They’re replacing the roof at work, it started yesterday. We had to park our cars in the back lot, which is not such a bad thing, a little walking never hurt anyone (and honestly, most of the people here need to do a little more walking). The parking inconvenience is nothing compared to the banging that’s been going on for the past two days. Luckily I’ve been able to escape the worst of it by putting on my headphones.
I completed that server install I mentioned on Monday. I encountered the typical difficulties[1] one would encounter on an on-site install, it took much longer than expected and at times was very frustrating. In the end I kept my cool and it was a success, I was happy to have had the experience. Best of all, I felt really good about the completion of it, job satisfaction is good. I’m even more convinced now that going back into IT would be the right move for me.
I’ve been seriously considering joining a gym over the past couple months and finally decided that I will. Michael signed up at LA Fitness a couple weeks ago, and has pushed me in the direction of joining him. Nita has been suggesting I join for months now, and when we got together a couple weeks ago she said she’d be willing to hit the North Wales gym to join me occasionally (regularly?). I’ll be getting a guest pass for the North Wales location next week and a woman I work with said she’d get a guest pass too and accompany me, cool.
I went to Curves the other day as another option, there is one less than 2 miles from my house and one a couple blocks from work so I figured I should at least check it out. I was not impressed. First of all, the woman who runs the location I went to is overweight; not a very good selling point! Then the whole thing is more like an “exercise routine” than a gym, there are workout machines and you go around and spend something like a minute on each for a half hour, then do some stretching. No showers, no classes, $34 per month. Egad! How can these be so popular? I suppose it’s the convenience of them, and people feel good about doing at least SOMETHING when it comes to exercising. But for $34/month I might as well join a real gym.
Tonight I need to hit a store and get some clothes for the gym some sort of gym bag.
I bought some sandals from birkenstockcentral.com last night. I haven’t owned a pair of sandals in a few years, as I generally just wear sneakers all summer and we don’t often go to pool/beach places. But now we attend sweat lodges regularly, so it’s nice to bring something along for my feet so I don’t need to run around barefoot all evening. A shoe-loving woman at work learned of my interest in Birkenstocks and pointed me in the direction of the website, and the bargains area where I was able to find some very nice ones for $40 (originally $109) plus shipping, and I was able to track down a coupon code to get 5% off, yay for getting new Birkenstocks for under $50!
[1] Of course I didn’t know they were “typical” difficulties at the time! It was only after sharing my story with fellow techies that I learned that just about every on-site install has its share of problems.