Monday

Jonny is just getting started with some amazing coding in VB.NET, ASP.NET and SQL SERVER. But now it is time to take a quick break.

Over the weekend Jonny and Jesse went to Trader Joe. Stocking up for Angelina's departure, very early Tuesday morning.

Today Jonny is up to page 400 of The Eight. Lots of intrigue and mystery. lots of mesopetonia and phonecian references.

On December 24th, the whole family went to the temple for a Chinese dinner. It was a lot of fun.

Jonny listened to the parsha. Vayechi is a chazak parsha. This is the last parsha of sefer bereshit. Why do Jews want to be buried in Israel? When the Messiah comes the dead will tunnel to Israel.

Jonny cranked up the heat. Beverly and Branden aren't here in Hotel Hilton. Jonny was getting cold. He had tried an experiment with the heater. He turned the fan from hi to lo. He turned the heat from W in warmer to r. But this didn't work. He was extremely cold.

Jesse, Lorraine and Jonny had a fantastic time at the Henry Ford Museum.

Wednesday

Beverly and Branden were at the Hilton Hotel when Jonny arrived late. His headached so badly this morning that he drifted off to sleep before lunch. Maybe today he will stay an hour late. But Angelina has to approve it. Wendell called this morning while Jonny was walking Lucy. It was a short call. Wendell uninvited Jonny to Elizabeth's house in Florida. It was too short of a visit if Jonny could only fly Friday to Monday. There are many activities in Angelina's household that would have prevented such a trip. Wendell asked if Jonny could come for a week to the beach in the summer. Jonny said he would keep after Angelina about it.

Jonny is up to page 342 of The Eight.

Today he listened to the parsha Vayigash. It starts with Benjamin getting framed by Joseph. Judah forfeits his share in the world to come. The jews are put into Goshen a jewish suburb. The divine spirit only rests on a happy person. They remained in Egypt for 210 years. This is calculated. Moses was 80 years old when he left Egypt. Moses's mother was 130 years old when Moses was born. She was born at the time of the exile to Egypt. Two kingships descend from Judah and Joseph. Joseph asks is my father still alive when he reveals himself to his brothers. Why does he ask this question? There are at least 4 different answers to this question why was it asked.

Angelina was working at the flu clinic and Jonny watched the kids. The coffee pot got broken. Today Angelina called and ordered a new free one.

New officemate

Nope Jonny didn't fall in from the dentist appointment. He has several cracked teeth. He doesn't floss correctly. He didn't feel like flossing for a whole day after the appointment.

Here in Hotel Hilton, the place just got more crowded. In addition to Jonny and Branden there is now Beverly Polcyn. She is a volunteer. She works in the finance department same as Branden. So now there are three people in the office instead of just one.

Jonny is up to page 320 of The Eight.

Angelina just called. Jonny's list is growing. Angelina is going out tonight. She is working and won't be home till 8:30. She also said that Jesse broke the chair. The toilet needs to be tightened. She signed up for the Chinese food dinner at the temple.

Jonny has to get back to his SQL SERVER coding. He is working on the machine log program again. From now on Lea is banned from it. She is more trouble than she is worth. Plus she complains about the users. That isn't a good trait to have in programming.

Yesterday Lea, Jonny and Rob went out to lunch. Plus Rob paid for all of them and the other workers in the groups, there were 5 other team members. They went to Macaroni Grill. Jonny had a chicken ceasar salad. This wasn't exactly kosher but not as bad as beef and milk. The lunch was roughly 3 hours long. Last night Jonny built a shelf. Lorraine insisted it would help organize Jesse's room. It took 1.5 hours to build a small shelf.

Alberta is in big trouble for bad mid-term grades.

dentist appointment

The day has flown by. It is almost 2:10 so it is time to write in the blog. Angelina and Jonny watched Criminal Minds. Angelina had a 10:00 AM dentist appointment. Jonny had the 11:00 AM dentist appointment. They go to the same dentist. Jonny is angry with Angelina. Wendell sent him an email about coming to visit. Wendell and Kristina are going to Florida on Jan 28. They will see Elizabeth in West Palm Beach. Jesse would love to see Wendell's sister. Jonny would love to see his aunt. Angelina said no. Jonny is up to page 282 of The Eight. Jonny forgot his book and his shoes. Angelina brought the book and the shoes to the dentist appointment. Jonny put off eating lunch until after the dentist appointment. He went to see Penny and Rob before 11. They were both not available. Then just as he was going to lunch the computer said no I don't think so. Jonny ran to his 1 PM meeting with Penny. He ran into the PI and the stats guy. They were at the right place. But the PI said no meeting today. Penny wasn't even in the office. Again Rob wasn't in his office. Jonny got some hand sanitizer for the Hilton Hotel. Branden isn't here either. Jonny left a note on Branden's cube. He did it because Branden always leaves his light on and Jonny turned it off.

Wednesday

Outside of the Hilton Hotel, Jonny's window, there are men cleaning it. Oh no an email from Lea. Hold on. She is working on the Machine Log. Jonny is happy about that. So that means he needs to update his plan view hours to indicate that sometimes he doesn't actually work on VSAFE 8 hours a day. Jonny really sleeps 8 hours a day but that is a separate issue.

In today's chumash Jonny learned why the parsha of Mikeitz is always read during Chanukah. The story of Joseph's brothers selling Joseph into slavery. Then later on Joseph isn't angry and the brothers aren't remorseful. It is a victory for the believers over the non-believers. This means that during the time of the Greeks the Torah was translated into Greek. In other parts of the parsha Paro doesn't tell Jospeh all of the dream. Yet Yosef figures it out. This is what really made Pharaoh believe in Yosef. There are many midrash in the parsha that can easily be recalled. Some people believe that Dina was the grandmother of Yosef's wife. Osnat was Yosef's MIL. And Osnat was really Dina's daughter. Dina went to Egypt and took with her a rare gem from Yacov. Oh another email from Lea. Lea and Jonny are thinking about making three different database all in agreement on DOB. What a novel concept.

Jesse, Jonny and Angelina went to Hotel California today for a pediatric urological follow-up visit. The doctor pronouced him as fine. He will take over Jesse's long term follow-up. Angelina is gradually letting the duration increase between visits. These visits are killing her and she knows it. The last appointment was in May. So this time they agreed to wait 8 more months. Afterwards Jesse got Angelina to agree to let him walk over to the Hilton Hotel. Another email from Lea. They stopped at Einstein brothers and got bagels. Well Jonny is going back to work now.

Tuesday

Jonny had a meeting at Death Valley this morning. Now he is sweating to death in his office. Branden decided that it was cold in the hallway. Jonny is on page 264 of The Eight. Yesterday he listened to parsha. Last week he listened to last week's parsha. Jonny just got off the phone with Angelina. She was yelling at him. Alberta has a basketball game today. Her team is in the championship. The question of last week's parsha is did Yosef comitt Loshan Hora against his brothers? Did Yosef want to push them away? Rueben is the first person to do Chuva. Yehuda slept with the hooker because it threw off the trail of the devil. The angels knew this and told him to do this. The Baker hated the Butler. Jonny watered his plants. He noticed that he is gaining too much weight. Jesse had a very long appointment. But everything is cool. There are no problems. Jonny is back from talking to Penny to see if she has any work for him. Rob wasn't in his office. Jonny wants to leave now and go the basketball game but Angelina said no. Jonny walked up and down the stairs. For lunch he had a frozen buritto. Then Angelina drove him to work. He logged into VSAFE and modifed records. Shortly after that he fell asleep. Then his officemate walked in. The sound of the key in the lock woke him up.

adventures from 8:30 to 1 PM

And then Jonny lost track of time.

8:30 am getting off the bus
8:45 resending records to the billing department
9:00 bathroom break
Up to page 228 of The Eight
9:15 coffee spilled all over the microwave. It wasn't his fault
9:30 searching for the DOB that is missing for some records
9:45 Mikeitz Tora gems listening to that on the Chabbad website
10:00 Checked on Penny. She didn't need anything. But she thanked Jonny for stopping by.
10:15 Rob wasn't there either
10:30 Waiting for the slow computer. VSAFE is a really horrible product.
10:45 Angelina is calling

This is a very boring blog entry

11:00 lunch
11:15 still eating and reading
11:30 water plants
11:45 missing primary dx on records
12:00 More Mikeitz
12:15 Branden wanted to know what room number he and Jonny were in
12:30 Branden wanted to know about the bus schedule
12:45 Jonny decided to stretch like in his stretch program
1:00 Jonny finished the Torah commentary listening to Click FM now
1:15 officemate went to lunch