Bad day at work. BladeRunner still not working – validation error box still blank, Sy and Dewaine had no luck reinstalling the Java VM, and Interleaf still had no fix. Sy and I worked on the validation of Chapters 2, 3, and 9. We had a good lunch at Irregardless. We finished up at around … Read more
Got to work and could finally check my Broadreach e-mail. Sy’s coming today. Oh well. At least it’s not until 1:00. We worked on BRT/BRX/DOC/DTD education all afternoon. We ran into back-leveled Java dlls, and worked with Dewaine to try and fix that. I left them both working on it at 5:00 to go to … Read more
Jimmy didn’t wake us up at 8 like he was supposed to. I woke up at 8:09. Rolled over until about 8:25. When I came out of the shower Phyllis had gotten up. She said Jimmy had gone out, but didn’t wake her up either. She held off on breakfast as she thought that maybe … Read more
I slept in until 8:15 this morning. None of the first sessions were XML-related. I checked out of the Sheraton at around 9:00. At the desk, I asked the ladies working there if they’d heard about my note to the management. They hadn’t, but asked what it was about. We all had a good laugh … Read more
My alarm went off at 6:00 in the Sheraton Four Points – Pentagon Hotel on 2480 S. Glebe Road in Arlington, Virginia. I wanted to reset the alarm to about 7:30 and roll over. Something told me the schedule was different today. I finally got up at 6:32 to check. Damn. I was right; things … Read more
My alarm went off at 6:00. I turned the television on. CNN was covering the storm. Wilmington was getting battered and so was Jacksonville. They checked in with their reporter in Jacksonville. He was literally not able to stand without being pushed off balance by the wind. The camera “pixilated” a couple of times because … Read more
September 15, 1999 The hurricane is not supposed to get here until Thursday morning and I’m already waking up in the middle of the night. I was awake at 1:35, fell back asleep, 1:42, back asleep 1:58. Back asleep. My alarm went off at 4:30. I have a 6:30 AM flight out of Raleigh to … Read more
Cleaning up old floppy disks, as part of a letter to a friend, I found this description of my Hurricane Fran ordeal back in September of 1996. I’m capturing it here for posterity. I still have some slight PTSD around storms due to this experience. Rob and I suffered extensive damage to our place during … Read more
I’m imagining on the front of the shirt: the acronym STC (or STC@NCSU) with Society for Technical Communication spelled out under it, and then the saying on the back. Also, I’m imagining all the lettering centered, and in the case of the second one, I would imagine audience, context, and purpose being in italics. I … Read more