I can't believe this weather.  First we get a buttload of snow and then it is deathly cold.  I was supposed to start a new job on Tuesday, but because of the impending weather they asked me to come in Monday afternoon and then sent me home with a desktop computer.  Luckily I still had an old 50' cat 5 cable to connect the computer to my router.  I normally connect using a wireless connection, but the desktop did not have a wireless card.  I worked from home for two days after only having been in the office for 1/2 a day.  It turned out alright, but I am a little nervous as to whether they feel they are feeling they are getting their money's worth.  It is a decent place to work so far--3 1/2 days into it.  I am very excited to have a job and I have enjoyed the little things they have had me work on.  The two days at home were spent getting back familiar with the technical environment.  On top of that I was crippled a little bit by the rubber roll up keyboard I was using.  I could not find my full size keyboard.  Also, i was using an old 15" monitor.  They would have let me take home a monitor and keyboard, but I didn't want to carry all the crap.

During the snow I decided not to shovel and wait for all the snow to fall.  This is the first time that was a mistake.  I went out Wednesday during my lunch break and shoveled for about an hour and only got half the driveway done.  The snow had drifted on the driveway and I was basically shoveling twice--once to take off about 8 inches of snow and a second time to finish up.  Some industrious guys came by and offered to shovel the rest of it for a fee--I paid them too much, but I really did not want to shovel any more and I didn't have time if I wanted to make it to D&D Encounters.

D&D Encounters was the final episode for the season.  We had missed two other sessions recently--once for snow and once because the DM got stuck at work.  Only a few of us showed up and we died a horrible and cruel death, but at least I got to play which I was happy about.  Originally, the DM was saying he did not want to do next season, but the GM rewards were actually decent for the next season so he decided he would go ahead and do it.  I was kind of looking forward to a break, but I will show up because that is the kind of guy I am.

I am so glad I have a job because lately I keep going over my minutes on my mobile phone.  If it keeps up I will have to get a more expensive plan.  I think it will stop, since my sister was calling me a lot during the day and now I am working.  I was also using the phone to call about job leads and such.  I am hoping to see a huge decline in minutes use over the next month.  I really want a new phone, but I don't want to pay for the current plans--and they would make me switch to one of the new plans if I got a new phone.  The other thing holding me back is that I am afraid I would spend too much time playing Angry Birds.

Anyhow it is about time for my psychologist appointment and I really need to go to the bathroom.