Back home after spending the weekend in Iowa. My brother had just gotten back from spring break and was hanging out at my parents' house in the Quad Cities. He also just turned 21 so I had my first beer with him when he was actually legal to do so. Good times. Got a couple good runs in too. Weird how much, I dunno, cleaner? Iowa air is. It was almost an overload of oxygen after running in the west loop all this time. Good things afoot though.
I am officially taking on the Alaskan race. Roly and I booked our flights for the second week of July to fly up to Anchorage. Still haven't sorted out how exactly the bikes will get there, but if Jet Blue can ship 'em to Long Beach, I don't see how the fuck Delta can't get 'em up to Alaska. A little leary of having connecting flights with those things in tow though. Guess we'll see I guess.
My fuckin' home laptop's power insert decided to loosen itself to the point to where I can't keep the plug in long enough to power up the internal battery long enough to get the fucker to come out of his sleep mode. So its basically in a coma. I brought my work laptop home to use for general internet stuff (The Rox box isn't, nor will it ever be connected to the interknot). So until James re solders or does whatever the fuck it is he has to do to make the thing come alive again, I'm stuck wtih this thing. That's somewhat inconvenient because I can't install anything on this computer, which includes my workout/diet/weight tracking program I use very regularly on the onset of a new season. So yeah...I need that shit fixed else I don't know what the fuck is goin on.
Lots of new projects afoot at work this week. We've got a couple new deliverables to roll out to the teams, new projects coming along, old clients trying on new ideas etc etc. All in all, it's enough to keep me on my toes and then some. I'm trying to get in a habit of having to-do lists that are so chock full that I need to prioritize. For the past few weeks everything has been cropping up so fast and furious I literally showed up to work and spent the entire day helping people with their projects and making sure the teams had what they needed. This went on for pretty much the whole year. Then I found myself on Friday without anybody coming to me and was like "whoa, what the hell do I do with myself?". It was an awkward situation because A.there's so much shit to do, to be in a situaiton like that is inexcusable and B. I had so many little tangents and things I could start, yet no priorities or plan for how to attack them. So, yeah, we're gonna eliminate that sorta shit in short order believe you me.
Random question...what was the mall used for the big shoot out scene in Commando? I watched that Saturday night and noticed, even 20+ years later, it looks curiously like the one by the airport in Long Beach....