Mike’s World

Well, 2 days in to my vacation and I am enjoying it.  I read an e-mail from my boss, and it looks like I will not have a crapload of PDO to worry about loosing this year, which is nice. Yesterday and today I did yard work, which has been nice because the weather has been in the 60’s.  I will need to continue tomorrow, at which time it will be cooler but that will be ok.

About a month ago I signed up for the pre-screened flyclear airport “express lane” and for the last 2 times I have gone to SFO, I had forgotten to bring my passport. Dug it out today, and with luck I will not forget it.

Not much else going on today, just trying to find a good horror movie to watch.

36 hours and counting - no calls, pages or e-mails from work. I think I am on a streak here.

Man, it is hard for me to think that October has some and gone so fast.  The fall leaves are falling (and in my back yard, the warm late summer has gone to somewhat chilly early fall, and in days Halloween will have come and gone.

I am still spending much of my time in California, and the  time I have been in Minnesota I have tried to keep the house keeped up, relaxing and spending time with my Cosin, which has been very enjoyable.

So far in the past month or two we have gone up north to hang up with one of my cousins close friends, and have gone to a fun pre-Halloween party. It is great being like, social and stuff!

At work I have still been dedicated to my project in San Mateo, CA and have been traveling quite often to CA. I am enjoying the work quite a bit because its a change of pace for me, but the travel also gets tiring real fast.

As I mentioned, yesterday I went to a bar party with my cousin  and one of her friends. I am not normally a bar person, but I do need to admit it was fun. I attempted to dance, which was very embarrassing and my cousins friend was a very nice person, and I enjoyed hangin out with her.

This week I am taking off of work to get the house in order for winter, and take care of some things that have just gone to the way-side.  I am looking forward to taking it easy for a week, and then its back out to CA next week.

I spent last week at home, and it is amazing how busy the week gets when I spend half my time away from home.  All of the little things like mowing the lawn just build up. Kirsten stayed over these last two weekends again, and I am finding my time with her very, very special.  She is such a nice person and we just “click”. It is like the relative I have not had. I miss her when I am out of town, not something I am use to.  It is nice to have such special relatives, who cares for me, and I care for her.

The previous weekend we had gone on a shopping trip to Ikea to get a bed frame, and then off to Sams Club to get a mattress, so I now have a real guest bed. I had gone to her church, and hung out with her after church normal thing, which was a bit of a change for me.

Last week at work was also busy with just playing catchup.  I had done some miscellaneous work on my CA project, but nothing substantial. A good chunk of work as also  just getting back in the loop on some of the normal Minnesota work I had done.

Last weekend we had gone shopping at the MOA for a bit, and for some reason I can not remember what else we did. Silly me. All I remember is going to target, but I am sure after some time my memory will come back :-)

This week I am back in CA, and already looking forward to doing home. the folks out here moved to some new office space, and it is quite nice.  I do have some decent projects coming up over the next day or two, which will show some progress at work for this week.