As a general rule: whatever you think is really funny or cute? I'm probably over it.

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It's clearly been a monumental week nationally, and there's so much I want to write. It's also been a packed week vocationally, so I've needed to settle for a note here and there instead, in hopes that I can one day string them together into something coherent.

Regrettable things about Irwin's this morning:

• There's a guy at the table next to me ( Read more... )

A gem from the 10/22 installment of Seattle Weekly's pitch-perfect column, "Ask an Uptight Seattleite":Dear Uptight Seattleite ( Read more... )

I am inordinately excited about Gmail's new canned response feature. Could be a significant enhancement to my workflow (which invites all sorts of questions about my workflow).

The wireless connection here at Fuel is all kinds of slow. Been puttering with wireless stuff at home and work this week, so probably even more critical than usual ( Read more... )

Really long day at the office yesterday, which isn't a complaint. Being more on top of things is very freeing, and I stayed until evening for a meeting about budgeting process for 2009. My hope is to be more involved on the front end of the process, using data and experience to really nail the parts of the budget that aren't guesswork and make ( Read more... )

Often, I'd rather someone think an untrue thing of me than an unkind one. Probably not unusual (from personal lives to political images), but let's be honest-it's pretty jacked up.

Grace doesn't cost me anything. Responding to grace does.

Phone calls are an efficient way to ensure two people aren't working at the same time.

-Merlin Mann

Upon seeing a doorway on the top floor of a parking garage labelled "Elevator," I realized that the top floor is the one place where it can't properly be called an elevator at all.

Merlin Mann hits a few nails squarely on their heads in his recent post "Email Insanity and the 0.001 Challenge":

( 'Email encourages people to act insane.' )