Ah, I have me lightsaber once again!

After months of searching I have found me lightsaber once again! This beauty was lost after one of the kids used it, but now it is found!

Now no bowl of evil cereal is safe from the righteousness of my Lightsaber Spoon!

Ready or not? That is the question!

My Cisco 3 presentation is Monday and I feel like I am ready but at the same time I don't. On one hand I know I know the information but on the other its a lot of information to know and when I look at it all I feel, well overwhelmed!

I have my powerpoint laid out; just need to plug in the info. I know what I am going to say; just need to run through it a few times. I know I can make an A; just have to do it!!

Thankfully with things flowing (even though I am not 100% ready) I can take some time for myself and my family and enjoy life. Sometimes I have to remind myself that the whole reason I am in school is so that I can get the base of knowledge to have my own business. The reason I want my own business is so that when I want to spend time with my family or for myself I can. And that its pointless if to have that as a goal if to get there I have to sacrifice those two objectives. So when I get to the point that I say I cant do this or that for an extended period of time I have to stop and step back and reorientate myself.

So let's see:
Presentation - in final stages.
Cisco 3 tests - 1 test to go and one to retake.
Active Directory - completed!
KOTOR 2 - First Light Side character no go, cant get past the 3 Sith in the temple on Dxun. Dark Side progressing fine, just did the first job for Czerka. Planning new Light Side, will start her after DS goes to next planet.
AOE 3 - campaign on Normal thinking about it, just not really excited about the campaigns in most RTS. Need to invest some time here on Home Cities and get my single digit ones up to at least level 10.
Sacred - Wow this is a big game with lots to do. I don't know if I should focus on main quest and just do the occasional side job or do as much as possible.
Civ 4 - Hmmm must try this again. Not as engrossing as the first 3. Maybe its just too much at the moment for me to enjoy.
Guild Wars - not really feeling the urge. Maybe just forcing myself to play is what is needed. But of course my level 20 Warrior/Mesmer is stuck and with out help from other human players he is not going to go any farther. And my second char (cant remember what she is at the moment) is doing fine but I am waiting on my daughter to catch up with her so we can play together.
Champions of Norath - Finally motivated myself to get past the orc caves, I kept wanting to start a new character. And me and my son are about to tackle the second quest, starting this character filled the need for a new character.
Need for Speed Underground - Main profile about to race 15 out 111 and is doing most races on medium. Hard profile race 4 or 5 out of that 111 and must do all races on HARD!!!
Business - have paperwork just need to find a free moment (between school, my work and my wife's work getting away from the house is a challenge) so that I can get down town to file it all so I can "officially" start working.

It's almost over...

...this term anyways. We are doing reviews this week in Cisco. Presentations are Monday and Final is Wednesday. Then Skills test is the next week. The only thing that has me a bit nervous is the skills test. So I am going to go in Friday after taking the kids to school and practice the labs some more. As for Active Directory I have taken all the tests and am done with it, which means I can focus on Cisco.

But with the end of term also means that books are coming in at the bookstore so I am having to inventory and shelve books so that they can e ready to give out for next term. So that means work is a blast at the moment ;-)

Well I gotta take the dog out for a walk catch y'all tomorrow!

a HUH!?!? moment

I am sitting here at work taking care of some inventory stuff when all of a sudden the Fed Ex guy shows up at the counter and says "I have 50 to 60 boxes on my truck. Could somebody help me unload it?"

I was dumbfounded! It took me a few seconds to even be able to reply to this stupid question. Finally I was able to respond with "Uh, No."

Let's step back and look at this in a common sense aspect:

1) He is the Fed Ex person not me, which means he is the one paid to unload the truck and bring in the packages.

2) If I get injured unloading his truck then it is my fault, my responsibility. This translates into me missing school, work and having to pay the medical bills. If he gets injured he has workers compensation and company insurance.

3) If a package on the truck or one of the delivered ones gets damage and I helped him then I could be held liable for it. Not a road I wanna travel.

His asking for help is like a high rise window washer asking for someone to come out and help him, like a short order cook asking ya to come into the kitchen and frying your own eggs, like a tax accountant asking you to file his taxes, like a school teacher asking the child to teach the class. It just is not done. And the clincher to this is if I recall correctly this is the same guy last term who brought some books and complained the whole time about how hard his job was and how he hated large orders.

Another sad case of the plague of "people"!!!!!!

Yay for lazy!!!!

Yesterday me and my lovely wife where woken up by the phone ringing about 20 minutes before the alarm went off. Normally this would be a frustrating thing that would start the day off badly, but this particular phone call informed us that Sunday School had been cancelled and that Church itself may be cancelled due to the ice. Cool this means we can sleep in and relax today!

Well we wound up staying in bed till around 5 pm last night! It was very relaxing, we watched movies (mostly Firefly discs 3 and 4). We also read. And of course slept! It was great. The kids where well behaved, did not completely destroy the house (they only made one mess that amounted to anything). They even brought us lunch in bed and made sure our tea glasses where full.

Today on the other hand involved waking up and scraping ice from the windshield of the van (which by the way failed the inspection again!), driving the kids to school, and then going to school myself. This term is almost over and I am trying to figure out what happened to all my time!

Well I am off now to take some AD tests, planning on finishing them all tonight. And then starting tomorrow I will be finishing my Cisco tests. So it look like no games in my near future :-(.