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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
7:20 pm	Learning! (Slowly...) www.opm.gov, after being largely inaccessable from 6pm until around 9pm every day, finally switched to statically render the one bit of info ("will government offices be open tomorrow") on a front page, with a "click here for everything else" link. (It isn't, by the way. Happy 5.5-day weekend, everybody who is a fed, or works in a federal office.) In other news, snow accumulation predictions for tonight have been downgraded from 10-20" to 7-14". Yay! (Comment on this)
Friday, February 5th, 2010
4:48 pm	Observation from the snopaclypse... It's weird watching people freak out over milk in bottles... while ignoring yogurt and cheese (also in the dairy case). Or wonderbread (and its ilk)... while ignoring bagels and real bread. Oh, well, more for me... (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
10:33 pm	Boomer quote for the day... "When I was your age, I thought I'd be screwing over my kids about now by cashing out my retirement funds for some kind of fountain-of-youth therapy that would let me be 22 again. Not hoping to stay employed long enough for a feet-first retirement." Current Mood: amused (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, February 1st, 2010
7:55 pm	Dear Resolution People at the gym... It is now February. January is over. It is time to work out or get out. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
5:42 pm	Things that make me cringe... People sending out emails that say (not an exact quote): "I'm about to go to Haiti with my company. Can someone teach me how to use heavy equipment, like a small Cat?" *twitch* *twitch* *twitch* EDIT: A little emailing (along the lines of "Get an experienced operator. Really. There's already a medical crisis there without someone running over tourists with a bulldozer...") clarified that the "cat" in question is a bobcat, not a big yellow bulldozer. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
4:35 pm	The Daily Disappointment... The scale at the gym vanished about a week ago. I asked about it. I got told it got sent back to the factory for recalibration due to being "significantly off". Dammit. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
4:43 pm	Paperwork... Going through the old paperwork, I see the documentation of a life I don't really even remember living. It's vaguely surreal. Looking at old drivers license pictures, I see that, while the hairline is staying more or less the same, I'm getting my hair cut progressively shorter. Same number of follicles, just less hair. (And now most of the paperwork has been circular-filed. If posterity cares about my employment history, they can get copies from $FORMER_EMPLOYERS...) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
7:52 pm	Tonight's Happy Place... ... brought to me by the number "198.8". Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
9:25 pm	Thought for the day... If you had asked me (when I was much younger) how I'd be spending my weekends, I'm almost positive I would not have said anything about sitting in on budget meetings. *sigh* And, in completely unrelated news, made it about 15 minutes into "Caprica" before giving up on it. (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 16th, 2010
2:43 am	Thought for the day... Over the coming week, the last children born during the Reagan presidency will come of age to drink legally. I hope this makes [at least some of] you feel as old as I feel now... (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
11:15 pm	Noted in passing... CrisisCamp/Haiti No idea how much of this will provide useful assistance to relief efforts in Haiti, and how much of this is people engaged in "feel-good" activities that don't actually accomplish anything, but I'll toss it out for anyone interested. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
8:27 pm	Disaster Tourism? The group I was going down to Mississippi with is currently looking for people interested in sending our delegation to Haiti. Am I the only one who thinks sending a bunch of early retirees (with power tools) into a country that was dependent on UN peacekeepers even _before_ the earthquake is a really bad idea? (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
11:29 pm	Dear tourists... The concrete-colored escalator-looking things in the metro? They're called "stairs". They're just like escalators, except they don't move. No matter how long you stand on them, no matter how confused you look, you will not move upward unless you walk up them. And the things that look exactly like escalators that aren't moving? Just treat those as stairs, too. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
3:07 pm	FAIL!-du-joir While playing with the little green laptop, I surfed to the OPLC web site, saw the announcement about OLPC v1.5, pulled it up... and it crashed the brower on my OLPC. Consistantly. Well played... Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Monday, December 28th, 2009
8:06 pm	Victory! I read the entire current issue of The Economist, cover-to-cover, before the next issue showed up! Annoyingly, this was due, in part, to the current issue being a double issue and there being a 2-week Christmas gap... The next issue is due on January 2nd, which means this one took me almost 3 weeks. Current Mood: victorious! (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
7:53 pm	Long work week ahead... Next week, my work week increases by 25% from this week. Not sure I'm ready for the leap to the 24-hour workweek... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
3:01 pm	Disposal fail... I got rid of three garbage bags of clothes (and two shopping bags of books) to Goodwill this morning, but my attempt at getting rid of two old computers was thwarted by the county apparently giving their collection people the weekend off. (And they'll presumably get next weekend off, because that's also a holiday weekend. *sigh*) With the amount of stuff getting hauled out (clothes, large chunks of the paperblob, the TV I never watched, and so on), you'd think things would be getting a lot less cluttered around here... but you'd be wrong. At least, for the moment, I have space on the bookshelves to shelf all of the books that had been piled haphazardly... Anyway... The goal is to get rid of crap with the goal of being ready to move when the current lease is up (won't be for a couple months yet). I'm not sure if I will be moving at that point (though the thought of a housemate-less existence is becoming more and more appealing with every passing day), but I have so much accumulated crap, some of it (a _lot_ of it) needs to go. (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
7:55 am	Countdown! 5:05 until the weekend. You know, I could really get used to this "20-hour work week" thing. :) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
5:34 pm	Thought for the day... The best kind of rum cake is the kind provided, dripping with rum (I don't think you're supposed to use the entire fifth...), by $CUSTOMER manager, first thing in the morning. Makes morning meetings go _so_ _much_ _better_. Rum cake in the afternoon (after all the alcohol evaporates off) is still kinda tasty (if overly moist), but not nearly as good. (Comment on this)
Monday, December 21st, 2009
11:45 pm	Zombieland Saw it at the Drafthouse. I have a new-found appreciation for Woody Harrelson. I'm wondering where the video game is. Best dollar I ever spent on entertainment. Probably would have paid for a first-run ticket if I had realized exactly how good it was (but then I wouldn't have had a tasty, tasty beverage to keep me company). :) (4 Comments |Comment on this)