I survived my much-dreaded oncall week, and now have a nice, easy two-day week ahead.  That starts with today, which I have off for no particular reason.  I’m sure it will be well-spent though;  It’s certainly off to a bang-up start.

I went to happy hour at the Brooksider on Friday, for no other reason than that’s what I do on Friday.  I only made it about an hour though, then went home and sat around working on my itunes playlists.  So ended Friday.

Saturday went rather poorly, at least as far as website material goes.  I woke up with the fascinating idea of switching my website from Unslung to SlugOS… and there went my Saturday.  I’ve used Unslung for about 4 years now, and it works fine, but the SlugOS had a few new features I wanted to try out.  Plus, I dunno, I was thinking maybe chicks would find me cooler if I was running a bit more complicated operating system.  (The validity of that theory remains to be seen, although things aren’t looking good so far.)  Anyway, it certainly wasn’t a light undertaking, and it killed most of my day.  About the only other diversions were taking the dog for a walk and going out to dinner.  The dinner plans sort of fizzled though;  My original plan was to go up to Waldo Pizza and watch the MU game in their new “Sports Bar.”  As it turned out though, they had the room reserved for private parties, so I guess that will have to wait for another day.  We did go ahead and order a pizza since we were there though.  By the time we got back home and turned on the TV, the game was effectively over, but I sat down to watch it anyway.  Due to the score though, I found myself inexorably drawn back to my computer chair to do more work on my web server, and the rest of my evening was spent in a horrible vortex of dorkiness.  I almost got everything working I think;  Right now my biggest concern is that the logo on my home page says “uNSLUng,” when it’s really NOT anymore.  Gosh, is it any wonder I don’t sleep well at night.

Sunday was a bit more adventurous, at least as far as my Sundays go.  Determined not to waste my day sitting in front of my television watching football, we waited until game-time and then took a good three mile walk with Gabe.  It was a nice day out for a walk, perhaps with the exception of the rather chilly breeze.  That little stroll killed some time, then we went down to the Brooksider to eat lunch and watch some football.  So, my plan worked quite nicely;  I wasted my day sitting in front of somebody else’s television watching football.  That’s a good place to watch the games though;  They have so many TV’s you can watch all the games at once with just a slight turn of the head.  Saves wear and tear on my clicker thumb, you know.  On the downside, there was a brand new waitress working, which had everybody a bit out of sorts.  I took advantage of the uncomfortable situation though, and really shook things up by ordering a sandwich I had never tried.  It was a very successful experiment too, I think I have a new favorite sandwich at the ‘Sider.  After the games, I went back home and finished fine-tuning my new webserver, and then sat in front of the TV all evening alternating between the baseball game and low-grade horror movies.  I generally enjoy bad horror movies, so this is my favorite time of year for TV.  Last nights offering though, The Pumpkin Karver, was so bad I eventually turned it off.  Wow, it was poor.