I had a pretty good training last week in Sacramento. Work sent me to a 5-day, Microsoft Certified course in Programming in C# and it turned out really good.

It was either Thursday or Friday that I got to training in Sac to find my rear-left tire was nearly flat on the pilot. So after class that day I aired it up a nearby Shell station and drove it to America's Tire there in town and ended up spending about $550 just getting upgraded to some Yokohama Geolander HTS tires. Though I'm sure they could have patched the OEM tires, I'd had them for nearly 3 years and they were very poorly rated tires. It's nice having some good traction now.

Well that's about it. it's been getting warmer, but today it looks like a thunderstorm is blowing in that's supposed to last a couple days. w00t for a little cool down. This saturday is the Top Hat Classic 25-mile bike ride for Multiple Sclerosis in Plesanton. Shelli and Laura we signed up to ride (along with me), but they sound shaky on if they're going to go or not. If they bail on it I probably will to since I don't know the area there very well. We'll see...

The movie, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is coming out soon in theaters, and so when Eighmee wanted to go to Barnes & Noble last night, it provoked me to purchase the paperback and start reading the 1979 story. I made it about 64 pages through the book last night. I recall reading the first couple chapters in high school, but I never cared much for reading then. Having read a good deal of it last night then provoked me to find the old Infocom text-based RPG game I remember from playing on the Commodore 64 as a kid. I always sucked at it, but the internet walkthroughs are great now. :o)

Man, I've been helluva sick this past week. Eighmee has been sick the past month, and now just has some light coughing fits, but last Friday it struck me. After three weeks of taking care of her I figured I was immune, but nay. So yeah, I've taken the past 6 work days off of work, only working a bit from home to try and stay caught up with what's going on. Too bad too. In the past seven and a half years I've worked at HPSJ, I think I've only taken like 3 sick days, then whamo. But at least I had a lot of sick time saved up just in case.

So I've not been to a doctor since my last doctor, Dr. Ed Schneider stopped his practice, to retire to a teaching gig locally from what I understand. He was one of the doctors who delivered me (from what mom tells me :o), and I've had him for freaking-ever, so it was a bit weird seeing another doc. Not knowing anyone else in town I was auto-assigned a PCP by my HMO. As it turned out they were a pretty big Medi-Cal group. The place was pretty ghetto, the waiting room was small, the office staff were ghetto, but.... the doctor was pretty cool. So I filled out all the paper work and stuff, and finally got to see her. She prescribed an anti-biotic and an inhaler, and they've been working quite well.

This is my first day back at work, and I've been doing pretty good. So that was my week... just laying on the couch sleeping about 70% of the time.

In other news, about a week and a half ago I put together a computer for Sean on mwave.com. It was a pretty nice P4 3.0Ghz rig. Unfortunately the parts showed up last Tuesday, but I was so sick I couldn't put it together. So I had to orchestrate Ryan and Sean doing the building. It turned out well, and I was able to pawn off an old Dell 17" CRT monitor on him which was an upgrade over whatever he currently had.

The end.