I slept in this morning, allowing myself a full eight hours sleep. Yay! I added a link to my Twitter stream off to the right in the links column. I did three loads of laundry today—one whites, one colors, and one sheets (you know you needed that much detail!)—straightened up (my house, not me) some, hung up … Read more
After a good, early night’s sleep, I was up at 6:00AM and out to the bus by 7:30. I’m going to introduce a new feature starting with today’s entry, it’s going to be called BUStle, and it’s going to capture my musings on my bus rides—both to and from work. I don’t know if I’ll … Read more
I met Nathan for a 30-minute 8:00AM meeting, in which he started off by allaying any fears about the solvency of Ameriprise—considering the national financial debacle that’s been going on this week. Next, we talked about shifting my asset allocation to a more conservative mix, as I enter the “quasi-retirement” phase that I’m in. He’s … Read more
Today was a much better bus day, since I got off to an earlier start, which allowed me to catch a bus that actually had plenty of seating available—as opposed to yesterday’s butts-to-nuts situation. I didn’t mention that yesterday afternoon, I attended my first meeting, which was actually training (on the Drupal system), presented by … Read more
Regretfully I’m going to have to make this short to catch up, to keep from getting too far behind. Suffice it to say that today was my first day in the office at my new job, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a very nice day, with my manager organizing a little breakfast-type gathering … Read more
Today was my first day working for the state of North Carolina as an employee of North Carolina State University. I spent eight hours in New Employee Orientation, during which we were treated to six different speakers in the following areas: Welcome to NC State, Benefits, Diversity, Health & Safety, Discrimination & Harassment, and Information … Read more
I had nine glorious hours of sleep last night. Yay! I had waffles and eggs for breakfast today. It’s been forever since I’ve had waffles. I had an early afternoon workout, and in preparing to leave for the gym discovered that I’ve lost my water bottle. In the car, I confirmed I hadn’t left it … Read more
I attended our Manbites Dog September board meeting today from 10:00-12:00 at the theater in Durham. Only four (of seven) of us were present, and I volunteered to take the minutes. After the meeting, I picked up Robert at his “old” apartment, giving him a break in the middle of moving to his new place, by treating … Read more
I arrived, for the last time, to my IBM office at about 10:00. By 11:30, I had finished my last edit. At about noon, I had my last lunch in the Tivoli cafeteria. Ironically enough, I was delighted to see that they’d brought the “Personal Size Pizza” station back, but the pizza I got from … Read more
Today was going to be my last day at the office, with my official quit date being tomorrow. However, when it was all said and done, I didn’t get done what I wanted done, so I talked to Woody about “checking out” tomorrow at about 1:30. Robert and I saw The Island, staged by The … Read more