When I got to work this morning, security wasn’t letting people into the mall. I had my badge on and they let me through so I could get into the office building, but I couldn’t figure out why they weren’t letting anyone else in. Looking out my window now, I understand. My window looking into…
I forgot to pack my lunch today (read: I was too lazy) and so at noon I found myself with nothing to eat, and with no desire to head down into the mall and stand in lines to pay lots of money for bad mall food. Fortunately, a coworker, who sits outside my office, told…
Today ends 11 consecutive work day for me and that’s the first time I’ve done that in quite a long time. So when I walked out of the office building today for the long weekend, it felt more like I was leaving the office for a vacation. There was a spring in my step, a…
It was one of those rare foggy mornings here in the metro DC area. In fact, it was a thick fog where I live and it reminded me of those fogs that would engulf Santa Monica on summer mornings back when I lived out there. I decided to vote this evening instead of this morning…
I made good progress this afternoon, getting everything done that I’d hoped to get done. I completed the two remained functions that I didn’t get done yesterday, and then I spent the remainder of the time re-factoring code to move all database calls out of one module and into a separate class. Things are now…
Yes, that’s right, I came into work again today. I made good progress yesterday and this weekend may just end up getting me a week ahead of schedule on this project. There are several advantages to that from a time management standpoint, not to mention the fact that I could make better headway on some…
I was up at 8 AM this morning and took my car into Saturn for my 9 AM service appointment. Last night, while in the shower, I had the strong urge to seriously consider buying a new car today, but the urge passed and sanity returned, and instead, I had my car serviced and never…
I didn’t have the greatest night’s sleep last night for the first time in quite a while. I had “fever dreams”, even thought I have no fever and am not in any way sick. I just kept waking up from the same set of strange dreams throughout the night, and though I went to bed…
Here is the situation: 3 urinals are set in a wall. A person occupies the leftmost and rightmost urinal, making the middle one the only that is available. Naturally, that’s the one you use. Now add to this situation the fact that the guy on the left and right of you are having an in-depth,…
It was light out crossing the Potomac on the train this morning and so I guess that means we really did “fall back” an hour this weekend. I’m not sure however. My phone still says it’s 8:40 AM, even though the time on it is sync’d with my local T-Mobile network. Perhaps T-Mobile decided to…
My new business cards, which I ordered a week or two ago, finally arrived today. I had run out of my last batch of 250, but it took 2 years. I don’t work with outside vendors very much so I don’t have too much of an opportunity to use my business cards, but I don’t…