Wednesday night was gaming night. David and Sharri have just bought a house, so they weren't there and apparently aren't going to be for awhile, due to getting ready to move and trying to sell their house. Jen and Mike were there, though, so we still had seven players.
When I got home, I received a message from my parents that their computer's monitor had died on them. They're still using an old Commodore Amiga 500 with 1 megabyte of RAM and no hard drive. I think I've got about 4 old Amiga monitors lying around here (don't ask), and I think two of them still work, so I'll have to test them out this weekend.
I called them back on Thursday. In addition to talking about the monitor, Dad said that they now have their satellite dish, with 41 channels. Welcome to the '90s! They also went camping at the lake for the week leading up to Memorial Day, using their new monster trailer. He said they really like it, although they nearly had a disaster when the water system developed a leak. If they weren't there to discover it and turn off the water, they would have had a flood on their hands! As for Mom, her radiation treatments went well. They ended a couple of weeks ago, but she'll probably have another couple of weeks of treatments soon. After that, they're hoping to head out west to do some real camping!
Thursday and Friday I was in a class at the training center, Novell Netware 4.1 for Users. It was pretty much a waste of time. I learned some things, but what I learned I think I could've picked up in about 30 minutes from a book.
That doesn't matter, though, because we're in our annual end-of-fiscal-year spending panic at work. This happens every year. Our department has a budget of zero dollars -- literally. (I'm using the word "literally" in its intended sense of "truly," not as hyperbole.) If we want anything, we have to persuade another department to pay for it. As a result, we get nothing until the other departments have run out of things to spend their money on. At that point they toss some money our way and we have to spend it almost overnight.
In addition, the money can't be spent on just anything. For example, "training" money can only be spent on training, not on hardware, software, or anything else. As a result, we can only spend this training money on whatever classes happen to be available right now. Never mind that this course is nearly useless, while one being offered in two months is just what we need -- we won't have any money two months from now, so it gets spent on the nearly useless course.
In short, our so-called purchasing system sucks.
My Life by the Numbers
Wednesday: 232.5 pounds. I'm not sure how I lost two pounds overnight; I weighed myself three times to confirm. Walked 2 miles in 28:43.
Thursday: 234 pounds. It's always like this after gaming nights. :-) Walked 2 miles in 27:59! "Why so fast?", you ask me. While I was walking, I spotted two women walking a block or two ahead of me. My competitive instincts kicked in and I walked faster to try to catch up and pass them. However, that only lasted for the first half of my walk, because they played a trick on me and took a different route. Wimps! I would've left 'em in my dust -- if one can kick up any dust while walking on a blacktop road.
Today: 234 pounds. Didn't walk. Didn't wanna.
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