A very busy and productive day, though I started by sleeping in since we didn't have contractors coming at 7:30.
I made it back to the gym for the first time this week. Lined up a contractor, actually two it turns out, to trim and tack the carpet in the doorways where it bumps up against the new hardwoods. Made a nice dinner -- brisket and sweet potato casserole (Yams Richard). Was a nice treat to do that without it being a holiday. Sort of like turkey only gets made once or twice a year.
Made a lot of progress catching up on financial records. Really I hadn't entered our "bank" statements into MS Money in a year. Which was really dumb because it took 10 minutes for most months and 20 minutes for tricky months... it just became a pile I never looked at. Caught up through the end of 2009, so I can work on taxes now. And so, I really started on our taxes for 2009.
Went to Kinko's to print some brochures for Monica's business to use at the Pet Fair this weekend. In the end, she has nice looking brochures -- I assume, I've only seen the proof, but the process was a bit frustrating. Actually working with the people at Fedex/Kinko's took 5-10 minutes but driving there, figuring out where I needed to be, and waiting in line took 45 minutes -- very high signal to noise ratio. Also helped Monica do through all her stuff to get ready for Saturday.
Worked out cleaning our outdoor furniture for the season. Everything has sat outside getting rained on or worse since the fall. A quick soap and rinse and letting mother nature do the drying.
Somewhere in between we took Hunny Bear for a nice long walk.
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Friday, May 14
Wednesday, May 5
Days 0 and 1
The weekend doesn't count because I'm usually "unemployed" on weekends, so this isn't different. And this was pretty typical for a spring/summer weekend. Went to the Mariners game on Saturday and played started softball season on Sunday. Mariners lost and I've yet to see them win in person this year. Softball team went 1-1 which is good since we started last year 0-7. We also met with our hardwood installer again and finalized our floor plan. We're going to install real cherry wood floors rather than prefinished wood. It's a lot messier and will take a few days longer because it will have to be sanded and finished, but it will look a lot better and be less expensive. Also we can get the wood this week instead of a 3-4 week backup for delivery.
Monday was day 0. When we got laid off, it was supposed to be our last day of work, but as noted I was already done so my real plans were for Tuesday. Slept in, went to the gym, hit Costco for some essentials, finished Mother's Day shopping and mailed all our Mother's Day gifts.Got movers in place for Wednesday.
Tuesday I had some plans in place. I took the dogs to the vet in the morning. Cocoa was due for his annual checkup and some vaccines and Hunny Bear needed to have stitches removed from his surgery last week and was due for a vaccine as well. Hunny Bear is great though Cocoa has a yeast infection in his ears. We need to do some serious ear cleaning on him. Then I met a friend for lunch, met with my financial adviser to discuss converting my traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs which has special rules in 2010. It turns out to be a good idea if you're far from retiring and don't want to be forced to take withdrawals at 70 1/2 -- say you don't expect to ever need the money. Didn't make it to the gym.
Monica and I had a 4:30 meeting regarding the Humane Society's vision plan, so it was a bit of a short day.
Plan for day 2 is to be here while they do the prep work for converting carpets to hardwoods.
Monday was day 0. When we got laid off, it was supposed to be our last day of work, but as noted I was already done so my real plans were for Tuesday. Slept in, went to the gym, hit Costco for some essentials, finished Mother's Day shopping and mailed all our Mother's Day gifts.Got movers in place for Wednesday.
Tuesday I had some plans in place. I took the dogs to the vet in the morning. Cocoa was due for his annual checkup and some vaccines and Hunny Bear needed to have stitches removed from his surgery last week and was due for a vaccine as well. Hunny Bear is great though Cocoa has a yeast infection in his ears. We need to do some serious ear cleaning on him. Then I met a friend for lunch, met with my financial adviser to discuss converting my traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs which has special rules in 2010. It turns out to be a good idea if you're far from retiring and don't want to be forced to take withdrawals at 70 1/2 -- say you don't expect to ever need the money. Didn't make it to the gym.
Monica and I had a 4:30 meeting regarding the Humane Society's vision plan, so it was a bit of a short day.
Plan for day 2 is to be here while they do the prep work for converting carpets to hardwoods.
Friday, April 30
Day -1: Recovering
Since I'm technically still employed until Monday, this isn't really even day 1 yet. OK, and I'm a technology geek.
My time off started with a bang. Last night on my way home my car battery died. Had to call AAA to get me home. Looks like I need a new alternator. Always nice to have big expenses right as you lose your job. Oh well, maybe it's an excuse to play more poker to earn some extra income.
Today was about recovering from the last couple of weeks. I haven't been working very hard but work has been emotionally exhausting. I made a list of projects to work on while it helped me get organized, it also seems a bit overwhelming. And I decided to use the product I've worked on to see if we can attack these projects in an Agile fashion. So I organized my work and uploaded all of it into Serena Agile. In the process I found three really bad bugs. While finding bugs is normally exciting, it was actually a bit disheartening to see problems in production and to spend my last week working on real problems. As such, I really haven't been motivated to do much around the house.
So today is about doing dishes, running several loads of laundry, going through the last week of mail (some email too), putting away the stuff I brought home from the office, cleaning out the fridge, and doing some grocery shopping. But first, I got to sleep in late for the first time in a really long time. I think I got up about 10:30.
Oh and I made it to gym for the second day in a row. Good. And I stepped on a scale for the first time in weeks. Bad, very bad. Tomorrow I buy a new scale.
My time off started with a bang. Last night on my way home my car battery died. Had to call AAA to get me home. Looks like I need a new alternator. Always nice to have big expenses right as you lose your job. Oh well, maybe it's an excuse to play more poker to earn some extra income.
Today was about recovering from the last couple of weeks. I haven't been working very hard but work has been emotionally exhausting. I made a list of projects to work on while it helped me get organized, it also seems a bit overwhelming. And I decided to use the product I've worked on to see if we can attack these projects in an Agile fashion. So I organized my work and uploaded all of it into Serena Agile. In the process I found three really bad bugs. While finding bugs is normally exciting, it was actually a bit disheartening to see problems in production and to spend my last week working on real problems. As such, I really haven't been motivated to do much around the house.
So today is about doing dishes, running several loads of laundry, going through the last week of mail (some email too), putting away the stuff I brought home from the office, cleaning out the fridge, and doing some grocery shopping. But first, I got to sleep in late for the first time in a really long time. I think I got up about 10:30.
Oh and I made it to gym for the second day in a row. Good. And I stepped on a scale for the first time in weeks. Bad, very bad. Tomorrow I buy a new scale.
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