I worked from home today, keeping my germs with me. I’m very grateful to work the kind of job in which this is possible, and I’m grateful to have an employer and a manager who embrace the notion. You gotta love The Onion: Click to read their story entitled, “Sasha Obama Keeps Seeing Creepy Bush … Read more
My favorite tweet from today: chrisblake Googling the Web’s biggest regrets: http: //tinyurl.com/63xg3m about 1 hour ago What do you know? A heart-warming story made the news… “Their names immortalized (Boston Globe) Ironworkers spray paint names of young cancer patients onto the beams of the Yawkey Center going up at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.” Click … Read more
I caught the city bus early this morning—at 7:25 instead of the regular 7:55 or 8:25 that I usually catch. I took a seat toward the back of the bus, where across from me sat a man and a woman. The man had long, dirty-blond hair, which covered the sides of his face, which was … Read more
We had a staff meeting from 10:00-11:30 today. It was for everyone who reports to my boss’s boss, and the first 45 minutes or so of it featured a presentation from the director of one of the other units, the Advanced Computing unit in our overall Office of Information Technology organization. I was the facilitator … Read more
Some time overnight in the last couple of days, the Crown Fast Fare gas and convenience store near my house turned into a Han-dee Hugo’s. Then today, I noticed that the Crown on the corner of Hillsborough and Gorman has turned into a Han-dee Hugo’s. And not only that, but the gas station and convenience … Read more
My favorite tweet from today: melissasantos dear god, make me a bird so i can shit on this bitch’s head My work day started off with a staff meeting from 9:00–10:00. After a half-hour break, I conducted an interview of a colleague who recently put on an Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Fair, with … Read more
I sat in on my boss’s boss’s meeting this morning in the place of my boss who was tending to some medical issues with her mother. It’s always interesting to get another perspective of the workplace. Following that, I had a meeting with someone who totally forgot about our meeting and had left for lunch, … Read more
From a news article: “…officials said Tuesday that they had arrested a 16-year-old woman and a 14-year-old boy…” I wonder why this doesn’t say, “a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy” or “a 16-year-old woman and a 14-year-old man,” of which the former rather than the latter sounds better. I mean is 16 the cut-off age … Read more
I forgot to mention a couple of things about yesterday: When I got home from work neither my trash can nor my recycle bin, both of which I had put out in the morning, were anywhere to be found. I spotted a trash can halfway down the hill upon which I live, laying on its … Read more
A definite passive-aggressive bus passenger play this morning. Things like this always fascinate me about people—what they could possibly be thinking and what in their lives has led to such a behavior pattern. So, at one of the stops at which both the Wolfline (NCSU’s bus line) and the CAT (the city’s bus line) stop, … Read more