this was a bitch of a weekend.

both good and bad. the bad is i'm on call, and there were some dial-up issues that had a ton of people paging me. and paging me. and paging me. it SUCKED.

fortunately, there wasn't much i had to to fix it (was entirely out of my hands), but it kept the stupid pager going off. and then this morning, i noticed (no one else seemed to) that exchange decided it didn't want to work. a quick reboot resolved the issue, but i know that people show up at work around 6am, and i noticed it at 815. the good thing was i didn't get paged, but that was also a bad thing - i should have been paged.

but with the bad was a few good things. the weather was nice, esp when M&i headed a bit more inland. i picked up my registration and my car was inspected (finally). while we were waiting for my car to be inspected, several calls back and forth and when the car was finished, the issue was resolved and M&i were free to do as we pleased. so we went looking for a liquor store i wanted to visit. we've been looking for that yummy beer we had in cologne last fall, but they didn't have it. they DID have Killepitsch which M picked up on a trip to Düsseldorf and i discovered was mighty tasty. (review here) the comparison to Jägermeister is somewhat accurate, only Killepitsch is better. it's a smoother herbal, but far less available. damn rationing.

i nearly forgot about it, but as we were walking out i remembered to look and there it was. it made me so happy. i've been looking for it for more than a year (did see it in cologne, but we weren't sure it would survive the trip home to where i could enjoy it). and i now have a source for this wonderous herbal liquor. guess it means more shopping trips to wrentham for M.

today thankfully the pager was dead quiet and after a more enjoyable lunch than we had dinner last night, M&i headed out and wound our way to portsmouth, NH. a little breezy, but otherwise quite pleasant and after wandering around, we found a pet related store (more dog than cat) that had the oval dog sticker i wanted for my car (see previous entry). they had two, so i bought both (i might need a spare) which pleased me to no end. i guess for all the shit i had to deal with yesterday, the finding of 2 things i've been looking for did make up for some of the pain and frustration i had to deal with.

not much else going on. work continues to be busy. still liking the new car. time to get ready for bed.