So my Christmas "vacation" started back on December 17th. First, I think I ended up wasting 2-3 vacation days this year since I was unable to use them all. And secondly, I felt like I was working several hours most days since. The days that Angie was off, I made sure not to turn on my computer, but pretty much all days that she was working ( ( Read more... )

Instead of posting an interesting post about Christmas, I'll make a post about dramas for Angie ( Read more... )

Back at work after my Christmas shutdown =( But it was a nice break, which I never accomplish as much as I think I will beforehand. I thought I'd make so much progress on the reading and gaming fronts, but that seems to never be the case, although I did finish 1Q84 and played lots of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 ( Read more... )

Last Friday, there was a departmental meeting at a different site. Basically, we had a tons of talks, mainly about a new project, but also random updates. It was kind of boring, but not the worst thing. Funnily enough, someone on my left kept falling asleep or getting close to falling asleep while the person on my right was so hungry that I could ( Read more... )

Angie and I have a tradition (which we missed last year) where we see a Broadway show around Angie's birthday. Looking at the list of shows for this year, Angie wasn't overly excited at anything. We would have been okay with The King and I, but it apparently closed last summer. So looking at upcoming musicals, Angie was interested in Sunset ( Read more... )

On Saturday, Angie and I went out for my birthday lunch as to not conflict with any of the football games and to avoid any extra cold conditions. We went to Portuguese Fisherman in South River. It is a bar/restaurant which had a nice feel. When we got there, there were several games of European soccer on the tv's and plenty of people around the bar ( Read more... )

After a long, but always too short Christmas break, I'm back at work. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be, although it was kind of soul-crushingly dark in the morning. I'm not sure if I have to give up on running in the morning, somehow waking up even earlier in the morning, or just getting to work even later since this morning, I was in ( Read more... )

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