I’m finally back in the office today and I have a lot of catching up to do. I didn’t go to the gym this morning, in order to get a little extra rest last night, but I plan on going at noon today. I’ve got a list of things that I’d like to have done…
People at work are in a panic. over what they keep referring to as the “daylight savings” issue. I don’t know what daylight savings is. The normative form of the name is “daylight saving”. Daylight savings sounds like something you put in a bank account. Everyone seems to have been caught by surprise by this…
I was up at 4:30 and caught the 5:10 AM Yellow line train as usual. When we got to the Pentagon stop, however (one stop before I get off the train at Pentagon City) we were held there for fifteen minutes due to track work. Fifteen minutes doesn’t sound like much, but it meant that…
Well, after working most of the weekend on last minute issues with the software rollout for software we’ve been developing for two years, things have settled down a bit. All of the major issues are fixed or under control. I can finally get some rest and get caught up on other things. I watched Crash…
I got involved in my spring cleaning and lost track of time. Out of one small closet I have already tossed 4 large bags of stuff that probably should have been tossed years ago, but some things you just hold on to until you’re ready to get rid of it. Lots of pictures that I…
We headed over to Champps for happy hour at about 5 PM. Todd, John, Leanna, me, Carmen, Kristy, Todd, etc. We sat at the bar for a while where I had a 22-ounce Bud Lite and a shot of Patron. Eventually (once everyone else arrived) we got a table. I ordered the New York strip…
I went through my draft self-appraisal with my boss today and I think it went pretty well. He had some good suggestions. He really surprised me, however, when he said, “Hey, since you put in all that time over the weekend, pick a day in the next week or two and take a day off.”…
It’s review time here at work and drafts of our self-appraisals are due tomorrow. In past years, I have always turned in my self appraisal on the day we received the notice for them. But I have been so busy lately, that I haven’t had time to work on mine. Today was the first day…
…head! I don’t get headaches very often, but I’ve got a doozy of a headache right now. I attribute it to a ridiculously long and boring meeting that I have to attend in about 10 minutes. It’s one of these meetings where everyone is asked to report on the status of their projects. There are…
It’s just shy of 2 PM and I just completed one of the three things I wanted to get done this weekend. “Smart” forms that I developed for our Security department are now in production, with the exception of one form where I found a bug. I’m waiting from some feedback from a coworker on…
I was up at 7:30 this morning, showered, headed to breakfast and then straight into the office. I just got here. It was raining (freezing rain) when I left the house, and by the time I got into Arlington, it was snowing. I hope it doesn’t snow too much. According to the forecast, it’s supposed…
It’s after 9 PM and I’m just getting home. Caught a train home from work (I finally left the office sometime after 7 PM) and then decided to stop at the Outback Steakhouse, just across from the PG Plaza metro for dinner. There was a long wait but I got a seat in the bar…