After a late start, leaving Raleigh at about 9:20 instead of 8:30 like I wanted to, I had an uneventful ride to Greenville. I didn’t expect mom and dad to be there until 11 or noon, but when I checked in with my sister on the way, she said, “They supposedly left Jacksonville at 8:30; … Read more
My work day started off with professional affirmations about some work I recently completed—one affirmation from my manager and one from my manager’s manager: “Thanks so much, John! I spot a few errors of fact (picky, picky), but this is a great start and plan.” “I like where this is headed. Thanks for the good … Read more
We got up at about 9:30, and after a breakfast of turkey sausage with slices of hard-boiled egg on a Portuguese muffins and some coffee for breakfast, we watched three more episodes of Six Feet Under to close out the third season, and to finally get some closure on the “missing Lisa” story line. Finally. … Read more
I had a productive, if not at times frustrating day today. Information architecture in a highly restrictive environment is challenging, to put it nicely. We had a nice retirement gathering for a colleague today, at which I honored her “with her own words.” Saroj is NCSU‘s “accessibility person.” It’s not that she’s the only person … Read more
I had a good eight hours of sleep last night, and one of the first things on my agenda this morning was to get my China visa application package to the post office. I forgot to mention yesterday that I stopped by Walgreen’s and got a passport-sized picture taken (which came out atrociously), and then … Read more
I worked from home this morning. I was expecting a call from a personal trainer (as part of IBM’s free Lifeworks program) at 10:00, but she called at 11:00. Turns out she was on central time. We had a great chat about my current workout situation. She said that while the 300 crunches I’ve been doing—particularly … Read more
We got a good eight hours sleep, and were up shortly before the 9:00 alarm clock setting. Robert make coffee, and we had a little piece of a roll, two sausage patties each, and some cantaloupe for our breakfast. To go to the gym, I packed up, along with clothes to change into after working … Read more
We were up at a decent hour this morning to fit in breakfast before our noon movie out at the Carolina Theater in Durham. We had one of our favorite breakfasts—the French Toast at the Farmers’ Market Restaurant. Good stuff. Our final NCGLFF film was at 12:10 and called, Ready? OK! We have been unable … Read more
I worked from home this morning and finished up my edit of a new writer’s work. I had a lot of markup, especially toward the end, and finished a write-up of the overall work to send to the writer, the team leader, and the manager along with the completed edit. @jazzychad “tweeted” this today, to … Read more
I was up at 8:00, getting a good eight hours of sleep, while having some very desirable dreams. I’ll just leave it at that. Last night, before falling asleep, I read Kevin’s (av8rdude‘s) Wall Street Journal and was delighted to see, in their “Five Best” column in their “Books” section, “Five Best: Andrew Klavan on … Read more