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I took today off. Stressing about my second wisdom tooth extraction was enough to deal with without having to go to work too. That's my last day off for the year, but considering how much of the year is left, I think I can deal with that. The new benefits plan that we're adopting as part of our merge with the company we acquired some months ago give me an extra week per year off! Of course, the extra five days comes at the price of the four sick days that I used to get; it's all lumped together now. But in the end, I end up with a net gain of one day, and I have to admit that not having days set aside specifically as sick time is an incentive to not call in sick; I want to preserve my vacation days.
I'm sitting in the waiting room of the Goodyear now, wating for new tires to be put on my truck. (No wireless to leech from here though; I'll have to post this at home once I get back.) I'm angsting about the purchase, as I always do about spending more than a hundred dollars or so at a time. I keep reviewing the condition of the tires in my mind and second guessing myself about whether they need replacement. The tread doesn't look dangerously thin yet, though there is some abrasion on the sidewall of one of them that I think is showing some of the metal banding. They've been slipping a lot on the ice and snow too. In the end, it's probably a good thing to have done. I'm getting the nifty service where if anything happens to the tires during their working life, they'll fix them at no cost. I'm not having them replace the spare (a full size, which is the only way to go if you ask me), but there isn't much wear on it anyway. If I get a flat, I'll put the spare on until I can get to a Goodyear, and they'll repair or replace it for free. In theory anyway.
There's a novelty in being able to buy a set of new tires rather than replacing tires with used ones as they fail. There's a nagging question in my head about whether it wouldn't be more economical, more sensible, more bohemian, to just keep buying used.
Speaking of money things, I'm using today to get signed up with a site called MyCheckFree. You sign up on the site free of charge, and then enter informationa bout all of your monthly recurring bills from companies that are registered with the site (my mother tells me that a surprisingly high percentage of her creditors use it; there's only one of her recurring bills that isn't on there), and use a fairly simple web interface to pay them via a checking account or credit card. I think it will be a good organizational tool for me.
Other than that, I have a Netfinity 3500 M20 that I brought home from work that I'm going to set up as a backup domain controller on my network for periods while the primary is down. Yes, Server 2003 doesn't distinguish between primary and backup domain controllers, I know. That's ok; it'll just make it that much easier for me to use one to rebuild Active Directory on the other if I have to take one down for rebuild. Since it uses ECC registered SDRAM, I actually have more memory in it (about 1.5GB) than in my primary server which uses RAMBUS. That stuff is hard to find! The OS is installing while I'm here.
I think I'll sign off here and go watch the tire switch for a bit; I don't get to see my truck up in the air very often and I'm curious.
*sighs* There's still a hole in my jaw where the last wisdom tooth was removed, and now another one is coming out. I'm nervous. I don't know if it's healing as fast as it should be, and I really don't want to deal with all of this again. Wish me luck. I rather wish I had somebody with me just so I wouldn't be sitting around doing nothing but waiting. My brother is going to come by after I'm done, a visit which will be much appreciated, but I'm anxious now. I want a nap.
I'm sitting in the waiting room of the Goodyear now, wating for new tires to be put on my truck. (No wireless to leech from here though; I'll have to post this at home once I get back.) I'm angsting about the purchase, as I always do about spending more than a hundred dollars or so at a time. I keep reviewing the condition of the tires in my mind and second guessing myself about whether they need replacement. The tread doesn't look dangerously thin yet, though there is some abrasion on the sidewall of one of them that I think is showing some of the metal banding. They've been slipping a lot on the ice and snow too. In the end, it's probably a good thing to have done. I'm getting the nifty service where if anything happens to the tires during their working life, they'll fix them at no cost. I'm not having them replace the spare (a full size, which is the only way to go if you ask me), but there isn't much wear on it anyway. If I get a flat, I'll put the spare on until I can get to a Goodyear, and they'll repair or replace it for free. In theory anyway.
There's a novelty in being able to buy a set of new tires rather than replacing tires with used ones as they fail. There's a nagging question in my head about whether it wouldn't be more economical, more sensible, more bohemian, to just keep buying used.
Speaking of money things, I'm using today to get signed up with a site called MyCheckFree. You sign up on the site free of charge, and then enter informationa bout all of your monthly recurring bills from companies that are registered with the site (my mother tells me that a surprisingly high percentage of her creditors use it; there's only one of her recurring bills that isn't on there), and use a fairly simple web interface to pay them via a checking account or credit card. I think it will be a good organizational tool for me.
Other than that, I have a Netfinity 3500 M20 that I brought home from work that I'm going to set up as a backup domain controller on my network for periods while the primary is down. Yes, Server 2003 doesn't distinguish between primary and backup domain controllers, I know. That's ok; it'll just make it that much easier for me to use one to rebuild Active Directory on the other if I have to take one down for rebuild. Since it uses ECC registered SDRAM, I actually have more memory in it (about 1.5GB) than in my primary server which uses RAMBUS. That stuff is hard to find! The OS is installing while I'm here.
I think I'll sign off here and go watch the tire switch for a bit; I don't get to see my truck up in the air very often and I'm curious.
*sighs* There's still a hole in my jaw where the last wisdom tooth was removed, and now another one is coming out. I'm nervous. I don't know if it's healing as fast as it should be, and I really don't want to deal with all of this again. Wish me luck. I rather wish I had somebody with me just so I wouldn't be sitting around doing nothing but waiting. My brother is going to come by after I'm done, a visit which will be much appreciated, but I'm anxious now. I want a nap.