No Acela for you!
Mar. 1st, 2009 03:00 pmGood news: I do not have to go to DC tomorrow for work. The hosting manager at work asked me to come with him to DC for a training session but considering the weather, the expense and the fact that the actual training was only going to be about 90 minutes, it didn't seem to make a lot of sense for me to go.
I don't want anyone to think I am not a "team player" but I am glad that he suggested I not go. I would have had to lay out about $400 for the round trip fare and given the snow that we are supposed to get here on the East coast, I don't think it would have been a fun trip. Neither DC nor Amtrak do snow well.
More good news: the colonoscopy went fine. Evidently hemorrhoids can cause the kind of bleeding I had without any symptoms and that is what it was. The doctor did find 2 polyps which he removed and sent off for biopsy, but he didn't seem to think they were anything serious. I have to go back and have it done again in 3 years. I can live with that.
Even more good news: I got my first new paycheck on Friday. David went in on the train to pick it up since we had to pay the rent this weekend. I was very pleased to see that this is indeed change I can believe in. There was almost $1,000 more in this check than my previous paycheck. Feels very nice to have a little breathing room. There will be a little less once they start deducting for the health insurance in April, but even with that it is a noticeable difference.
So I treated us to hockey and a nice dinner out last night - partly for the heck of it and partly to celebrate Sarah's acceptance to UVM. My Sabres lost *sob* but we still had a great time. All 3 of us were in our hockey jerseys - David and I in Sabres colors and Sarah in her Islanders jersey that David got her for her birthday. There was a lot of 'fishstick" and "slug" being bandied about but a good time was had by all.
I don't want anyone to think I am not a "team player" but I am glad that he suggested I not go. I would have had to lay out about $400 for the round trip fare and given the snow that we are supposed to get here on the East coast, I don't think it would have been a fun trip. Neither DC nor Amtrak do snow well.
More good news: the colonoscopy went fine. Evidently hemorrhoids can cause the kind of bleeding I had without any symptoms and that is what it was. The doctor did find 2 polyps which he removed and sent off for biopsy, but he didn't seem to think they were anything serious. I have to go back and have it done again in 3 years. I can live with that.
Even more good news: I got my first new paycheck on Friday. David went in on the train to pick it up since we had to pay the rent this weekend. I was very pleased to see that this is indeed change I can believe in. There was almost $1,000 more in this check than my previous paycheck. Feels very nice to have a little breathing room. There will be a little less once they start deducting for the health insurance in April, but even with that it is a noticeable difference.
So I treated us to hockey and a nice dinner out last night - partly for the heck of it and partly to celebrate Sarah's acceptance to UVM. My Sabres lost *sob* but we still had a great time. All 3 of us were in our hockey jerseys - David and I in Sabres colors and Sarah in her Islanders jersey that David got her for her birthday. There was a lot of 'fishstick" and "slug" being bandied about but a good time was had by all.