Eyes Noes Notheeen

Waking up to a routine is certainly the best thing for me. Not having hot water to take a shower in the middle of winter will shake up the morning routine. I am not a morning person, nor should I be. I like the evenings and nights to work and write. I liked the headphone solution while writing as it allows me to keep the music at an unreasonable level without being a bother to morning people that have made their way towards their nightly slumber.

No, we had no hot water this morning as the safety relief valve was leaking yesterday. The HomeSmart guy came over this afternoon and fixed right away, or so I am told. Kathy worked from home on Wednesday and the valve picked a great time to fail so she could be here to have the guy set us up with hot water.

Today and next few days are times when I get to get out and meet and greet as part of my job. Tomorrow is more the same with several groups that need to meet to plan out the 2010 year including nailing down details for events in August already.

By the time I got back to my office I was ready for my workout but I had to finish up some nagging details, which put me smack dab in the middle of the workout room rush we have in the basement of our building. Not too bad as I was able to find a treadmill and a tv to watch. Two things happened that I did not like. First was the blasting (Not really blasting, but 1 decibel too loud) of the tv a few feet away in front of the elliptical machine. They were watching Hogan's Heroes. Seriously. We have 250 channels and that's what they are watching... Hogan's freaking Heros? Now, to be fair that show ended in 1971 and they may of never had time to see all 150 or so episodes, like the one where they trick the colonel and hide some secret plan to foil the Germans, or the other one where they try and trick the sergeant Schultz to hide some secret plan to foil the Germans.

As I was working up a decent sweat, the second thing happened is the treadmill stopped suddenly. I restarted it and five minutes later the same thing. So, to keep up the torture I moved to the elliptical machine next to the Hogan's Heroes fan and started the work. This guy was chatting (boo) and nice (yeah) and already at 45 minutes of a hard level workout (jealous). I only had 14 minutes in me on that machine, which is an increase. I am thinking about trying to sneak another workout again on Friday to see if I can increase the time. Then I can outlast people and change the channel.

I am enjoying the Amy's lunch things again. With the cold weather it is so nice to have the encouragement to bring my lunch to work. Kathy whipped up a nice veggie influenced baked ziti meal for dinner. Late night snacking is the big hurdle, yet there is still hope. Right? Sure......

Tonight's rambling written under influence of the music of Gospel Gossip