As planned, rain to the rescue

I was in work early Friday morning and once again on Saturday morning.  Although it was to complete two different tasks both were due to the same objective.  They are going to be doing an extensive renovation to our office and in order to facilitate it we are moving the majority of our staff temporarily to another location on campus.  As you can imagine this is going to be quite the task to complete.  On Friday we installed a new core router to maximize our speed to the temporary building.  On Saturday morning we moved a state server that was in an area of the building that is going to be demolished.

I did a lot of planning ahead of Saturday hoping that it would result in me not having to spend a large portion of my Saturday at the office.  I was amazed that things pretty much went as planned.  I was on my way home a little after 9am after spending about 90 minutes doing the work.  It’s satisfying when a plan comes together.  There will be a ton of hurdles I will need to be clearing during the next three weeks.

I got home early enough to take on my normal chore workload and let Sadie and Elsa roam around the yard as I worked on them.  Elsa LOVES when Sadie is around.  Sadie doesn’t play as rough as Bowser does so Elsa doesn’t get quite as crazy.  They both had fun when we took them to Rural King later.

When Cindy got home from teaching class she jumped in and helped me knock out more stuff. She also helped with two projects that I shot videos of.  She installed orange inserts into the recessed letters of my Tacoma glove box, complimenting the dash surround I installed a couple weeks ago. She then did the majority of the work changing the oil in the Prius. Although I have shot a video regarding Prius oil changes we thought it would be cool to have a woman doing it, something you don’t see very often.

We talked about going out to dinner.  I had a gift card from Christmas that I never used to Carrabbas so we figured this would be a good use for it.  There was a short wait at the door but a couple seats opened up at the bar so we decided to just eat there instead.

Our female bartender was sweet but as the restaurant got very busy she wasn’t able to really pay much attention to us which was a bit annoying.  Cindy was practically begging for her to bring a Coke after she realized the peach sangria she ordered had vodka in it.  After drinking less than half of it she was feeling really affected and nauseous.  The food we ordered was good.  As we left and saw the horde of people now waiting we were both glad we decided to eat more towards the early bird time slot.

Both Saturday and Sunday were overcast and raining for much of the day which would normally be a bummer.  However with the onset of brush fires out in my area the precipitation could not have come at a better time.  It turned a potentially catastrophic situation around.  Even though the fire is still burning it appears that danger to residents has now passed.

Sunday morning I got up and ran.  I have such a love hate relationship with running.  I never have really enjoyed the act of running.  My body isn’t designed for it, I feel uncomfortable during it, and while I am running I think mostly about how long it will be until it’s over.  The only thing that keeps me going out there is the sense of accomplishment that follows, knowing I got it done, despite not really wanting to.  Yes my fear of aging and death is a factor as well.  If I am still running I am still living is the logic in my head.

With the rainy weather I thought riding the wheels could be a washout.  Cindy, who used to look for reasons to not ride, instead came up with a great idea to go find an empty parking garage to ride in.  I suggested we use one of the garages by my work since they are basically empty on the weekends.

We did just that and had a lot of fun riding up, down, and around the five level structure.  Cindy got a lot of practice in with more control moves.  I of course had to get some backwards riding in as well.  At one point we again swapped wheels allowing Cindy to zip around on my Msuper.  Although it feels a bit awkward to her she immediately appreciates the added stability the big wheel offers compared to her 14 inch Inmotion V5F.  We managed to rack up almost six miles mostly riding around in circles in the garage.

The rest of my Sunday was pretty chill with video production and WoW being my two major activities.  It was one of the best weekends we have enjoyed in quite awhile, despite it’s simple components.

Today I brought my black Segway Minipro that was collecting dust to work.  I am thinking I can use it to cut about 2/3 of the time it will take to walk between our building and the space we are moving to temporarily.  Yes it’s weird but a real time saver considering how often I will have to be shuffling between the two locations.