I've been wondering recently if it would be possible to take public transportation to my job. It's a long commute for me, and I was thinking that I could accept a slight increase in my total commute time, if I could spend it sitting in a train reading a book or watching a TV show instead of driving. Driving gets a little tedious, you know? So ( Read more... )

Oh my God, my head hurts so badly. It feels like my eyeballs could actually pop. I'm really glad magnifelyn doesn't have to be here for this, even though I know she would want to take care of me. I hope she and Boone are just having a good time with my brother and his family.

But I would be ever so grateful, magnifelyn, if you would bring me some pain medication when ( Read more... )

Yes indeed, life can change fast. So… time for an announcement post. I've accepted a job offer from a company in Germany. Now, before you ask, no, we're not moving to Germany. I am however, flying over to Germany for six weeks of training. That's quite a bit less than the earlier estimated time of four to five months, which is a good thing, because ( Read more... )

To the person who stole my radar detector, mp3 player, and FM transmitter from my car in Orlando:

You suck.

I hate that you probably enjoyed speeding home listening to all my cool trip-hop music. If I knew who you were, I would hunt you down and punch you in the kidney so hard, you'd be peeing blood for a week.

Well, I just had a lovely time in NYC visiting mary_wroth. I had to leave a bit earlier than I originally intended, due to bad planning on my part, but we still managed to have a great time together ( Read more... )

The sky looks beautiful when I'm flying home.

Well, here I am at the airport, enjoying the free WiFi while waiting for my flight. I had to drop my car off at the dealership to get some safety recall repairs completed while I'm out of town, so I left plenty of time to get to the airport. Everything went so smoothly though, and I just breezed through security, that I have plenty of time before ( Read more... )

So! I seem to have managed to wrangle myself a piece of our currently non-existent training budget for a seminar that I have been itching to go to for years now. Yes, I will be traveling to Dallas to learn from the guys who treat Oracle performance tuning as a science, not an art. I'm very much looking forward to learning some new methods and ( Read more... )

Highlight of the day…

I had late lunch/early dinner with my brother and his wife, and her parents, and at one point we were discussing childhood pets, and the subject of my sister-in-law's pet rabbit came up. She was talking about how it used to hop all around and over some fence or something. And then she and her mom spoke at the same time:

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Lots of new stuff going on at work these days. Our new parent company is expanding us into several new countries and integrating some of our processes that duplicate existing core processes in the parent company. So I've been tagged to participate in the "braintrust" as my boss calls it, in order to provide my point of view on how we could simplify ( Read more... )