sitting here on a sunday night knowing that i have another day off work tomorrow is a great feeling. i plan on sleeping late, watching some braves baseball, taking a long bike ride, and not much else.
it’s been a relaxing weekend so far. went to the astros-cubs game with rich and company on friday night, then went back to the ballpark less than 8 hours later for the first annual astros “run for the pennant” 5k race. they had quite a turnout for it being the first year of the race; i was impressed. we even got to run into the stadium through the tunnel at the end, and finish at the warning track in right field. we didn’t get to actually go on the field (wouldn’t want to muss their precious grass!) but it was still cool to be out there on the warning track. the t-shirt was cool, and the best part was that we all got two free tickets to a future astros game. it was also fun to get some of my friends out there that don’t usually come along to the races. ron, buzz, edgar, betsy, darby, hilary, and chris all came along to run, walk, and wheel the 3.1 miles along with debbie and me.
last night i went back to the ballpark yet again for another astros-cubs game. yes, i was at the ballpark three times in 24 hours. and i’ve watched another two and a half games on tv. sheesh. ha. i could have made it 4 times in 48 hours, but i didn’t wake up in time to make the game today. 
instead, i bummed around my apartment all afternoon, nursing sore thighs from the race yesterday since it was the first time i’d run in a month (speaking of which, my shins didn’t bother me at all so it appears my self-imposed month-long running break worked pretty well).
this evening i motivated myself enough to go drop off a bag of clothes at goodwill that i’ve been meaning to take for a while, stop by starbucks for a frappuchino, and head to work to check on my sims. i was only planning on checking my sims and leaving, a 20-minute stop, tops. {sigh} as always happens when the network gets reconfigured or upgraded (as it was yesterday), not all the connections were reconnected. ugh. my computer at my desk in building 30 can’t talk to the computers in building 16. so i had to go over to the fml so that i could actually sit at the terminal, and i had to retype about 300 lines of code so that the stuff i usually process on my desktop could run on the unix box. not being able to ftp the files from building 16 to my desk on tuesday morning is going to pose a problem, but unfortunately, there’s nothing that can be done tomorrow since it’s a holiday.
i’ll deal with it tuesday i guess. in any case, i was at work for about 2.5 hours tonight. in the end though, i almost like being at work better when it’s just me. everything was nice and quiet. just me and my trusty machine, homer. (there are six machines, all named after the simpsons. homer, bart, lisa, marge, ralph, and moe. homer and bart are the ones i use most.)
it’s really sad that i’ve started treating the suns that i use every day as if they were people.
anyway. that’s that.
