work continues to be busy. but i managed not to electrocute myself on friday afternoon, so that's a good thing. i was 'asked' to replace the batteries in one of our failed UPS (backup power thingie) and it took some time. i've learned that if you let the dead batteries sit for a little while, they get pregnant and don't want to come out nicely. so it took me a little while and some help to pull the fool thing apart (all the while expecting to be electrocuted, sure it was unplugged, but dealing with these things is a little nerve-wracking). fortunately, everything plugged in and i put it back together w/o blowing it up or electrocuting myself. and i even managed to plug a few servers back into it.

now i get to do this 3 more times, and 2 of them are prolly in similar shape and will require me to pull them apart. blech...i'll have to charge my drill so i can use that to unscrew them.

weather has been nice the last few days. a little bit of rain yesterday, but that was ok. we needed it. got to see 2 rainbows which was cool. one was really bright, the other not so bright. all the colors by the ground were really vivid which made it purdy. was F's bday so M&i took her out to dinner. she saw some place on 18 that she wanted to try so that's where we went. it wasn't bad, walking in it reminded me of one of those old style italian restaurants that has a layer of smoke hanging in the air (which this prolly would have had we allowed smoking in restaurants and bars)

the food wasn't too bad, altho dessert could have been a little better. it was fun and we had a good time. tho my seat on the bench was kinda broken, so trying to sit and keep my balance was a little difficult. the fried calimari was quite tasty, and not overcooked. i had pork, M went with the veal and F went for the lamb. she ordered the dish i was going to order, so i went with a 2nd choice. not bad all around. and we all discovered that we don't care for mint jelly. i've never been a big mint person (changed a little recently) but we all tried it and it was waaaaaaay to spearamint bubblegum flavor.

went to my cousin's wedding last weekend w/M. all in all it was a nice trip and it was cool to see my family. the reception was interesting because apparently there is something that says you can't serve alcohol with the meal (not sure if it was a country club rule, or a bumblefuck county rule (either is possible - the joys of living near the mason-dixon line i guess). in any event, i went into the reception with a near empty wine glass figuring that i didn't need to refill before going in. well, you could go in w/booze, but some of my cousin's managed to raise a bit of a stink over it. it was fun to watch.

well, i'll drop my train of thought here. i'm actually tired so i'm thinking i'll crawl into bed to see if i can't make up for this spring forward thing.

me tired....