Stuck

Well, it happened the other night. I was doing some after hours work on the server at one of our branches. After confirming with the on-duty manager that the branch was closed and all work done, I started my work. It wasn't complicated, just swapping out a defunct hard drive and make sure after the BIOS and firmware on the server was up to date. It took about 20 minutes because no updates were needed.

I went out to the manager to report I was done and to get let out. Well, he wasn't at his desk. I checked the lunch room and the men's room upstairs, but he was nowhere to be found. Of course I didn't have any keys, and I didn't know when the custodial crew was going to arrive. I called our security and explained my predicament, and they were going to dispatch someone to let me out. Just then the courier comes in to pick up the daily work, so I had security cancel the assistance, and walked out with the courier.

Next time, I'm reminding the closing manager that I don't have keys, and to wait for me to say I'm done.

Hillary for President??

As you may have read, Hillary Clinton announced on January 20 (a rather symbolic day if you ask me) that she is forming a presidential exploratory committee. In a video posted on her web site, she states, "We're all going to be part of the solution" In other words, get out your wallets people, because we are going to pay through the nose for all of her plans.

I did watch the video on her web site. Thankfully, I had already drank a couple of beers before I went to her web site. Otherwise my monitor would have a hole in it now.

Have a great day!

GG

Hello

Well, I've decided to get into this blogging thing.

First let me introduce myself. Actually I'm not going to get into too much detail. Yeah, I'm a bit paranoid. Let's just say I'm a married father of two, I live in Anaheim about two miles north of Angel Stadium and two miles east of Disneyland. For me that's just about an ideal location, as I baseball fan, and I have had an Annual Pass for over 20 years now. I am employed as a PC technician (no, I will not fix your computer) at a Southern California financial institution.

You may ask why I am calling this blog Grinning and Golfing. Well if you've seen me play golf, you would laugh. Take a gander at me swinging a golf club.

As far as hobbies are concerned, besides golf, I enjoy reading. Right now I am reading "God in the Dock" a collection of lectures and essays by C.S. Lewis. I should probably say trying to read. After a few minutes I am fighting to stay awake. Not because what Lewis is trying to say is boring, it's just that reading puts me in a relaxed state and before I know it I have nodded off.

One of my New Year's resolutions was to read more. My wife and kids are readers. There is always a pile of books in the bathroom and we have three bookcases in the living room. In addition I watch too much TV. There is not a whole lot of must-see-TV for me. But I spend a lot of time flipping channels. We have DirecTV and I am amazed that I can't find anything to watch after 170 channels.

Also, reading gets my brain going. I can imagine that I will read something and run to this blog and post a comment or take notes for posting later.

Anyway I guess that's it for now. But it's a start. See ya round