[i code therefore i am]

Monday, I could never really get behind Monday’s. It’s not that the are particularly bad, I just have a hard time getting going.

This morning was especially hard. it’s my birthday and all I really wanted to do was sleep. Hard. I slept a little later than I usually would and got moving a little slower than I usually try to. I took it slow and enjoyed just being this morning. It was a very Zen type of morning. Until I hit traffic. Then my Zen was gone.

Oh well. I’ll get there eventually.

So I got to work a little late, nothing too bad, but a little later than normal. Got started on getting the project that had to be out the door today finished up and out. Worked on a few things to try and help simplify a few processes that I have to do regularly.

I tell ya what, if you are in tech and haven’t looked at Microsoft’s PowerShell, you need to get on that. It’s pretty darn slick. I’ve managed to take something that was taking me far too long manually and turned it into a 5 minute job using a PS script.

Liking that a lot. I owe my old boss an apology for doubting it’s usefulness.
So with that. Sorry man. you were right.

I have a few things to post on this later. Good stuff and I have a few good things to share as I get all of it wrapped up.

After that stuff I worked on a few special projects that are going on around the office to help out, those are going a little more slowly, but hopefully will pick up some steam toward the end of the week.

After work I rolled over to the coffee shop and grabbed a chai and talked to M for a few. I met the new barista and talked briefly, but they got slammed, so I left and let them do their thing.

Came home for a little while and played some video games with the guys, cause they wanted to “hang out” with dad for a while. Which usually means, “can we play video games while you watch?” or something to those effects. Today I played too, so that we were all doing something somewhat together, as the allure of Memory apparently wore off as they came downstairs. Oh well, I was really trying to play board games first.

After playing a few games with the guys, we got ready and headed back up to the coffee shop to get M from work. We ran out to dinner, after a snafu with the keys to the shop was resolved, and ate a wonderful dinner. We talked and goofed off and generally just enjoyed being.

The kids ended up too hopped up on sugar to stand up straight and were getting a bit silly, so we came home and did the traditional singing of Happy Birthday and eating of VERY SMALL pieces of cake, as to not implode the poor little sugar ridden bodies.

The we sent them off to brush teeth and get ready for bed. Once all that was taken care of, we tucked them into bed and I’ve been surfing the internets since.

Now, time for meds and beds shortly.
Been a pretty good day overall. Here’s to a pretty good year to come.