Life of Darren Vol. 1

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Dec 3 - Eating Log

Breakfast - pancakes
snack - nothing?
lunch - leftover pizza and chicken wings
snack - cookies
supper - double big mac and fries
snack - cookies

water - 1 bottle

exercise - nothing

Well, most of my day was spent in the stark realization that I am not as smart as I thought I was.

As mentioned before, I have to write a Microsoft Certification exam before the end of the year. I started working through the material and did some of the practice questions at the end of the chapter. NOT GOOD! I was barely (if not even) reaching 50%. Since the pass mark is 80%, I am kind of nervous. I still have a couple of weeks, in theory, but hopefully it gets better soon.

Other than that, I did some CGY W/O work, cleaning up some lingering issues.

J sang with his choir at Olympic Park, I bet he was cold!

Picked up the pictures from the photo shop today, I'll get them mailed out this weekend after Beth's last craft show for the year.

Anyway, not much else to talk about...

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

dec 2 - Eating log

Breakfast - nothing
snack - chocolates
lunch - home made bread
snack - nothing
supper - waffles

water - 1 bottle

exercise - 1 lap with Jake

Dec 2 - Slight change in plans

The day started off pretty good - I got a bunch of work done for my CGY Customer. then I had a talk with Jenn and it turns out that I need to write a SQL exam by the end of the year. No pressure :)

So I finished up most of my work and started to crack open my SQL books - this looks like an interesting exam, but it will be a great starting point for moving out of my niche specialty, Navision. It will be great to use NAV with SQL, but I can also just work in a pure SQL environment with this and other certs.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Dec 1 - Eating log

Breakfast - chocolate chip muffin
snack - nothing
lunch - really bad mushroom/swiss burger
snack - couple of slices of homemade bread
supper - burger
snack - not much

water 2 bottles

exercise - walked the dog.

Dec 1 - Drive time

Well, mixed blessings this morning. Both J and M were home sick, so I drove into the office. Much better, only 30 minutes door to desk!

Got through the team meeting, and tried to work through a CGY Oilfield Services Customer, but I couldn't figure out the problem. I handed it off to Ashok, and eventually, he figured it out and got the customer up and running.

I went back to working on my CGY W/O customer for most of the day and some of the evening, making quite a bit of progress.

I got home in time for Beth to go to the gym, I served supper to the kids, walked Jake and went back to work.

Watched a bit of TV and went to bed.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Darren's christmas wishlist 2008

For those who asked me to put this together. Now all I have to do is remember to tell them where it is :)

I love Christmas. I love family and friends getting together and sharing good times together. I also love presents. It isn't so much the actual present, it is more, the 'how well do people understand what I like, or what do they think I would enjoy'

That being said, Most times, people just give up and get me something I asked for. I know I am hard to buy for, as if I want something, I will just go buy it, so it does make it hard for people to plan :)

So, I am putting a list together to help those people who want a little guidance.

Clothes:
I need stuff that fits and I can wear to work.

Books (non-gaming): I like books :)