I had two meetings canceled at work today, which left me with none. Sweet! I worked all day on finishing up those tedious meeting minutes I was working on yesterday. Still tedious. Someone tweeted a link to this today: And a major FAIL on failblog.org: And, finally, this in from Kirk who told us about … Read more
We had breakfast again at the poolside bar and restaurant. I had the “Caribbean French Toast” today, Very yummy. We had a lazy day, just hanging around the resort, so I’m going to capture something in today’s entry that actually happened on Friday. If I were home, this would be much like a buscapade. We were … Read more
One thing that’s interesting about Twitter, and its connection to Facebook’s status field, is that you just never know what kind of comment is going to spark wild conversation. At work, right before lunch, I went to the restroom, and upon returning to my office, I tweeted: I hate, hate, HATE urinals beside sinks in … Read more
This morning’s buscapade is about time—doing it, that is. Two seats up and to my right sat a rider I’ve seen before. She’s a little unkempt usually—not drastically so, but a little bit. And she’s loud. And she likes to talk. Not a good combination in my book, especially not being a morning person. She … Read more
This morning’s buscapade is about this adorable little biracial girl that I think I’ve mentioned here before. Most days she is only with her (white) mother, and she’s absolutely precocious and adorable. One day last week, or the week before, her (African-American) father was with them, and he was totally disengaged—from both of them. He … Read more
Today’s buscapade has to do with men in hats… and hoods. The difference in temperature comfort zones in people always amazes me. It was not that cold today, and yet at each of three different bus stops, a guy got on the bus with a ball cap on and a hood pulled over it. It was … Read more
I spent about an hour-and-a-half at the Morning Times Cafe this morning—my first time there. I parked at Flex and intended to take the R-Line over, but just as I got out of my car, the bus went by. So, even though it was raining, I walked over, which was good exercise and not half bad … Read more
This morning, I worked on some items for our next OIT News publication, and got frustrated with myself for having waited too close to the deadline to work on it. A lesson learned for next month. To avoid this from happening with the minutes of the UITC meeting, which have to be out two weeks … Read more
This morning’s buscapade actually took place while waiting for the bus. A young lady walking her large dog on the other side of the street stopped suddenly to accommodate the dog’s decision to do his morning duty. As he started squatting his hind legs, these thoughts ran through my mind: Look away. Give the dog … Read more
I had a morning of meetings today. The first one was the University Information Technology Committee (UTIC) meeting, which is held every other month. It’s the one that I recently (a couple of weeks ago) finished the meeting minutes before, as that’s my charge, and this is one of those “official university meetings” that has … Read more