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October 26, 2008
balcony, gaming, MBA
Sitting on the balcony today, enjoying the mid-60s weather with a Sam Adams Light and one of the St. Maarten cigars. This might be the last time I get a chance to have a cigar until the Spring; you never know with this New England weather. On the other hand, it might be 70 for a weekend sometime in December. Either way, I don't want to waste a day I can spend marginally outdoors.
Kara headed off to Vegas for her training at 4 this morning. I very seldom spend more than a day or so away from her, so when she heads off on a slightly more extended trip, it makes me realize how much I miss her when she's gone. It's nice sometimes to have a little separation since it reminds you of how much you mean to each other.
So it's just me and kitty for the week. Friends were asking me last night (we went to a couple of surprise parties for different people) what I was planning on doing while I had the house to myself. It's actually a very busy week with little time for sitting around watching sports and drinking beer. In fact, today is really the only day I have free.
Monday is class, followed by a big software release. Tuesday I'm meeting up with an old high school friend whom I've discovered through Facebook lives just south of Boston. Wednesday I had planned to grab beers with MJP, forgetting that I had already invited him to go see Coldplay with a bunch of other friends (Kara was supposed to go but it ended up conflicting with Vegas). Thursday is class again, and Kara gets home early Friday morning. So that's my week.
I have some work I want to do inside the condo, but I'm going to save that for later tonight, when it cools off more and I can't enjoy the fall leaves out here with my laptop and Labatt. I seldom drink bottled beer these days (except for the occasional imported Yuengling), but I have 5 gallons of red ale that needs to be bottled, and I need non-twist-offs. Sam bottles work very well for homebrew, with labels that are relatively easily removed (if I remember correctly; it's been several years since I last brewed) and a sort of long lip area that makes them easy to cap. That's one of the main projects for tonight.
I haven't been blogging much lately, but I am very active on Facebook. Since my blog entries tend to be "here are some boring things I did in the last two weeks" rather than "here's an interesting statement on my life philosophy," I use Facebook as a sort of Twitter service..."Mark is planning his week, Mark is releasing code, Mark is getting ready for class," that sort of thing.
I've been doing more computer gaming since I upgraded the system. I finished Half-Life 2, along with episodes 1 and 2, and I bought episode 1 of the Penny Arcade game to tide me over until Fallout 3 comes out this week. I think the last time I bought a game on release day was Super Mario Brothers 3 (well, I got Star Wars Galaxies pretty close to release), but Fallout 3 has me pretty excited for several reasons: one, I'm in the mood for something RPG-ish since I've been playing mostly FPS games lately. Two, I actually have the horsepower to run it, which hasn't happened in awhile. And three, I love that it's set in a semi-accurate model of post-apocalypse D.C. and I want to see if my house is in it. It was neat to see the movie Notting Hill in the same theater where part of it was shot, and I've never had a chance to play a game that was set in a neighborhood I know.
The MBA is coming along. I'm planning out my last 7 or so classes and looking forward to graduation in May of 2010, if all goes well. I had a bit of a problem with registration; I forgot to do it first thing in the morning after some work chaos and got shut out of a bunch of classes. But, I was able to recover when a space opened up in Project Management, and I'm going to try my luck with an Entrepreneurship-based class that I hadn't planned on taking, but does count towards the concentration and that I think I'll get a lot out of. MJP and I had a talk about picking classes and his thoughts, and he stressed to me that taking or not taking a particular class was not going to deep-six my career, so I"m trying to go with the flow as far as possibilities go. It's just occurred to me that choosing classes is very much like trying to decide attributes to upgrade in an RPG. I'm just nervous that I'll miss out on a critical skill and won't be able to wield the Advanced Risk-Modeling Bazooka when it becomes available after I become a dual-class Programmer/Businessman because I don't have enough skill points in Combat Accounting.
That was pretty geeky.
Posted by Mark at October 26, 2008 04:03 PM
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