• Workshop progress

    19 Sep 2008 » 1 min read about Writing & Publishing

    Another good night’s sleep last night.  That’s two nights in a row!  Tonight, we head up to NJ and then tomorrow, we are in New York City for the second-to-last game at Yankee stadium. Despite the busyness at work, and the various wedding-related items (only 3 weeks away!), I am pleased with the progress I’ve made…

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  • Good nights, long days, but I win in the end

    19 Sep 2008 » 1 min read about Writing & Publishing

    I actually had a good night’s sleep last night.  There is justice in the universe! Into work at 7:30 and didn’t leave until 6:30.  It was an incredibly busy day.  I don’t really even want to think about it anymore, other than to say that I kept myself entertained by finding my inner Puckishness. Kelly got fitted in…

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  • On all 8 cylinders

    18 Sep 2008 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    Have you ever had one of those days where it seems you are running on all 8-cylinders?  Where everything moves smoothly and seamlessly, almost effortlessly? Today was not one of those days. It was, in fact, an incredibly busy, fragmented day at work.  It was one of those days where I was in two meetings…

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  • Death Magnetic

    17 Sep 2008 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    I just finished listening to Metallica’s new album, Death Magnetic (thanks to strausmouse  to pointing it out to me), and I have to say that I was rather pleased with it.  It’s no Master of Puppets, but it’s the best thing to come from Metallica since the Black Album (way back in 1991).  It definitely has the old Metallica sound…

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  • Reading and writing

    17 Sep 2008 » 2 min read about Reading & Books

    Another busy day at work today.  I managed to find myself in meetings from 11 AM until 3 PM.  Looks like I’ve got the same schedule on the books for tomorrow, too. I finished John Scalzi’s The Ghost Brigades at lunch today.  I loved it.  I was very tempted to rate it 4.5 stars, but in nearly 400 books, I’ve…

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  • Get! Rich! Quick!

    16 Sep 2008 » 2 min read about Reading & Books

    We had a production push this morning for the project portfolio software that I’ve been working on for the last year or so.  There are eight business units that are part of the overall push, and today was the third one that we pushed into production.  It meant a long morning for me, running some…

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  • Fire alarms

    15 Sep 2008 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    The Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, atop which my office building sits, and into which the windows of my office look, seems to have fire alarms blaring several times a week.  Sometimes, there are signs up warning that they will be testing the fire alarm system.  Other times, it seems to happen randomly.  When it…

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  • Any given Sunday

    14 Sep 2008 » 2 min read

    For such a productive day, I’ve felt pretty darn lazy today.  Maybe it’s the 95 degree temperatures and 95% humidity. I slept in a little later than usual, but we didn’t got to bed until around midnight last night anyway, so time-wise, it was pretty standard.  But I did sleep well. We had our dance lesson…

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  • Good writing progress

    14 Sep 2008 » 1 min read about Writing & Publishing

    We headed to Tyson’s Corner this morning to pick up Kelly’s wedding ring, which had come yesterday.  This time, it fit perfectly.  We stopped at Cinnabon so that I could eat something.  And we stopped at Banana Republic for Kelly to do some dress shopping (and I got a shirt).  Then it was back home, where Kelly…

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  • It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday

    13 Sep 2008 » 1 min read about Reading & Books

    It was another productive day at work today.  Rainy, too.  It was also Kelly’s flex day so she had the whole day off and was able to sleep in (until 8:30!!). I started reading The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi today. We mostly relaxed in the evening.  I lazily watched an episode of Entourage while Kelly was…

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