Recap: Wed 2007/1/31 - Fri 2007/2/2
Wednesday, January 31, 2007: I don’t really remember anything about Wednesday, so I can’t tell you what happened.
Thursday, February 1, 2007: I’d been noticing that the Camry’s tires had increasingly little tread left. On Thursday, I decided to fix that. I dropped the car off at Tires Plus, conveniently located just three miles away from the office. Teri (a friend from Life Group as well as Pittsburgh) was able to pick me up and take me to the office, after I dropped off the car.
Of course, once I got into the office things got more interesting. Thursday was February 1. Which means my customer wanted to be able to run financial reports for January. But their reports weren’t showing any data for January. In the midst of helping them fix their reports, their Production server decided to hang. So I got to spend some time reading about how to do integrity checks on the server and then (once the server was rebooted), I got to run the integrity checks. It all checked out, but between one thing and another, I didn’t actually get to work my todo list until 2pm.
Once Teri and I were both done working on Thursday, she dropped me back off at Tires Plus. A mere $450 later, I was driving home car with 4 brand-new, 70,000 mile warranty tires.
When I got home, I noticed (again) that my desk was completely covered with papers. Rather than ignoring it (again), I decided to finally clean it up and organize everything. I spent about an hour and a half sorting through the paperwork and organizing. It was almost 2 months worth of credit card statements, receipts, and tax statements. I made a good start on getting everything filed and scanned. (I scan all of my tax paperwork and save it to Strongspace so I can have an offsite backup in case anything happens to the paper files.)
Oh, yeah. We also got a hazardous weather warning from NOAA:
THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…AND LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY. THE FRIGID AIR WILL COMBINE WITH WESTERLY WINDS TO PRODUCE WIND CHILL READINGS OF 10 TO 20 DEGREES BELOW ZERO DURING THE DAY…AND BETWEEN 20 TO 30 BELOW ZERO AT NIGHT.
Lovely.
Friday, February 2, 2007: On Friday morning, I actually made it to the office before 9am. Mainly because I had a 9am conference call I needed to be on. Thankfully, no minor emergencies cropped up during the day and I was able to get mostly caught up on my work. I was also able to leave on-time and got home with enough time to take a nap and start washing dishes before Christine came home. I made her a batch of buttermilk pancakes for dinner and ate a bowl of Malt-o-Meal myself.