Chuck’s Home World

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything directly into this blog. With Facebook and Twitter, I don’t feel I need to elaborate so often. But when I look at my web site, I feel it’s not being kept up to date so I must write a few things in more detail that what’s been posted via the social networks.

Work – We received a new video of the state of the company as of the 11th period in a fiscal year. Things are looking great and we’ll be getting our 10% back along with salaries being returned to pre-10%-cut days. That’s good news all around. We should be getting another video to talk about this in more detail this week but I won’t post any more about it.

This past weekend was pretty restful for me. I didn’t make it to the gym like I should have, but I was having some pains in my right foot that I wanted to be careful. I’m continuing to have pains in my right shoulder, but so far it hasn’t really interfered with my workouts. As of tomorrow it will have been a week since my last workout in the gym. I’ll see how the arm feels. The foot pain has gone so I’ll have no excuse.

I’m supposed to go to Fogo de Chão, a Brazillian Steakhouse in Baltimore tonight. I’m pretty sure I’ll make it, but I’m not sure it will be worth the calories and late night. The reservation is 8PM which is about my bedtime!

This past week and this week we’re meeting with the BIRD team. BIRD stands for Business Integration Research & Development (I think) – it’s the team of German’s that are currently seeing how we do things here in the Americas compared to what is done in Europe. Last week I hung out with the Sales team because I have various applications that need to be able to interface with the SAP, the system the German’s use.  In some cases, it may be possible that there is something in SAP that handles our needs for some applications, but we’re pretty sure there are some of our applications that will not be handled by anything SAP has to offer.  I suspect this is going to be a late night week.

I’m still loving my HTC Incredible, but there are some issues that need to be ironed out. For some reason (unknown to me, but apparently widespread) the phone reboots. I’ve seen it reboot several times in one day, and then it may go for a few days without rebooting.  Posts on various Android forums indicate this is known issue. I’m hoping it will be resolved with an update. So far it hasn’t rebooted during a conversation or anything.

The only other issue I have is that the battery doesn’t last for very long. I know I can get more out of it, if I cut off some services, but I like having the weather updated.  I guess I just need to try and remember to plug it in a night. At least I can charge it almost anywhere I go… got the car charger, and the computer cable. Fortunately it uses the same connector and chargers as my Storm did.

Speaking of the Storm, I hate it. I have to use the one for work sometimes and it’s the worse phone in the world!

Well, I’ve ranted and spent more time writing today than I had planned. I’ve got to go and get ready for work. I’ll try not to wait so long before I post again. You can follow my occasional posts at Twitter and become my friend on Facebook if you’d like.