Joe drove me to the Blue Ridge Surgery Center, and we arrived right at noon in the pouring rain. From the car, I ran to get under the shelter over the front entranceway to the building, but still got pretty wet. Who runs to the surgery center when they’re getting knee surgery? Evidently I do. … Read more
Dear Santa, Please send me a baby brother. Love, Johnny Dear Johnny, Send me your mother. Love, Santa I got my last night of dancing in before my knee surgery tomorrow.
A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside. “That laundry is not very clean,” she said. “She doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.” Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every … Read more
Nearly 300,000 people have applied for the approximately 7,000 available jobs in the Obama administration. ~ New York Daily News ~ With hotels in Washington, D.C. rapidly filling to capacity for Barack Obama’s January 20 inauguration, area college students have been renting out their dorm rooms for anywhere from $500 to $1,800 a night for … Read more
We got up at about 9:30, and after a breakfast of turkey sausage with slices of hard-boiled egg on a Portuguese muffins and some coffee for breakfast, we watched three more episodes of Six Feet Under to close out the third season, and to finally get some closure on the “missing Lisa” story line. Finally. … Read more
Robert arrived at around 1:00, and we had lunch, consisting of ham salad on Portuguese muffins, and watched several episodes of the third season of Six Feet Under. We went to Irregardless for dinner, with 5:30 reservations. We had a coupon for a free bottle ($17 value) of wine, for Robert’s birthday, which we’re celebrating … Read more
I was up and at ’em early this morning, catching the 7:25 bus to meet Myra at the Hillsborough Street Bruegger’s at 8:00 for breakfast. On the way there, thinking through my day’s schedule, it occurred to me that I had OIT Orientation from 11-5 today, and a pre-op doctor’s appointment with Jeremy today at … Read more
I was into work early this morning, and as a result, caught the 4:30 bus home. It was coming just as I walked out. I attended the STC’s end-of-semester and holiday gathering at Mitch’s Tavern, which started at 7:30 and hosted a convergence of present NCSU STC student chapter members, an “ENG 675 (’08) reunion,” … Read more
I spent most of my work day today working on a redesigned Web page for OIT Units. Observation: TinyMCE sucks. I exported my Palm Pilot calendar and then imported it into Google. I want to stop having to sync the two, so now that it’s imported into Google, I hope to just maintain my calendar … Read more
I attended two work meetings today, one on accessibility considerations when creating Word documents, PowerPoint slides, and PDFs, and the other on Web site organization with regards to the director to whom our department reports. A tweet after that meeting was rather telling of how it went: Myers-Briggs-speak: I need to do some (S to … Read more