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It was a grand weekend. and prooved to be find hostesses as usual. There was talk that I would have to do work all weekend instead and it was touch and go there for a bit but in the end I was able to steal away. I still spent a fair amount of time engrossed in work, but the angst factor was pretty low.

And now the countdown begins for the Fourth of July shindig at my house. It's been a long time since I've had so many folks in my house at one time and I'm looking pretty forward to it. But with 8 adults and 3 kids staying in the house in addition to and myself, things like clean towels and toilet paper become more of an issue than normal. But it will be a bit like old times back in Blacksburg.

Today was Dad's last day at work. He seems to be doing well overall. I suppose we'll see how that goes in the near future. I can understand his angst over not being with a job after a very long time, but maybe he'll come to enjoy it.

My coworker is out of town all this week on vacation and I must "hold down the fort" without him. So far so good as of Day One. And Friday is a holiday. So I'm hoping for the best.

Ok, I'm too tired to keep writing and tomorrow is a long day of fort holding, so we'll pick up where we left off from there.

A Standard Update

Been piddling around with my colors and stuff on LiveJournal. I'm more pleased with the organization of it, but I must admit that while there are tons of options in the template setup, at night after a long day of work, it usually just makes me feel stupid when I can't get the thing to do what I want. Been thinking a lot about cosmic things lately. I've noticed a theme in a lot of parts of my life that I crave a sense of community. Dan said today in one of our meetings at the office that "we have to rely on each other in order to get things done." It just seems like a constant in my life. I might be foolishly optimistic. But I just keep thinking that so many things work better when people can and do rely on each other and work together. Maybe I'm just babbling. I can't seem to put it into words the way I want to right now, but talking to Rich about it on the phone last night seemed to help it make sense in my head.

Life is really really good these days. I'm feeling better about work lately and am optimistic again about the chances of my getting some free time and some real progress done in the office. I say this while I'm watching my employee give a demo to chinese people online (it's 9:30 in the morning there). But all in all I'm pretty pleased.

Things are in the works for us to take a trip to Vegas for Labor Day weekend. I'm amazingly excited about this. Rich has never been before and we'll be at the Venetian again. I'm already working up my bankroll and searching for the shows we'll see. Vegas really is one of the funnest places on the planet. We are giving up going to Pennsic for this, but all in all I think it's a much better plan.

And just for fun, I found this amazingly weird web site at Liberty University. I thought about this when I couldn't find my shoes in the office to go to dinner (I had left them under Bossman's desk from our phone meeting in there). I guess I really do like working at a place where I don't have to wear shoes unless absolutely necessary.

Harry Potter and the Overworked Programmer

So, I have a confession to make. I have not read the Harry Potter books. You can stop gasping now.

Well, I've read the first book and about 3/4 of the second book. I remember watching the second movie and towards the end realizing I hadn't read those parts. But as for Prisoner and Goblet, I have never ever cracked the spine (well, I'm almost a librarian so I rarely crack spines if I can avoid it anyways, but that's neither here nor there).

And so while everyone else is out scrambling for book five, I'll be at CostCo picking up the old paperback set of the first four. Rich has agreed to read them to me and vice versa on our longer car trips. And I'm pretty pleased about that.

I even forgot Hagrid's name this morning. For shame.