ready or not.....here comes the weekend!

i have to admit i am VERY ready for this weekend and yet not sure if i am ready for this weekend! confusing....yes and no!!

so, tomorrow is iron mtn brick which will be a true test of whether or not i'm ready for this race or if the injury has taken back over. i'm excited about getting to do this side by side with jess and know we'll push each other to finish it. i hope denden was wrong about laurie's suggested not going to the top. i will reach the top of iron mtn after the bike ride. i will. so, that's tomorrow which is going to kick ass.....literally!

then the rest of the weekend i'll be spending with elaine. i love her and the kids but i've never spent that long with young kids of their ages and not sure how that will go. i'm anticipating that it will go well and that i'll be kept busy helping with meals and laundry etc. of course, i'll play with ozzie and aurora but i'm not sure after iron mtn if i can keep up to be honest!! so i'm not sure if i'm going to be there sat night and sunday night but after this weekend one thing is for sure, i'm going to miss my bed! oh right - i'm staying at gunn's tonight so i will make SURE i'm awake early enough for iron mtn and cause it's closer :0) so at least two nights if not three that i won't be sleeping in my own bed.

as for tonight, it's sarah's b-day tomorrow so her friend is hosting a sex toy party tonight at sarah's house. should be fun and there should be some interesting products there!! michele made me nervous by telling me that the one she'd gone to had a stripper and i'm not prepared to see a stripper at this point!! at the moment, it's all i can do to stay awake and semi-sane sounding. anyway, after that i'm heading to gunn's to sleep and prepare for the mtn! that's about it for the weekend and it's going to be great!

peace out party people!!
~danban

spoke too soon - barbie is back with a vengeance

yesterday and today have been filled with emails, calls, texts, etc etc etc about what's not working and why. barbie is freaking out cause she wants it to work during our training. there have been lots of user error issues (no, i cannot fix those) and three technical problems. two EASILY fixed and quickly by myself. one is not fixed yet and has become high priority which probably means i will have no social life (or training life) until it is done. and the last one, they don't know about yet which turns out to be an architectural problem brought on by their many changes during installation. some of the emails are nasty (we didn't test enough, we gave them a buggy system, etc.) and some of the user errors are making ME look bad. it's a rough spot but for sure i will fix it all and barbie will be satisfied enough to stop calling my cell.

on a side note, last night's class has me sore EVERYWHERE except my toes and fingers :0) it was awesome even though it was cut in half by a late instructor. i will make it to that class from now on!!

off to fix more of barbie's shit
~danban

barbie....the finale (for now)

yes, it has been a while since i've written. i've been consumed with barbie demands. all i can say is that she is one high maintenance b. the past three weeks have been 50 - 70 hour work weeks. there were lots of last minutes "improvements" to the system and it is finally in place. i had to spend an extra day up in el segundo since they weren't as prepared as they should have been for my arrival. and the dude i was working with napped and read a book while i was working ( he was supposed to be taking notes!). it was an......experience. now i know what it's like to deal with a full engagement with a very high maintenance client. it takes quite a bit of patience and some long hours to get it done some times. but it was worth it and i loved doing it. it was great to be the person in charge and i've learned a TON. i really do enjoy my job even with the ups and downs and pains in the arse that just are inevitable in an industry like this. AND to make things more rewarding, barbie gave me parting gifts :0)

in other news, i redecorated my entire bedroom and i am LOVING it!! i'd had the same furniture since high school (not kidding) and it was time for a major change. i now have dark wood furniture of two three shelf book shelves, two side tables, and one armior. they are simple yet very elegant. i now have plenty of space for all my books and even some room to display my knick knacks! now all that's left to be done is for kate and i to put together my new duvet covers :0) guess i just got into a home improvement kick cause i even updated the laundry room - yes, i lead an exciting life :P

wish i could tell ya more but most of the other time has been spent training (not enough time though) and hanging with friends (more than usual which has been great). i have gotten in some looooong runs with jess and donovan which has been therapeutic and necessary. each week gets a little longer and always difficult with some hills. i did get to see katie shoe and jeff while i was in el segundo. i do miss seeing them and karen. got to see karen a tiny bit this weekend and was hoping she was going to drop by but it didn't end up working out that way unfortunatley.

guess i've just been feelin in a funk lately. feel just blah. don't know if that's cause i've spent way too much time working and not enough time for just me or if i just need to get out of town one weekend. i do feel like i haven't been working out enough and i've been neglecting tnt but i don't think that's it. just feeling kind of off. it's like i don't want to hang out with people but i dont' want to be alone and if i do hang out with people, i only want to hang out with one or two not a group. bizarre i know but it's just a weird funk i'm in!! i'll scrape myself together soon enough and be back to as normal as i get in no time :0)

more later since barbie is gone for a while.........
~danban

the barbie chronicles...install

so tired. so many changes in the installation. they weren't prepared. i sat around and waited for a looooooooooooong time for these people to get their shit together. keep working overtime to make the changes. and tomorrow should be the last of it. hopefully. beyond empty and dragging ass. poor craig has had to take SO many calls and answer questions about dumb stuff. whatevs i'm tired.

night!
~danban

WAY past empty and still goin

so this week has been a shit storm at work. i've worked 40 of 66.5 hours over the past three days and am barely standing. i'm VERY ready for the weekend and for kalyn to visit and for kim to visit and for some time to sleep. i think tonight i'm going to have to pass on alana's party (unfortunatley) and just pass the effff out when i get home.

yesterday i finally took *some* time to myself (meaning i didn't work the entire night) and went for a run with donovan. it was a good one but i was feeling the pain of it from being so tired and not having worked out all week. he was nice to wait for me when i was going slower than him but it was a challenging run and we both made it in better time than jess and i did last week (by 10 mins). it was GREAT to get out and do something and get away from work.

from there i went to bry's to get t's hard drive and then off to t's to try to fix his computer. his external drive wasn't working so we put his stuff on mine and then attempted to recover his os. no success. there was this weird noise coming out of his tower then the computer rebooted itself after the recovery process. makes me think it's a problem with his hardware but i'm not an expert at hardware so whatevs. he said he was going to get a laptop cause his computer's so old that he needs to replace it anyway.

not the most exciting of nights but at least i was away from work most of it. i did work while i was at t's and waiting for the recovery disks to work their magic. anyway, i'm off to yet another meeting which probably won't be productive or interesting at all.....yay. the weekend can't come fast enough for me!

~danban

lazy arse

work has demanded control and faulty software is the reason i chained myself to my desk this week. so what happened was that the image i was working on somehow ended up corrupted and i couldn't even restore the db's to a new, clean image. so, long story short i had to start two months of work all over again today and it's gotta be done by the end of the week so that we can test and re-test and i can provide my client with a clean, perfect environment. SHIT! so this means that i need to get it done no matter what. i gave up working out with Jess on tues and gave up my swim and heroes night for work - boooooooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!! so thus i feel like a lazy arse even though i'm only physically lazy not productivity. i am exhausted! making some progress tonight and should be in decent shape for tomorrow's fun filled adventure called work.

night!
~danban

bbbblllaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

so this day has been hectic as hell......work has been insane.....i'm ready for the end of the day.....the only reprieve is working out with jess tonight :0) OH and dinner with bry (a maybe as of now). so everything at work seems to be falling apart at the seams and guess who gets to fix it!! all of a sudden i've become the "expert" at this stuff and i've never even gone through training!!!!!!! i'm totally making this stuff up as i go most of the time! i'm feeling a BIT uneasy about my install next week and fear that it will fall flat on its face.......keep your fingers crossed for me.

tonight........a couple bottles of wine and re-naming of 50 fields. yes, it's going to be a party. of one.

~danban