I was working from home last Friday. I'm in the middle of taking over a project that is 9 months overdue and has a critical delivery by December 1. +1 called and asked if the kids were up. They weren't (I, 23, lives with us at the moment - a boomerang child and C, 15, is spending the month with us during his summer holidays). +1 said he's ( Read more... )

Wondering how those two metaphors work together ( Read more... )

Facebook has assimilated me. Dang. That and I can't access livejournal from work so in the moments when I might do some reflection, I don't have the ability to do it. I think there's a way to post via email ... will have to check that out ( Read more... )

Greenbelt has come on gone. Every year as it approaches, I wonder if I've expected too much of it and having already spent the money on the ticket and flights, go ahead and go. And then I get there and it seems comforting and familiar and a bit like a spiritual home that is good to return to. There are friends to see and programmes to dissect ( Read more... )

I've been in the UK since the 26th. I hung out with Charlie for a day then headed back towards Heathrow to hire a car and left for Cheltenham Friday morning ( Read more... )

Last post was a day over a month ago. Facebook is sucking me in and I don't like it because I don't have a record of my ruminations like I do here my my lj. Oh well ( Read more... )

We went to the Alley Friday night and watch the performance of "Mauritius". It was OK ... the acting was good but it was really hard to care much for a bunch of sleaze-ball characters that the play is about. I told +1 that if it were a TV show, I would have turned it off at the intermission and gone to bed ( Read more... )

Two of my nephews have called me/texted me within the last week to tell me they've proposed to their sweeties. Something must be in the air. I've met both of their fiance's and I approve in both cases.

Good to see the kids growing up!

I've been trying to get a number of technical stakeholders to agree on how we should approach a feature ( Read more... )

We got 8-9" of rain in the space of hours over the weekend. This pushes records that got set during Tropical Storm Allison (the Great Deluge). We did fine -- we simply didn't go out and drive in it though the ditch out front is a bit worse for the wear ( Read more... )