Day Sixty Six

Woke up around 1am this morning after having a sad dream. I re-lived a bad night and just couldn't fall asleep again. Everytime I started drifting off, it started right back where I left off. So, I stayed up and watched some tv and then drifted off around 4am and woke up at 5am and just said screw it...I went to work to get riding. When I got to work, I got the bike out and hit the timer. I had a pretty good pace the whole time until about mile 5. My knee was really really hurting for some reason. Almost like a pressure was building up under my knee cap. So, I slowed down and kept riding at a gentle pace. Only hit 8 miles, but I was really hurting. Getting to work, I knew I had a lot to do today and wanted to do an audit of our AT&T records and see if there was a way to get us some savings on cash. So, tomorrow, I'm going to go around to each building and see if I can pinpoint the phone lines that we do and don't use and get rid of them. I want to move us to an efax solution and find some way of processing credit cards online. Our phone lines cost so much to have, it's a waste to keep them running. Later, I went upstairs to start working on a project near my boss's office. Our owner, Bernie was in there today and he and I had a great talk. I showed him a lot of cool shit that his iPhone could do that he didn't know about and explained some things to him about the computers. All this while my boss sat and shook his head laughing. It was fun actually. I did the audit around 10am and it took a good 2 hours or so. At 2pm, Bernie had asked me if I could go thru the records and try and find out why we're paying AT&T so much every month. When I told him I took it upon myself to do it already, he just shook his head and smiled and said "That's my Mikey...if I need it, you're on top of it." He's such a good man. I really do look up to him and really think of him as a father figure. He's really one of those guys. Very fortunate man, but extremely humble about it. I tell ya...I would not be at JA anymore if it weren't for Bernie and Brad...those two have done more for me at this company than anyone else would do somewhere else and I can't thank them enough for what they've done for me. Hell, who else can talk to their boss about how many miles he ran in the morning or ride their bike next to him while he's running and push each other a little harder. It's a pretty cool thing. When I came home, the bad news kept flowing and things are worst than I thought and an intervention needs to be had I think. It has nothing to do with mine or anyone else's health or anything, so don't worry...it's just a shitty situation that needs to be dealt with. Butch came by and bought dinner and we had a good chat afterwards. Tomorrow is T-28 Mod night at Dan's I think, so that'll be fun. Can't wait for tomorrow...I just want a good night's sleep. Speaking of which, it's past my bedtime. Hope you all have a good night. Goodnight, friends. Catch you on the flipside.