Monday morning…  Nothing too amazing on the schedule today.  Got some meetings, going to see if I can play around with a demo of LANDesk, fix whatever random crap breaks…  But nothing too amazing.

Weather is crappy.  It’s gotten cold again.  There was snow on the ground this morning, leaden skies, and some kind of slushy crap raining/falling down.  It really feels a lot more like fall than spring.

I’ll be going to pick Terri up on Friday, which is awesome.  These last few weeks have been very long.  It’ll be good to see her again.

Working from home today…

Had to take some time off this morning, to haul Christopher off to his court appointment.  Tried to get him to call yesterday to make sure nothing had changed, but he didn’t want to.  And it turns out something had changed…  So I took time off from work and drove all the way out there only to find out it had been rescheduled.  Needless to say, I’m a bit annoyed.

Got home around 11:00, and I’ve been on-the-clock ever since.  Trying to get a new Lync 2010 test/demo server up and running.

We’ve been relying on AIM for our chat services…  And that just isn’t cutting it any longer.  It’s insecure and unreliable.  So we’re looking to replace it (as well as some other services like GoToMeeting) with Lync.  And in order to that, we’ve got to get approval and funding for the pile of software and hardware it’ll take to make it happen.  Which means we need to demo the product to the powers-that-be.

So…  That’s what I’ve been working on lately.

I would’ve had a server up and running yesterday, but we ran into trouble with our CA.  We haven’t gotten around to spinning up our own CA…  And there was some trouble finding one that wanted to sign an internal domain for us…  And Lync absolutely refuses to play nice without a certificate of some kind…

So we kind of spun our wheels for a while, while we tried to figure out what to do about the certificate.

Eventually we wound up paying Thawte an awful lot of money for a certificate that we’ll only be using for a couple months.  Which annoys the hell out of me.  But there isn’t much else we could do.

This weekend has been a blur…

Started feeling kind of crappy Friday night.  Nothing major – just kind of sniffly.  But I woke up Saturday morning feeling considerably worse.  Stuffy nose, sinus pressure, scratchy throat – fun stuff like that.

I was able to sleep until nearly noon…  But then I had to get up and head across the lake to pick Christopher up at the airport.  Well, eventually to the airport…  We had some more stuff planned before that.

We returned a couple pillows that proved to be too painful to use for sleeping.  And we wandered around town a bit.  Which was relatively fun…  Except for me feeling sick.

Then we went to see Silent House, which was downright unpleasant.

Took a little while to recover from that…  Then we had dinner…  Then we picked up Christopher…  Stopped by Barnes & Noble…  And then we headed for home…

Got home around 10:00, and I went straight to bed.

Today, I was supposed to be at D&D, but I didn’t go.  Felt like crap.  Very stuffy/scratchy/congested.  Very tired and achy.  Just wanted to sleep.  But, instead, I spent the better part of the day playing TOR.

Got my gunslinger up to 29.  Killed lots of badguys.  Got killed a few times myself.  Honestly don’t remember too much of it.

And now I’m heading up to bed again…  Feels like hardly any time has passed between getting home Friday night and now…  But that’s it for my weekend – back to work tomorrow!

So glad it is finally Friday – this has been a long week.

Last week, I had to take some time off to get to an appointment.  Wound up being short roughly 4 hours.  I could have elected to use paid time off to cover that…  But I don’t have much accrued yet, so I’m going to make up the time this week.  Which means I’ll be working until 5:30 for the next few days…  And, with the commute between here and home, it’ll be 6:30 or later by the time I get home.  Can’t say I’m thrilled about that.

Time is simply flying these days…

It’s already Thursday.  Tomorrow is Friday again.  And it feels like it was just Monday.

Amazing.

I’ve been at my new job for a little while now…  And, generally speaking, I’m enjoying it.

Not just “it’s a decent job” but “this is actually fun” – which seems really odd to be saying about work.  I’ve spent the last several years just kind of trudging through my day and eagerly waiting for the day to end, and it’s strange to be genuinely enjoying myself at work.

But, one thing I am not enjoying is waking up at 5:00 AM to make it here on-time.

The distance I’m driving is actually shorter…  But I’ve got a ferry ride in the middle, which easily adds another half-hour to the commute.  So I’ve got to get up awfully early to get here on-time.