Another busy day at work today. I managed to find myself in meetings from 11 AM until 3 PM. Looks like I’ve got the same schedule on the books for tomorrow, too. I finished John Scalzi’s The Ghost Brigades at lunch today. I loved it. I was very tempted to rate it 4.5 stars, but in nearly 400 books, I’ve…
We had a production push this morning for the project portfolio software that I’ve been working on for the last year or so. There are eight business units that are part of the overall push, and today was the third one that we pushed into production. It meant a long morning for me, running some…
The Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, atop which my office building sits, and into which the windows of my office look, seems to have fire alarms blaring several times a week. Sometimes, there are signs up warning that they will be testing the fire alarm system. Other times, it seems to happen randomly. When it…
For such a productive day, I’ve felt pretty darn lazy today. Maybe it’s the 95 degree temperatures and 95% humidity. I slept in a little later than usual, but we didn’t got to bed until around midnight last night anyway, so time-wise, it was pretty standard. But I did sleep well. We had our dance lesson…
We headed to Tyson’s Corner this morning to pick up Kelly’s wedding ring, which had come yesterday. This time, it fit perfectly. We stopped at Cinnabon so that I could eat something. And we stopped at Banana Republic for Kelly to do some dress shopping (and I got a shirt). Then it was back home, where Kelly…
It was another productive day at work today. Rainy, too. It was also Kelly’s flex day so she had the whole day off and was able to sleep in (until 8:30!!). I started reading The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi today. We mostly relaxed in the evening. I lazily watched an episode of Entourage while Kelly was…
I just got a call from the Obama for America campaign. They were looking for donations for their Get Out the Vote effort. I gave money during the primary, and today, I gave money to the campaign itself. I was happy to do so. However, I’ve got to say that I was rather surprised by how the phone person…
It’s official: my photo of Harry’s Bar in Venice, Italy was accepted by Schmap and is now part of their website. The backstory. For those who want to see it, you can find the photo (along with attribution) here. Those of you with an iPhone or an iPod Touch might try the special iPhone version…
I just finished reading part one of Robert J. Sawyer’s serialized novel Wake. As usual with Rob’s stuff, it’s outstanding. It pulls you in, and keeps hold of you, and entertains you and makes you think, and makes you crazy for the fact that you have to wait nearly a month before part 2 comes out!…
Yesterday, I got a call on the new home phone line from American Express, offering me, an excellent customer and small business owner, a pre-approved Small Business Owners American Express Card. First, I have no idea how they got the phone number. I added it to the Do Not Call registry less than five minutes after I was…
It’s that time again, Patriot’s Day, according to my calendar. Right across the street from my office is the unveiling of the new 9/11 garden at the Pentagon, so there were all kinds of road closures this morning, none affecting us however. The police were out in force, giving people tickets who were making illegal…
I finally finished Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge yesterday. I struggled through the book. It was so different from what I was used to. But I kept pressing on because there seemed to be some kind of significant mystery unfolding and I wanted to know what it was. Alas, by the time I got to the end of the book,…