…And I might attempt to run more than a mile. It would be great if I could double it but I don’t think I can do that. I’ll be happy just going as far as I can and walking the rest of the way. I’m still not trying for any particular times, just working on…
I got out of the office for lunch today, foregoing my usual nap, and instead, headed over to Pentagon Row, found a chair in the sun, propped back with my book in my lap and read for a while. The weather is a beautiful 75 degrees with a slight breeze. The sky was clear, thanks…
Every spring, the mall upon which my office sits fills up with tour groups of kids visiting the Washington, DC area on various field trips. The lunch lines grow to exaggerated lengths and the noise and voluability is almost unbearable. But the kids all look like they are having a great time. In fact, they…
Small Change I just finished rolling about $40 in quarters and $20 in dimes for the next time I go to New York. Commerce Bank has free machines to get money for your change and the last time I went to the branch in Astoria, I brought about $100 in change. I’ve also got a…
I cut the grass this evening when I got home from work. It’s really quite nice out right now. Temperature is hovering around 70 degrees and there is a very pleasant breeze blowing. It smells like coumarin (the chemical that gives freshly cut grass it’s smell) and that fragrence is being carried on the breeze.…
Money magazine has rating “Software Engineer” as the #1 job to have in America. Since this is what I do/am, I think this is kind of cool. Read the article at: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/?cnn=yes
May I be the first to wish a very Happy Birthday to jen_ashlock. I won’t say how old you are, although if a full life was 9 years, you would have lived three lives by now. I will also point out that Claire Danes has the exact same birthday as you, down to the year.…
This is my new motto: Per aspera ad astra.
Just back from my run. I went a little later than usual, when it was dark, but still very nice out. It was a good run. I don’t know if it’s the fact that I had a bowl of pasta about 2 hours ago, or psychological, but I felt like I had a lot of…
Lately, movies I’ve been getting through NetFlix or seeing in the theater have had these weak, cop-out kind of endings that leave you hanging. I call it lazy writing. Elizabethtown is not one of these movies. I saw it from NetFlix tonight. The first hour and half of the movie is pretty good. Not spectacular,…