Day 14

Today is Thursday and I woke up on time and ready to get to work. I again did my daily routine and how repetitive this sounds by now. Geez, I wish I could come up with something more exciting to say but it is what it is as I am sure it’s the same for many. After I got ready I went down stairs and made my IDS protein shake this time throwing in a frozen strawberry from the smoothie frozen fruit packet that Yolanda had purchased a few days ago. I also took my IDS Mass Tab and additional supplements. I will be honest and say that it is 9:44 if the evening and I am tired. I have been working on creating a design for the deck that I am building on paper. Well, actually on the computer so I can print it and take it to city hall for a permit. I am exhausted and my wrists hurt or are in pain today so typing is difficult. I just finished drawing the design on Microsoft Visio and was going to print it when I realized that I uninstalled the printing software yesterday as I was trying to reinstall it since I couldn’t scan the survey of my land. So, I had to go downstairs and fix this on the server and after doing so I decided to type out my log here on the server. Getting back to this morning, I didn’t take a lunch because I still had my left over food at work in the refrigerator. When I got to work I began working on my projects and didn’t buy coffee at Dunkin Donuts. At some point in the morning I had kitchen brewed coffee which is pretty good considering that it is Star Bucks grounds. I added regular sugar but not to much. For lunch I had my left over cheeseburger, a fruit cup and some wheat thin chips with my IDS creatine lemonade drink. After the day was over which was rather late since I had to work with AT&T to downgrade our MPLS bandwidth from 10 Megs to 3 Megs, I gathered my things and left the building. Getting back to AT&T for a minute I want to share some frustration. We have a MPLS network connection because we have an office in Red Bank, NJ that needs connection back to Chicago. AT&T is the only carrier in the building so we created an MPLS network connection. The problem that I have is that we decided that they didn’t need all the bandwidth that we were offering so it was costing a pretty penny to keep paying for useless bandwidth. Instead of AT&T cancelling some of the circuits we didn’t need and configuring the router they issued us they instead order new circuits and provide a new router. This to me doesn’t really make much sense. At the end we have to submit a cancellation for the unused circuits and ship them back the original router. By the time I was done testing and wrapping things up I missed my chiropractor appointment which was at 5:15. I called them and rescheduled for Saturday at 8:00. I arrived at Midway airport train stop and Yolanda picked me up in the van since I had to go directly to my father’s house to pick up the two wheeler. When I got there I hung out with him in the kitchen and he showed me a book he purchased on building decks. I showed him the design I created on my building deck software program and showed him the 3D view mode. We had coffee and some buttered bread. On the way out he gave us an album and other scented goodies to make the house smell good that he had an abundance of since he works for a distribution warehouse that carries these things. On the way home I was hungry but I waited until I got home to decide what to eat. During my conversation with my father he said I should remove the concrete step slab that was installed by the builder. I was so hoping that I didn’t have to do that. I changed to my backyard work clothes and began digging around the parameter of the concrete slab in preparation of demolishing it or prying it out so I can use it somewhere else. At this point Yolanda had to go pick up Jazmin from marching band practice and she went to Chucks restaurant and ordered a chicken sandwich with fries. I ate have of it and saved the other half for her.