61 things girls don’t know

I found this on my little cousin’s MySpace page and I thought it was really funny because it appears to be written from the point of view of someone who is a relatively young teenager. And besides, as a guy I felt that some of these 61 things needed to be either confirmed or debunked [...]

It’s a Def Leppard day

I haven’t listened to Def Leppard for a while now and today, what with the energy I’m feeling for the upcoming vacation, I decided to listen to some. So I’m currently blasting the Pyromania and Hysteria albums, and air-drumming in my office when no one is looking.

Protected: Some sad vacation news

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Occupational hazards

For those who haven’t seen this already, it’s pretty darn funny. A British journalist reports on a drug bust of sorts and runs into some, er, problems. I guess this is an occupational hazard. Check it out.

More tasks checked off!

I completed a whole bunch of work-related tasks today and feel pretty good about where things stand with me about to head off on vacation. I also got several more travel-related tasks taken care of today. I picked up my suit from the cleaners. I contacted the local police and filled out a “vacation patrol” [...]

Please don’t freeze my account!

Thanks to some good advice from he11o_sunshine, I called my credit card company yesterday and let them know that I would be out of the country for 3 weeks and that I would be using my credit card in a variety of places in Europe. They were very good about it. They took down the [...]

Author essay

Yesterday evening, I finally got around to writing my author essay for “When I Kissed the Learned Astronomer”. Edmund Schubert posts these author essays on his blog for each of the stories that appears in IGMS. The essays are supposed to describe how we came to write the story. My essay turned out to be [...]

Vacation request

It was one year ago today that my request to take vacation for the entire month of July 2007 was approved. I made my request on June 23, 2006 and my boss gave me approval of the vacation request on June 26, 2007 2006.

More travel tasks

More vacation prep today. I filled out the online form to put a hold on my mail while I am gone. I also paid the rent in order to make sure I didn’t forget that one. I took my black suit in to be cleaned and pressed. I can pick it up tomorrow. I also [...]

110,000 miles

Yesterday, my 1997 Saturn passed the 110,000 mile mark. Today, as I pulled into the driveway after work, the odometer read exactly 110,011, which has a nice symmetry to it, and also happens to be the number 51 if you convert it from binary to decimal. It amounts to about 9,400 miles/year. Keep in mind, [...]

5 books for vacation

I finally settled on the five books I am bringing with me while on vacation. Remember that I wasn’t looking for anything too heavy, both mentally and physically and for the most part, I stuck to that dictum. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Call [...]

The Trinity test

I have read two-and-a-half books on the creation and use of the atomic bomb. The first was Richard Rhodes Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which went into great detail on the building of the bomb. I also read Genius by James Gleick, a biography of Richard Feynman, one of the many physicists [...]

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