Today’s posting is going to be quite the potpourri, as opposed to my regular daily blow-by-blow. [Get your mind out of the gutter.] Here’s a summary of the day: Day off. Slept in. Blogged. Lower body routine and a little ab workout. Two-stepped and line-danced. I’m not a big horoscope fan, but I recently subscribed … Read more
I was in and out of the gym by 8:30 this morning, where it was Free Bagel Tuesday, and I did only cardio. Exercise Type Minute Duration Cardio (Stationary Bicycle) 20 Cardio (Treadmill) 20 Today was my penultimate work day at IBM. I’m off tomorrow. Thursday is my last day. I completed Shruti’s edit today. … Read more
Today was my antepenultimate work day at IBM. I worked from home, and I completed Eric’s edit. I canceled my “One-on-One Meeting” scheduled with my manager for 4:00. What would be the point really? I got to the gym at about 4:45, and I did an upper body workout, after which I enjoyed a slice … Read more
We got up around 9:00 and pulled out of the parking lot at 10:22 to head back to Raleigh. It was an uneventful 4.5-hour ride back, with a stop for lunch at a Quizno’s just about 75 miles from Durham. Once home, I got a nice chunk of editing done, and then met Joe at Flex … Read more
I thought I had set a wake-up call for 8:00, woke up at about 8:15, and then discovered at 9:00 (by the ringing phone), that I’d actually set it for 9:00. As expected, the weather outside was dreary, due to the fact the Tropical Storm Hanna was making her way up the eastern seaboard, with … Read more
I had a dream so intense this morning that I didn’t hear my alarm clock going off for about four minutes straight. That has never happened before. Short version of the dream: I was to be put to death by firing squad with one other person. For some reason, we were put in a tent, … Read more
Today was my preantepenultimate work day at IBM. I met my friend Rhonda, with whom I shared an office at IBM at one time, and with whom I shared more laughs than I can possibly recall. I hadn’t seen her in about a year, and when we decided—on IBM’s internal instant message system—to meet at … Read more
I slept in this morning, getting a full eight hours of glorious sleep. I devised a separate blog entry for today called Financially Independent vs. Independently Wealthy, which was inspired by the question of a friend in a recent e-mail he sent to me congratulating me on my achievement and my leaving IBM. It is currently a … Read more
Recently I announced my imminent departure from IBM noting that I was embracing the “independent” part of being “financially independent.” To that end, I received a host of very heart-warming e-mail notes and discussion forum postings. One such e-mail posed this question in it: “Does ‘financially independent,’ come anywhere close to ‘independently wealthy’?” Interesting question, … Read more
I began on my penultimate edit for IBM this morning, working from home. At lunch time, I met Joe over at Helios to work from there for the rest of the day. At 3:00, I ran over to NC State to turn in a required security form and my I-9 form with “one form of … Read more