Sometimes I have to wonder what regular people would make of the way our conversations tend to go ( Read more... )

The law of inevitable impaction: If one employee is beholden to multiple unrelated projects or responsibilities and one of those projects or responsibilities enters into a crunch whereupon significant overtime is required, then the other independent project or responsibility will inevitably fall into crisis and demand emergency attention as well ( Read more... )

Monday is not computing for me today. Perhaps it’s because I’m not actually supposed to be at work today, but I am. I wasn’t supposed to work Friday either, but I did. I had allegedly taken them off as comp time for the nutty amount of work I’d previously put in… but then a new project came up on Thursday and I figured ‘well I might as well just ( Read more... )

Working with people who use blackberries as their primary mode of communication is like working with lobotomy patients.

Commute arrival times sometimes seem like they come in discrete 15 minute increments. No matter what exact time I leave, I can either arrive at work a good 10 minutes early, or a good 10 minutes late. The 7:55-8:10am arrival window simply does dot exist. For example: Yesterday I left at 7:01 and got to work at 7:40. Today I left at 7:11 and got to ( Read more... )

Well, after months and months of J and I going on about this house that we were allegedly getting, we actually finally moved into it this weekend.

First and foremost I want to say a huge, huge, huge Thank You to all the wonderful people who generously donated their time and muscles to helping us haul our stuff out of our apartment and into our ( Read more... )