The weekend in New Jersey was pretty fun. Marc’s Bar Mitzvah went off with approximately the standard number of glitches for such things, which amounts to a success. I had the honor of lugging the Torah around after all the portions were read (it was a mere thirty pounds; not bad for a Torah). Unfortunately, I was near comatose at the lunch after Saturday services because the red-eye I took completely jacked up my sleep schedule. That was doubly unfortunate since I passed out upon returning to Sharon’s house, even though Matt and Scott were there. C’est la vie.
I started work this past week. I was going to start reinstalling Windows 2003 Small Business Server on their network, but apparently a predecessor of mine stole their discs. So I had the pleasure of calling Dell to finagle new discs out of them, which was surprisingly easy but came with a one-time-only warning. I installed the new router to decrease their reliance on their server. (Inline sidenote. Whoever set up their previous configuration was a complete moron. What they did would be good for a network with plenty of DCs, redundancy, etc. However, to pin the entire operation of all network functions on a single server, with no backup, is incredibly stupid. That’s just asking for huge problems (which already have happened at least once). When I get done with it, no more stupidity like that will exist.) Installing Windows will be one of next week’s tasks.
Last night marked my first trip to Commerce in quite a while. It also marks the first session of setting up an actual bankroll, which should be helpful to increasing my poker exploits. I played 9-18 limit for about four hours and came out about 450$ richer for my efforts; so it was an excellent session overall. Sharon accompanied me and played some 2-4 herself with success as well, leaving about 60$ in the black. We saw Andrew there, who had been there since last night, and he was still grinding away at the 100 NL games.
We also saw V for Vendetta on Thursday night, which was quite good. In my excitement, I picked up the comic and read it before seeing the movie. The comic has some different plot elements, some nowhere in the movie, that definitely make the comic worth reading if you enjoyed the movie. It’s definitely the best movie I’ve seen in quite a while (granted, I hadn’t seen a movie in theatres for four or five months prior). I’ll probably write a more detailed post about the movie and comic in the near future, because there areq quite a few interesting concepts and ideas in the story that I’d like to comment on and analyze.
England Prevails.