Got in to work on time, jumped into my tasks, and promptly got swamped. All the crap that's been hanging fire since late December has come home to roost.  On top of which, when I'm training new users, or on an hour-plus tech call, and they keep assigning me stuff, the backlog piles up.   Speaking of which -- Ma'am, if we're going to be doing a ( Read more... )

Sitting here, noshing breakfast. Forget Wheaties, Mincemeat pie is the way to go. Got maybe 10% of what I'd planned to do this break, accomplished. On the other hand, I did get rested up, and upgraded my computer's OS, twice -- once from 8.x to 11.x, and then from 11.x to 10.x. Home Depot today, to get some lumber for the Canvas Front Porch in prep ( Read more... )

... As in, lots of errands this past week or so. Crown went well, from my standpoint. That is to say, I was Chirurgeon-in-Charge, and had ZERO paperwork-type boo-boos. That's my definition of "went well".

PinkShoot the next day also went well. Couple of regulars from the PP chapter, plus killernurd. KN also brought a lady friend, who'd never ( Read more... )

On That Day(tm), I was just getting near the office when I heard about the attacks on the radio. For the next couple of hours, nobody got anything done -- we were glued to the news. When smoke started coming up from the Pentagon, visible from our lunchroom window, we didn't realize what had happened for a few minutes. Around 1030, we got the ( Read more... )

Last weekend, went down to Williamsburg and Jamestown. The row house in James Fort is coming along. Roof is thatched, upper floor is wattled-and-daubed. Ground floor is wattled, about 1/2 daubed. Should be up to snuff for Foods and Feasts.

Over on the Island, I've found a way to deal with the GunBusters sign on the visitor Center. The Archaearium ( Read more... )

This being one of those hellacious long posts, putting the bits behind cuts. Going in roughly-chronological order:

( Defending the Gate )

Got home last night, did dinner, did chores, found myself falling asleep at the computer, and crashed. The drive home was a two-Monster trip. This, of course, indicates a good con weekend.  Chronologically, in bullet points:

• 5 hours flat, going down. Car was stuffed to the gunwales with toys. Didn't bother packing any costume stuff, as I still don't ( Read more... )

My usual when I have a long one. Stuff behind cuts to spare your friendslist.  Today's (well, yesterday, it's 10 minutes into Thursday) interesting note came to me as I was trying to get into work. You know you work in DC when (a) a bomb threat is a legitimate excuse for being late, and (b) they don't put bomb threats in a special alert on the ( Read more... )

The weekend was fairly insane.  Saturday, I went up to Maryland to help out with a chore for my reenactor unit.  Essentially, the unit's stuff, and other stuff, was in two different lockers. We emptied one into the other. Between traffic, tie-ups with getting a truck, and lack o flatbed carts at the first locker, a 3-4 hour job turned into 12 hours ( Read more... )

And another long-@$$ catch-up post.  Let's see, been over a week.

( Gun Show and Shooty Goodness )