Three things I accomplished today:

• Taught big boss how to use WordPress
• Learned how to write interactive fiction with Inform 7 (it's a lot easier than you'd think)
• Successfully navigated a dinner party hosted by someone I didn't know very well yet

Three things that made me happy today:

• Vegetarian abenkwan (Ghanaian palm-nut soup)
• Talking with a coworker ( Read more... )

Three things I accomplished today, my second day of medical leave:

• After a successful saving throw vs. constitution at 6:30 in the freaking morning, I got my car into the garage and arranged a rental while they're working on it (squeaking brakes are a lot easier to ignore than a check-engine light and an engine that idles at 800rpm, no make that ( Read more... )

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Three things that I accomplished today:

• Used smokeping to help convince our vendor that there was a network problem.
• Explained to a totally unrelated vendor that now was not a good time for his call; hung up.  Then, two minutes later, explained to the same guy that we were about to bring our entire network hard down for emergency maintenance and I ( Read more... )

Three things that made me happy today:

• Seeing Jodi crack up as I read her bits of I Like You: Hospitality under the Influence by Amy Sedaris.  (And cracking up when she said "Oh, is that a comedy book?  I thought it was real.")
  
• Getting complimented by the big boss (cc: to my boss and his boss) on handling a messy, frustrating problem at work.
• Being ( Read more... )

Three things that made me happy today:

• Resigning from both chess games with honor, and realizing that I enjoyed them enough that it didn't matter that I lost.  I'll probably return to those boards in a few days to analyze them.
• Having an early VD with Jodi (dinner and a movie)
• Specifically, watching Sweet Land (about which more later, probably in a ( Read more... )

Three things that made me happy today:

• Helping the people looking for Jim Gray
• Playing chess with a stranger and with a friend I went to high school with
• Thinking about my friend Toad enjoying a hoppy birthday

Three things I did right today:

• Put photos of Pied onto Jodi's iPod
• Got the car to the garage and back again (even though I'll have to do it again ( Read more... )

Lots of people I know seem to be enjoying this, so I'll give it a try.

Three things that made me happy today:

• Seeing BzzAgent's new site, which is wonderfully informative and well-designed
• Teaching Jodi the basics of chess at Kaleisia
  
• Overcoming her beginner's luck twice, both times somewhere around her KB2.

Three things I accomplished today:

• Diced ( Read more... )

Jodi's out with some friends tonight, and despite her recent suspicion about the GRE, she says she's okay at the moment.  I read her parts of the first three comments, and she seems cheered by some of them.

I'm going to bed soon so that I've got a halfway decent chance of getting enough sleep to do some coding tomorrow.  Yesterday I got about five ( Read more... )

Devin stunned me with an amazing Christmas gift: Guitar Hero with the guitar controller. I was just telling Jodi that I wanted to play Guitar Hero while I was in Stuart, since I can't play it at home. That's when Devin sprung the gift on me. Man, I can hardly wait to play this at home. *fierce grin ( Read more... )