Mar 25th 2007
After waking up early today we had an ‘eggie’ for breakfast then to the grocery store to get some supplies. Jen packed up a picnic lunch for us and then we headed out. We drove up to Jen’s parents house to pick up Chloe and then drove a couple of hours north to DeSoto Falls.
While we were driving, I had a slight pain in my side that felt very suspiciously like the same type of pain I had from the kidney stone. Fortunately I had my meds with me. Later on the pain went away and I think it must have been a very tiny kidney stone.
Jen, Chloe, and I spent all day hiking at DeSoto Falls. The weather outside was perfect! Chloe loved it too. We had a great time.
(Jen and Chloe)
(DeSoto Falls)
(me and Jen)
Afterwards we drove back and stopped at the Dawsonville outlet stores so Jen could do some shopping. I remained in the car with Chloe and we listened to my audiobook. Jen gout me some polos and some shirts for herself.
We dropped Chloe off and visited with Jen’s parents for a while. Jen and I assembled some bar stools while Jen’s Mom made pizza for dinner. Katie and Chris showed up and we had a party. We all had dinner and hung out - it was a nice time.
Eventually we went home. I drove about 200 miles today. That’s too much driving - I prefer to fly. I processed some photos from the trip and went to bed.
Mar 24th 2007
Jen went to the gym this morning for her weight lifting class and then went shopping with Katie afterwards. I spent pretty much all day working on MS Money stuff while Jen was hanging out at her parents house.
Eventually she came home. I had also finally hung up the seagrass bullitent boards in the study. I think it looks pretty cool:
Later we watched an excellent documentary titled, ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?
‘ After the movie we both went to bed. I wasn’t feeling that good and threw up - I think I might be getting sick.
Mar 23rd 2007
It was a ‘work from home’ day for me today. I was on conference calls most of the day. At lunch time I went to Unezono to have lunch with Katie, Chris, Scott, Jan, and Jen. After lunch we all went to the accountant to do our yearly tax thing. It’s always so stressful for me.
Afterwards we went home and Jen went to the gym while I continued to work. When Jen got home later we had some dinner and then I went over to Clint’s house to watch some basketball games for about an hour.
I was up pretty late working on organizing stuff in MS Money.
Mar 21st 2007
Delta’s bankruptcy plan was unveiled today. They are basically awarding a cash portion and a stock portion based on your 2006 earnings. This is pretty crummy for me since I was only with Delta for about six months in 2006, so my awards are half of what they would normally be. But it is pretty good for everyone else.
Mar 20th 2007
Around noon today Jen and I both went to the dentist - Jen likes the one I go to over by my office. Afterwards we went home. Jen worked from home on her laptop upstairs and I worked from home on the desktop downstairs. Later Jen got bored with work and started looking at houses online. She showed me a couple that she liked. It’s too bad that all of the houses we like are double the price of the house we currently live in.
Later we went driving around the area to look at some houses (from the outside) and then went to Muss & Turner for dinner. We sat outside. It was fantastic spring weather. I love this time of year. Atlanta may have its faults, but spring and fall weather are not it.
Mar 17th 2007
This morning Jen made salsa and cookie pizza fruit things. Later she left to go to Katie’s house to help prep for the party tonight.
I went over to Hooters to meet up with Chris, Clint, and Clint’s future father-in-law. We had lunch and then went over to Clint’s house to watch Basketball. Erin’s dad is pretty cool. He gave me some good advice on treating car-seat leather.
Later I went home, changed, and headed out again. On the way up to Katie’s house I dropped some stuff of at Mom’s house. We had a surprise birthday party for Lisa at Katie’s house and it was pretty fun. There was a decent turnout of people.
Mar 16th 2007
I spent pretty much all week working on a really tough application problem in system test. It wasn’t my code but took ownership of the problem because I wanted to make sure that it got resolved. I think we got the problem fixed this morning after pretty much all week working on it. I was up till about 3am last night working on this.
It turned out to be a problem with the result-set size from a database query. The dataset was basically too large for what we were using it for. We tweaked the query to just return one column (that’s all the app needs anyway) instead of everything and this fixed the problem.
I got home before Jen because she went to the gym. After she got home, Jen told me that we were going to be meeting Katie out for dinner tonight. We wanted to have Thai. I did a quick google maps search and offered up four different options. Jen chose a place called ‘Lemongrass’ off GA-120.
We got there and got a booth. Jen and I ended up waiting a while for Katie. When Katie finally arrived she explained that she went to the wrong place first and that’s why she was late.
Dinner was nice and it was fun to catch up with Katie. I had tofu Pad Thai and it was pretty good.
