Come Home, Work, Go Again...

Ahhh...back home, finally. I've been away on a work trip to San Diego. It was a pretty fun trip all in all, but it was work. We were there for a conference and stayed at this really pimp resort. They also treated us really well since it was the annual conference - anything we needed - I got spoiled. The problem with all this was that at night we were kind of expected to stay out and 'mingle' with all the rest of the people in our division. Mingling went into the wee hours every night. I bailed on two of them and made two of them.

Enough about work. The weekend before I left was our annual homebrew competition. This was actually the third round of judging, but was the only day of the actual event. This time I showed up late, which I did by mistake. The punishment for showing up late is having to judge what no one else wants to judge. It was specialty beers, and there were around seven of them. Actually, the best of show came out of that group - good stuff. Then, as a continuation of the punishment, I was to judge the Ciders. I really, really, don't like Ciders. When I say Cider, I am not referring to the nice, sweet, cinnamon-tasting apple juice you get in a craft store at Christmas. This Cider is the very alcohol-laden, sour, astringent, bitter beer Cider. Did I mention how much alchohol is in this stuff. It was rough. Rough enough to have to rinse it down with some stouts before getting picked up.

I got back from San Diego on Friday, and then Saturday I worked my freakin' tail off. I killed some ants, mowed the yard - front, back, and side - planted two trees, dug up one dead tree, went to Lowe's, then planted ten day lilies in the flower beds. Just livin' the dream, you know. Today it's been raining all day, and I haven't been able to get anything constructive done around the house. I ran an errand for the wife, and that was about it. I did finish packing for yet another work trip though. I'm heading to Florida tomorrow afternoon. This time I'll be back Wednesday night though - nice. Tonight we've been munching on DiJiorno's and watching Soprano's re-runs.

That's all I've got.