Chuck’s Home World

Yeah, I couldn’t think of a title for this entry so I just went with that…

Its around 3AM as I write this short posts. Its been a little while since my last post so I thought I’d throw a few things up here. I’m sick and its tough to sleep right now so I figured why not take advantage of the time. I’d actually try to do some work, but I know I won’t be able to focus on getting anything done so I’m not going to!

In my previous post I mentioned a new work laptop and BlackBerry. I’ve received both. I’m pretty happy with the laptop so far (Dell e6500) but haven’t really needed to use the phone yet. It’s not active on the BES yet, so I can’t use it. It’s a Storm 2 so I can compare it against my original Storm. Its OK, but I don’t like the call buttons being under the glass. I like my Storm’s separate buttons.

I’m still in the process of getting the necessary tools installed in order to start developing a bit for the BlackBerry. I was thinking of going with Adobe Dreamweaver, but it’s so expensive and I can do what I need to do with free tools.

Work continues to keep me very busy. A newer high priority project has begun… it’s tough because I can’t seem to get some existing projects done because something of higher priority always comes along.

Final entry note – I weighed in this morning and I’ve dropped a few more pounds. I know I’m somewhat dehydrated though so I’m sure its not a great a loss as the scales are showing, but I’ll live with it for now. I just hope it continues to drop instead of hovering around the same readings…

It didn’t really hit until I was on my way home from the airport. I started coughing…more than the normal unproductive tickle in the throat caused by my blood pressure meds. When I awoke on Friday I felt like crap and again on Saturday and Sunday. Today (Monday) its tough to get moving. I need to go into the office, but I’m still feeling pretty miserable. Coughing is painful because of sore abs, but at least is being productive. I think I’m going to crawl back into bed anyway.

I really wanted to go, but I picked up a cold or some sinus related thing while down in SC. It hit hard during Tuesday night, but then hit really hard yesterday and last night. This morning (Happy New Year!) I woke up feeling like shit. I took some more meds and that’s seem to help, but it could have been the blowing of the nose that helped most. Man I hate getting sick.

On top of that, I found out that I have to work on Friday. Not a big deal, but for some reason I had it in my mind the office was closed on Thursday & Friday, but alas it is not! Bummer!

Anyway, I’ll be taking it easy on this first day of the new year and hoping that I will feel good enough to go into the office tomorrow. I wouldn’t mind a final 4 day weekend, but I’ve got work to do!