Editing from home, trying to think thin, exercising, Heliosing, and getting irritated…

I worked from home today, with an early start responding to some e-mails that came in since last Thursday. I began editing what’s sure to be an arduous, 258-page Administrator’s Guide today. A second IBM meeting has been added to my calendar for Friday, which is one of my days off each week. I’m not … Read more

Glorious rain again today, a little bit of Helios, a workout, and early to bed…

I was under the weather today, and the weather wasn’t all that, either. I didn’t work today; I’m going to work Wednesday this week instead. I stopped by the Avent Ferry post office, where I mailed a ‘Tween Gift to my parents. What’s a ‘tween gift? A shared gift sent between their birthdays—hers March 1st, … Read more

I don’t have no TV, errands, a workout, Shortbus, and Hoedown ’08…

My day started off with a very funny telephone survey conversation. The survey was about video- and movie-watching habits, and after asking me how many movies anyone in my household had seen in the last 30 days (1, on 03/08/08) and how many movies from a video rental store anyone in my household has seen … Read more

China’s a go, phone meeting w/Nathan, synchronicity, exercising and editing…

I worked from home today. OMG! The P2P delegation has gone from 10 to 20 people, virtually, overnight.  It’s a go! In a very weirdly coincidental incident, I grabbed my latest issue of AAA‘s Go magazine, which has been laying around in one of my “piles” for, I don’t know, probably a few weeks now, … Read more

China check-up, exercising, our “yearly annual” HOA meeting, and dancing…

I had every intention of editing some today, on my day off, but it didn’t happen. A couple of developments on my Technical Communication Professional Delegation to The People’s Republic of China trip planned for October: I called them today to change my payment schedule, which I was going to pay monthly between now and … Read more

Cat calls, a morning meeting, NCSUENG515 blog, editing, exercising, volunteering, & drinking…

If you own a cat, have ever owned a cat, or are just a cat lover, you’ll probably appreciate this 1 minute, 26 second video called, “How the Cat Wakes You Up in the Morning”: I worked from home today, starting off with a 45-minute conference call with Jason (programmer) and Mary (writer), both in … Read more

Roll models, good week/bad week, Happy FDOS, working out, podcasts, and editing…

Yesterday or the day before, in one of the obituaries, the deceased was described as being a roll model. A picture such as this one, immediately popped into my head. There, at the end, is the roll model. Not to be confused with the stop model or the drop model who both precede him. Please, please, … Read more

Nightmares, a ghostly workout, food preparation, and some editing…

I dreamed about editing all night long. Aaarrrggghhh! I had a noon-ish workout today, and it being Easter Sunday, the gym was pretty empty. I listened to a podcast of this week’s This American Life, an episode called The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar, which was most interesting in two ways: This family story is actually … Read more