Appreciation is Mandatory
Work is busy, and much of my free time is still occupied with wedding chores. I figure if I make good progress in the next few months, wedding chores will have taken only a year total.
The festival that Pandemonium Books ran last weekend was quite fun.
Thank you notes are taking a while, but with steady progress I hope to have them done (or all but done) before Thanksgiving. I've selected, organized, and archived wedding photos, and they're now all up here.
I'm trying to up my game at work. I'm working on a 20% project where I can do some pair programming with Xave, figuring out how to improve open-source tools my team uses, trying to contribute more to documentation and process improvements, and doing more studying (I joined a programming reading group at work and applied some training budget to books; my office has a bookshelf now!).
Bitcoin is booming again, the perpetual weird technology / finance story of the year.
Twitter had its IPO, and sure is worth a lot for a company that doesn't make any money.
Fall scenery is beautiful, but the weather has turned suddenly cold after being gloriously unseasonable for a bit.
It seems everyone I know is still getting sick. This year seems nearly as bad as last, sickness-wise.
Julie's mom is in town this weekend for a visit. It's great to see her again. We all enjoyed happy-hour appetizers at The Cheesecake Factory, I finally tried their avocado eggrolls (as good as I'd hoped!). Hopefully colds will not interfere too much with the weekend's plans.
The festival that Pandemonium Books ran last weekend was quite fun.
Thank you notes are taking a while, but with steady progress I hope to have them done (or all but done) before Thanksgiving. I've selected, organized, and archived wedding photos, and they're now all up here.
I'm trying to up my game at work. I'm working on a 20% project where I can do some pair programming with Xave, figuring out how to improve open-source tools my team uses, trying to contribute more to documentation and process improvements, and doing more studying (I joined a programming reading group at work and applied some training budget to books; my office has a bookshelf now!).
Bitcoin is booming again, the perpetual weird technology / finance story of the year.
Twitter had its IPO, and sure is worth a lot for a company that doesn't make any money.
Fall scenery is beautiful, but the weather has turned suddenly cold after being gloriously unseasonable for a bit.
It seems everyone I know is still getting sick. This year seems nearly as bad as last, sickness-wise.
Julie's mom is in town this weekend for a visit. It's great to see her again. We all enjoyed happy-hour appetizers at The Cheesecake Factory, I finally tried their avocado eggrolls (as good as I'd hoped!). Hopefully colds will not interfere too much with the weekend's plans.