05.08.09 Breakfast, Lunch, & Snacks

Got in 8 hours of sleep 4am-12pm.

Woke up, showered and got dressed.

Left a little early to do some Mother's Day and grocery shopping.

Breakfast ended up being an EAS Cookies 'n Cream protein bar around 2pm.

Lunch was several hours later...some healthier asian food...unbreaded chicken, fish and veggies...was a bit naughty with the dessert!

My fortune read "Remember three months from this date. Good things are in store for you."

It was a typical night for a Friday...got alerts on all the regulars. 

I had two 20 minute breaks so I ran my circuit course in the parking lot 6 times. Somewhere my access badge flew out of my pocket while I was running so I had to ask the guards for a flashlight.

Couldn't have found it without the flashlight since it was in a shadowy spot next to a parking lot bumper. (I balance on and run between parking lot bumpers as part of my course.)

The rest of my work night I stayed on the light side...probiotic cottage cheese with peaches and greek yogurt with cinnamon and a quarter cup of Kashi Berry Granola with Omega-3's.

05.02.09 Dinner at Chin's Asia Fresh

The afternoon was quiet up until a server's hard drive failed in the other server building. 

It was strange that we didn't get any alerts on it but the server admin called in and said to replace the 34GB failed drive with a 73GB 15K SCSI. So I went and got one from our hardware room and went over to the other building but the server ended up having the new drive bays which didn't fit the standard hard drives we normally use. 

I had to run back to our building and get one of the new Dell 73GB 15K SCSI hard drives.  Went back to the other building and tried to put it in and it didn't fit either...so I called the admin and first he apologized for not telling me it was the new type of drive, then he had me check several labels on the new drive and it turned out the disk drive had the wrong label on it and was actually a SAS drive! Put a post-it on that drive so they would relabel it and checked all the markings on the other drive and finally got it installed in the server.

Went back over to my building and grabbed a no sugar added cup of peaches for a snack.

By the time I got back to my desk it was time for the usual server checks and we got those done quickly and I was overjoyed to be leaving for the day!

Got home and Dave and Ang were cleaning out the truck. They hauled things over to our new storage locker today. Dave found a good quality bandsaw on Craigslist for $60 out in Plymouth. So we hopped in the truck and drove out there and had to stop for cash...found a Lund's with a Wells Fargo ATM in Hopkins.  

Got to the seller's place and he had an awesome shop set up in his garage. He said he bought almost everything for his shop off of Craigslist. We could smell really good food from the garage because his girlfriend was making dinner. Loaded up the band saw and headed over to Chin's Asia Fresh in Minnetonka.

Chin's is one of my favoritest places to eat! We had the Lettuce Wraps for our appetizer, Thai Peanut Chicken Stirfry with brown rice for our main course and Cream Cheese Wontons with Apricot dipping sauce and a fortune cookie (my second one today) for dessert.

My fortune read: "Nothing will get in the way of your desire to succeed. Keep at it!"

After dinner we headed home and ended up stopping first at Payless Shoes...I bought two pairs of heels! 

Here's my favorite of the two! Will look great with my BCBG dress!!!

I tried them on...they do look great!

Next we went to SuperTarget for batteries, dog shampoo and no sugar added ice cream sandwiches. I ate one.

Got home around 10pm...gotta get some sleep since I work in the morning!

Today's Calories: 2,500 Carbs: 302g Fat: 105g Fiber: 39g Protein: 120g

05.02.09 Breakfast, Lunch and Snacks

Hope everyone's having a super Saturday! Unfortunately I have to work all weekend:(

Slept for 6 hours...10:30pm to 4:30am.

Quickly threw on some jeans, a tank, jacket, sneaks and ponytailed my hair up...and yes, I did wash my face and brush my teeth before running out the door;)

Got to work just in time and put together a bowl of Nature's Path cereal with Calorie Countdown and a dash of cinnamon.

It was a busy morning with the new European UNIX server scheduled maintenance. There were several servers rebooted and then we had to run scripts after they came back up to make sure all the critical processes were up.

Got a break at 9:30am and ate one of the Kashi Pumpkin Pie Fruit & Grain Bars I brought with me. Took a brief walk outside and the weather was perfect for a much longer walk than I had time for.

Busy all the way up until lunch with various changes and scheduled maintenance. We had an HP3K server job hang up, SQL server upgrades, Sharepoint upgrades, and then a blade server went down but luckily we didn't get a bunch of VM alerts because it failed-over quickly.

Since there were only 9 people working today for lunch so we took orders for Pei Wei Asian Diner, called ahead with the order and Alex and I went out to go pick it up.

I got their Chopped Asian Chicken Salad, two spring rolls, and a fortune cookie of course.

Nutritional Info for entire meal: 520 cal, 18g fat, 5g fiber, and 27g protein.

My fortune reads: "Sometimes traveling to a new place leads to great transformation."

My coworker Alex brought everyone back these little figurines from Japan and these are the two I got...I'm a sweet tooth at heart so I got the kid with candy and Baozi (Sweet Bread) with missing teeth and a cute little keychain of a happy young Asian man with his book and presents.

Ate my lunch and got back to work. Had to go up to third floor to do the monthly HP3K tapes since it is the first Saturday of the month. Had to go in the back and grab tapes and peel off the old labels and put the new ones on. Then I took out all the Friday backup tapes and put them in the vault and then I put all the Full Backup tapes in...DLTs and SLTs.

Had a snack around 3pm of Kashi 7 Grain crackers with some Tribe Roasted Garlic Hummus.