Bleh. It’s really been a long and drawn-out week for me. Unfortunately, this week is going to be more of the same. The only difference is that I won’t be out as late this week as I was last week. On Monday, our apps director and a consultant had arrived from out of town, and each night last week (except for Friday) I went out to eat with them and/or get drinks. On Monday, we went to Houston’s for dinner, and had drinks at a local bar afterwards. Tuesday night we had dinner at Pappadeaux’s, and went to their hotel’s pool afterward to have some drinks. On Wednesday night, we met the CIO and sysadmin over at the Cheesecake Factory, followed with me meeting the sysadmin for drinks afterwards. Thursday night, the apps director and the sysadmin had already left for Louisiana, so the consultant and I ate at the Hard Rock Cafe. It’s amusing, in a way… I’d been to the Hard Rock Cafe in London twice, and the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas once, but I had never been to the Hard Rock Cafe in Houston before Thursday. It was fun, though…
In addition to helping the apps director and consultant get a new software package operational, I also was given the fun job of working on getting the new IT area at our office operational. It wasn’t entirely easy or stress-free; I managed to get the office onto the network by Wednesday morning (our official move-in date), but we found out the hard way that some roaches had managed to make the area their own as well. We killed some of them, and arranged for an exterminator to come out. On Thursday I got our wiring people out to cross-connect phone lines, and got my coworkers’ phones operational. (My phone is an IP phone, which plugs into the network.) Also, the exterminator came out to get the roaches dealt with. Things went downhill on Friday, though, as our brand-new AC unit died. :-/ We ended up using two mobile AC units until the AC was repaired, but still… meh.
As for this weekend, it was spectacularly uneventful, other than the fact that I took Mom to the Cheesecake Factory for her birthday dinner last night. I also bought a couple of pairs of Dockers pants for work, but that was neither here nor there. I also FINALLY got around to watching the Ultimate Avengers movie I had rented from Netflix today; it was actually pretty good, though I admit it went a lot faster than I was expecting. On the tech side, I didn’t do much other than remove a couple of unused mail accounts and lock out POP3 access for those people who only use my webmail, and also upgraded WordPress on Sean MC’s and Lemon Jinny’s blogs. Ah, well…
This week should be a little less stressful, though. The two main creature comforts for the office will be arriving tomorrow… namely, the coffeemaker and the water cooler. In addition, the Transformers game should be out on Tuesday, so I’ll probably stop by Fry’s and pick it up. That should give me something new to play this week. :-) Ah, well… for now, considering I wasn’t home until 11:45 PM three days this past week, I think I’ll go relax and then possibly turn in early. It’s going to be a long week.