After finishing yesterday’s blog entry last night, I donned my earbuds and listened, first to Lucia Micarelli’s Music from a Farther Room, followed by one of my most favorite classical pieces, Brahms’ Piano Concerto #2, while I did the crossword puzzle in the Independent. I smiled to myself as, within the first 10 clues, I … Read more
I got up at about 11:00 today, and quite soon after that received a phone call from Joe. We agreed to meet at Brigs in Cary for breakfast, which we did at 12:30. There was a little bit of a line, but we only waited about 10 minutes. I had the Triple Cheese Omelette, and … Read more
I slept in today, getting up at around 11:30. I blogged Wednesday’s, Thursday’s, and Friday’s entries. My Alaskan photo calendar for Uncle Dennis and family arrived today. I lied down in my bed at about 3:00 with my iPod earbuds in. After listening to a couple of podcasts, I selected the R&B Genre on my … Read more
stripedtiger has come through with another incredibly hilarious story. OMG. If you’ve ever been frustrated in a line at the post office… Oh wait, who hasn’t? Read his Post Office story. You will not regret it! Traffic on I-40 was absolutely ridiculous coming home tonight, but I remained calm listening to podcasts. Joe called at … Read more
w3 was down today when it was time to connect to the Tivoli Software Development Webcast at work. The audio portion of the meeting proceeded, but I did not connect, preferring to watch the replay at a later date when both the audio and video would be working. I later found out that the meeting … Read more
A blogger has devised a list of ways to “get to a human” when you’re stuck in a VRU (Voice Response Unit). I worked from home today, and attended a 1.5-hour conference call and webcast to learn about the new release of our Integrated Product Development process. I stopped by the grocery store on the … Read more
I left my house for work at about 8:15. I took the Wade Avenue exit off the beltline, and after turning left onto Wade Avenue heading toward I-40, spent 30 minutes crawling from there to just after the merge of Wade Avenue onto I-40. After about 5 minutes and about 500 feet later, I pulled … Read more
My work day was consumed with creating my Monthly Highlight Reports for September of October, and preparing for my 11:00 meeting tomorrow. I had my first massage ever tonight, at American & European Massage Center, with Pavel. Having never had a massage before, I don’t really have anything to compare it to. At the beginning, … Read more
If someone challenged me to create a day to illustrate the definition of idyllic, today would have met the challenge. We got up at around 9:00, and left for Wilmington at about 10:00. We stopped at the Hardee’s at the corners of Avent Ferry and Gorman, and it was newsworthy in that we actually had … Read more
I got up at 10:00, and headed out to Durham at a little after noon. I stopped at the Bojangles on Western Blvd to get us a picnic lunch, which Robert and I ate at the Eno River Picnic shelter at the end of Cole Mill Road before starting off on our hike. It was … Read more