Today I woke up naturally without the alarm. It felt great.
I was also feeling much better. I’m not as sick now and feel well-rested. I also like the bed a lot better now too – it’s growing on me.
As I took a shower this morning I realized that I may need to adjust the water heater. I had to keep the tap on full-hot and it was just right. The orientation guy warned me that I may need to adjust the water heater because they keep it on the coldest setting by default.
I got a page from production control about a failed job. I called them back and had them force it complete. The job that keeps failing is one that reboots some of our tuxedo services every day to force a refresh of the database cache. It bothers me that we have such a sloppy method of refreshing the cache – especially considering that we have the ability to programmatically refresh the cache via a message. I’m going to look into this on Monday.
I packed up my car and left for Jen’s house. She was already home from school. On her way home she stopped at Target and bought some fun things for my house. I really appreciate all that she’s doing for me.
We left her house and went over to Chick-fil-A for an early lunch. I had my usual thing: A Chick-fil-A sandwich and an order of 8-piece chicken nuggets.
After lunch we drove over to Jen’s parents’ house and picked up her Dad as well as her dog, Chloe. We’re going down to Statesboro today to help Jen’s sister move back to Atlanta. Her Dad is going down there with us to drive the moving truck back. He’s taking Chloe along to keep him company while he drives alone.
Jen offered to drive part of the way and she started out. I got a call from Larry who updated me on all of his house stuff. Things are coming along quite nicely for him.
I spent a lot of time updating my journal in my notebook as we drove. While we were driving I sent out two emails from my notebook. I was able to do this by dynamically connecting my notebook to my cell phone via Bluetooth. From there my notebook connected (via dial-up networking) to the GPRS network on t-mobile to the internet and sent out the emails. The fact that I was able to do this while we were speeding down the highway in the middle of nowhere, Georgia was cool. Jen and I switched off about half-way there and I drove the rest of the way. It took us about 3.5 hours to drive down to her sister’s apartment in Statesboro.
It only took us about four hours to get everything packed up into the moving truck. The whole moving experience was pretty uneventful and we left Statesboro around 6pm.
I drove back the first-half and then we switched off half-way home. While Jen was driving we chatted and I worked on my journal some more in my notebook.
As we approached Atlanta it was raining. A car in the lane next to us somehow spun out and came close to hitting us. It was a scary moment but no harm was done.
We got home and unloaded my car. It was late and dark outside. I noticed yesterday that the window in the study is missing a screen. I decided to go on a covert mission to one of the other homes being built to borrow a screen from another window. Unfortunately the ones that were open had no screens.
Jen and I decided to bust in the new garden tub and take a bath together. She lit a lot of candles and we filled the tub up with hot water and some bath powder stuff that didn’t seem to do anything. We opened the blinds to the window next to the bathtub so we could watch the lightning storm the brewed outside.
It was very relaxing and enjoyable. The fact that there was lightning dancing across the sky outside made it even more enjoyable.
