This is nice. It’s been a quiet and restful morning, which is great considering I spent most of the week at the Offshore Technology Conference working at my employers’ booth. About all I have planned for today is to take Mom to dinner at Cheesecake Factory tonight to celebrate Mother’s Day. I’ll probably do a bit of shopping at Barnes & Noble as well, but I haven’t quite decided if I will or not.
I reached a milestone yesterday, though. As usual for a Friday morning I weighed myself, and I found I had lost two pounds this past week. That puts me right at the 25 pound mark; when I started I weighed 258 pounds, and now I’m down to 233. Now I just have another 30-35 pounds to go, and I’ll be happy. :-)
The main other thing of note that happened this week was that I had an MRI done of my heart. After the ultrasound was done on my heart last week, the doctor found something he found a little concerning, and wanted a complete scan done to see if he could figure out what was going on. About an hour and a half after I arrived at OTC after having the MRI done, the doctor called me and let me know that it turned out to be nothing serious after all, and he didn’t think it was related to my atrial fibrillation last week. In fact, he said unless I suffered another issue, that I didn’t need to follow up. I’m off caffeine entirely and have gone past the withdrawal symptoms, and I’ve cut down even more on my alcohol intake. I think I should be fine from here on out.
The trade show itself was busy, but not really much to speak of if you’re not in the oil and gas industry. :-) What annoyed me more than anything else was the parking when I arrived at the show later than 7:30 AM. At one point I was parked close to the old Astroworld bridge. Tuesday and Wednesday were hectic as hell in the show; the aisles were literally packed with people to the point where it was difficult to get around. Still, it made for a nice break from work. The only thing that annoyed me was the fact that for all the free coffee around, I still had to go to the Starbucks in Reliant Center to get decaffeinated coffee. Well, that, and Reliant was much more anal about drinks this year. We ran out of bottled water at our booth so quickly that more than once I had to get a $3.50 bottle from a concession area. Good thing I’ll be expensing those…
Ah, well. Like I said, I’m going to use this weekend to unwind and get ready to get back into the swing of things Monday. Hopefully it won’t take long to get back into my normal routine…