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nooooo, not a Crackberry!
I got a call this afternoon from my boss' boss' admin. assistant telling me I was getting a Blackberry. Hmmm, whose crazy idea was that? Duh. The VP of Research wants to be able to track me down at all times. I don't know if I'm just special, or if he's just handing them out to the peons now. Maybe he likes (?) me because I gave him the web ( Read more... ) -
Pre-Pennsic Panicked Packing? Pah!
Despite the fact that I've left ALL the Pre-Pennsic packing until today, I'm still not panicked. Heck, it's all but loaded, and I've time left to spare (hence the posting...) Maybe, after 16 years, I've got this Pennsic thing down ( Read more... ) -
Pre-Pennsic packing denial
Talun and I have finally figured out if/when we are able to go to Pennsic this year, so now we're down to the Pre-Pennsic packing denial stage. You know, that stage where you think to yourself, "It's mostly already packed, so I don't need to worry about it tonight. Those bins stay packed. What could I possibly need to do that can't be done the ( Read more... ) -
HP and the Very Long Book - finished!
HP only kept me up past bedtime a couple of nights... finished! Comfortably familiar plotline, but since the HP tales all have the features of truly classic (if overly long) fairytales, satisfying. But, dear God, why did it have to be so long. We now have doorstops for all the doors in our house - one for each year of HP. -
HP and the very long book
AAAACK! Don't tell me anything! Talun get's first crack at it, since I sleep and he doesn't, so it will be a day or two before I can even start reading it. Just tell me that it is better than the door stop it looks like, and I'll be happy :)
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finally, time to be a geek!
Finally, after 3 months, I have time to totally geek out. So, after spending hours at LazyLaces, I've finally gotten around to writing something here.
Work has been crazy, but sorta cool. I've been spearing a project to build a large-scale flame testing facility. Whoo hoo! I get to burn things for work. Sometimes I love my job. Like last week ( Read more... )