Last night, I discovered one of the hazards of living in a basement apartment. I got out my softball glove and found a growing crust of mold on it. I cleaned it off, but it was still kind of annoying ( Read more... )

Tuesday, I spent the entire morning at work staring at my computer & not being productive, so at lunchtime, I told my boss I was taking the half-day off for my birthday which the company gives us (we didn't find out about the policy until last week, even though it's been in place since May ( Read more... )

Saturday morning, we had an optional physical training session, which I showed up for dressed to run, except that I was wearing sandals because I had left my running shoes in the locker room the previous night. When I got to work, I found that one of the doors between the entrance and the locker room was still locked. So I took off my sandals and ( Read more... )

I had a horrifyingly hectic Friday, since I had to clear pretty much everything off my desk before starting my two weeks of Reserve duty. But the drive down to Virginia was restful, especially the latter half after the moon rose. Just as the moon was rising, it was huge and red and had a beautiful thin wisp of cloud across the face, looking like ( Read more... )

My landlord just brought me a really yummy plate of beef stew & rice. And this afternoon, I got a nice "welcome to your new home" basket from the relocation staff at work, consisting of salsa, raspberry habanero jelly, fajita seasoning, artichoke spinach cheese dip and tortilla chips. The basket arrived just in time for me to take away with me on ( Read more... )

My out of town work on Friday went quite wonderfully. All the parties involved were easy to get along with, amd we made a lot of progress towards site acquisition and development. I was quite happy that I provided some good ideas during the process, which to me justified my taking 6 hours away from my desk and driving for four hours. In addition ( Read more... )

I got up early enough to ride my bike to work today, but when I went to take it out of the garage, it was all wet and drizzly outside, so I decided against it ( Read more... )

Saturday I went out with Nathan, Thom, Keith and Holly and had dinner at Kyushu. One of the things I miss about VA Beach, besides hanging out with those guys, is eating at Kyushu. It was good to get to go back ( Read more... )

I'm back from Kansas City with lots of good things to write about ( Read more... )

I've begun to realize that the work load at my new job runs hot and cold. While there's been a relatively low volume most days lately, today was like bailing the ocean with a bucket. I think part of it is that because of my light work load, my supervisor started piling extra work on me, to the point that the days which previously had a decent ( Read more... )