In this game that is Life the Universe and Everything, I seem to have lost a turn. I must travel to Northern Virginia for 4 days next week for reasons unknown. Why they need a technical writer on site for this particular fire drill is beyond my feeble comprehension abilities. I am really hoping and praying that they aren't going to be working me to ( Read more... )

It seems the Turkish shoe manufacturer that made the shoes that were hurled at President Bush has received about 300,000 orders for the Model 271 shoe, now renamed "Bye-bye Bush."  His normal sales of that model of shoe is 20,000.

In other news, the bird feeder we put outside our office window at work has attracted a lovely pair of cardinals and a ( Read more... )

( adventures in retail )

is that they don't have fingers! Brr!

( rambling and updateyness )

( Some random blather )

( and had some observations about them )

In slightly less than 2 hours, I will be auditioning for/with a band as a keyboard player/backup singer. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. I am  very grateful that the band is doing really easy songs, because my chops are very very rusty. I don't know that I will do a project with these guys or not, but it's something. And we're rehearsing at the ( Read more... )

It's the eve before the return from vacation. No, I will NOT log in tonight and catch up on my email. I got almost everything done on my list. I have a clean office with floorspace - something I haven't seen... ever. Not in this house (and my last off ice was too small to have floorspace that mattered.

I'm enjoying the floorspace so much right now I ( Read more... )

And that's from simply *reading* the flylady website, instead of getting with her program. I've taken the tips from her that seem to work (and I was able to declutter each of the major rooms downstairs in 15 minutes each, more or less). My office is still a disaster (and where all the piles of Papers That Are Too Important To Toss get piled up when ( Read more... )

it's a workout TV show on the Fit channel (hooray for satellite TV, I guess). It's called "Shimmy" and it's a belly dance workout. I just sweated through one episode, and it's really gratifying to be able to do everything that the voiceover is telling you to do, and not have to watch the video once first to get the choreography, or pause the thing ( Read more... )