I love when technology does things like this: NEW YORK — And the winner for best music video: “Chocolate Rain.” Tay Zonday morphed from an unknown musician to an Internet superstar who got booked on national TV shows after his song “Chocolate Rain” – an amateur clip of his baritone crooning – went viral last … Read more
After 10 hours of sleep, I got up at 6:00. Sweet! Breakfast consisted of a hard-boiled egg, two turkey sausage patties, and coffee. I do miss not having some kind of bread (namely toast, an English muffin, or a bagel) for breakfast, but surprisingly, not as much as I thought I would, since I’d pretty … Read more
I spent most of my day editing today, stopping only long enough to meet Joe at Helios at 6:00, where I went through the pile of paperwork he is signing in applying for a home loan. Since he’s never bought a house before, and I’ve bought several, he asked me to take a look at … Read more
I worked from home today, and I spent time: Going through my e-mail, which was quite the “pile” since I was out last week Responding to various questions and requests in said e-mail Devising my weekly highlight report for the week ending 01/11 Editing two white papers for one of my writers At about 3:00, … Read more
I was up and at ’em early this morning, as I had (too much) running around to do before graduation at 1:30 today. I ran by the church in which we were graduating to make sure I knew where it was for later today, to scope out the parking situation around it, and to be … Read more
Happy Birthday to Robert! This dear, dear man spent his birthday evening cleaning my house for my party tomorrow night! Smooch! I stopped working on my final paper and presentation at 3:53PM this afternoon. That was the official end of my grad school homework. Robert arrived just before I headed out to my final class, … Read more
I went into the office today specifically because we had a department meeting scheduled from 2:00-2:30. At around noon, my manager sent an e-mail out announcing the postponement of the meeting until tomorrow at noon. Okay, here’s the deal: I am supposed to be on vacation starting today for the rest of the year. I … Read more
I worked from home today, and participated in a “Post Mortem” conference call. This is where we talk about: “What went well?” “What went not so well?” and “What would we do differently next time?” during the development of the last release of our product. I had my bi-annual teeth cleaning today, and it was … Read more
I worked on my final paper for Rhetoric of Science and Technology today, and was pleasantly surprised by how it progressed. Before I knew it, it was 4:30, and time to shower and head to class. Our penultimate Rhetoric of Science and Technology class was good tonight. Both Andrews presented, as well as Lindsay and … Read more
Of all the years I’ve been buying 12-packs of canned soda, I’ve never had this happen: One of the cans in my current pack is only half full. There are no leaks or anything; it just didn’t get filled up. Since it’s the only time that something like this has happened to me over all this … Read more