Happy Birthday to Robert! This dear, dear man spent his birthday evening cleaning my house for my party tomorrow night! Smooch! I stopped working on my final paper and presentation at 3:53PM this afternoon. That was the official end of my grad school homework. Robert arrived just before I headed out to my final class, … Read more
Over this past year, when you’ve read here that I’ve been “editing away,” it’s the writers of the printed help manuals and guides, the product contextual help, and the online information centers associated with this product whose work I’ve spent the most time editing this year: Press Release IBM Strengthens Security Portfolio With New Identity … Read more
I went into the office again today, but not until the morning traffic had subsided. We had our department meeting, which is the whole reason I went in both yesterday and today. It was neither all that, nor the bag of chips. The usual end-of-the-year stuff. Bottom line: Take your vacation, and do your PBCs. … Read more
I went into the office today specifically because we had a department meeting scheduled from 2:00-2:30. At around noon, my manager sent an e-mail out announcing the postponement of the meeting until tomorrow at noon. Okay, here’s the deal: I am supposed to be on vacation starting today for the rest of the year. I … Read more
Two favorite entries from PostSecret today: This is the first video entry of a secret, and as it says on their web site, “it’s haunting”: I worked on my presentation of my final paper, which I’m giving tomorrow night in our last class, after which we’re all going out drinking, including the professor. It’s in … Read more
I spent all day on my final paper for ENG 515 Rhetoric of Science and Technology, and finished it up around 5:30. Well, the writing’s finished—I can edit something to death, so that remains to be seen. And, I have to do all the citation work for it. Here’s the title: Strategic Rhetorical Language in … Read more
I worked from home today, and participated in a “Post Mortem” conference call. This is where we talk about: “What went well?” “What went not so well?” and “What would we do differently next time?” during the development of the last release of our product. I had my bi-annual teeth cleaning today, and it was … Read more
I worked on my final paper for Rhetoric of Science and Technology today, and was pleasantly surprised by how it progressed. Before I knew it, it was 4:30, and time to shower and head to class. Our penultimate Rhetoric of Science and Technology class was good tonight. Both Andrews presented, as well as Lindsay and … Read more
Of all the years I’ve been buying 12-packs of canned soda, I’ve never had this happen: One of the cans in my current pack is only half full. There are no leaks or anything; it just didn’t get filled up. Since it’s the only time that something like this has happened to me over all this … Read more
I worked from home today in anticipation of the arrival of my new flat-screen monitor. It arrived at a little after 4PM, and thank goodness I was home. I just can’t believe they would have left a 300-something-dollar monitor out in front of my townhouse door, but they sure would have, as he didn’t even … Read more