<I know affirmation has two efs in it. With one more letter, the userid is flagged as too long, so I chose the most superfluous letter and lopped it off.> I created this journal this evening. I’m trying to read my friend wild_sun‘s journal, but I keep getting a “page not found” error message when … Read more

This song still makes me cry — eight years after the time I heard it as my wife and I began “separating our things” after 16 years of marriage. Our upstairs had two bedrooms with a bathroom in between with doors opening to each room so you could look right through. (I’m sure there’s some … Read more

Decent day at work. Got my Quality Plan done at the last minute, though couldn’t format it nicely because the networked version of Word was really fucked up. It’ll be easy to finish when I get back. I also got my time all recorded for the last several weeks. Don’t know about this ABT Workbench … Read more

I’m having to write this from memory now, as I didn’t write it Thursday night or Friday morning. It seems like the work day was uneventful. I did trekking during lunch. That’s always a good work out in spite of Lisa’s rambling. She was telling stories of driving that big, red, butch Dodge Ram she … Read more

I noticed that my IE Browser is not working, and thought, “This is the reason that BladeRunner validation error box is coming up blank. I tried to download IE 4.0 w/SP1 from Microsoft’s site, but they only had IE 4 w/SP2. I tried that but did not have a successful install. I asked Dewaine (reluctantly … Read more

Bad day at work. BladeRunner still not working – validation error box still blank, Sy and Dewaine had no luck reinstalling the Java VM, and Interleaf still had no fix. Sy and I worked on the validation of Chapters 2, 3, and 9. We had a good lunch at Irregardless. We finished up at around … Read more

Got to work and could finally check my Broadreach e-mail. Sy’s coming today. Oh well. At least it’s not until 1:00. We worked on BRT/BRX/DOC/DTD education all afternoon. We ran into back-leveled Java dlls, and worked with Dewaine to try and fix that. I left them both working on it at 5:00 to go to … Read more

Jimmy didn’t wake us up at 8 like he was supposed to. I woke up at 8:09. Rolled over until about 8:25. When I came out of the shower Phyllis had gotten up. She said Jimmy had gone out, but didn’t wake her up either. She held off on breakfast as she thought that maybe … Read more

I slept in until 8:15 this morning. None of the first sessions were XML-related. I checked out of the Sheraton at around 9:00. At the desk, I asked the ladies working there if they’d heard about my note to the management. They hadn’t, but asked what it was about. We all had a good laugh … Read more

My alarm went off at 6:00 in the Sheraton Four Points – Pentagon Hotel on 2480 S. Glebe Road in Arlington, Virginia. I wanted to reset the alarm to about 7:30 and roll over. Something told me the schedule was different today. I finally got up at 6:32 to check. Damn. I was right; things … Read more