Weight Milestone: Dropped out of the 200s. Whew. I’m losing it — not weight, but my mind. In yesterday’s blog entry, I had some stuff that happened yesterday, and some that actually happened today. So sue me. I fixed it. My life is back in order now. 🙂 <Stuff from today that was originally in … Read more
This is a chat transcript from a conversation on my company’s internal chat system. As becomes obvious, it is a chat from the “Catholics” community. While reading this, I thought of two things: I used to be a member of this discourse community, and even being an “ex-member,” I find it somewhat silly. I can’t … Read more
OMG, this woman is a hoot. I’ve added her to my friends list, as she is on LiveJournal. I got in to work at 7:55 only to find e-mail from Janette that it was after midnight, and she was still working. “I probably won’t make 8:00 in the morning.” And she didn’t. Oh well. I … Read more
I had my first, newly renamed, “Process Improvement & Effectiveness Meeting” of 2005 today. It was a good meeting, with good input from BT. He authorized proceeding with the change I want to make to the status field in the issue form, after I check with Helen and Mark to be sure that they are … Read more
We had sesame seed bagels for breakfast. (Read: I ate “off program.”) Robert headed home at about 10:30. I spoke with Steve online and arranged his visit for 1:00, at which time he arrived and we went through the usability test. It was quite interesting to watch him struggle with almost the exact same things … Read more
I devised my “Inquiry Usability Test” for ENG 508 today. The report is due at Monday evening’s class. I did the test on myself, and later in the day, on Robert. It was very interesting, and I learned a lot about my Microwave, which was one of the two objectives of the exercise. The task … Read more
I found this rather thought-provoking this morning. Jeanie-baby (pictures of Jeanie-baby at the bottom of the page at that link) called today to ask me if I was going to be able to do her taxes again this year. She sounded absolutely great, which made me feel absolutely great. During our conversation, I said, “Someone’s … Read more
I worked from home today due to the anticipated bad weather, which never did precipitate — if you will. That first sentence reminds me of the careful distinction to be made in the corporate world between “working at home” and “working from home.” Working from home — doing at home the work you usually do … Read more
Weight Milestone: Moved up a belt loop this morning. This started my day off with a smile. And, though that’s amusing, it’s not hysterical like this one is to me, which is one of those clips that no matter how many times I watch it, I literally laugh out loud. While I was working out … Read more
… and what a return on investment! I presented at the WIM/TUM meeting again today, and it went well. I covered the criteria for controlled documents, how to tell what IPD and TPDM deliverables and templates are mandatory, and how to determine reviewers and approvers for the various deliverables of projects. <sarcasm>Exciting stuff.</sarcasm> I left … Read more