| Mar. 12th, 2009 @ 11:41 am Playing catch up |
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Current Location: work
Current Mood: I have moods?
Current Music: tacet
So while I wait for my 9th day of testing the same subset of test cases for a defect to pass, I figure it's a good time to play a little catch up on LJ...
First off, everything you know is wrong. My previous thoughts about getting caught up on things... not working so well. Though not because I'm not doing things, but because more things keep getting thrown in... as well as my inability to have nice things. For instance, my mentioning that I should be able to get lots of running in. Not so much. I managed to break the elliptical (or more specifically, the right back guide wheel). So I took a day to work from home last week to have Sears come out and take a look before our warranty expires (which is tomorrow actually!), and the guy came, and had the same issue we had when we bought the thing... he came prepared to fix a treadmill, not an elliptical. Apparently Sears' inventory control namespace doesn't have enough characters in the DB to fit the full name of the product we bought. We have a ProForm StrideClimber XP600 Elliptical. Unfortunately, they also have a ProForm StrideClimber XP600 Treadmill. And according to our receipt (and apparently what the service guys and delivery guys get to see), it says: "ProForm StrideClimber XP". Awesome. But at least the fix is covered by warranty (when they come BACK to fix it on the 19th), and as just replacing the 2 guide wheels would've cost about $155, and tune-ups are recommended every year, I bought the 3 year extended coverage from Sears for $200. With the gift I have for equipment, that should pay for itself within the next 6-12 months (at a minimum when I get them to come out next year to do a tune-up). So that hassle has been fun.
The Monday night bible study has started up, and the first week went OK (once everyone got there about 30 minutes late). We decided we'd start ourselves in by supplementing our study with a book by Stu Weber, called Tender Warrior. We were going to go through this book in my last study, but we ran out of time. I'm looking forward to it, but actually finding it in local stores has been a mess (I've found one copy out of 6 stores, and it wasn't even a Christian Bookstore I finally found it in (it was Borders)). So I've had to order the others, which will hopefully be here by Monday for our next meeting (though given my recent luck, that's nigh impossible). Not that it will matter, as likely as not it'll be like last week where bible study will consist of just me. Oh well, such is life :) You can't help people that don't want to help themselves...
Then as if breaking 2 DVD players and an elliptical trainer wasn't enough, coming home from church last Saturday, we stopped in Bellevue for dinner (after driving around looking for the unfindable books), and managed to get ourselves stranded there because Wendy decided she was tired. I pulled out the nice new jumper I bought (as previously mentioned) and tried to get her going, but to no avail. But it puts the last nail in Saturn's coffin of a diagnosis... they kept telling me I just don't drive it far enough to charge the battery. But from Renton to Woodinville is MORE than far enough to charge the battery, and the jumper just made it make a nice clicking sound when it tried to turn over. Good stuff! So we had to call and have us all towed back to our apartment (I wasn't sure where I wanted to take it, as Saturn obviously isn't going to know what to do, and it was getting late and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dvmpadawan had to work the next morning), and since the tow truck couldn't fit in the garage, we had to push Wendy out of the parking garage down to the tow truck to get her towed. This brought a good line of thought to mind though when considering where to park... parking in an upward garage MUCH BETTER than parking in a subterranean garage in regards to removing a vehicle via human power (which in most cases total human power < 1 horse power). As Wendy is just not reliable, and her own maker can't even figure out what's wrong (or refuses to), we've decided to let Wendy go, and went yesterday to go car shopping. I did some searching for a few days before on cars.com, and found a few that I liked and that looked like they'd be in our price range. We then went out in search of the next addition to the family, and I think I've found the one for me. It's a 2007 Ford Mustang convertible, V6, dark grey similar to the color of my '73 RoadRunner actually, and it ran really well, was clean, and still has warranty on it, and the dealer will pay for all oil changes for it. Unfortunately (or fortunately as the case may be), it was the first car I drove, so we didn't get it yet. Now it gets to go through the God test... I've prayed that if it's the right vehicle for me, then it would still be there on Saturday when we can go back for it. If it's not the right one, it'll be gone. So now the wait is on for the answer! I also had the chance to drive a couple of Jeeps I liked... only real issue with them was that when you pull too close to a light, you have to be a contortionist in order to bend around in a way to see the light due to the narrow front window profile and the bar across the front. It is good info to know.
Last night we also had our dress rehearsal for tonight's city band concert. Should be interesting... the music is really cool, but we're definitely not prepared. But after tonight, the damage will be done. The lighting crew last night was having some issue finding all the lights on the boards (they were apparently just re-done), so we weren't able to get many of the lights adjusted to keep them from blinding us... hopefully they'll have a better understanding of their lighting setup tonight. This will also be the first time I've played a concert at Carco (it used to be the band's normal theatre before they moved to the IKEA Performing Arts Center). It's a much smaller venue, so it'll be interesting to hear the difference.
Saturday I'm going to a Men's Breakfast in Renton where our pastor will be speaking. Should be a good breakfast, and a good time of fellowship. And it's nice that something is down in my neck of the woods for once! ;-) Then we should be off to see if my car is still at the lot! If so, we should be all set to go! If not, then the search will just have to continue. At least we've got the pre-approval out of the way, and as long as we decide by April 10th, we'll be ready when the right car comes along!
So for me, it's back to the grind at work... apparently I'm Mr CanDo. Now that I've gotten their build testing done, they want me to start in on some of the testing that others have been slacking on (because I know EVERYTHING about what others have been working on or something).
Seriatim,
~Kyle |
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