• Hanging out for dinner

    22 Sep 2006 » 1 min read about Reading & Books

    AJ and Denisse were going to be meeting at the Pentagon City mall for dinner tonight, and they invited me to join them. I agreed. Since I normally leave work at 4 PM, I now get to stick around here until 7 PM when I am supposed to meet them. Still, I’m going to try…

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  • Yum!

    22 Sep 2006 » 1 min read

    My Friday afternoon snack! The people sitting around me are jealous!

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  • The cost of not being skeptical

    22 Sep 2006 » 4 min read about Productivity & Tools

    One of the projects on which I am working is a conference room reservation system of inordinate (and unncessary) complexity. This project involves the integration of three different software packages: (1) An off-the-shelf conference room scheduling package; (2) Microsoft Exchange; and (3) an off-the-shelf tasking package. None of these packages have native interfaces to any…

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  • Sleep

    22 Sep 2006 » 1 min read

    I feel asleep well before 9 PM last night, and so I managed to get myself more than 9 hours of sleep on a “school” night, which is far better than usual for me (I typically average 7 hours). Of course, going to bed that early means missing a few things: I missed the Red…

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  • Solo!

    22 Sep 2006 » 1 min read

    One last thing before going to bed. I would be remiss in my reputation as a perveyor of date-related facts, if I didn’t point out that 7 years ago today, September 21, 1999 I did my first solo flight ever–in a Cessna 152: [From my diary, 9/21/1999]: Solo! I did it. I flew a plane…

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  • Tired!

    22 Sep 2006 » 1 min read about Reading & Books

    It’s exactly 8 PM and I’ve been in bed for 10 minutes already. It’s been a long day. Lots of programming at work today. And a related story which I am too tired to relate now but which I will tell you about tomorrow. After work, I went to dinner with Karen. We went to…

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  • Workout #28 (chest and back w/Bernard)

    21 Sep 2006 » 1 min read about Fitness & Health

    Up at 4:30 AM and discovered that the Yankees clinched the division last night. Since it was cool enough this morning at that dark hour, I decided to bring out the Yankees jacket today in honor of the Yankees ninth consecutive division series and the cooling off of the weather. My right knee still felt…

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  • First critters critique

    21 Sep 2006 » 1 min read about Writing & Publishing

    I submitted my first critique for a story in the Critter’s writing workshop this evening. Critiques are due by Wednesday so I got mine in just under the wire. I think I did a pretty good job overall. For a critique to count for credit, it has to be at least 200 words. Documentaion says…

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  • Workout #27 (cardio)

    20 Sep 2006 » 1 min read about Fitness & Health

    I haven’t been keeping up with my cardio workouts and I decided to correct that this afternoon. After work I headed to the gym and realized that I had fogotten my lock for the locker. So I headed back the office, changed into my gym clothes, left my stuff in my office, and headed back…

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  • Odds and ends

    20 Sep 2006 » 2 min read about Reading & Books

    Just a bunch of miscellaneous stuff before I head off to the gym: I had it in my head this morning that today was the last day of summer and that tomorrow was the autumnal equinox (I think I’ve got the right terms this time, mabfan). But when I checked, I found out that the…

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