Haunted, House, Halloween

We put on our haunted house at work this afternoon and it turned out really, really well. There were 3 “tour guides” that would lead groups of 5 through the house. In my role as a lurker (dressed all in black and with a scary Halloween mask–pictures to come), I would pick a person in [...]

And the productivity keeps on coming

The first four hours of the day today were once again extremely productive. Here is an excerpt from my work logbook on what I managed to get done between 6:30 AM and 10:22 AM: OPT: Documented project delete functionality in wiki (~0.3 hrs) CSC 1.5: Updated project wiki site (~0.5 hrs) RoomTracker Support: Fixed an [...]

Et cetera

Veterans Day weekend, Kelly and I are heading up to Stony Point, New York to visit with vickyandnorm as well as strausmouse and rmstraus. Since it’s a long drive, and since it’s about that time anyway, I made an appointment at Saturn for this Saturday for my next regularly scheduled maintenance. I’ll be there bright [...]

WBS coma

I went into a coma today at work and didn’t come out of it until nearly 3 PM. I got into the office at 6:30 AM and decided that today I’d try and plow through a work breakdown structure* (WBS) for the development phase of a software project on which I am technical lead. I [...]

The old man pulls rank

I was in line* at McDonald’s for lunch today (yes, McDonald’s: I’d won free fries in their Monopoly contest and was cashing in my winnings) when I witnessed something rather amusing. There were a bunch of kids in line. And when I say kids I mean junior high-school aged kids who were on some sort [...]

NaNoWriMo

Since I have been doing almost no writing at all lately, I’ve decided to give NaNoWriMo a try this year. This will be my first try. For those of you who don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, it’s essentially a “challenge” to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. Lots of people do [...]

Leopard upgrade

Apple’s newest OS upgrade (OS 10.5, codename, “Leopard”) was released on Friday. There’s a ton of cool new features and I decided I’d head over to the Apple Store and pick it up. At the same time, in the back of my mind, I’d been thinking for a while now that it was time for [...]

Yes, I heard the news

Like everyone else in the world, I did hear the news that A-Rod is opting out of his contract with the Yankees. No phone calls are required to inform me of the fact. No emails or text messages are necessary. I’m fully aware of it. It doesn’t come as a great shock. Oh, and in [...]

More evidence that autumn has finally arrived

When I headed out to the car this morning, there was a thin layer of ice on the windshield. I had to pull out the old ice scraper. This means that I need to start warming the car up in the morning. I’m not sure what the low hit last night, but it was low [...]

Happy Anniversary, Jen and Jason!

Yes, today is the two-year wedding anniversary of he11o_sunshine and stubiebrother and writing those words makes me realize just how quickly time is flying by. Two years already? Jen and Jason spent a romantic weekend in Mystic, Connecticut to celebrate their anniversary. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, GUYS! Hope you had a great weekend, and a great day [...]

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First fall Sunday

Yes, I realize that today was not the first Sunday this fall, but it felt like it. Even though it is already nearly the end of October, today was sunny, but cool and breezy and it actually felt like fall for a change. The day began early, even thought sleep came late last night. The [...]

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