Sunday, October 19, 2008

Hello and happy Sunday evening to you. Fall has definitely arrived around these parts and after being in the 80's for most of last week it was down in the low 40's last night and only in the 60's yesterday and today and if you can believe them it might even be down into the mid-30's tonight. But I think that's the worst of it and it should be slightly better than that all next week but it's still forecasted to be in the 60's during the day and down in the 40's at night. The lawn is still growing and the leaves haven't really started to fall but I don't think that that's going to be much further off either.

I really didn't end up doing much of anything this weekend but got the lawn all done yesterday morning and then had an eye doctors appointment for my annual and guess that it went fine although it is getting a little harder to read the small print day by day ..... and guess the tiny little budget numbers that we've been staring at probably aren't helping matters any. But she (the doctor) dilated my eyes and that made it almost impossible to see outside in the sunlight so I didn't end up doing anything outside the rest of the day. She is also going to check with my Lasik Eye people to see if they think that a "touch up" would help improve my reading but also thinks that they are probably going to say that I'm better off waiting a little while if and when we do it again. She also gave me a contact lens to try out and see if that helps but I tried wearing it today and it was pretty uncomfortable and didn't seem to improve anything. I guess the solution is a work in progress.

And last week I ended up attending a meeting with Starwood Hotels at our new corporate office in Old Town Fairfax which was kind of fun - but the offices were about 10 miles away from my hotel and it took me 20 minutes to go the first nine miles and another 20 minutes to go the last mile and I am dang glad that I'm not doing that every day. Plus I got lost which didn't help matters any either. The offices are brand new and state of the art but I still like my office at the Westin even better than that. We also announced that we have found a replacement for me in my old role and that he would be starting in about a month or so and dang if that process didn't take long enough to fulfill.

This week I found out that we are doing our budget review with the corporate team and are going back to the offices on Wednesday afternoon and I'm sure that we will be spending Monday and Tuesday getting ready for that. And then after that we have a meeting with the owners to review it again the following week but hopefully after that we will be done with the process for another year.

I have my front door all picked out and found a contractor to put it in that would save me about $100 off of having Lowes do it for me but I haven't done anything about that yet. I'm also not sure if I mentioned that my granite guy that did my kitchen sent me his business card since he moved his office and I spoke with him about replacing my sinks in my two bathrooms as that has been another project on my list for a while. But both of them fit in between three walls and one of them has a cabinet with drawers and I want to replace that in both but it's a weird size and I haven't been able to find it in any store - so I guess that they would have to custom make it and then I'd do a granite sink on top of it. I'm in no major hurry to do that project but some day I will for sure. I also stopped by Lowes yesterday and looked at landscaping rocks to change out my planter border from the brick looking things that I have now as I have always liked the looks of the browish wall thing - but for $2.50 a piece I think that it will cost me a fortune to replace, not to mention all of them that I would have to load and unload from my car.

I guess that's it for now so I hope that you are doing ok and that you are ready for another new week to begin. I still can't believe how fast the weekends fly by, not to mention the weeks and the months and Halloween is right around the corner and then those other two holidays will be right behind it. Well at least Spring should be here soon as well. Ok, that's it so I'll talk with you on another day. LATER!

posted by Scott @ 8:52 PM