Friday!

Wow, I haven't posted to my blog all week. I guess I've just been too busy at work to be able to blog much.

This week at work things have been sort of up and sort of down, but definately busy. I didn't really have a chance to do much else at work, other than work! The good news is that I've finished my mid-year self evaluation and my supervisor seems pleased. I really hate filling out evaluations, especially parts where they ask you about areas that you could improve. It's my impression that anything you put there will just work against you in the long run. The bonus is that I may have discovered something interesting chemically, which may result in me publishing a paper on it, with me as the sole author. For someone at my level, with my background, that could really be huge. Plus if I'm ever looking for another job, then it makes for a good story to talk about when I have to give my presentation.

It's now only 4 weeks and 2 days until I will finally see my wife again. It's so weird going home to an empty house every day. Well not empty because the dog is there, but it just feels so dark and lonely. Anyway, things are going much better for her now. Her foot is feeling a lot better, the author that they have now is apparently fantastic. Last week there were several times she just wanted to break down and cry and come home, but this week she's doing much better. The course is intense, apparently she is getting about 4 hours of sleep a day and is usually up writing until the wee hours of the morning. It seems that she's made some friends, so she seems to be much happier now. Hopefully, she'll come home. :)

This week I was a real uber geek when I was at home. Three of the nights at home I played Axis and Allies online. If you're not familiar with the game, basically it's a Risk like board game, that revolves around World War II. It's slightly more complicated then Risk, but much simplier than a lot of war games. Anyway in my first game on Monday, I was the allies and even though I suffered some bad luck in turn one, I turned it around and managed to crush Germany and stop Japans advance. Yay! Victory for me. On Tuesday, I was the Axis and once again suffered some bad losses on the first turn, but managed to hold on to Europe long enough for Japan to sweep through Russia, Australia, Africa and even manage to grab onto the Western United States for a turn. Victory was mine once again. On Wednesday, I was once again the Allies, but this time my bad luck played out in every important battle. My opponent was smart, slow and calculating. He didn't take any risks, and slowly but surely he was going to decimate me. The Allies lost, the world wept. It was fun, I'm such a geek. :)

Last night I had dinner with the two other couples that we usually have dinner with and I will probably go out for dinner with them again tonight. Other than that I have no other plans for the weekend, but I'm sure something will spring up. If not, I always have the dog, my computer, lots of books to read, and a blog to bitch about anything I want on. :)

Well there you have it. An update on my ever so exciting life! I bet you can't wait for the next installment, it will be super exciting. Filled with spies, sex and fast cars or possibly pies, chex and lost keys, but I guess you'll just have to tune back in to find out.