surviving the stampede
I’m working from home today, to wait for the installer from Verizon to hook up my FIOS TV. I’m happy to be changing from digital cable due to it being $20/month cheaper with the same channel line-up. In some astounding customer service irony, I arrived at 5:01PM to return my cable receiver… the Comcast office on Rte. 561 was a ghost town…well, except for the three other customers that were apparently run over in a Comcast employee stampede at 5:00:001 PM. So yeah, buh-bye cable.
I didn’t get a chance to talk to the kiddos last night, but I’m hoping to get a chance to tell Viv a princess story tonight and talk to Bubs about his cool new playfort tent. I think I’m going to take a run this weekend through Camp Ocky and bring my camera along to put together a new comic for the kids. I need to think of a storyline now…
Grace is still doing really well with her lessons. This week I gave her a power chord classic “Smells Like Teen Spirit” to strengthen her fret hand and “About A Girl” to practice her strumming patterns. Her mom brought me a mason jar of limoncello, perhaps that would go nicely in my water bottle for the ride to Forked River this weekend?
I did some of the promotion for the Marty project (to help out with some of the DB connection stuff and executing the DML SQL on the DB itself), I figured out a way to build a rules engine by leveraging (aka bastardizing) the metadata tables in WordPress, I put together a quick package diagram for the Active Directory Import tool, I assisted my DBA buddy Bill with a big production promotion for the day job, and then I got to catch the last few innings of the Phils game while reading another chapter of A Thousand Splendid Suns.
I’ve got a healthy plateful of stuff to do this weekend : install the rack and pannier on the road bike (Monday will be my first commute day finally), store the window unit A/Cs in the attic, sand the back deck down to the natural wood, take Yogi swimming, install new canopy on the play set, laundry, hopefully stack the chord of firewood I’m going to order today, and Sunday I’ll be doing a 55 mile ride down to my Dad’s boat for a quick sail on the Barnegat Bay. I’ll definitely bring the camera along, this ride goes straight through the Pine Barrens, lots of cool stuff along the way.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:52 am
Great visual – I picture the customers lying about the lobby, with Comcast employee footprints across them…
September 21st, 2007 at 10:26 am
Hey can you order some chord wood for us too?? I don’t know how to do that…. How are you doing that??
Sounds like a great weekend. I love my paniers!
They have rain guards so the stuff inside never gets wet. But (I’m sure you know this) you have to make sure that you can connected them (I have a velcro strap) to the bike because they do bounce off otherwise.
How will you do Internet service??
September 21st, 2007 at 11:56 am
Nirvana riffs and limoncello. What more could anyone ask for? Think I might hit the limoncello tonight, after dinner.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:30 pm
I love the Carnies photo set.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:20 pm
I think that “take Yogi swimming” and going to your Dad’s for a sail sound awesome.
And talking to your kids on the phone is the shiz, of course.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Chris – there were people limping around in the parking lot and mayhem
Open Grove Claudia – firewood? in Florida? I got a very nice water proof Banjo Bros panier recommended to me by my good friend apertome
* – that’s the plan
mamatulip – you know what you are? Carnie photo set lover
Kevin Charnas – i concur. pray for me on Sunday morning.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:55 am
How cool that the Phils are making a run for it, huh?
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:51 pm
You know,next time I can’t get myself moving, I’m going to toss you a set of jumper cables and ask for a jump. You do more in a day than some people do in a week!
September 24th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Metadata.
Pannier.
Two of the best words in the English language contained in one of the best blogs.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Great job on the ride – and it sounds like you had a nice boat ride to listen to the Eagles romp!
September 24th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Bud – I wish they’d get up by ten runs in the first inning of every game, it would make it better for my nerves
V-Grrrl – just be careful where you attach those clamps please
Jocelyn – that’s right, you won’t see the word ointment around these parts…ahhh shit, i just screwed up these parts
Marty – danke, temp was awesome yesterday, i think it was supposed to be 20 degrees cooler, but the sun reflecting off the eagles throwback jerseys and warming the greater Delaware area.