I noticed that the last 3 titles all started with the word good. I guess I should pay a little more attention to that eh? Well, welcome back from a rather un-eventful weekend. This is mostly due to me getting sick on Friday. I am not sure what it was but it felt like a nasty head cold. This really threw the monkey wrench into everything planned. I had wanted to go out Saturday night with Doc but that got canxed because I just couldn’t make it. With a few minor exceptions, Saturday was a total wash for me. I managed to get up long enough to help re-arrange the living room, but that pretty much did it for me.
Sunday was a special day because it marked the 2 years that Amy and I had officially been dating. We didn’t do much that was all that special though. We went out and did some shopping. I got a few things I needed for a special project (Same one and I am still not telling yet). I also spent most of the rest of Sunday working on said project. So far it looks awesome! Outside of that, there isn’t much to make comment about. It should be a pretty slow week as well. I am slowing getting back into working out so I will try and post results from that.
Main topic of the day: Mission accomplished!! I will explain. The weekend started pretty slow. I was planning on going out to the Irish pub Friday evening, because it was St. patties day of course, but after some extra thought, I figured that it would be packed with college kids getting drunk and I would hate to be crowded in by a bunch of slobbering drunk sorority girls getting rowdy and tearing their clothes off while shouting “Kiss me I’m Irish.”
Oh yeah! I remember, because I have a very wonderful red head at home and she loves me whole bunches. So we did the usual, stayed home, ordered pizza, and watched some TV. I think I might have played a little on the PC but it wasn’t much. Saturday I woke up around normal time and formulated a plan. I got Andrew up and we headed out to Home Depot. I needed some parts. We are working on a special project for one of Amy’s costumes. I would tell you, but she wants it to be a surprise. After that I stopped by a few other stores to pick up some DVD’s and comics. More research of course. Amy had been out with her friend Melissa. When we all finally got back home, Amy started in going through listings to find a car. Around 3:30-4pm she came in saying she found one she likes and it hadn’t bee sold yet. I talked to the guy and he seemed really nice, but he lived in Richmond.
I asked the guy if he would hold onto it until we arrive and convinced Amy to just drop everything and head down there. I made it in an hour and a half. The car was in very good condition considering it’s age. We gave it a good twice over and took it for a spin around the block. The guy said he had another woman come by but he was holding the car for us. Amy said she loved the car so we made him on offer while we were still out on the drive. The downside is that he wanted cash. Living in the modern age, I had almost forgotten about cash. Everywhere we go things are handled by electronic means so naturally we wouldn’t be carrying around that much cash.
Thus begins our next adventure. We tell the guy that we are going to hit an ATM and that we will be back. Now see here’s the thing. We have the money. We actually had more then what he was asking. But Amy had stocked it away in her savings account. Some of you may remember that banks only allow you to pull out so much per day. We tested that theory. She had already pulled out some money earlier so we tapped out on her card first. I managed to have a good amount available so we hit my card next. I was able to pull out a little more. All totaled we managed to get almost all of it between the two of us. (That’s a lot of 20’s)
Well, I finally get around to commenting on this last weekend. There was some good and some bad of course. Overall it was a pretty laid back weekend. The timeshare thing was cool. It was absolutely beautiful out this last weekend so it was great to get outside and do things. On I went with Amy to help out with her new room. She recently got a promotion and now is a Lead Teacher for the First Steps room at her school. This means she runs her own room and is an awesome step in her career path. We went over to work on cleaning up the mess of a state that the old teacher had left the room in. It’s going to be super organized when Amy gets done with it. Andrew even got out to a local school fair. We rounded out Saturday night with a good game of pool. Andrew even won one of the games.
Sunday was the big travel day. We needed to be down in Fredericksburg by 10am so we left really early. Every other time we went down to the burg it has taken about 2 hours because of traffic. Lesson learned: Not much traffic at 8am. We got down there way too early, but that’s ok! There is a HUGE civil war battleground right next to this resort so we drove around and stopped to read the plaques, even got out and adventured around some of the cannons. I got a few pictures but haven’t ported them off the phone yet. It was really fun to get out and see some of our nation’s history first hand.
She explains that there are two packages for the resort and that the “Gold” package is only available to us that very day. Original price of the package was $14k. This of course was a $3k down payment and the rest financed. I was very quick to explain that there was no way in A-ch Ee double hockey sticks that we are able to put that much down. Guess what happened, magically the price dropped to $11k and $2500 down. Still a no go for us so she headed over to a manager to wrap things up for us. Mister suave comes over and pulls out a timeshare machete to hack down that price yet again, Now it’s $7k total with $1200 down. Amazing what those machete’s can do. 
Not a bad haul and we got to spend a super nice day walking around a lake resort. After the resort we headed down to see about a Car for Amy. Sadly we didn’t get one at this time but we have some good prospects. I don’t want to get into specifics on this trip, but the dealer was Awesome and he took good care of us. Under different circumstances I would go back there anytime (
You know, I really miss writing in my blog. There was a time when I could get away for 15-20min or so and type out what was going on. Now I get so busy I have to force myself to go down the hall to the restroom! Things at work have stepped up at work a ton! I am now the lead on building an entirely new network with all member servers. Right now, active directory is kicking my ass. I’d like to be able to deploy all my required software using group policy, but for some reason I can’t get my MSI’s configured to run correctly on each users account. Of course I also need to copy over the group policy from our existing network so that the security settings match. That means going over the current GP with a fine tooth comb and matching it to the new one.
I do have some exciting news though. We are making a road trip this weekend down to Fredericksburg. It turns out that Amy won some contest and we may be getting a pretty cool prize! Of course we have to go down and listen to some 90min speech on how a timeshare would make our lives easier. But hey, I can sit for 90 min and then say no just as easy as the next guy! I am sure they will probably come back with some off of like $500 or the Mystery Box. Because you know, $500 is just $500 but the Mystery box could be anything! Even $500!! And you know I could use that! 
After the wonderful time we are no doubt going to have at the speech, we are heading to Woodbridge to a car dealership there to hopefully get Amy a new car! Well, not a new new car but a “new to her” car. We haven’t had the best luck getting her a car of her own lately. Sadly her credit got extremely screwed over by a former party and she has had very little luck getting it rebuilt (Yeah, it got screwed over THAT bad, Thanks former party!) We tried going to Eastern motors “Where your job is your credit!” and they were absolutely horrible! They overpriced their cars beyond belief, they openly admitted that they sell personal information to anyone they want. They actually wouldn’t let her proceed without signing a waiver that stated she was ok with them giving away her personal information. And we wonder why there are so many telemarketer calls and spam in the world. These people endorse it! Want some free blog advice? (and who doesn’t) STAY AWAY FROM EASTERNS!
Wouldn’t you know that some new profound information would drag me for my hole to post something about it. 
How many things that I love will Sony be F&%$ing up? I love Star Wars. Star Wars Galaxies came out and SOE screwed it up. Planetside, a massively multiplayer type of tribes game, had such potential, and SOE screwed it up. Everquest…… Well, everquest was ok, but SOE still managed to make that crappy. Are they determined to make everything they touch turn to utter crap? Not to mention, with City of Hero’s already out and running good, what the heck are you going to do in a DC world? Are we going to have 200 Batman’s running around? If you could make a “Kryptonian on Earth” style of hero, You have all of superman in your pocket, what could you NOT do?
To sort of recap, Farpoint was a lot of fun. I managed to get 
