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So, its the weekend once more, and it looks like it's my turn to make the thread! Anyone doing anything interesting?

Fence is finally going in my back yard, to shut out the annoying dogs. Here is the corner section:


Basically that, but 74 more feet at the moment. I'm haivng to install it in stages on account that making fence out of ouil results in a really expensive fence, and because of stupid CCNR (written by the fence vendor no less, and yes I am annoyed about that) I have to use this type of fence rather than installing some sort of sane economical solution. Posts set over the weekend, then panels go in on Monday.

The rest of the weekend is going to be miscelanious other projects. If it drys up at all, outdoor work will occur. It's been too soggy to even think about getting the lawn mower out of the garage, so it would be nice to tidy the lawn up a bit. That particular corner of the yard has had pretty much nothing done to it either, so it will get all the edging installed, bark dust, plants, etc.

Other than that, nothing too exciting occuring.

Tomorrow Jonwin and I are taking the grand kids to the library to play with Legos.

Rest of weekend will most likely be spent watching Game of Thrones.. One of our friends is lending us his copy, so we don't always have to watch classic movies on TCM, or the History channel shows on WWII.

Jonwin also has gotten me to do more of the driving, since he on pain pills, It looks like I get to get some more highway driving practice tomorrow as we pick up and drop off the grand kids on the other side of town..

Spent the morning yelling at our idiot HR department at work. I knew that I was out of paid time off and needed to get my short term disability going. I started the process on Monday! True to how a badly run state agency is: They never sent me the paperwork! It was supposed to be overnight and certified.mail. I called today and the HR department at the school was never notified and nothing was sent! "ARRRRGH!" Now I won't get a paycheck till 1-15-12 instead of 1-1-12. And it will be short! It makes you want to go postal on them. I also went and upgraded a friends HP computer. I was amazed that it actually played World of Tanks at the lowest setting with the on board graphics chip. I had him order a video card and 8 gigs of memory for his computer. Now it has 12 gigs and a nice GT 5500 graphics card. The computer is a completely different animal now! He's very happy.

Edited, Mar 16th 2012 5:11pm by Tailmon

Been working on pulling weeds out of the front yard, about half done. Second half is going to be a pain though since it is about twice as heavy with weeds. I also need to figure out what to do with my backyard. I sprayed a bunch of weed killer back there and now I am looking at it in amazment that I had THAT much weeds back there. I might just say "balls to it", tear up the yard and lay down some fresh seed. Although I am not looking forward to doing that due to having 4 dogs that are onry as heck and will more than not get themselves muddy every single time I water the yard. Besides that I got to spray for bugs and check under the deck for any fire ants that decided to make home. They have popped up next to the sidewalk and next door, would hate for the muts to get into a mound of them.

Speaking of dogs I got to trim nails. Two of them are easy enough to take care of, one can be a bother and the final one I don't dare do myself. That dog goes to the vet every time if I want to keep my fingers.

Video game wise I will be checking my email for GW2 beta since they are / getting ready to send out another wave of invites. Periodically check the Firefall website and see if I can get lucky with the beta for that game. Recently gotten into Skyrim again. Before even reaching level 4 I found a new building with a big bandit cave under it that I completely missed despite having over 150 hours invested into that game already. I was thoroughly happy.

I am spending the weekend in Boston for Hubbable, a parkour jam with something over four hundred people. My wife didn't care for the idea of staying home with two little ones, so they're all coming also. Along with St. Paddy's Day, it'll be interesting.

Left the little one with the grandparents and went to various St Patrick's parties. So now I've got the hangover from hell and hoping a little hair of the dog will stabilize my condition. Also thankful for spellcheck, because this post felt like an impossible feat without it.

Bleh, I'm ready for March* to be over. Work's been mentally exhausting for the past few weeks. I'm getting pulled in a different direction from every limb for someone's 'urgent' project. It's impossible to meet the sudden deadlines...it's hard enough keeping all the plates spinning. And last Thursday I met, I believe, the nastiest/rudest woman I've ever met in my life. Ugh.


Being an adult is hard.




*It & February are always my worst months, for some reason.

Edited, Mar 19th 2012 12:40pm by Eske