What To Do?
I’m sitting here in my living room, watching some deal on A&E about the new Superman movie. I’d like to go see it–as in, right now–but I’m surrounded by my visiting family from Missouri and I’m not sure who would do what and all of that. Since it’s my mother, brother and niece, it’s a bit difficult to force anything on anyone, so I’m planning on going with the flow, trying to get some work done secretly along the way.
This is a holiday weekend. It’s a weekend of celebration and all of that good stuff, right?
Heh.
Well, it is, actually. We’re having fun. Sydney’s been getting better and better about hanging out and being social with everyone and that’s so cool. We’ve all really seemed to just be able to chill out without sweating it. No stress. No worries.
The day’s turning out to be… unknown. We’ve got this “Ribfest” thing in Naperville that’s about 10 miles away and pretty kick-ass from a food and bbq and music perspective, but the weather is sketchy at best. Sprinkles and then slight batches of sun and then sprinkles and all of that.
Sigh.
Well, at least we’ve got a boatload of Netflix and a video store within minutes away. There’s going to be *something* to do. I mean, we’re in the Chicago suburbs, dammit.
Right?
Right.
So, we’ll see. Part of this little post of mine is an exercise in “play on my new laptop”. I got a Dell XPS M140 that’s a “thin and light” model with the nifty “TruBrite” screen, or whatever it’s called. This little puppy is smaller than anything I’ve ever had, relatively light and just lots of fun for a nerd like me… I shouldn’t be allowed either out in public or on the Dell Outlet site, but at least it’s purchased during a time of neccesity–I’ve been working on a contract for a start-up company that has me traveling more than I was told upfront, and of course, I’m madly in love with that notion, especially since I discussed it upfront. Interesting times, but interesting, great things on the horizon. As is typical, I probably shouldn’t discuss much.
Anyway. Happy holiday weekend and such. Thanks for checking in for the most boring post ever.
And as a final aside… Tdawg (Troy) and his wife (Amber) swung by yesterday to see us and the house… You know, it’s a shame we’re not all living closer, but it’s great to get to see them. Troy and I keep up pretty regularly via IM and it’s as if we’ve not fell out of touch like happens to so many other people when they move away from … well where you’re used to having them.
Technology is cool.