Who schedules an 8:00 meeting on a Monday morning? Unfortunately I didn’t look at my work calendar all weekend to remind myself of said meeting, so when I logged in at 9:00, my usual start time, the meeting was pretty much finishing up. Oh well. I’ve talked here before about what a crap shoot buying … Read more
On the way to Panera Bread at Crossroad this morning, I stopped at Best Buy long enough to see their prices on the iPod Touch—$399 for the 16G model; that’s too high. I’ve seen them for as low as $319.95 on mysimon.com. I stopped at Bed Bath & Beyond, where I bought the Sonicare UV Sanitizer, … Read more
I was up at 7:00 and finished up the grantwriting work for our board meeting. I was running a little late and arrived at 10:05 for our 10:00 board meeting, only to find just Ed, Jeff, and Katja there. Edie turned out to be the only other person to come. Gregor had thrown his back … Read more
When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple of days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Beethoven was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got the priest to come and listen to it. The priest bent close to … Read more
I was up early this morning, logged into work by 7AM. In my inbox, was an e-mail from my manager’s manager’s manager with the subject line: Sad News. And within the body of the short e-mail, this line: “[Employee’s name] fell ill suddenly yesterday, was transported to the hospital, but unfortunately did not survive.” That … Read more
I slept off last night late into this morning. In anticipation of my 2:00 dental appointment, I flossed the hell out of my teeth this morning. I ran to Hardee’s for a $2.09 egg and sausage biscuit with a $.99 coupon. The service was, for a pleasant change, both quick and friendly. It’s really nice … Read more
I worked from home today, with laundry going on in the background. I participated in a conference call, during which IBM editors talked about the subject: Global Writing Teams and Working with Writers Whose First Language Isn’t English. One person used these two words while talking: templative and formulaic. Templative, which I don’t think is a … Read more
First thing this morning, I had an e-mail from Kevin’s realtor saying that his place contracted, and asking if I’d be available some time today to sign paperwork on his behalf. I worked from home this morning, and from Helios this afternoon. Two notable things happened at Helios today: My cell phone battery was getting … Read more
Since we were so exhausted last night and got to bed early, we were up and at ’em at 9:00. We decided to “beat the church crowd” and get to the Farmers’ Market Restaurant right away. We each had a (complimentary) biscuit appetizer, a cup of coffee, and then each their unbeatable French Toast, both … Read more
Oh. my. god. We had the greatest day today—such incredible, incredible fun running all around Raleigh (sometimes literally), with a great group of folks, learning tons about the city, and trying establishments (including a lot of bars!) that I would never have otherwise ever ventured into. We had a team participating in Raleigh Typhoon 2, … Read more