Yesterday was another unseasonably warm day on Long Island,
and records were set. Things changed a
little overnight and we had a gusty and rainy day today. It was one of those mornings that you just
don’t feel like getting out of bed, and knowing that Sue and the boys could
sleep in, made it even worse. I reset
the alarm for 7am and decided to work from home.
Took a break at around 10am and finished building the TV
Stand, or should I say credenza.
Credenza it is, and with the help of Kyle after lunch, we moved the old
TV stand out of the family room, and moved the new credenza in.
Sue, Kyle, and Luke had dentist appointments right after
lunch so I continued working until they got back home. At that point, I was itching to get the new
TV, cable box, DVD player, etc. hooked up.
The credenza looks like it was made for the corner we have it in, and
everything fits in nice. Actually have
more room now and a couple of drawers to hide movies, remotes and whatever else
gets in the way.
There is a break in the weather as Kyle gets picked up by
Mike to head to the soccer field for an outdoor tournament. Players are supposed to be at the filed 1
hour ahead of the game, and this time, Sue and I can catch up, and get to the
field shortly before game time. I sure
hope the weather holds out, the forecast is for high winds, rain, and a
temperature drop. All the ingredients
necessary for a miserable outdoor experience, especially for the players who can’t
seek shelter. There is nothing worse
than losing body heat when wet.
This day in history “Steven Paul Jobs was an American
inventor and entrepreneur who, in 1976, co-founded Apple Inc. with Steve
Wozniak to manufacture personal computers. During his life he was issued or
applied for 338 patents as either inventor or co-inventor of not only applications
in computers, portable electronic devices and user interfaces, but also a
number of others in a range of technologies. From the outset, he was active in
all aspects of the Apple company, designing, developing and marketing. After
the initial success of the Apple II series of personal computers, the Macintosh
superseded it with a mouse-driven graphical interface. Jobs kept Apple at the
forefront of innovative, functional, user-friendly designs with new products
including the iPad tablet and iPhone. Jobs was also involved with computer
graphics movies through his purchase (1986) of the company that became Pixar”
Apple is perhaps the best run and most successful company in
the world. Everyone on the planet wants
one of their devices, and some have all three (iPod, iPad, iPhone). When I was growing up in the information
technology business, we all agreed at the early stages that Apple was an
innovator, not a copier or re-user of technology like Microsoft. Little
did we know that if we invested a couple of thousand dollars in Apple stock as
opposed to buying our first Pentium desktop, we would probably be retiring by
now.
Kyle was not so lucky in terms of weather, as it started
raining. Sue and got to the field at 6pm
and the game was already underway. When
I walked out thru the mud with umbrella in hand to ask the other parents if I
missed anything, they told me the score was 2-1 in our favor. Seems the teams and referees decided to start
15 minutes early due to the inclement weather.
Anyway, we get to see a couple of more goals, and the MC United team
(Kyle’s team wins 4-1).
While at the field I receive a call from my boss’s boss, in
regard to an editorial outage. I make
some phone calls while still at the field to have my engineers check things
out. When I get home, we continue
troubleshooting and having our recovery and management meetings until all is
resolved. Last call ended at 1030.
I asked my boss earlier today if I, and a couple of
engineers on my team can get an iPhone to replace our blackberry’s. The answer unfortunately was no. Finance area won’t allow it. I am too poor to buy and pay for my own iPhone,
so blackberry it is. Still iWant.....
Photo of the day “An Apple a Day”
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