I just finished reading The Checklist Manifesto, and it's gotten me thinking about a whole host of things. Not least, I'm thinking about work and workflow and why not just documentation but also process is important, and also about future surgeries (for myself or for people around me), and the possibility of learning to fly an airplane (I've been ( Read more... )

Here I thought I had run my admirer off the other day, but it turns out that he was just on vacation. He shared a seat on the bus with me yesterday and we had a pleasant chat about vacations and work and knitting (I was the one knitting, of course). I behaved myself and didn't invite him out to the garden at lunch time. But of course he might be ( Read more... )

( End of the year sales are dangerous, or, I didn't MEAN to buy a new dishwasher. )

Thanks to j-zihuatanejo for this link - both A. and I get migraines (although by her standards we are wimps, with 1-2/month lasting only 3-4 days each). Our mothers both get them, his grandma and my great-grandma both got them, and I think someone else in his family gets them too. We're sort of assuming that Nate will get them - I wonder if it'd be worth ( Read more... )

Doug Marlette died in a car crash this morning. (Think Kudzu).

My longtime friend (really more like another brother) is moving to another job. This dismays me greatly, although I am very happy for him.  I am not entirely sure why this dismays me so, except that I rather fancied him my protector for my first year here ( Read more... )

I wonder if intelligence/creativity is linked to bizarre dreams and/or nightmares. A whole lot of my friends have really convoluted or vivid or complex or bizarre dreams. I wonder what dumb people dream about ( Read more... )