I made arrangements to have Robert’s windshield replaced, and after talking to the Glass Doctor, finding out that they were totally booked for the day already, and that the cost would be $302, I hit GOOGLE for other glass replacement businesses. I called Triumph Auto Glass, and they were able to come in about an … Read more
I went into the office today, and worked on an edit of Christie’s for a good part of the day. I had an unsatisfactory e-mail exchange with our “HR partner,” about this item on a security audit checklist enumerating things that are considered IBM Confidential: Sexual orientation and activity. Being an “out at work” employee, I do not … Read more
Today was the STC-Carolina Membership Drive Luau, and I actually had a good time there. A girl named Wendy, who is a graduate of our MS program, was there and she and I and Andrew (our STC Co-President) sat together. The thing that made this event a Luau was the decoration and dress theme (mostly of … Read more
Every time someone tail gaits me, and eventually zips around me speeding into the foreground, I always try to make a note of their license place number, so that if I see a car that looks like theirs stopped up ahead by a cop when I pass it, I can have the extreme pleasure of … Read more
I was up at 7:30 this morning, which on the one hand is very early for me on a Sunday. However, on the other hand (he wore a ring—ba-dump bump, I’m here all day folks), since I went to bed at 9:30 (after an hour of sleep on the couch) that was really 10 or … Read more
I spent way more of my day than I thought I would today doing homework for my Rhetoric of Science and Technology class. The articles we have to read are interesting for the most part, but often tedious to read, process, and then compare and contrast theories presented in each, which essentially is what we … Read more
Thanks to my friend and reader, Kathy, in Texas for this. I just love the whole notion of it. The fact that he (Oscar Wilde) was gay, or paederastic as it were, has nothing to do with my liking it. But it doesn’t hurt… Oscar Wilde was a poseur and what he said was never necessarily … Read more
I took a vacation day to actually relax—well sort of—one day of this long weekend. I took advantage of the opportunity to finish up my blog entries of the weekend in New England, and to do my reading for my Verbal Data Analysis this evening. Class was fine tonight, and I stayed in Tompkins, in … Read more
I worked from home today, but have to admit that I didn’t get much IBM work done. I will have to make up for it over the weekend. Grrrr! During lunch I ran to CECE to drop off a box of items for Patti to take to sell in this Saturday’s Cat Angels‘ garage sale. … Read more
Most times when I see someone who died young in the obituaries, and I google their name, I come up with a fatal traffic accident report, if anything. Every once in a while though, something interesting happens like seeing something articulated like this that happened to the person just a few weeks before they died: … Read more