My laptop works again

It's been a pretty busy week. Not so much with work (although the last two days of the week saw a busyness factor not seen since the 24 hour days of February), but with church, Frisbee, and social occasions.

Monday morning I found my laptop waiting for me at work. That was faster than I expected Dell to return it. Sure felt good to have it back. They returned it with the same assembly, which means they probably just replaced the main connector cable. After work, we had an FHE down at Brother Nielson's house in Payson. He has a nice backyard, which would have been really fun if not for the 70 mph winds. Seriously, it was crazy. So we all stayed inside and ate burgers and played games and talked. I lost to Andy in Ping Pong. It was so close. But anyway, I came back and exercised for two hours—over an hour on the bike. I just got distracted by the movie Geoff and his friends were watching—school of rock. Then I went to bed.

Tuesday I went in to work early so I could leave early and meet with Dean Hernandez at BYU at 4:30. We just talked about school prospects, and I guess I still am no closer to decision. Well, maybe. I'm feeling a little more comfortable with BYU now. I'm thinking I could always transfer after my first year, anyway. Then I went to play ultimate until sunset (2 ½ hours). Then we had an intramural game at 9, and we won handily, of course, practicing the H Stack all the way. The H Stack looked horrible by the way. I don't think everyone's getting it. Finally, I went and played volleyball at the church from about 9:30-11. So it was a very long night for sports. Lots of fun, but my arm ended up hurting so bad afterwards. I think the moving up a level in my lifting, plus the disc golf, plus all the playing just overextended it.

My PocketPC was waiting for me when I got into work on Wednesday morning. Apparently a cleaning lady saw my reward sign on the bathroom doors and finally figured out she needed to make an effort to return it. She had had it since last Tuesday and made no effort to find its owners. The power completely died, so I lost everything on it, but overall I'm just relieved to have it back. I was so sore Wednesday afternoon that I didn't exercise at all. Well, and there was a temple trip at 6:30. We ate pecan pie afterwards at Darcy's house. And then I came home and loaded everything back on my PocketPC (the latest backup I had was from February, so you can imagine there was a lot of work to do). Oh, and my laptop's secondary hard drive is dead. Again. That's no fun. I'm not sure if it's just another faulty hard drive, or if Dell's secondary hard drive module is to blame.

Thursday after work we had our second Orem city league game. I sprained my left ankle on the first point. I had just caught the disc while running, and then rolled the ankle as I came to a stop. It was a lame way to get injured. It's the first time I've hurt my ankle since high school, even though I've injured just about every other part of my body numerous times. Anyway, I sat out for a few points, and Jamie was kind enough to fetch me some ice. Then I couldn't take it any longer and played. My running (especially cutting) skills were somewhat diminished, but I still managed to do some damage. Not as much as newcomer to our team, Jeremy, did though. I had no idea he was on our team, but I've suddenly raised my expectations for this season. We won the game 15-11. It wasn't pretty, but it was fun. After the game I caught the last bit of Enrichment (to which the guys had been invited this month) at Jerry's house. It was an Emergency Preparedness course. I didn't pay too much attention though, because I was too busy icing my ankle. Icing my ankle did get me sympathy points from all of the girls there, though. Oh yeah, of coure there was food there, so that was good. I got way stuffed. And we watched the last few minutes of Game 5 of Lakers vs. Spurs. I can't believe Derek Fisher hit that shot. In 0.4 seconds. Seriously, there's no way you can catch the ball and get off as fundamentally sound a shot as he took in 0.4 seconds. No way. Well, enough of my whining. I have to admit it was an amazing game. That shot that Duncan hit on the botched play to Ginobli—that was as clutch as Duncan's ever been. In fact, I used that argument in my bravado when Chris called a minute later to bug me. I told him nothing's gonna stop Duncan after being that clutch. Never mind that Saturday proved me wrong. I hate the Lakers. They better win the title.

Friday was a pretty fun day. Sharolyn and I had a little picnic for lunch up in some park in Pleasant Grove. Then I had to go back to work and work frantically on documentation. We're doing a freeware version of Corda Builder next week, and that also means an update release to the core product, which means a new documentation build, which means a lot of people came up to me today saying, "oh, I added this new feature about a month ago, and maybe we should document it." Sigh. It really wasn't that much work, I guess. I got it all done by 7:30 (having started at 9, with the hour and half lunch). It was just busier than normal. This made me a little late for my date with Angela. We had a pretty fun time. We ate at Los Hermanos (we shared the fajitas, and were stuffed silly afterwards. Oh, and I had this awesome tomato based tortilla soup with shrimp and chicken and avocado. I've got to have it again sometime). Then we went to see Hidalgo, which was a pretty fun film, less so for plot than for it transporting me to a historical time and place and environment that I know little about.

Saturday morning I played Ultimate as well as I could with my ankle (I bought a brace and some wrap on the way to the game). First we had an intramural game, which we won 10-0, of course, and for which we really didn't need me. Then we played at Kiwanis, which went well except for the time someone tackled my ankle. I spent most of the afternoon cleaning house, then Mark and Krista and I dropped by Candace's reception. The only people I knew there were Candace and Kristen. Mark and Krista dragged me to another reception for a couple I didn't know in the Provo courthouse afterwards. I ate food while they talked to the couple. Which brings me to a great Saturday night activity idea for Provo—reception hopping. Then I wasted the rest of the night playing computer games and watching TV.

Today we had tons of meetings, a priesthood fireside, and ward prayer. Nothing out of the ordinary there. So that sums things up.

Posted May 16, 2004 (11:06 PM) | Comments (1)