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Journey Home
So I have now completed my first-ever visit to New York City. Yes, you're all allowed to express shock that I had never been to NYC before...everyone else has made comments. All in all, an enjoyable time was had, despite the annoying (and potentially sick-making) rain all weekend. I made the appropriate pilgrimages.....I saw the Red Sox beat the ( Read more... ) -
Dragons Flown Away
Well, I've just met one of the new owners of my dragons, and I'm confident I made the right choice. His reaction when he saw them told me that he was indeed a good choice. I packed them and their gear up and shipped them off in a cab up to their new home in Adams Morgan with him. I'm a little melancholy, but I know they'll get more attention now -
Quiet Descends
So large chunks of our staff are off at our Annual Conference, including just about everyone who generates projects/work for me. This means things are slower than usual. This is both good - I get to catch up on some long outstanding tasks and administrivia - and bad - the pace makes the day go by slowly. Having barely survived two weekends of ( Read more... ) -
Ice Ice Baby
I hear about hail with thunderstorms all the time, but somehow I rarely seem to actually experience it. I guess i got lucky tonight. We've had some fast moving aggressive storms - aggressive enough to send me scurrying to the windowless spaces in the house due to my thunder and lightning phobia - and the last one actually pelted us with hail. It ( Read more... ) -
Realtionship Recognition as a Collectible Card Game
I figured that would be a much more entertaining heading than I'm Getting Married. Though, in fact, that's what this is about. I just have to crack jokes about "collecting the whole set" given that we have a Civil Union certificate, a Domestic Partner Registration certificate, have had a Commitment Ceremony, and now....we'll also have (for what ( Read more... ) -
Back in the Office
There's always something odd about being back in the office after being away. It's like I'm not entirely sure I belong. Did I really sit here a week ago? Has it been so little time away (and contradictarily, has it been *that* long since I sat here)? Yeah, settling back into routine is just...odd ( Read more... ) -
The Joy of Job Flexibility
I'm still fine, but with reports as late as last night of folks coming down with The Plague, I decided to play it safe and called into work this morning to say I was working from home. No qualms on the part of my boss, in fact he found it amusing in a weird way. I had left a message on his voice mail and when I called back a while later he ( Read more... ) -
Packing Up and Heading Home
Well, the shuttle from the hotel to the airport is in a half hour, and my time in Madison is winding down. It sounds like there are still some folks just now getting hit with the Wiscon Plague (best guess seems to be Norovirus). I've got my fingers crossed that I'm still good (knocking on wood) and will make it home just fine. If I make it ( Read more... ) -
CONtinuity Planning
So....I'll be interested to hear the post-con news regarding the Great Wiscon Plague of 2008 for real details, but the "stomach flu" outbreak at Wiscon got me thinking about the application of Business Continuity Planning concepts to convention planning. How, as a convention, do you respond to an outbreak like the one at Wiscon...to a weather ( Read more... ) -
Proudly Tired
I forget sometimes, just how draining talking and being charming all day can be. I was downtown at 9:45 this morning to start setting up the table for Lambda Sci-Fi for DC's pride festival. I left the booth area twice between then and 5:45...once to go to Kinko's at around 10:00 and once to get a funnel cake at around 11:30. The rest of the day ( Read more... )