Indian Food

So, today at work, I went out to lunch with the other engineers and we went to get Indian food. I normally go get Indian food with one of my Indian friends and they can tell me what each thing is. I was surprised that I was able to tell what a good number of the things were.

I was also sad that they didn't have any samosas, or any desserts on the buffet. :-( I miss going to Shalimar with the girls and hanging out and eating way too much! My good friend recently moved back to India and she is keeping a blog too, which is great because it is just liking talking to her!

On other fronts, looks like I'll be working with another extreme programming house (probably next week), on the project that my company is working on. We are getting more people involved, since there are only 3 of us, and the company wants to get a brand new (complete rewrite) version of the product out by September.

I am excited and a little nervous about the whole thing. I am excited, because it will be cool to work with some more people that are into XP as well. I am a little nervous about the whole thing since I will be pairing up with a person that knows nothing about what we are trying to build, and since I've only been there a little over a month, I don't feel like I know much more.

I am sure that I will probably feel much better about what I know once I start explaining it to someone else. And, the nice thing is I will have backup around (the other guys I work with).

Well, I'll go now and keep you updated on how the whole joint venture goes.

Wii - What fun!

So, we got our son a Wii for his birthday...ok...so we bought a Wii for ourselves for my son's birthday. We had been wanting to buy him a video game for a while now, but we couldn't find just the right one.

Last year we bought him a video game for kids, but it was terrible. I think it was originally designed as a handheld game and when it gets blown up to 50" it didn't work very well. It had a "drawing pad" that allowed your kids to practice drawing their letters, but even we couldn't draw the letters with the drawing pad. So, we returned it.

So, we decided to get a Wii, since we wanted one and there are some fun games to use with it. I am finding out that it is a good way to keep in better shape too. I have been enjoying playing the boxing game that came with the console. I am thinking of buying the Wii Fit game that is supposed to be coming out next month.

I am hoping that seeing as I can compete with myself with the Wii, I will be more likely to do it and get some exercise.

Busy, busy, busy

So, the last couple of weeks have been extremely busy. My son's birthday was on Tuesday, and his party was on Sunday. Of course, I also had a bridal shower (my neice) on Saturday an hour away, and my hubby took our son to a birthday party the same day.

So, thankfully, I got through the weekend alive (although my house is much worse for the wear). This weekend is much slower with only one birthday party to attend, and thankfully that is done now, so it is back to housework so I don't feel so crappy about coming home to a messy house.

My new job is going very well. I am loving doing the extreme programming thing, and am learning an amazing amount! It looks like very soon our company will be working with another company in the area that also does extreme programming, so I am really excited about that. It'll be cool to get to know some more people that like to work this way too!

Since my new job is much closer to this great Thai restaurant, I have been going there way too often for lunch, but boy is it great! I work a lot more at my new job than I did at my last job, but it feels good to get so much done. It is also pretty cool to learn so much new stuff.

Bad Timing

So, my hubby had to go to Florida for work this week. We didn't find out that he had to go until late last week, so it was very short notice. He is going to be gone until late Thursday.

Of course, it couldn't have come at a more awkward time. My neice is having having her bridal shower on Saturday and on Sunday we are having a birthday party for our son. I am one of the brides maids for my neice so I have to finish getting some things for the shower this week and I have a young son to try to drag around while I run these errands.

So, yesterday on my way home from work my van dings at me. I was going around a corner when it dinged at me so I didn't look down at it right away. I assumed it was dinging at me because I either needed windshield washer fluid or I needed gas. When I looked down I saw that my check engine light had come on.

Now, the van was running just as smootly as ever (which is saying a lot since it has over 100,000 miles on it), so I wasn't sure what was wrong. Since I don't know a lot about what the sensors are hooked up to, I was a little concerned.

Normally, I wouldn't have been so worried, but since I am playig single mom this week, I only have one vehicle and taking the van in to get it serviced is much more of a deal. I didn't want to have to rent a car and I certainly didn't want to drive the van to the airport to get my husbands car since I didn't know what was wrong with it.

I was hoping that I might be able to find a dealership that had loner cars (I know this isn't something that most dealerships do anymore, although they used to). I tried the dealership closest to me and, of course, they didn't offer that service. Plus they weren't sure if they'd be able to fix some things on my van since they are not a Dodge dealer.

So, I decided to call a repair shop that is pretty close to where I work and I'd just walk a few blocks into work. I called them up to see if I could drop it off and they said that they should be able to take a look at it.

The guy I talked to on the phone was very nice and he asked me if I had gotten gas lately. I thought this was an odd question, but I told him no. He proceeded to tell me that sometimes on newer vehicles there is a sensor that can notice that the pressure in your gas tank is less thatn it should be if your cap is not on tight. So, on a whim after I got off the phone with him I went out and checked my gas cap, even though the mechanic didn't think it was the problem since it had been several days since I had last filled up.

My gas cap was a little loose so I tightened it up and turned the van on. I waited a couple of minutes, but the light didn't go off, so I was sure that I was going to have to take the thing in to get it serviced.

This morning, I woke up and got my son ready for pre-k and dropped him off...it's only a few blocks to his school. The light stayed on. When I left from dropping him off...the light came on, but after a minute or so of driving it went off. It has been off since! Thank goodness that the mechanic was nice enough to have mentioned that.

I am not sure what I would have done if I had had to drop it off and they couldn't fix it before 5 (since I need to pick my son up before 5:30)!