Early to bed

I didn’t end up going to the gym today. I got out to do my grocery shopping, but that was about it. For the rest of the day, I took it easy, checking my work email periodically throughout the day. I have a workout scheduled for tomorrow afternoon with Bernard, which means I can sleep [...]

Feeling better

I am feeling somewhat better than I did in the middle of the night, although I am still home and taking it easy today. I suspect that this is somewhat stress-related. I have gotten very good at minimizing my work-related stress by keeping reasonable work hours (7 AM – 4 PM) and sticking to them. [...]

Upgrade!

I received word this morning that my flight from Dulles to Munich, Germany on July 2 (on my way to Venice to begin my big summer vacation) was confirmed for the upgrade I requested! That’s good news because the flight is just over 8 hours long and I did not want to be couped up [...]

Sick day

I woke up about an hour ago (3 AM-ish) feeling blah, so I decided to take a sick day today. In some ways, I am really too busy to take a sick day (I’m skipping 2 meetings, and I have a ton and a half of work to do). But it might not have mattered [...]

Workout #45 (Chest & back)

Up at 4:30 and I did not want to get out of bed this morning. I actually woke up around 4 AM and tried to come up with a number of reasons for not getting up and going into work. Just before my alarm went off, I turned on the light and looked across the [...]

Writing and wrapup

I started yet another new story tonight, making it the first time I have ever had three stories in progress at once. I don’t have a title for the new story yet, but my working title is “The Time Machine”, and it is essentially about a person with a lifelong obsession of building a time [...]

Meeting art

I was in a long-winded meeting that I have to attend once a month. I was already in a bad mood because of a potential project that may get dumped on our group. The meeting did not help any. Me and another person in this office attended the meeting in my office via a conference [...]

Meme time: 5 little-known things about me

I came across this interesting meme while browsing Edmund Schubert’s blog this morning and I figured I’d give it a whirl. The rules are simple: The next blog entry you post has to list 5 things that no one (or very few people) knows about you. So here I go:

The Grandpa Dream #4

The other day I was thinking to myself that I hadn’t had a dream about Grandpa in a long time. In fact, the last time I dreamed about Grandpa was on April 21 of last year. So it really has been a while. Well, last night I had a dream about Grandpa, but he played [...]

Workout #44 (Cardio)

Up at 4:30 AM and even though I turned the lights out close to 10 PM, I feel like I got a pretty decent night’s sleep last night. It was cold this morning, especially with the wind, so much so that I strategically placed myself behind a pole while waiting for the train, which gave [...]

Starting a new book

Robert Silverberg’s Son of Man was just not doing it for me. It is a good read, what I read so far, but my mood has changed since I started reading it and I am ready for something else. I am almost ready to switch back to some non-ficiton and I’ve got a good science [...]

I’m not the only one…

Yes, it is true that I have kept lists of what I have read since 1996. And I have followed along with another fellow who has lists all the way back to 1974. But today I discovered someone who has both of us beat and it is none other than Art Garfunkel (yes, that one). [...]

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