A morning earworm, love@50% off, good reviews, Abe travels, and a night out with the tweeters…

This morning, much to my horror, I found myself singing out loud while waiting for the bus at the bus stop, “The wheels on the bus go ’round and ’round, ’round and ’round, ’round and ’round…” [Go ahead, click on it.] My boss reviewed my draft of the minutes of that university meeting that I worked … Read more

Mom Shumaker’s passing, my Twitter presentation, dining at The Flying Biscuit, and dancing…

I started off my work day with a meeting with the Computing@NC State team. There wasn’t too much to cover and we finished in 40 minutes, instead of taking the entire hour. I put on final touches to my Twitter presentation, and shortly before I left to cross the street to the building in which … Read more

Worked from home, a celebrity stalking, finished Stiff, a DiMambro-fixed router, and a dad update…

I worked from home today, keeping my germs with me. I’m very grateful to work the kind of job in which this is possible, and I’m grateful to have an employer and a manager who embrace the notion. You gotta love The Onion: Click to read their story entitled, “Sasha Obama Keeps Seeing Creepy Bush … Read more

Big regrets, a heart-warming news story, a full-blown cold, a little work, and an update on dad…

My favorite tweet from today: chrisblake Googling the Web’s biggest regrets: http: //tinyurl.com/63xg3m about 1 hour ago What do you know? A heart-warming story made the news… “Their names immortalized (Boston Globe) Ironworkers spray paint names of young cancer patients onto the beams of the Yawkey Center going up at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.” Click … Read more

J. Beal’s over the edge, cold coming on, canceled commitments, accounting for books, & groceries…

From the world of spam… I’m afraid to even open, much less read, an email with the subject line of, “The rotating shaft & clit tickler always drive me wild.” But, alas, I did, only to find this “testimonial”: The most mind-blowing orgasms I have ever had! It is sensational. The clit tickler is amazing—I … Read more

Buscapades, meeting Myra for breakfast, China presentation@work, and Third Friday @ Golden Belt…

I caught the city bus early this morning—at 7:25 instead of the regular 7:55 or 8:25 that I usually catch. I took a seat toward the back of the bus, where across from me sat a man and a woman. The man had long, dirty-blond hair, which covered the sides of his face, which was … Read more

A work meeting, a pedantic egg order, and an aborted start of a joke…

We had a staff meeting from 10:00-11:30 today. It was for everyone who reports to my boss’s boss, and the first 45 minutes or so of it featured a presentation from the director of one of the other units, the Advanced Computing unit in our overall Office of Information Technology organization. I was the facilitator … Read more