Well, it’s Sunday night, and the weekend’s over. It was kind of productive and kind of not, but all in all I can’t really complain. Well… I can complain about my wireless keyboard trying to tell me the batteries are nearly dead, but that’s about it. Otherwise, it’s been decent.
Back around Christmastime, Missy bought me a $30 gift certificate from the iTunes Music Store. I didn’t get anything until this past week, because I really couldn’t decide what to get. Finally, I went ahead and bought three albums this weekend, and got them burned to CD and into jewel cases with CD labels and case inserts. I got…
- Madonna – The Immaculate Collection (This is actually my partial quota for 80’s pop music, as the album doesn’t have any of her work post-1990 or thereabouts. I can’t say I like her recent work, but this stuff is okay.)
- Blue Öyster Cult – Workshop of the Telescopes: Best of Blue Öyster Cult (I’ve been wanting to get a “best of” album from this group for a while, and this was too good a deal to pass up at two discs for $10.)
- The Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the Sky (I got this for the first two tracks; the funny thing is, I had been looking for “Sirius” as it had been part of a game called High Impact Football by Midway. However, it wasn’t until a couple of months ago that I found out who actually made it.)
Yesterday, Dave came around around lunchtime, and we had a nice lunch at Fuddrucker’s. Afterwards, we returned to the house and watched “Tomb of the Cybermen” (which is a Doctor Who serial from 1967). Then we headed down to Louie’s apartment and met up with him there. We WERE going to go to Macaroni Grill for dinner, but once I stepped inside and saw just how many people were waiting on a table, we got back out of there in a hurry. From there we went over to Richmond Ave. and hit India’s Restaurant for some good Indian food. I had keema curry, which is a minced lamb curry… yum. :-) After that, we did a bit of driving around to kill time, and then we went to Club Tropicana for drinks and salsa dancing. I should say, Louie went to dance… I’m not going to get into specifics, but I contented myself with having a couple of beers, talking to Louie and Dave, and observing. Even Dave danced the merengue with this girl named Natalie… but then Natalie is a friend of Louie’s and merengue is not that hard of a dance. About midnight or so, we went back to Louie’s place to get my car and to get the 1 GB memory chip he’s selling me, and then Dave and I headed back to my place (where his car was). After Dave left, I went upstairs, talked to Missy for a bit, and then went to bed, exhausted.
This morning, I got up, had breakfast, got coffee, and proceeded to burn the albums I had bought off the iTunes Music Store (and Chrono Symphonic, a Chrono Trigger collaboration I had gotten off of Overclocked Remix) to CDs, put them in jewel cases, and put them up into my CD shelves. I also upgraded the memory in my main PC; it now has 2 GB of RAM in it. I’ll have to try DOOM 3 and Half-Life 2 on here now. I also helped Dad pick out a new print server and wireless access point/router for his new office. So, it’s been a bit productive today too…
I’m not looking forward to this week, though. At some point I’m going to have to run up to Buffalo (which is just over halfway between here and Dallas) to get the computers and printers set up for our new location there. I also have a vacation two weeks from Tuesday I’m going to have to keep in mind. Oh, well… at least I’m being kept busy. Tomorrow should be another busy day as well, with meetings with cabling contractors, setting up a pair of printers, a meeting with security system personnel, and a conference call to end the day.
I suppose I should go start winding things down here. Fun fun…