Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Though today is Monday, yesterday was the official start of my work week.  One of my projects had some stuff going live on the web yesterday, so I got to come in to work at 5:00 AM to work with the implementation team.  Since I am the project manager, I coordinate all of the work and ensure that all the affected agencies are kept in the loop as far as the status goes.  Like all good things, it should only take 3-4 hours but took 6.5 instead.  Gah.

They update the website with changes once a month, but for the most part, I won’t have any changes more than 1-4 times a year.  It all depends on what projects I’m assigned to.  Still sucked big big though.

Didn’t I leave all of this behind in the Air Force?  I guess not.  Oh well, at least it’s not every other month!  :-)

Unpacking

Isn’t it funny how there are different levels of unpacking?  When your stuff arrives at your new home, you unpack it and put it away.  Then, you have to clean up all the crap, before pulling out some stuff (probably decorations) to make the home a home.  Next, you further pull things out and make sure they are put back where they should actually go.  Finally, after said things are where they should actually go, you have to pull them out AGAIN and organize them into some form of coherency.  This is the most painful step because technically, the stuff is where it needs to be, it’s just not in a very usable state.  However, it IS usable, it would just be MORE usable if it were organized.

Sharron and I have been working on this final step all over the house for awhile now.  We tackled all of our holiday decorations this weekend.  It was pretty easy really, but it still took a good long time.

In my spare time, I’ve also been working on organizing all of our books.  Again, pretty easy, just time consuming.

Not sure if anyone will care about this but me, but Scott sent me a link to this site, Gravatar, which lets you assign yourself an avatar for WordPress sites.  If you’ll notice, both Scott and I have a picture next to our replies now.  I think it’s pretty cool.

I don’t normally post these, but I love movies, so here goes:

1. Pick 13 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it’s been guessed correctly.
5. No Googling/using IMDb search functions.

1 – I find your lack of faith disturbing.  Star Wars (Janet)

2 – I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne.  Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky… Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Scott)

3 – All I know is, on the day your plane was to leave, if I had the power, I would turn the winds around, I would roll in the fog, I would bring in the storms, I would change the polarity of the earth so compasses couldn’t work, so your plane couldn’t take off.  LA Story (Nobody!)

4 – I’ve had, like, ten times as much sex as the rest of these girls, and I still look like this.  I mean, they spend, like, an hour in the back seat of some car and all of a sudden they’re in Technicolor?  Pleasantville (Urn)

5 – That’s why I ate their food.  See, they put the plate of donuts out here to test your guilt.  If you don’t touch it, you’re guilty!  I ate the whole plate.  Transformers (Urn)

6 – These burns indicate that they used silencers. Look at these entry and exit wounds. They’re almost identical. The two bullets went in here, through the top of the skull, criss-crossed, and exited through the eyeballs. This one clue tells us three distinct facts.  The Boondock Saints (Janet)

7 – That guy is tense. Tension is a killer. I used to be in a barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois. The baritone was this guy named Kip Diskin, big fat guy, I mean, like, orca fat. He was so stressed in the morning…  The Usual Suspects (Janet)

8 – A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely. Batman Begins (Scott)

9 – Listen closely. I’d like to help you but I can’t. I’d like to tell you to take a copy of your policy to Norma Wilcox on… Norma Wilcox, W-I-L-C-O-X… on the third floor, but I can’t.  I also do not advise you to fill out and file a WS2475 form with our legal department on the second floor. I would not expect someone to get back to you quickly to resolve the matter. I’d like to help, but there’s nothing I can do.  The Incredibles (Dev)

10 – Nobody tosses a dwarf.  The Lord of the Rings:  The Fellowship of the Ring (Janet)

11 – I mean, look at this place, man. You gotta see this through the eyes of a woman, you know? What is she going to think when she comes in here? Look. He’s got a billion toys. The 40 Year Old Virgin (Scott)

12 – Back off, man. I’m a scientist.  Ghostbusters (Nobody!)

13 – Fluctuate? You make it sound like I’m retaining water. I’ve gained 45 pounds in a week. Pete, what’s happening to me?  The Santa Clause (Urn)

Instead of having fun over the July 4th weekend, Sharron and I decided to start painting the game room in the basement.  We’d picked out colors back in April, but then never started painting due to the wall replacement project.  After it was complete, Sharron was just about to start work, so we never started it then either.  With the long weekend in front of us, we figured it was time to tackle it.  Normally, the prep doesn’t take too long, but the actual painting can take the longest as you have to wait for the paint to dry.  Not this time.  The wall replacement project had made the area need a lot of work to clean so we spent the majority of the day Friday doing that.  We were able to paint the ceiling in the 1/2 of the room that hadn’t been painted yet, so not too bad.  That was all we did Friday though, so you can get a sense of how much work the room needed to prep.

Saturday, Sharron went with Janet to Boston for some girl time.  I stayed home with Parker and mostly played Super Mario Galaxy and watched The Office, but I also completed the prep work.  The last thing that needed to be done was to tape the floor boards.  It didn’t take me more than 1-2 hours, so plenty of time to goof off.

Sunday was the big push to paint.  The colors we chose are a lightish green and a darkish green.  The light green will be the main color with the dark being an “accent” color.  There will be 4 walls that have the dark green, but it’s a relatively minor amount.  We started with the light green.  The first coat took us 3 hours.  We took an hour break and then completed the second coat in another 3 hours.  Not too bad really.  We didn’t start until 12, so we finished at around 7.

Our plan is to work on the dark green throughout the week.  After we’re done with that, we’re going to replace all of the electrical outlets and light switches.  That shouldn’t take too long and should be fun.  We’re also going to replace the track lighting in 1/2 of the room with new track lighting.  We found some modern fixtures that look pretty cool.

So anyway, not a bad bit of work for the weekend.