Oddball Update

We returned to Naples last night after hanging around in Michigan for a week while Hurricane Wilma took her sweet time getting here, beat Florida up a bit and then left. It’s almost like a totally different place now, not because of the damage — because there really isn’t that much — but because of the change in weather. After Wilma went by, so did a cold front. Now it’s in the 60s/70s here and feeling mighty fine. I’d love to open up all the windows and get the stale air out of the house, and allow some of that fresh, cool air to come in. Unfortunately, I have to take down the storm shutters before I can do that, and my workload doesn’t really allow for that. If I make some particularly good headway in the next few hours, perhaps I can take our shutters down this afternoon. It’ll probably only take two, maybe two and a half hours.

We have two roof tiles on our home that seem to be half-gone. They’re still clamped down, but half of them are missing. One of the two halves is lying on our welcome mat, and the other seems to be lying in repose up on the roof. Other than that, no damage. The big palm trees out by our driveway are even standing upright, not even bent over. I do see a lot of small trees bent over or downed completely, and there’s brush and leaves all over the place. On the way back down to Naples on I-75, we didn’t notice any damage at all. But then, it was completely dark, so yeah, there’s that.

I got all of our electronic equipment back up and running last night. Got TiVo to update itself, and noticed that it had taped a rerun of last Tuesday’s Nip/Tuck which aired on Friday night at 10:00, just an hour before we got home. So we can officially get caught up on TV, since TiVo captured everything it was supposed to. Now that November is almost here, it’s almost time to say hell-ooooo, Xbox360. By then all the craziness at work should have subsided a bit. I can’t even remember what I was doing before we went down the whole corporate identity switch role, it’s been so long.

The GTO order tracker was updated, conveniently, on Friday evening — my car has been built, and is now waiting on the dock to be loaded onto a boat. I noticed that several other orders built in the past three weeks are still showing the same status, so that means a boat has not left since then. That also means that a boat should be leaving again quite soon!

Okay, my server has finished installing patches and other crap, so time to get back to the grind.

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