to the crate tonight. I feel bad because I know she likes being in there with us but I just can’t take being woke up 3 or 4 times every night. I wake up rather easily, where as Ali can sleep through gunfire. The puppy sheds like crazy now, a day after vacuuming the entire house the floor is covered with her black hair again. Add in 2 hairy cats and you have a pet dander nightmare. It amazes me how much hair accumulates in the vaccum after a single session. Pets…..