wildyams

Today was not really a great day. Everyone at work is getting really burned out from all the deadlines and overtime and whatnot, and you can tell it is getting to people. I tried to avoid the tension around the office once I noticed it was there (by lunchtime it was hard to miss) by just putting my headphones on and listening to music all day while I worked. Maybe tomorrow will be better. Hopefully it's just the fact that it was the middle of the week, and tomorrow with the weekend looming that will have people in better spirits.

I know tomorrow I'm gonna be in better spirits. Jon just recently bought a 51" HDTV (using his Sony discount), but Jon is moving to Mammoth for the winter to be a snowboard instructor, and is leaving me in charge of babysitting his new TV for the winter. I already have HDTV pre-ordered from my cable company, so I'll have that all hooked up in another week or so. Jon also is generously selling me his Tivo (with a lifetime subscription), so I'll have that hooked up as well. It's gonna suck not having Jon around, although in the winters he's usually pretty scarce anyway, off snowboarding every weekend.

I saw Jon last night though when I met up with he, Steve-o, Juliette, The Bob and The Becky for Bob's 29th birthday (happy birthday, big guy :wink). We treated Bob to dinner at the restaurant of his choice, which turned out to be Claim Jumper. I hadn't been there in a while, but I remembered the huge portions of food they serve. Even still we underestimated the size of their combo apetizer platter, which was pretty much enough food for the whole table even without getting entrees. After some of that and my salad that came with my fish and chips, I was pretty full, but I managed to eat a couple of the fish and a chip or two. We left without any dessert (except for a slice of birthday cake), but I did manage to grab a handful of root beer barrel candies, which helped me through the rough afternoon today :grin