I was determined to call
I was determined to call the Doc on Friday if my ear still wasn’t better. A week of ear pain was way above normal for me. Luckily it started to break Friday. I used less pain meds on Friday and then by the weekend I was off the pain meds completely. Crisis averted. I MUST protect my ears in water at all times, this is just too much of a pain in the ass.
Saturday I put in 15 hours at work. Yep 15. I was undertaking a project I hadn’t done before. I have a server that had 2 hard drives configured in a non raid fashion that is running a very complicated application. The server was running out of drive space. Not only did I want to increase the drive space but also convert it to RAID 5 hardware WITHOUT having to reinstall all of the applications (which would have been next to impossible without the vendors help) After some research I found a technique to do this on MSFT’s knowledgebase. The steps outlined in the instruction did work but I ran into a number of obstacles I had to tackle to get there. To make a long story short, it all works. Something I will keep in mind the next time I want to migrate a server.
So my one day weekend was spent doing a lot of house/yard work. We mowed the grass for the first time in a long time. (Well 3 months) One of the downsides to living in Florida is you can expect to be mowing grass around 9 months out of the year. The weather has turned summerlike with temps in the mid 80’s and high humidity.
The puppy has been improving. She holds it better and seems to be adjusting to a routine more or less. She is still a bundle to deal with but we are managing. Again, Ali is doing the majority of the supervision duties. However in an effort to allow Ali to get back into her gym schedule, I am working out over lunch and then watching the puppy from 5-6 while she gets a workout in. Not very convenient but until we come up with a better way, it’s better than her not going.
Speaking of the gym, on my lunchtime visit today I had something happen that never has before. As I pulled up I saw some young guy apparently talking to cars as they go by and also to people as they enter the gym. Odd, I thought but I parked my car and headed for the door. As I got closer, I observe that this guy is animated, angry and accosting every single person he can. As I approach he backs off his last target and addresses me. He is talking fast and is difficult to follow. In a nutshell he said something about I should not use this gym because the owner is in jail for cocaine and the owner owes him money and his girlfriend in the truck can verify it. I just looked him in the face, looked away, expressionless and went inside. He was already starting his sermon to the next gym goer. I really have no idea what he was ranting about but he was spewing it to every single person in the vicinity. He was obviously very mad about something. Gym patrons were quite perterbed by the whole scene, including myself. Eventually the police were called and the guy left. I don’t know what the whole deal was about but it was a new gym experience for sure. The new employees I have seen around the gym are shady, at best so it wouldn’t surprise me if this guy’s rant wasn’t based on some aspect of truth. I will seriously be looking for other gym options when my membership comes due. All I expect out of a gym is to be not be packed to the rafters with people and be clean and organized. This gym fails poorly on the latter criteria.