Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Another busy week

Shaping up to be another busy week. Put my car in the shop this morning to get both front seatbelt assemblies replaced (seatbelts were functional but not retracting properly). That required dropping it off first thing this morning, after which I walked home. Took me 2 hours to walk the 5.5 miles, which wasn't bad in all that heat. The entire repair was under warranty so I paid zero out of pocket.

Gonna miss that warranty when it expires next year. Ah well, the car's been paid off for 2 years so it's not like it's a big drain on the finances. I think I finally rolled over the 14,000 mile odometer mark on it. Might break 15k by the end of the year with all the planned business trips.

Spent some money on eBay today, bidding on Japanese music CDs. Trying to expand my collection a bit and find some new artists that I like (as well as picking up more CDs by artists that I liked before).

And Wednesday I have to leave again for another work trip. Work suddenly exploded back at the end of May and we've been going crazy trying to keep up with it all. I've been billing 30-40 hours per week instead of my usual 10-15 billable hours. Which means that work is cutting into my free time because there's still the normal sysadmin stuff to get done on a weekly basis. Billable hours isn't in my main job description, I typically just take overflow work that I try to fit in between my other duties.

After this trip, I should actually be home for 4 weeks straight. So maybe I can get some personal things finished (such as finishing Tuchola Forest!).

Oh and somewhere in all this I need to figure out how to build an N-tier java web application before the end of the year.

Labels: 2006

posted by Wuphon's at 12:19 AM