S-E-A-N S-A-I-D, P-L-A-Y

Greeting and salutations!

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately, I had a mad crazy week. A great deal of work, I'll give you the short version:

Monday: Had to be in the city at the Hotel Pierre by 8 AM, so I stayed with Willy and Sam in Summit the night before. Had a quick consultation with a woman who turned out to be Irwin Winkler's wife, producer of such films as Raging Bull and Goodfellas. Then breakfast at Sony Corporate. On to the next appointment where I had to take a plasma off the wall for the hottest chick cause she was moving out of her penthouse apartment. Then it was back to Willy's where we spent 4 hours putting a ceiling fan in (wiring that may actually pre-date electricity).

Tuesday: Back to the city for what was supposed to be a preliminary meeting to decide what I would need to install a plasma in this guy's bedroom and integrate that into his existing system in the adjacent room. I get there and he wants me to get started. So with half my tools, I'm off. 5 1/2 hours later I've go the TV on the wall and his living room pretty much torn apart, and I'm out of there for the day.

Wednesday: Back to this guy's apartment to finish the job. Only I couldn't get there till 4 cause he had to work. I resume my duties, finally calling it quits at 10:30 cause I'm barely vertical at this point. And the kicker is I still have to go back 1 more time. He wants 2 TV's (the regular one in his living room and the new plasma in his bedroom) to work with his new hi-def cable box, TiVo, DVD player, CD recorder, 200 disc CD player, pre-amp, and amplifier. Oh, and he wants to be able to control it all from his Pronto from either room. Definitely wins the Most Complicated Setup To Date award.

Thursday: Drive to Long Island City to switch my car for the biggest fucking van you've ever seen, head back into the city to pick up a 60" plasma at Sony corporate (in a very cool underground loading dock with an elevator that you drive into), and then it's down to LBI to swap it with a customer who currently has the 50" plasma. Apparently, some people really do have more money than they know what to do with. All that takes forever cause the big-ass van isn't exactly the speediest method of transportation ever devised. So no time to make it back to Sony that night so I get to hang on to (and hook up the Xbox to) the 50" plasma.

Friday: Back at Summit so I can make it into the city as fast as possible. Then it's back to Sony to drop off the TV, back to Long Island City to get my car back, and then back to Sparta, so I can pass the fuck out.

So that's where I've been. Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy to be working a lot again, and the money and the toys I get to play with kick ass, but tiring is tiring. I can only hope I'm as busy next week. After not checking my team since...well, I can't remember when, it's nice to see I'm back at 10th place. It's comforting, like coming home again.

One last thing, for those of you who don't know, Netflix rules! DVD's that you want to see just show up in the mail! You just watch them and then drop them back in the mailbox and another one comes! I know I'm about 3 years behind the times with this one, but I don't care. I don't know how the hell they make any money (and I'm pretty sure that they don't) but I intend to ride this gravy train as far as it'll take me.

Oh, and I almost forgot. David, your brother deserves a flogging. It's too bad I missed him in England, I could've had you do it for me. Your mom called me all in a panic the other day because the program was going crazy. So I went over to the shop on Wednesday and sure enough, everything had gone wonky. Things were saving, receipts were printing out wrong, and the program was generally acting like an old version of itself. It took me a while, but I finally figured out why. Way back when, I set up the computer there to boot right into the program when Windows starts, so as to minimize the amount of damage an employee (or frankly, your mom) could do. Well when they got a new computer a month ago old Jonathan set it up. What he did was put the program on the desktop, like it used to be, but he also put a copy in some folder buried in the system. And then for some reason, he created a link to that copy so that the wrong program was starting up with Windows. Well, every once in a while I would make an update to the program, but that was to the version on the desktop, so sometimes they would seem to disappear. The real problem was if the program had to be restarted for some reason, the desktop version would invariably get started (no one knowing about the other version) and it would appear like balances were all off. Fun stuff, but I eventually tracked down the problem. Just something else to do this week I guess :)

- Seacrest out!