As you might recall, last night I was Eric's guinea pig for his first roast turkey.  It was a good meal, consisting of turkey, boiled potato wedges, boiled corn nuggets, stuffing with gibblets, wheat dinner rolls, and really bland gravy.  I told him he needed to work on his gravy making skills, but it was an otherwise great meal.  It was all the more impressive that it was all made from scratch. 

His brother Adrian had apparently been dreading me coming over, social misfit that he unfortunately is.  He's at least dressing socially conservative.  He still needs more practice with his speach, as he stutters due to lack of confidence still.  I think Adrian had forgotten that we've gotten along well in the past.  It has been several years since we've last seen each other. 

We ended up talking quite a bit, so much that Eric was partially left out of the conversation.  We talked Doctor Who, Wal*mart and Microsoft business practices, writing your own OS from scratch (his current hobby), Douglas Adams and Colin Wilson, and eventually about his theory of space/time.  I asked him questions in the hopes that he could better understand the inconsistencies of his theory, and unlike many he was willing to capitulate that he hadn't quite pinned all of it down.  Hopefully our conversation will help him grow in that regard. 

When I got home late (due to our conversation lasting later than I planned on staying), Wayne called and talked to me until I fell asleep on the recliner.  I don't recall what his call was about either, so I hope it wasn't important.  He's not IMing me now, so I have to assume that it wasn't. 

Then, I had to be at work at 9am this morning for a meeting about our new 401(k) program.  We've switched providers yet again.  This time they're also switching the company match policy from the old 1% for 1% to a maximum of 3% for #% to the new 1% for 2% to a maximum of 4% for 8%.  They had some lame US government matching excuse that I hope they'll bother to explain to me at some future time.  At least the folks from the Mony Group supplied doughnuts, fritters, coffee, and orange juice for the meeting. 

Over course, they wanted to sit down with each of us and sign us up online.  Unfortunately, too many reps went on the Internet at once, and our connection went down for most of the rest of the day.  So very few people got their accounts set up.  Luckily, I'm computer and Internet savvy enought that I just did it all online without any help from the rep.  I'm all set.  Unfortunately, I work with so many computer illiterate and/or Internet illiterate people its scarey.  They won't listen to me that they could do it all on their own if they wanted.  Which I guess is why they pay reps to come and walk them through. 

It was funny, the rep I spoke to for a couple of minutes after the Internet connection went down said he had gotten into the habit of talking to everyone like they were his financially illiterate father.  He was happy to see a fellow twentysomething working there and gave me his card and said to call him if self-registration at home left me with any questions.  It didn't.  My own question still remains the with the new company matching policy, something I don't think he could answer. 

Anyway, so I had to go to work early and leave late as I was still schedualed for the monetary close.  A long work day, plus not enough sleep the night before, plus continuing headlight aggrivations, plus staying up until I finished my laundry, 401(k) sign up, and weblog entry have left we overly tired.  Good night, and see you Sunday. 

Paul out.