Posts Tagged ‘My Life’
Crikey! My checkbook will miss you.
So if you are in a position where you are trying to decide whether to buy [Trail of Memories: The Randy Travis Anthology][1] or [The Very Best of Randy Travis ][2], this post may help. The latter is a single CD which duplicates works found on the two disc Anthology and adds only one new […]
This is an approximation of the conversation between Peter (who sits across the 8 ft wall from me) and a coworker. Peter is taking the afternoon off to mow the grass since it supposed to rain tomorrow: C: You’re taking the afternoon off to mow your yard?? P: But what else could I do? C: […]
Julie is one of my coworkers. As Foghorn Leghorn would say, “Nice girl, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.” (Actual Julie is very intelligent and a lot of fun to hang around. Most of the time.) So she poured a cup of coffee this afternoon (the coffee pool is own by […]
After all of the problems that we have had getting Comcast service setup in the first place (as alluded to in my [previous post][1], we weren’t surprised when we returned home after a long holiday weekend to find out that our cable had been out since 6:05 Friday evening. So I called the local number […]
As I prepare to move out of New England, I realize that some of the people is what I will miss the most. Like this email exchange with my boss, when I wrote: > Leave my computer on and waste electricity over the 4th of July holiday? > > ARE YOU INSANE????? and she replied: […]
What’s in Indianapolis? Me and my wife. In a couple of weeks.
I was talking with a coworker today regarding the user interface for an application that I designed (and she is the maintainer of now): > Her : we also need to remove inappropriate messages on bad key presses. > Me : I disagree that all humor is inappropriate. > Me : But I wouldn’t fight […]
This [herbal tea][1] tastes like [TheraFlu][2], just not quite as good. [1]: http://www.myflavia.com/jupiter/nutrguide/ntripop_A145.aspx [2]: http://www.drugstore.com/qxb9089_333181_sespider/theraflu/theraflu.htm
It’s going to be one of those days. I look at the clock and realize that I have been at work for almost four hours and haven’t really gotten anything useful accomplished. Worse than that, I haven’t gotten anything non-useful accomplished either. The time just appears to have slipped into the ether.