Today and upcoming trip

Today I got up early and just barely missed the express bus. Then spent many productive hours at work coding up a webpage translator to go from regular html to the special html that our new service requires, so that it can convert it back to html. Lovely isn’t it? Lunch discussing office politics, at tasty new restaurant, an easy bike ride away.

Unable to concentrate post-lunch, so I play a few rounds of wc3, same map, always computer orc, me undead. On my third try today, I win. (I’ve lost track of prior attempts at this scario. Did I mentation that I really like the dark ranger?)

Afterwards off to get a couple bike pumps (one for home, one strapon for emergencies), and I pick up a bike map for minneapolis while I’m there. Share a bus back with which turns into a trip to dreamhaven. He suggests reading material, some of which I get for my upcoming trip. Yay, Brian.

I go home, try to pump up my bike tires, and rip off a valve due to general stupidity. So I go out, buy an innertube, tire tools, zip ties, and a new set of biking gloves. Then back to the house, and much time spent fucking with the bike. Eventually, I get the cranky thing happy, or at least as happy as ever it has been. I bike down the greenway, which is still closed off at the midtown exchange. Grrr.

Home, laundry, livejournal.

Plans for tomorrow. When I land I’ll probably hang out in dupont circle area for a bit. Grab some vegan chinese food. Look for a haircut & vegan dress shoes. Dinner with mom & elizabeth. Hopefully stay with . Done a bad job of the planning/arranging for this. =)

Friday morning interview. Tool around the gao neighborhood early friday afternoon. Mid-afternoon, meet with my gao contact. Evening, barhopping, maybe? Saturday board games at le chateau de and . Later evening activities hard to say. Return sunday.

Oh yeah, my finances? Fucked. *sigh* I’d like to think that I’d learn to manage my money, perhaps when I have money to manage things will be different. We shall see.