I listened to my my music on my new iPod Touch on the bus today, so missed out on any potential shenanigans, though visually, there didn’t appear to be any. Rhonda, my officemate, brought in some rum cake today for some occasion going on downstairs—what occasion exactly, I don’t know. What I do know is that the … Read more
I caught the 8:25 bus this morning, and it was uneventful other than the fact that it wasn’t one of the regular buses used in the fleet. There were a lot fewer seats, as they weren’t facing the front of the bus, like the regular bus that is used. Instead, there was just seating along … Read more
We were up at around 9:00 this morning, and I fixed waffles, eggs, and corned beef hash for breakfast, and we had coffee, which was 9/10 regular coffee and 1/10 Highlander Grogg (caramel, butterscotch and hazelnut). It was all good. I made a very weak attempt at learning Chinese. It’s hard! I spent two or … Read more
At about 1:00, just before I turned off my computer to get on with my day, I received an e-mail from my cousin in Atlanta: Hi John, We haven’t spoken in awhile, and unfortunately I’m writing now to tell you sad news. Dad died at home last night at 5:00 pm. He’s been home since … Read more
I was up at 6:00, still having 9 hours of sleep, since I got to bed so early. I caught the 7:25 Method Road bus, and the ride in was uneventful. The microwave in the kitchen area on our floor at work has three preset buttons: one for popcorn, one for beverages, and one for … Read more
Morning BUStle I caught the 8:25 Method Road CAT bus, instead of my usual 7:25 one, and none of the usual suspects were on it. At a stop on Gorman Street that is also a Wolfline (NCSU’s bus system) stop, the “transportational divide” (à la “the digital divide“) was more evident than ever. All of the white people and Asian … Read more
Morning BUStle Once again, I caught the 7:25 Method Road CAT bus, which once again arrived two minutes early. I’m keeping a mental spreadsheet of average arrival times to miniminze my future waits. Once again, up by Western Boulevard, that very tall woman boarded the bus, once again with a convenience store cup of coffee, and today I noticed … Read more
Today’s BUStle (Inbound) I caught the 7:25 Method Road CAT bus, which is right at the end of the driveway entrance to our townhouses. On Gorman Street, up by Western Boulevard, this very, very tall woman boarded the bus and had features that would not preclude the possibility that she might have once been a man. I … Read more
I worked from home this morning, and during lunch time I ran to Coastal Federal Credit Union (CFCU), where I: Changed my mortgage payment to be drafted from my new State Employees Credit Union checking account instead of my CFCU checking account. Did the same with my home equity loan payment. Stopped my first-of-the-month transfer … Read more
Robert and I were up at about 9, and had sausage “biscuits” for breakfast. Biscuits is in quotation marks, because the sausage was actually on King’s Hawaiian sweet rolls, not biscuits. We saw the 12:35 screening of Burn After Reading at Crossroads 20. Movie synopsis: A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends … Read more