At the bus stop today—after an earlier morning rain—I thought there’d surely be fauna about the wet ground. Nada. Yesterday neither. I guess the show on Monday was special entertainment just for me. Thanks, universe. Just before my departing stop today, the road was very bumpy, and I noticed the bus driver’s seat just a-bouncing … Read more
Staying just this side of TMI, what goes in must come out. A trip to the porcelain god in the middle of the night reminded me of yesterday’s intake: Hot and Spicy Chicken for lunch For dinner, a Taco Bell Chicken Ranch salad with two packets of their “Hot” and two packets of their “Fire” … Read more
This morning I did two things at the bus stop that I’ve never done since beginning to ride in mid-September: I “missed” the bus, and I looked down. I have never missed the bus whenever I’ve been at the stop within five minutes of its leaving time at its origin, which is about five minutes … Read more
I was in the office today from 1:00 until 10:30, and I got an absolute ton of work done. Yay! Someone tweeted a pointer to this article: 15 Unusual and Creative Bus Stops. Being the veteran bus rider of over six months that I now am, it of course caught my attention. Click on the above … Read more
John was a dull boy today. I worked for about seven hours, but at least it was work that I like, and the time just flew by. At times, I was in what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi would called “flow.” Since not too much happened today, I’m going to take advantage of this cyber real estate, and … Read more
The updated State Employees Health Plan has been announced, and as is a surprise to no one, everything is more expensive for the next fiscal year—higher premiums, higher co-pays, and less coverage. With that said, there was one announcement that I’m quite ambivalent about: “Starting in 2011, you will be penalized for being the fat … Read more
A rush of buscapades this morning: This is the first time, since I’ve been riding the bus for seven months, that another person at my stop in the morning was smoking a cigarette while waiting for the bus. I stood about 20 feet from him. Just as the bus pulled away from my stop, two … Read more
I had two meetings canceled at work today, which left me with none. Sweet! I worked all day on finishing up those tedious meeting minutes I was working on yesterday. Still tedious. Someone tweeted a link to this today: And a major FAIL on failblog.org: And, finally, this in from Kirk who told us about … Read more
Back to work today. What fun. The day started with our weekly staff meeting, which was productive enough. I spent the afternoon working exclusively on the minutes of our March University IT Committee meeting. Tedious. My boss made a good observation about how long it takes to do minutes: “It seems like they should call them … Read more
We had our hour-and-a-half working team meeting this morning, which was quite productive, and we ended with 15 minutes to spare. As usual, it was absolutely freaking freezing in the conference room. I had two afternoon meetings today, one from 1:00-2:00, and another, across campus, from 2:00-4:00. I thought I’d go to the first 45 … Read more