i didn't go to work today.  i sent john an email, simply stating that i needed to take a day today.  there's no real reason that i need the day off; i just want one.  plus, the heat has finally broken, and the windows are open, and it's just so nice out ( Read more... )

my ipod, currently on shuffle, seems to have an extreme liking for my ska playlist... especially reel big fish.

not complaining!

today was my last day doing the Quality Engineer role at work.  YEE HAW!!

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Monday, it's back to being a scientist (SCIENCE!!)

The Webcast Before Christmas

'Twas the week before Christmas and enterprise-wide,
Not a creature was stirring, our bandwidth was fried.
We'd been synergized, leveraged, geographically dispersed,
Right-sized, incentivized, and engineered in reverse.
Drilled down and sea changed and paradigm shifted,
Dialogued and matrixed and pinged and uplifted.
Our ( Read more... )

i will admit, i am rather tired right now.

i have all-day meetings/trainings yesterday, today and tomorrow.

it's interesting, but incredibly dry.

it's like being in college and having to sit through a class you know you have to, but really fighting to keep up (both with the content, and keeping awake).

wish me luck.

yay! got my truck back, and it's alllll fixed.  no more weird rubbing sound that makes me think the passenger side front wheel will fall off on the highway, and it will pass inspection ( Read more... )

good news: i got to comcast to get my new cable box before they closed today.
Bad news: i lost a bunch of stuff i hadn't watched yet... SYTYCD, leverage, MIOBI season finale... i don't even know what else.

good news: Sons of Anarchy starts tonight, and i have the series recording set up.
bad news: my grid hasn't filled in yet all the way, and i have ( Read more... )

i just got back from the thee-yay-ter, having seen 'footloose'.  this theater was a theater-in-the-round (which i fuckin LOVE).  the show was AWESOME.  great singing, dancing and acting.  to die for.

my parents take me and my sister usually once a year.  we look at what's being offered that season (the theater is the north shore music theater, in ( Read more... )

I have escaped to the cape for the weekend. I made myself an awesome playlist on my iPod, and rocked out the whole way here. work continues to suck. Deano said today, if they shift him to the area they say they want to, he will be giving his notice. that made me sad, but for selfish reasons. I can't blame home one bit. hell, I might follow him ( Read more... )

i hit myself in the fucking hand with a fucking hammer ( Read more... )