( Thanksgiving... Wednesday through Friday )

We're shutting down at 3 PM, so shortly I'll be either on my way home, or headed to a movie, depending on what is playing where and when ( Read more... )

We're shutting down early for the Holiday Weekend at 3 PM. I'm thinking of hitting a showing of 28 Weeks Later Just a couple blocks from work, listed at 2:45 PM, so I'd miss the trailers. It's no longer a starred attraction and I still have my free movie ticket to use. I've also thought about going to see the Pirates movie, but timing isn't that ( Read more... )

My Mom had wanted me to head down to my brother's house in Corvallis on Friday night, but thankfully Greyhound didn't provide a schedule that would work with that. Bonus because I got to go to the Blazer's game instead. Saturday was low key and I packed and wrapped presents and continued to catch up to TiVo that had been recorded while I was out ( Read more... )

The day started out with being able to sleep in, and then I began the trek up to the VA to visit my Uncle who is up there once again with another serious medical issue. Yet another surgery, and this time he's going to be on IV antibiotics for 6 weeks and in the hospital for a week and a half due to a bone-deep staph infection at the site of his ( Read more... )

So we had the St Patrick's Day Meet-n-greet with our sister office members downstairs because as of a week from Monday, we'll all be sharing the same floor. It was holiday themed, and there were 8 bottles of wine, a case of Guinness Draft in the tall cans, and another case or so of random mixtures of beeer, including microbrews, Coronas and ( Read more... )

I'm heading home. Gotta love the early closure days before holidays where I work. I'm really glad I got my new winter coat a few weeks ago, as it has been really, really cold lately. They are forecasting potential snow for next week ... and in November in Portland, that is rather odd. I really hope we do get a bunch of snow, because I don't ( Read more... )

Yesterday as I was getting ready to leave the office, I dropped by my boss' desk. She was checking up on her status of how many sick/personal/vacation days she had left for the year on a part of the system I hadn't been aware of ( Read more... )