The gang at Steve’s party on Sunday: The three amigos: I went to the credit union at RTP, which has got to be the worst customer experience ever, and then by CarMax. Next, I stopped by the Factory Card Outlet, where I nearly had a stroke in the parking lot. They are going out of … Read more
John’s Christmas Stocking leave a gift for dailyafirmation your username: your gift: (30 characters or less) get your stocking I ran to the credit union and Wachovia this morning to transfer some funds. I spent the entire day studying for my final exam in the class from hell. I got to class about 20 minutes … Read more
I spent most of my day today studying for my ENG 525 Variety in Language final exam, which is tomorrow evening from 6:00 – 9:00. I went to Steve’s holiday gathering, which was quite nice. The place was decorated to the nines, and there was a wide variety of finger foods impeccably set out. Martha … Read more
We spent the majority of the afternoon at CarMax, where Robert purchased a car! After test driving a Ford Ranger and a RAV4, he settled on a Nissan Altima — a 2000 with less than 37,000 miles on it. Yay! We met Kevin (av8rdude) at Helios at about 5:45, where we spent about an hour, … Read more
I worked for a couple of hours at my Service-Learning job today. Myra and Alissa were in the office, mostly planning their immersions for their Spring class. I picked up Robert at his mama’s house, and we stopped by Cameron Village on the way home, where I bought cream cheese and chips for the chip … Read more
From a stumbleupon website for creative advertising around the world. A cool way a watch maker let’s you see how their watches will look on your wrist before you buy one. These are on a bus at the airport, where I’m sure you can conveniently buy one once inside at the duty-free shops. I worked … Read more
I worked the entire day on finishing my paper by 5:00, which I did — barely. I wasn’t able to get it to the professor’s office by 5:00, but I e-mailed him an electronic copy of it to show him that it was done, and told him I’d drop off a printed copy in the … Read more
I had a full day of editing at IBM today, and still am nowhere near where I need to be in order to finish this edit job by the close of business on Thursday. Oh well. This, too, shall pass. I was going to cancel my one-one-one meeting with my manager, for the aforementioned reason … Read more
I worked all day on my paper and the presentation about it that I had to do tonight. I got to class early by close to an hour, hoping the room would be available to make sure we could use the projection system during class to present my PowerPoint slide show. To my surprise and … Read more
Bumper sticker of the weekend spotted by Robert: The Only Bush I Care About Is My Own Robert put on coffee this morning. I had a half a bagel for breakfast, and fixed Robert a Cheddar Cheese Omelet. It was all good. I got to Helios at about 1:00, and the place was jammed. Amelia … Read more