Four days.

That is how many days off of work I took this year.

All of them were to make long weekends.

I need to address this, I think.

Some mornings, it is just easier to take the moto rather than play car hockey in the driveway.

( Drizzle makes it cleaner, right? )

I'm surprised how much arm one uses to ride a bicycle. Hello triceps, nice talking to you.

Seriously diggin' this.

Wandered about Post Office Square a bit at lunch, taking in some sunshine and getting a general gist of my bearings ( Read more... )

MacBook Pro.

This Wednesday will be my last day at my current place of work. Come the following Monday, May 5th, I'll be someplace new doing all the stuff I like to do again, rather than just the stuff that they let me do ( Read more... )

( For the web design and dev folks )

True story: I just got off the phone with Bruce Wayne, President and CEO of one of our partner companies.

My first full week at Monster has given me more design tasks than I have seen in the previous two years. I am happily busy, and I come home very day smiling and exhausted, rather than cranky and weary. I get up before my alrm, and am frequently at work early rather only on time.

These are good things. Second full week begins tomorrow...

An interesting addition to my work environment.

IT's servers have moved from their climate controlled room to the set of cubes right next to me. The constant WHHHHHHRRRRRRRRbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep has made me reconsider my 'no-headphones' policy at work recently. So the iPod is back in my work bag, and loaded up with some new stuff from the ( Read more... )