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Had a relaxing 55th birthday. Went to Toni's Italian restaurant for lunch. Just found this place today. It is in a frontage area near where I work. Very good food at reasonable prices. Later messed with the 3d printer some trying to get something printed for a co-worker. Now to bed.

We had an new HVAC unit installed on Thursday. It worked for a little while less than 24 hours and then it failed. We didn't really notice it until late Friday, at least our insulation is pretty good. Saturday the they came out to fix it replaced a part twice it was cooling but not like it should. We milked it through Sunday but I noticed it failed again when I went to work this Monday morning. They are here right now working on it again. They replaced the coil, cleaned the lines and are putting in new refrigerant. Hopefully it will work this time.

Yesterday I went and got a cake and had it personalized for a co-worker on her last day at work today. She was retiring with like 40+ years of government service. She was surprised and happy. It irritated me that the managers hadn't done this. I know she wasn't the most popular person at work but everyone deserves a cake when the leave a job or retire. It just seemed like a nice thing to do and I'm glad it made her happy.

Also the mysterious snuff master has started throwing their snuff cans in my yard again. It is really annoying that they seem to only do it in our yard. I would love to catch them doing it someday.

Maria and I went to see it last night after I got off work. I had seen the 11:30 showing wasn't very crowded and I figured it would be easier for me to stay up late than to try to get up early.
The movie was fantastic! I haven't had that much fun at a movie in a long time. Opening night audiences bring a lot of energy and it was infectious. No spoiling anything but if you like Star Wars at all you will really like this film. Also thinking back at some of the trailers and ads for this movie there was some good miss direction in them and they don't really give anything away.

Got my annual flu shot from work today. No adverse effects yet.

Finally after three days I got my office computer back online. With the basement carpet around my computer wet and moldy I had to rip up the carpet, get a dehumidifier, throw out the old wet power strips, replace with new ones that are on the desk not the floor, rearranged a bunch of stuff and now I finally feel safe enough to turn everything back on. Office is still a mess. Will continue to rip out carpet until it's all gone. Since I already started it I might as well replace it with something that I won't have worry about getting wet again.

Watched first episode of Space 1999 again in honor of Martin Landau death today.

I've been playing around with Campaign Cartographer to make a battle map for my GURPS Technomancer game. I'ts been a long time since the last game and I wasn't happy with how I ended the last game. (I didn't feel well and I was very tired that day.) So as a surprise and personal goal for myself I made this map. It not the best but not bad for my first effort in a long time.

Finished up Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh today. A very impressive book. It did a great job both keeping me entertained and making me think about the subject matter of the book. I loved how we are introduced to the main character then she dies and then were are told how she grew up through how they raised her clone. They wanted her to be raised how her predecessor was hoping that she would be a genius too. Very interesting and cool ideas and the author pulls it off very well.

One of my co-workers retired today. I envy Kim her new found freedom. She's planning to start writing full time now.

Movie was a lot of fun with lots of laughs. Sometimes it is fun being an older comic collector I'm able to get the Easter eggs on the first watch of the movie.