I'm not here much, obviously. Because it is December, I have woken up my online journal Hat on
Top, Coat Below and am posting there. One day in a row so far!

I just searched for "automatik dryer" on Flickr (to see if anyone had already posted a photo of one of these hand dryers--I'm going through my vacation photos and think I may have more pictures taken at rest areas than on the ski slopes which were the main focus of the trip). Nothing was found, but Flickr suggested I might like to search for " ( Read more... )

I got a Dreamwidth account and about 10 seconds after I chose my username (KarenD), I thought perhaps I should have gone with karen_d to match here or thekarend to match Ravelry. Oh matchy-matchy brain, will I ever break free of you?

The company I work for changed its name yesterday, going from something like Purple Systems to something like Purp Systems. Wow, it's hard to stop myself after that first syllable and move onto the second word after almost 10 years saying the old name ( Read more... )

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Don't be like the guy I talked to this morning, who mentioned several times in the interview that he uses Google as a resource to find solutions for programming problems and said he had no trouble finding our building because the directions he got from GoogleMaps were so good but also said he didn't visit our company website because he couldn't ( Read more... )

Step from the plan our Chief Scientist wrote for the testing we had to do this morning for a big server change:

8:45 am ARRIVE AT NEW WORLD, BURN SHIPS.

I dreamt last night that I went to the library to return a book on CD that was very overdue. When I went to pay the fine, the librarian told me I owed $9.99 on the book and $9.99 on the other item I had out. What item was that? A chicken thigh. "It probably smells by now," the librarian said.

Biggest surprise of the weekend: finding out my 78 year old mother has read all the books in the Twilight series (young adult vampire novels, for those of you who haven't been sucked in).
I haven't even read the latest one myself; I'm #10 on the hold list at the library, down (up?) from 40-something a couple weeks ago.

Friday night I stopped at the grocery store on the way home from work and was surprised when my debit card was declined (twice) but figured it was a glitch with the equipment or the connection or something. Then I went to the bank and the ATM and let me tap all the selections for a withdrawal before telling me it couldn't complete the transaction ( Read more... )