Wednesday, March 28, 2007
The light goes on...
Ok, there was a public pool here in Erlanger that Camille went to for over 10 years with her family. Tonight as we passed, she noticed that they had torn it down. So I mentioned how when i first started hearing about it from her family I thought it was the Tripoli swim club. Turns out it was Triple EEE. So i told her that i didn't think of it as the Erlanger Elsmere Edgewood club and you should have seen it. the light turned on and it was so funny to watch. she'd never put it together. we both laughed so hard.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
What a House!
Ok, so i'm running a call today to fix a laptop and when i get to the house it is absolutely amazing. the rooms are just massive there aren't enough words to describe it. So i'll just give you a picture i took as i was leaving. That Hummer in the driveway belongs to their 18yo son. The pool, basketball court and tennis court are in back.
Just out of curiosity and because i'm getting pretty good at being a web sleuth, i looked it up and it is a $3m mansion.
Just out of curiosity and because i'm getting pretty good at being a web sleuth, i looked it up and it is a $3m mansion.
Random Thoughts.
Meter Reading
ok, so i haven't seen the guy come by to read the water meter since we moved in almost 2 years ago. Saw him for the first time today, it seemed really odd, there was this truck coming up the street on the opposite side. For some reason i was thinking a mail truck, even though this was a pickup. when it got to our house I saw the driver leaning out his window with a long pole in his hand. evidently there are electronic sensors at the curb so he doesn't ever have to leave his truck anymore. cool. I know my parents house had something similar installed a coupl years ago but it is just attached to the side of the house, not way out at the curb.
Mmmm... Ice CreamI've never really been into many odd or specialty flavors of ice cream, and Oatmeal really isn't my thing but Camille had me try this Ben & Jerry's Oatmeal Cookie Chunk and OMG it was amazing. I had never experienced Cinnamon in an icecream and I was hooked. That was probably my favorite flavor until the other night she brought home some Ben & Jerry's Cinnamon Buns ice cream. It is my absolute all time favorite now.
Cool Website.
I was browsing today and came upon this website where a guy had taken a photo of himself every day for 8 years and made a video out of it. It is pretty cool, go check it out.
I could also spend hours here looking through all this guys great photos
ok, so i haven't seen the guy come by to read the water meter since we moved in almost 2 years ago. Saw him for the first time today, it seemed really odd, there was this truck coming up the street on the opposite side. For some reason i was thinking a mail truck, even though this was a pickup. when it got to our house I saw the driver leaning out his window with a long pole in his hand. evidently there are electronic sensors at the curb so he doesn't ever have to leave his truck anymore. cool. I know my parents house had something similar installed a coupl years ago but it is just attached to the side of the house, not way out at the curb.
Mmmm... Ice CreamI've never really been into many odd or specialty flavors of ice cream, and Oatmeal really isn't my thing but Camille had me try this Ben & Jerry's Oatmeal Cookie Chunk and OMG it was amazing. I had never experienced Cinnamon in an icecream and I was hooked. That was probably my favorite flavor until the other night she brought home some Ben & Jerry's Cinnamon Buns ice cream. It is my absolute all time favorite now.
Cool Website.
I was browsing today and came upon this website where a guy had taken a photo of himself every day for 8 years and made a video out of it. It is pretty cool, go check it out.
I could also spend hours here looking through all this guys great photos
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
Think warm thoughts...
Well yesterday after the meeting was a pretty busy day. I got a lot done and got in some more OT. I finally made it back to my room about 9pm.
Did i mention that my rental has a remote starter? I parked beneath my window last night and I just now pointed the remote out at the car and started it up, it'll be nice and toasty when i get in. too bad the fun ends in a little over a week. oh well i'll just think warm thoughts and look ahead to my vacation next month.
I still have not crossed the Potomac, it seems that they split their group so that they don't have to cross it. It looks like there is a virgina group and a DC group under the same manager, which makes sense in some ways since traffic is so bad in DC. but it ruins my fun. I did get a picture yesterday though. In front of a walmart parking lot there was a small pond. it had frozen over like everything else out here but on this one, someone had pushed out some shopping carts. I know that no one is going to venture out to try and retrieve them and that as soon as the ice melts, they're sunk.
Oh, I saw another funny thing yesterday, a Home Depot with a parking garage. I guess that happens in big cities with no room but i had never seen it before. no storefront facade like i was used to seeing, just a two story parking garage.
I've been getting up really early here, hopefully i can continue the trend when i get back home.
Did i mention that my rental has a remote starter? I parked beneath my window last night and I just now pointed the remote out at the car and started it up, it'll be nice and toasty when i get in. too bad the fun ends in a little over a week. oh well i'll just think warm thoughts and look ahead to my vacation next month.
I still have not crossed the Potomac, it seems that they split their group so that they don't have to cross it. It looks like there is a virgina group and a DC group under the same manager, which makes sense in some ways since traffic is so bad in DC. but it ruins my fun. I did get a picture yesterday though. In front of a walmart parking lot there was a small pond. it had frozen over like everything else out here but on this one, someone had pushed out some shopping carts. I know that no one is going to venture out to try and retrieve them and that as soon as the ice melts, they're sunk.
Oh, I saw another funny thing yesterday, a Home Depot with a parking garage. I guess that happens in big cities with no room but i had never seen it before. no storefront facade like i was used to seeing, just a two story parking garage.
I've been getting up really early here, hopefully i can continue the trend when i get back home.
sooo tired...
ok, i have been so damn tired that i haven't blogged for a few days so here's a recap.
Monday night didn't really bring much snow, enough to dust the cars and stick to the grass but the roads were just wet. Tuesday however was horrid. The federal government let all employees in the area out at 2pm which just made rush hour last longer than the norm for here. Tuesday night brought about 6 inches of ice. not solid stuff, this was more like the little beads of ice that you get in a slush puppie when you drink all the stuff. My car didn't have an ice scraper in it so i had to heat up the car and do it all by hand. About an hour before, a plow had come through the parking lot and left a nice mound of snow for me and everyone else to try and work our way over.
I had to be at a Food Lion grand opening at 8am in Manassas so that meant getting up at 5am, and leaving at 6 to get there in time. Why they need an NCR tech at a Food Lion opening is beyond me. It wasn't even a new store opening. it was just a remodel. Walmart grand openings i can understand, they usually have 30 lanes along the front plus all the department registers. This store had 9 lanes total. 9, and three of those were IBM self checkouts that we don't even cover. i was so damn bored, stuck there for four hours. and COLD!!! they could have turned the heat up a little in my mind and i was wearing several layers of clothing. From what the cashiers said, the back of the store was even colder (dock doors open) good god! What a waste of time. Didn't do much throughout the rest of the day ran some calls here and there but nothing exciting, just more food lions.
Last night i fell asleep about 8pm with the TV on so naturally i kept waking up throughout the night. got up at 5:30 again to be on the road at 6 for a 7am breakfast meeting which was pointless for us out of towners but the food was good. It was in the hotel restaraunt which was on the 17th floor of a holiday inn, overlooking the frozen Potomac. I wish i had my camera on me.
Hopefully i'll remember and write more tonight. if anything exciting goes on.
Monday night didn't really bring much snow, enough to dust the cars and stick to the grass but the roads were just wet. Tuesday however was horrid. The federal government let all employees in the area out at 2pm which just made rush hour last longer than the norm for here. Tuesday night brought about 6 inches of ice. not solid stuff, this was more like the little beads of ice that you get in a slush puppie when you drink all the stuff. My car didn't have an ice scraper in it so i had to heat up the car and do it all by hand. About an hour before, a plow had come through the parking lot and left a nice mound of snow for me and everyone else to try and work our way over.
I had to be at a Food Lion grand opening at 8am in Manassas so that meant getting up at 5am, and leaving at 6 to get there in time. Why they need an NCR tech at a Food Lion opening is beyond me. It wasn't even a new store opening. it was just a remodel. Walmart grand openings i can understand, they usually have 30 lanes along the front plus all the department registers. This store had 9 lanes total. 9, and three of those were IBM self checkouts that we don't even cover. i was so damn bored, stuck there for four hours. and COLD!!! they could have turned the heat up a little in my mind and i was wearing several layers of clothing. From what the cashiers said, the back of the store was even colder (dock doors open) good god! What a waste of time. Didn't do much throughout the rest of the day ran some calls here and there but nothing exciting, just more food lions.
Last night i fell asleep about 8pm with the TV on so naturally i kept waking up throughout the night. got up at 5:30 again to be on the road at 6 for a 7am breakfast meeting which was pointless for us out of towners but the food was good. It was in the hotel restaraunt which was on the 17th floor of a holiday inn, overlooking the frozen Potomac. I wish i had my camera on me.
Hopefully i'll remember and write more tonight. if anything exciting goes on.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
DC Day 1
Nothing really exciting happened today, light workload for most of the day. but 0-60 in seven seconds is fun. I gunned it on an on ramp and WOW, it really put me back in my seat. Which reminds me of another reason I like this car. I accidentally hit a button earlier, naturally after I'd been driving for hours, and the seats got hot. Woot! this will be great tomorrow morning. I've never had a car with heated leather seats before.
I didn't really get to take any pictures today, I saw a couple of frozen rivers that would have been cool shots but I couldn't stop on the highway to take a picture. It is supposed to snow tonight so maybe I can get up early and get some good shots. I haven't even crossed the Potomac into DC yet. I've been in Virginia all day. every time I saw a neat building or something, I was driving and surrounded by traffic. I was rather bored this morning, just some store visits to fill time.
It is amazing, since most of the team here is new (some haven't even been to Dayton for training) they have 9 people in the area from out of the country to run calls and train the locals.
Thankfully, Prison Break is not on this week because I would not have made it back to the hotel in time to watch it, however I did get to watch Steven Colbert.
"Barak Obama is not the first black man to run for president, he is just the first to have a prayer. Which is Ironic considering the last two were reverends!"
I didn't really get to take any pictures today, I saw a couple of frozen rivers that would have been cool shots but I couldn't stop on the highway to take a picture. It is supposed to snow tonight so maybe I can get up early and get some good shots. I haven't even crossed the Potomac into DC yet. I've been in Virginia all day. every time I saw a neat building or something, I was driving and surrounded by traffic. I was rather bored this morning, just some store visits to fill time.
It is amazing, since most of the team here is new (some haven't even been to Dayton for training) they have 9 people in the area from out of the country to run calls and train the locals.
Thankfully, Prison Break is not on this week because I would not have made it back to the hotel in time to watch it, however I did get to watch Steven Colbert.
"Barak Obama is not the first black man to run for president, he is just the first to have a prayer. Which is Ironic considering the last two were reverends!"
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