It seems that a lot of people don’t really have a good idea of what it is I actually do at work, so in the spirit of the Day-in-the-life series of entries I did back in August, today I am going to write about exactly what I do here at work. First, some background information.…
I got nothing done this weekend. Well, almost nothing. I did manage to get through 2 loads of laundry. And I wrote a letter. Other than that, I was lazy this weekend. But being lazy meant that I got through nearly 150 pages of Lunar Prospector. Time to hit the shower and then off to…
I decided to try the new Olive Garden they put in next to the Outback Steakhouse. I headed out for an early dinner, just me and my enormous book. When I got there, around 3:30 PM, it was already packed and I was told the wait was 30-45 minutes. “No problem,” I said. I sat…
As a reward to myself for all of my recent hard work, I decided to get myself one of the new 5th generation iPods today to replace my existing one. I’ve had my existing one for 2-1/2 years now and there is nothing particularly wrong with it. It is a 3rd generation, 20 GB iPod…
My Saturn is ten years old today! It has 106,587 miles on it and it has never given me any signifcant trouble. When I first got the car ten years ago, it was my first new car ever. Here is what I had to say about it in my diary from October 22, 1996: Yes,…
I noticed that Yahoo!Answers has a question out there proposed by New Age guru Deepak Chopra: What do you think happens to your soul when you die?. At the time that I saw the question, some 3,500 answers had been posted. Here are some samples:
Every now and then I find myself overcome by a wave of nostalgia. This evening it was triggered by my romping through my 1996 diary, confirming a special anniversary tomorrow (about which I will write tomorrow). When I got to one of my diaries for a specific piece of information, I can’t help browsing entries…
I just noticed that the tree in my front yard is now completely bare of leaves. This tree is the last tree on the block to bloom in the spring, and the first tree on the block to lose its leaves in the fall. What gives?
I was up early this morning because I heard Zeke throwing up in the reading room. I immediately got anxious because of his past medical problems related to vomiting, but this time, things turned out to be okay. He didn’t throw up too much and it didn’t affect his breathing. In fact, he ate later…
I love it when I go into a book store looking for one thing and come out with someone else, even better than what I was looking for. That happened today. I ran over to Borders to pick up a copy of Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra, about which strausmouse made…