Yesterday was a banner day on the employment front… meh. So I spent all afternoon cleaning up after the behavior of an ostensibly professional member of the staff who, for whatever reason, decided it would be a good day to pull a psychobilly freakout on one of the more valuable members of my crew. This…
So it looks like I took a goodly amount of time off, not only from work, but from blogging. I buried myself in holiday celebrational activities like eating and visiting with relatives and playing games and programming at 3pm in nothing but a bathrobe. The highlight of all this fun? I put a ball and…
I know it’s probably landed in you inbox once or twice already but Elz forwarded this one to me today. Particularly prescient given what’s been going on at work since I walked in the door this morning. Sometimes a plugin upgrade isn’t really a great idea. Then again, you never know until you test it…
The ice wasn’t too horrible out here and the snow has been nice. Then again I didn’t clean off the driveway before heading off to work. Work that started at noon. Feeling really mellow and listening to a lot of Brubeck today. It’s nice. Last night was an interesting night on the desk. Was propositioned…
The old crappy TV’s nervous breakdown indicators are picking up steam. We are also on the verge of the new HDTV epoch. I am rather excited about a PC-based home entertainment system. We are looking at one of these as a joint Christmas present to one-another: Sharp AQUOS Westinghouse LTV-32W6 HD Now I don’t need…
I’m not exactly the king of cookery and I am hardly a recipe blog kind of guy, but this recipe is superlative. We made it little over a month ago to rave reviews and then promptly lost the paper it was printed on. Elz and I are using it as the opening gambit for our…
What passes for the mothership-in-law will be staying with us this evening. Here are some ways in which this promises to not be fun: She self-diagnosed her sinus infection as a mini-stroke Incessant demands for all and sundry to “feel my forehead. Isn’t it hot?” Requests to “just hold my hand” made almost as frequently…
The ragweed / whatever-the-heck-it-is that is making me sneeze and snot on everything, both vertical and horizontal, absolutely needs to stop. Mowed the yard yesterday and got about three minutes into the second bag o’ grass (heh) before the uncontrollable sneezing set in. Thought I was going to blow a gasket. Went inside and grabbed…