steak!

Well the internet connection in't much better today .. for awhile it seemed ok and then someone int eh area must have found a new porn site to copy locally because it started the same crap again. Very annoying....

Decided I wanted steak so I went to Longhorn Steakhouse in Nashua NH for lunch.
I won't say it's the best steak I have ever had but it was a pleasant surprise. Though it does kinda make me laugh that the place was styles after a Texas steakhouse and I am in NH eating at it when I own a house in TX.... :P

Breakfast: Banana

Lunch: (pics below)
Texas Tonions (onion peels, with a chipotle ranch dipping sauce)
house salad w/chipotle ranch
12 oz ribeye and steamed veggies

Dinner:
Chef Boyardee spagh&meatballs



Texas Tonions - lame name, but very tasty


12oz Ribeye (i cut a piece off before taking the picture)

feeling better but crappy internet connection

Well my back is MOSTLY better, not 100% but i can get around without pain now unless i sit int eh same position for to long then it's stiff. This is good because back pain sucks .. seriously. Now on to my next frustration. Great timing too...

Last night around 8pm my network connection (through Comcast) started totally sucking. I would get bouts of packet loss bordering on a complete connection loss and then it would work fine for a few minutes and then latency would spike back up to something like 3000 ms. This obviously completely ruins my ability to play WoW and this weekend being right before a big deadline at work I have to work this weekend. I am considered a contractor at the office I am in right now so going into the office is technically not an option over the weekend. (I am working at a business partner's site) So every time I try and do anything work related it starts off fine then fails a few minutes into file transfer's. My work has me downloading creating and uploading files that are anywhere from 5 megs in size to 40megs in size. I've seen this happen to me before when i had to do a lot of work from home and I wonder if Comcast has some traffic watchign software and penalizes their high bandwidth users in some way... hard to say but I can say this ... Comcast completely sucks at keeping their network stable, they also don't want to talk about it. I called them and was told that there wasn't a problem because they could ping and reset my cable modem without problem. I even explained to the moron on the phone that the problem took some time to happen (like 2 or 3 minutes usually) and was told that i could just reset my router and modem when i saw the problem. Yessir that works... and I'd also love to have to turn my car off on the highway and wait 30 seconds before starting every 1/2 mile.... morons. This was business account technical support too, the online chat people can't talk to you if you have a business account. So I guess I am forces to head into the office and hope my badge opens the door. Just how I wanted to spend my weekend. I'd wish ruin on Comcast over their ineptness but I need them to pull their heads out and get the network working so I can play and work from the apartment. BAH!!!!!

Food yesterday:
Breakfast: banana and chai tea Latte
Lunch: Chef Boyardee
Snack: banana
Dinner: Tater Tots

healing up...

Seems that I manage to get to this far easier in teh morning than the evening...

Food yesterday
Breakfast:
banana
Sausage egg cheese croissant

Lunch:
Patty melt & fries and a few spoons of disgusting chicken&rice soup...

Snack: pear

Dinner:
Spaghetti&meatballs
Banana

Was able to get out of bed fairly easily this morning which is good, back is healing up but it was still hard to sleep. I did go to bed way early last night and read for quite awhile. So even though I was awake for 20 minutes out of every hour to hour and a half I still got quite a bit of sleep, which probably helps the healing process.

back ... better? sort of

Ok, so getting out of bed didn't involve any screaming but it was still very difficult. I must have really done something to my back yesterday. It's better today but still.. i wouldn't want to have to go to work as a laborer today. Driving in to work was bad enough. At least it's quite a lot better than yesterday right after i did it and even in the evening when i got out of bed after sleeping to try and relax some. It seems that the pain sorta goes away if i stay in the same position for awhile (most positions) but then when it's time to move it's really stiff and painful for awhile. Walking doesn't really hurt much but carrying groceries in one hand while unlocking the door hurts. Wish I had thought to take advil before coming into the building at work today, now the thought of walking down the stairs to get the advil is worse than the pain of not having it.

Yesterday's food was completely uninteresting ... and there were no formal meals, just a snack here and there when i felt like i could eat. The back pain makes me a little sick if i move just right.

Over the day I had: Chef Boyardee Spaghetti & meatballs, Hot fries, 3 bananas, 2 black & white cookies and 3 chicken fingers leftover from the previous nights Chinese takeout.

tuesday food.. and Wednesday mornign back pain

Ok first off , I went to bed last night without writing a post, so here is what I had to eat yesterday

Breakfast:
sausage egg and cheese croissant

Lunch:
turkey meatloaf with mashed potatoes and broccoli

Snack:
Pear and york peppermint patty

Dinner:
Chinese takeout, pork fried rice, chicken fingers, egg roll, crab rangoon

Now the unpleasant bit. I got up late this morning, which is ok I had planned to work from the apartment anyhow. Went to the living room to plug in my laptop and when i did, something in my back tightened up and caused me to practically scream in pain and sit down , which wasn't any relief at all. SO far I haven't found a reliably comfortable position, though a hot shower and some advil have managed to dull it enough that I can sit here and work.

ouch ouch ouch ouch..... stupid back .. getting old (and being fat) really sucks .. can't even open the cover on a laptop. pathetic...

oh well time to actually get some work done .. slowly.

helps to publish post before turning off laptop....

This was originally written on Monday (6/2/08) but I closed my laptop forgetting I hadn't clicked publish yet. So umm oops...

Long day at work, a lot of little things to do and frustrations every step of the way. not going to go into any details here as this is a public forum but I will just say that some people need to really spend time learning their areas of expertise before claiming to be experts.

Played WoW for a couple of hours tonight and managed to get to exalted reputation with Ogrimmar (did i spell that right? I never seem to) which means, I can now buy a different color swift mount wolf. Love the white frostwolf but somehow it just doesn't seem like a rogue's mount.


Breakfast: Nothing

Snack: rice crispy treat

Lunch:
chicken and artichoke Fricassee
veggie rice soup

Snack: apple and milky way (this is what i get for skipping breakfast ....)

Dinner:
steamed hot dogs & tortilla chips

Skipping breakfast is bad, not only did I feel like crap all day but all I wanted to do was snack snack snack. Mostly managed to avoid it but I still managed to eat more than I would have liked to.

It's only june?!??!

I am still in the Boston area working and it's getting old. I love the area but Michelle and my dogs not being here is completely ruining it. I do enjoy seeing my family and I love the climate, but it's all somehow lame without someone to share it with. Looking forward to my next trip home which appears to be July at this point. Ugh! ... did I mention that I am sick of being this far from the home we have built outside Austin? If you hadn't guessed, I am homesick.

Went with my mom and dad to Vermont to see some family and my grandparents graves. My aunt Barbara wasn't doing well and I hope she feels much better soon so we can go back and spend more than 20 minutes with her. My aunt Linda seemed to be holding up ok but her husband seemed to be feeling under the weather some. I guess this is what happens when you get old. I haven't mentioned but my dad is the "baby" of the family and he turned 70 this year. We will go spend some more time with them before i leave for Austin this fall.

Bought an Out of State NH fishing license this weekend. $53.. ouch ... but 7 days was 33 or 35 and i figure i might want to go later in the summer too. So now I have to go fishing at least a few more times to make it even remotely worth it :) I did stop at a small lake on the way back to MA but it was really windy and I didn't manage to catch anything worth even taking a picture of, but the wind did keep the insects to a minimum. Not a loss really, was really nice out.

Normally I would write up menus for what I have been eating but it's been a couple days and I'm slipping. So the highlights...

Junk food .. junk food ... (Subway and Quiznos, better than McDonalds and Burger King, but still not healthy .. especially the way I have subs made). Some steamed hot dogs and chips ... still not doing the healthy thing apparently. Poached eggs and toast today for breakfast today. The actual highlight was a Lobster Roll(thanks Corinne!!!! I couldn't get these outa my head all damn weekend!) at D'Angelos on the way back to MA. Was actually VERY good .. but $15 for a sandwich is usually more than I can justify.