Serious considering taking all of November and December as a sabbatical. Recovery is needed from this death march, as apparently mid-march creative outlet is not permitted.

I'm going to really miss the LiveJournal folks around the office. I have no idea when they're moving out, but hopefully not so soon. They're a lot of fun to talk to and bounce ideas off of, and I've appreciated the bit of cachet that comes with saying I work at the same company :-) (and my awesome employee-perk permanent account!) Good luck!

Go up this morning well before 7am. That's ok, I do that sometimes. But today I jammed out the door and drove to the Redwood City Caltrain station so that I could catch the 7:45am express train and get to work before 9am. Like, 8:20am. I need my car in Redwood City because I'm shuttling my sister between afternoon schools this afternoon, and that ( Read more... )

Sometimes people ride their bikes to the Caltrain station, and sometimes those people need to get on board a train so that they aren't 40 minutes late for work. Just a thought. Thanks.

I bought a Panasonic SR-TMB10 Rice Cooker last week. It makes good rice. It lives in the kitchen at the office. I eat the rice it makes for lunch. And late afternoon snack. And sometimes the next morning for breakfast, because it's so fuzzy logic smart that it keeps rice warm and yummy for 24 hours, for reals. Highly recommended. Beats the pants ( Read more... )

Since starting my train commute, I have made this trade: two hours by train in place of 45 minutes by car. Net result: I am more relaxed when I get to work, I have already read The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (of The Unbearable Lightness of Being fame, but I'm told this book is the same only better), and I have fixed two DBMail ( Read more... )

Today was my last day at work, and since there was a free company lunch, I figured, heck, why compete with free food? So I went to the grocery store around the corner and got $20 in pie and cheesecake. In my farewell letter to the company I invited everyone to stick around after lunch to enjoy dessert. Best $20 invested in future references ever ;-

According to the Time and Date calculator, I've been at Decru:

From and including: Monday, November 13, 2006 ( Read more... )