It's chilly, mac

Man, it's gotten cold. My grandma and I nearly got blown over by the wind yesterday in the Panera Bread parking lot when we went to lunch w/my parents after church, LOL. Other than that bit of "excitement" my weekend was pretty low-key. Did some housework, and watched a lot of tv. Also, I took advantage of a sale at Staples and purchased an external hard drive (200GB Maxtor OneTouch II) to back up my desktop pc, and make it easier to transfer my data over when I get a new computer (which will hopefully be by Christmas time).

My dad was sick with a cold yesterday, and my friend Jason at work had the flu and missed over a week of work earlier this month, so I'm afraid it's just a matter of time before I come down with something. I've been taking my vitamins and trying to stay well-rested and hydrated, so hopefully that will help keep me healthy, or at least keep whatever I catch from hitting me too hard.

I recently learned that my work teammate Ken and I will be kept on our current project through March. Starting next month we'll transition the ongoing support to client staff and/or another vendor. We're both glad about this; it's been a decent assignment, but we're both ready to move on to something new, hopefully development work as opposed to production support.

The "highlight" of this week will be my birthday on Thursday... unfortunately, I have my Econ final exam that evening. :P On Friday my mom's Lioness Club is having a bowling fundraiser event that I've been coerced into attending. I'm a terrible bowler (sub-100 average probably... I don't bowl often and it's been a few years since the last time) but hopefully it'll still be a fun time. At the very least I hope to get some good photos of enthusiastic Filipino bowlers. :)

Back to studying...