I could do with a longer weekend.
Of course, it didn’t help that I was at work until around 9 PM on Friday. Admittedly, most of it was spent cooling my heels while my boss worked on software upgrades on the machines at the datacenter where I was at. Then when I was done, I went home and caught up on the Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis episodes I had missed; fortunately, TiVo is my friend. Once that was done I was ready for bed…
… and got up nice and late the next morning, having caught up on lost sleep. Quite frankly, Saturday was a very slow and unproductive day, with one exception: I had to go down to Sears at Willowbrook Mall to get new passport photos taken. Unfortunately, I had misjudged when my passport would expire, and instead of expiring at the end of the month it expired this past 30th. Oops. Fortunately getting the pictures was a quick and painless process. Once done with that, I went with the parents over to this place in the Willowbrook Mall perimeter called 221B Baker St. Pub & Grill.
221B Baker St. was actually quite nice. Up until about a year or so ago, the parents and I liked to go to this Irish pub called Matthias’s. Unfortunately, the owner got tired of running the place, and ended up closing it. It was a shame, as it had a really good beer selection and the food was quite good, too. The atmosphere also was very pleasant, and authentic, as it were. Anyway, as we went into Baker St., I felt like I was wandering into one of the pubs back around my Aunt Norma’s cottage. The decor was suitably British, and the drinks and food were very good. They’ve earned themselves a repeat customer. Now I’ll just have to drag Louie and Dave down there one of these weekends…
As for today, the main thing I’ve done that was productive was upgrade PHP on this server, so that I could get thumbnail creation for uploaded images here working properly. Otherwise, it’s been a suitably slow and relaxing day, topped off with a quick nap in the kitchen. Right now, I’m just chatting with Missy, having a Shiner Bock, and enjoying what little weekend I have left. I’m hoping this week doesn’t turn out to be really stress-inducing, but one never knows. In any event, I’ll just take it as it comes.