Wednesday at home update

When I initially decided to take Wednesday off, I planned it because I figured I would be worn down from the hospital and would just be a rest day. It started at 7:00 AM. Sheri and I lugged the snow blower upstairs from the basement. I did our driveway and the neighbor's driveway across the street. Her husband is out of town and she just had surgery and she was out trying to shovel 5" of snow. She looked pathetic.

My fingers were so cold that they hurt. I even changed into a new set gloves from inside the house half way through.

I showered up, dried my hair, and then laid down for a little nap. Just as I was getting to sleep I had to get up and drive to the airport to get Greta. Just a fun fact, it is a 51 mile roundtrip from our house to Midway, and a 59 mile roundtrip between our house and O'Hare.

We got back home and I finally had something to eat, and then took a nap from about noon until 2:00 PM. Then I had to take Goliath to the veterinarians. His urine sample came out completely normal, and the doctor felt his kidneys, lymph nodes, doodle, etc. and nothing seemed wrong. She said sometimes dogs just go through a phase, or sometimes it is because of stress, and sometimes dogs become incontinent with old age. She gave us a month's worth of pills that tightens up his sphincter muscles. She said if it fixes the problem, and then after a month he is back to normal, then we are set, don't bother coming back. If it fixes it for a month, and then when the pills run out he loses control again, come back and she can put him on it permanently, and it is not an unusual thing.

I laid on the couch for a little bit, watched TV, and rested my back. I am upstairs now doing a little catch-up on e-mail, my blog, and then I am going to try and do a little research for my paper.

As I was just logging on to the computer the door bell rang. It was the UPS guy with our computer. I wasn’t expecting it until Friday. If you can believe it, the boxes are sitting unopened in our kitchen. I knew if I started playing with it I wouldn't get any homework done tonight. I think once I am too tired to do anymore homework I will bring them upstairs and set them up. I think I am just going to wipe all of the crap (papers) from the top of our computer table and just leave the two monitors and the printer. I also have a mountain of paper growing under the desk. I am going to do the same with that; just move it somewhere else and then sort through it and either file it or shred it. It is just going to be too cluttered under there with cables from two computers.

I need to go to the store and buy an Ethernet card for the old computer. This will let me connect the old PC and the new PC together to transfer files. They have a card that will work at Radio Shack for only $20. I don't want to spend a lot because I am going to take the card out once I find a wireless card to go in the PC. Then I will move the old PC downstairs.

Sheri is ordering pizzas from Lou Malnati's for dinner. When I got back from the veterinarian's I snacked on some yogurt, and nuts that Greta brought us from Krema Nuts. (Did I say that they have the freshest nuts I have ever tasted?) I am on my second cup of coffee to wake me up. Because of my snack and coffee I am not starving, but by about 7:00 PM, or so, I should be ready for some pizza.

I am going back to work tomorrow. I am dreading it a little bit because I think I am going to be swamped with work to close out the month of February. I could be wrong, but I always dread finding out what's waiting for me at work after being away for more than a day or two.

But on the brighter side, my new watch should be delivered for me at work tomorrow.

By back still hurts. Doing two driveways didn't help. The handle is low so I have to slouch way over. It is a whole lot better than if I didn't have the snow blower though.