Hell Hath Frozen Over

Yes it is true! Today hell has frozen over. How else can you explain the reasoning behind my sudden uploading of a bunch of pictures into the gallery?!?

Yipee! Pictures in the Gallery! (if you say that with a southern slang it rhymes)

Oh yes, and they are glorious pictures too.. Well not really, but they are pictures! 

As weird as it sounds my life is starting to calm down the closer we get to the holidays. I checked airfare and, unfortunately, I cannot afford to fly to Washington or Florida, because of the holiday rates, so I will be spending the holidays right here in NYC. I am truly fine with that because NYC is absolutely gorgeous right now. The piled up snow on the road sides combined with the clear skies and brisk temperatures make everything very picturesque. 

Today I rode my bike into work. At 8 am. It was a nice and brisk 30 some-odd degrees and I wore minimal clothing. Jeans over thermals, a thin jacket over a polyester plaid button shirt over an undershirt and a pair of converse high-tops. I also wore a pair of fingerless gloves and a beanie. It was an awesome ride. 

From my house, in Brooklyn, I rode down Jay Street to the Manhattan Bridge. I crossed the Manhattan Bridge into Chinatown and crisscrossed over to 1st Ave. I rode from 1st and 1st to 60th st when I turned left in front of the Queens Borough Bridge and rode over and into Central Park. I crossed Central park emerging at Columbus Circle. The whole ride took me about 45 to 50 minutes allowing me enough time to grab a hot chocolate and a bagel before opening the door to my office at 9am. 

It was a great morning. 

Today at work Hans, a freelance network geek I hired, came in to help me out for the day and for a few more days in the future. I needed helped getting a solid Linux firewall in place and while I can do the work I have been swamped with another, more pressing, project. He was awesome and was able to get the firewall up and running very quickly and it is very robust. 

It was really nice to have some help at work today and I came home with much less stress than in previous days. Even though I worked from 9am until 10:30pm. 

Well I better get some sleep. Hopefully this is the start of a very good trend.