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This week at work was pretty much stress and High Octane. I played School Board member pretty much all day Monday with a very stressfull School Board Meeting Monday night. Fortunately for me, the expected fight and confrotation was met. However, the stress was still there, only deviated to another source. Sorry, can't be specific, but take my word for it, it was stressfull. After I came home, I had to have a drink, the hard kind.

All week, I been busting my butt in trying to get organized for work. This year we seem to be moving faster already with more and more projects piled our way. I have been informed the "other members" of our group cannot handle any other applications, and rarely anymore projects. I have been blessed with the ability to multitask (at work, the wife can't believe it) and my supervisor is utilizing it in every way.

So on Friday 5 minutes after my regular shift, I am completing my final touches on 3 projects, updating my weekly report and ready to get the hell out of here.

I acquired a new toy this week. My Palm PDA bit the big one awhile back. I have been maintaining my contacts, calendar through my PC, but the Palm simply would not turn on. I can't really complain due to the fact I had it for a couple of years and from what I read online that is do-able. Needless to say, any choice I made on a new one, would be an extreme upgrade. I went with a Del Axim V30 Pocket PC. I did the normal search and read the reviews. It's not the newest on the market, but was highly reviewed. I have to say, it looks pretty sweet (son's favorite new word). Unfortunately, I am manually transferring all my contacts, ect over to it. This will require alot of boring, time consuming evenings. However, the Axim comes with wireless and bluetooth capabilities. I have yet to get the crazy thing to pick up our home wireless router, but last night on our outing, I did get it to connect at a coffee shop. I know at least it does work. If I can get it to work at home, I am pretty sure my wife will beg for one as well. There are more freeware applications out there for a Pocket PC (9 out of 10) than a Palm. I shouldn't be bored anytime soon.