Staying busy

The week has luckily flown by. The week following a long vacation is generally sheer drudgery, but this one has gone quickly. I'd like to say it had gone smooth, but that'd be a stretch. It hasn't been a walk in the park dealing with all of the inventory and configuration management woes (real or imagined.) Unreasonable expectations and lofty, idealistic goals by upper management have been a common theme throughout the week. Of course "they're" doing it for our own good, and we should thank them. NOT! Anyway, I think we have made some headway in our efforts, not just in fixing what they said was broken, but instead in making them understand that what they are asking for isn't as easy as they seem to think. Tools designed for a Windows-centric infrastructure do not port well over to the Unix flavors. For that matter, once you throw in virtualization options into any platform, you could actually pitch the whole management tool. But as usual I digress.

Let's see what's up for the weekend...

Cash game night on Friday at my buddy Shuman's house. Looks like a crew of all the usual degenerates. Depending on how things shake out Big Red and I may make it over for a few hands at some point. Now that baseball season is over, well our calendar isn't so full. Cole is also going to a local production of The Wizard of Oz with his Mamaw, so that leaves only Whitney to deal with, and she's normally all too eager to ditch us.

On Saturday night, which we had already committed to earlier in the week, is the Yanok tournament. Game #1 of the night will be the monthly qualifier. Big Red still hangs on to quite a nice little sum in that race. He runs it a bit differently than the NDPT points system. He collects $5 from everyone at every game to make up the total pot for the year end game. The total accumulated points you gather for the year, equate to your starting chipstack for the last game. This adds some interesting twists to an already highly competitive group of players.

So, despite all that's been happening in the 9 to 5 world, everything's actually okay. I'm good. Despite tough times there's always the fantastic network of friends that I have. Thanks all for being there, and for listening and/or reading from time-to-time. Since I tend to treat the blog as a bit of therapy for my mental well-being, there's probably more than a few of you who'd like me to get the hell off the couch already.

I'll see some of you this evening for the drawing at the Eagles, or if not there then one of the games I mentioned above. Bring lots of money! : ) You'll be needing it. : P

Regards,

cheer_dad