A bad sensor, a REALLY good hair day, frosting shots, and a makeshift patio…

I was up at 6:00, still having 9 hours of sleep, since I got to bed so early. I caught the 7:25 Method Road bus, and the ride in was uneventful. The microwave in the kitchen area on our floor at work has three preset buttons: one for popcorn, one for beverages, and one for … Read more

Some BUStle, a missing wallet, a meeting, a picnic, some coffee, and dancing…

Morning BUStle Once again, I caught the 7:25 Method Road CAT bus, which once again arrived two minutes early. I’m keeping a mental spreadsheet of average arrival times to miniminze my future waits. Once again, up by Western Boulevard, that very tall woman boarded the bus, once again with a convenience store cup of coffee, and today I noticed … Read more

Sausage “biscuits,” Burn After Reading, a SurveyMonkey survey, and karaoke…

Robert and I were up at about 9, and had sausage “biscuits” for breakfast. Biscuits is in quotation marks, because the sausage was actually on King’s Hawaiian sweet rolls, not biscuits. We saw the 12:35 screening of Burn After Reading at Crossroads 20. Movie synopsis: A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends … Read more

Slept in, did laundry and a little cleaning, danced, and Bon Qui Qui…

I slept in this morning, allowing myself a full eight hours sleep. Yay! I added a link to my Twitter stream off to the right in the links column. I did three loads of laundry today—one whites, one colors, and one sheets (you know you needed that much detail!)—straightened up (my house, not me) some, hung up … Read more

Today’s BUStle, work and some serious music videos…

After a good, early night’s sleep, I was up at 6:00AM and out to the bus by 7:30. I’m going to introduce a new feature starting with today’s entry, it’s going to be called BUStle, and it’s going to capture my musings on my bus rides—both to and from work. I don’t know if I’ll … Read more

A lunch bunch, scamming the scammer, and some dancing…

Today was a much better bus day, since I got off to an earlier start, which allowed me to catch a bus that actually had plenty of seating available—as opposed to yesterday’s butts-to-nuts situation. I didn’t mention that yesterday afternoon, I attended my first meeting, which was actually training (on the Drupal system), presented by … Read more

MBD board meeting, lunch w/Robert, exercising, dinner@Greek Fiesta…

I attended our Manbites Dog September board meeting today from 10:00-12:00 at the theater in Durham. Only four (of seven) of us were present, and I volunteered to take the minutes. After the meeting, I picked up Robert at his “old” apartment, giving him a break in the middle of moving to his new place, by treating … Read more

Turned in my key, badge, and laptop; got oil changed, and some free pool…

I arrived, for the last time, to my IBM office at about 10:00. By 11:30, I had finished my last edit. At about noon, I had my last lunch in the Tivoli cafeteria. Ironically enough, I was delighted to see that they’d brought the “Personal Size Pizza” station back, but the pizza I got from … Read more

Unofficial last work day, The Island (a play), well-wishing affirmations, China visa arrives!

Today was going to be my last day at the office, with my official quit date being tomorrow. However, when it was all said and done, I didn’t get done what I wanted done, so I talked to Woody about “checking out” tomorrow at about 1:30. Robert and I saw The Island, staged by The … Read more