Meh. I should be packing right now, or at least pretending that I am. Instead, I’m sitting here at my PC not doing much of anything, while my TV and satellite receiver are tuned to CourtTV and I’m half-watching Cops. The trip is going to be to Conway, AR, to get a new location there up onto our corporate network. Fun fun…
At least it’s been a semi-fruitful and eventful weekend. Yesterday I went over to Dave’s apartment at around noon. Once I got there, we left for Fuddrucker’s for some lunch. I ended up trying their new chipotle BBQ burger, which was decent (if they had remembered to add the barbecue sauce in the first place). After that, we went to Spec’s so Dave could stock up on some scotch. Once that was done, we headed back to his apartment.
When I went to Dave’s apartment, I had brought my DVD box set of volume one of Batman: The Animated Series. Dave had never seen it before, so I figured I would introduce him to it. I ended up showing him the episodes “Heart of Ice”, “Be a Clown”, and (the appropriately two-part) “Two-Face”. Half-way through the last episode, Louie arrived and watched the rest of it with us, and then we switched over to the OSU and Michigan basketball game. Before long, we were discussing places to eat dinner. The final choice came down to Cheesecake Factory, so we piled into Louie’s truck and headed over to the Cheesecake Factory at First Colony Mall in Sugar Land. After a 40 minute wait, we sat down and had dinner.
Once done, we made our way to Slick Willie’s on Westheimer for some pool. I actually won a game… go me. :-) After we played a round of eight-ball and then a round of nine-ball, we went back to Dave’s apartment; Louie dropped us off and left, and I went up to get my DVDs and left back home.
Today was more or less uneventful, other than going to K&G to pick up a new dress shirt for Dani’s wedding on Saturday. Fortunately I found a shirt pretty quickly, bought it, and brought it home, with a stop at CVS for deodorant and toothpaste for the trip tomorrow. That last stop ended up being a bust, as they didn’t have anything in the size I needed to take on the flight. I ended up going to Walgreen’s later for what I needed. Anyway, now I have my entire suit ready to be sent to the dry cleaner’s for cleaning; I’m more or less ready for this coming weekend, methinks.
I’ll probably do a bit of a technically-oriented post a bit later on. As for now, I think I’ve dawdled long enough and should get to work at least getting my laptop case ready for the trip. (Aka, remove the computer toolset and put phone/earpiece chargers in, that kind of thing.) I’d rather get it taken care of now, especially as I have to be at the airport by 6 AM, seeing as my flight is at 7:15 AM. Ah, well…