May 1st came and went, like sometime last week... My how quickly time flies as you get older. When you're little (like under 12) a week passes like eternity. You always ask how much longer until _____ and the days counting down to Halloween, Christmas or your birthday take what fees like forever. 6 months ago I moved up to San Francisco. It feels like it was less than 6 weeks ago. Days pass quickly and I feel like I'm accomplishing much in the limited time I have each day. I've been inside pretty much since Friday, it's been raining pretty much everyday and I haven't felt super great.
April was a great month for work, a real high client acquisition rate. I had a great pace for closing leads into accounts. Some days were more hectic than others, it seemed like everyone liked to call or email on Friday afternoons, leaving me to rush and push replies out before I started my weekend. We're busy planning the next couple of month's roadmap, a trip to Internet Retailer in Boston this June and perhaps a conference in Atlanta as well. Every day we have new challenges and find new areas of opportunity to thrive as a company and delight our merchants.
Autocross is taking some time off, our next event isn't until June 7. We had events on April 19 and April 26. It was great to have my little brother come visit the last weekend in April, he enjoyed several rides in some Subaru's during autox at Candlestick on the 26th. That was probably my most enjoyable event, and I even came in second! The weather was PERFECT and the course was really fun and fast. New tires helped but were also tough to drive with. New tires have lots of tread so taller tread blocks "squirm" and aren't as easy to feel the road with. So in the time off I've been tinkering on the car. I have new, more aggressive brake pads to install. I changed the oil. I replaced my engine coolant. I also painted my brake calipers gooooollllldddd for a nice aestheic appeal. The rear sway bar definitely makes the car handle much better and I'm looking forward for more advice and driving tips as I keep learning each event.
I had a super fun time the other week, my amazing girlfriend flew up as a surprise for the day to take me to a Giants game. Giants happened to be playing the Dodgers (who are in first place) and she scored some awesome seats just 7 rows up from the visitors on deck circle. I never had some awesome seats and the night was a memorable experience even though Pagie's Boys in Blue lost. I'm looking forward to spending some time with her at the end of this month when I visit Riverside.
The last few days have been rough. I haven't felt well at all. I rarely get sick, but when I do it usually takes me out for a few days. I'm no doctor but I believe I had a nasty sinus infection. I was in such pain I had 4 sleepless nights in a row. I went to Kaiser urgent care, which isn't urgent care at all, and they said to tough it out and use a "nasal rinse kit". Nasal rinse kits are so much fun that I think everyone should try it at least 10 times in their life. You basically have a squirt bottle that shoots water up one nostril and it pours out the other. It's gallons of fun. Anyways I'm feeling better now (not that the rinse thingy helped much). I'm looking forward to having a PPO health plan soon and no more Kaiser.
I'm looking forward to Curtis' wedding, some vacation time, and warm weather later this month. In the mean time I have lots of work to keep me busy.
time really does fly by.
ReplyDeletei'm glad you're so successful at work!!! way to go, ryan! so studly.
and i'm so happy that pagey went up to see you! that game looked like so much fun!
=) miss ya, ryan!