Kevin (av8rdude) and I decided to work out at 9:00 this morning, and 10:00 tomorrow morning, based on his conference calls schedule for each day. I am not a morning person, so I guess it’s no surprise that the negative-speak started on the ride to the gym today: I’m tired. Still half asleep. Maybe I’ll … Read more
After 10 hours of sleep, I got up at 6:00. Sweet! Breakfast consisted of a hard-boiled egg, two turkey sausage patties, and coffee. I do miss not having some kind of bread (namely toast, an English muffin, or a bagel) for breakfast, but surprisingly, not as much as I thought I would, since I’d pretty … Read more
I worked from home today. For lunch, I decided to get daring with my one leftover grilled fish fillet from yesterday’s lunch and made a fish taco with it. It was surprisingly better than I’d anticipated it would be. Yay! Ric Weiland, left, and Bill Gates at the Microsoft table during the 1976 National Computer … Read more
I was a bad sleeping partner last night. In the middle of the night, Robert nudged me and said, “Do you have any cough suppressant?” When I answered no, he moved into the bed in the guest bedroom for the rest of the night. I don’t blame him at all. He had to be up … Read more
Watch out for double dippers If you see someone dipping a half-eaten chip into the guacamole at your next party, beware: “Double-dipping” can spread cold and flu viruses and other germs. Inspired by an episode of Seinfeld in which the character George Costanza is caught double-dipping, professor Paul Dawson enlisted undergraduate students to dip a … Read more
From this week’s PostSecrets. This is a case-and-a-half of sad to me. Though, I can’t decide what’s sadder—the fact that either no one thought that much of him, or that he had no idea that if they threw a party for him no one would come. However, the good news, of course, is that he … Read more
In my January 28th entry (which I shortly thereafter made a friends-only entry), I posted about a young woman who committed suicide in prison, and as it turned out, whose parents I knew from work, and whose father’s office is just down the hall from mine in my current position. Well, in today’s N&O Lifestyles … Read more
I worked from home today. Uneventful. At about 10:00, I turned on my phone, and had two messages. One from Joe, and one from my cousin in Atlanta, asking me if I had the names of any of my uncle’s (her father’s) other kids or family—that she’d received a message from one of them that … Read more
Less than 12 hours after leaving the gym, I was back. I met Kevin (av8rdude) at 7:30 at Planet Fitness, where it was Free Bagel Tuesday. I did an hour of cardio, while Kevin did an hour of weights. I need to work on my “negative speak” when I’m working out. Not being a morning person … Read more
I worked from home today, and edited pretty much all day and all night. At E-Ching and David’s Chinese New Year party yesterday, I had a conversation with another of their friends named John, about how in Disney World in January, we were asked to put our finger in one scanner while our ticket was being scanned in another. I … Read more