Busy day, lots of meetings, and more meetings to come tomorrow. I got my state refund check in the mail today. $219. Since I’ll be in Santa Monica next week, I’ll deposit it as the credit union in person for a change, instead of mailing it in. I also got my pay stub for my…
I left the office at 4 PM yesterday, after a busy day, and headed over to Kelly’s, enjoying the walk from the metro station, down the hill to her house, because the air is finally getting warming around here. Eventually, we headed back up the hill for dinner, going to a place called Mexicali, which…
On Monday I head off to Santa Monica for a week, for work. I usually try and pack in as many lunches and dinners with friends and old coworkers as I can while I’m there. This time is no exception. I get into the office in Santa Monica around 10 AM on Monday (assuming everything…
Am I the only one fed up by with the media’s handling of Obama’s “elitist” comments? Maureen Dowd’s annoying editorial in today’s New York Times is just another example of this. The media is complaining that Obama’s comments were elitist. But “elitist” seems to me to be a media buzzword for “educated”, as if being…
Lights out at 8:06 PM last night. It wasn’t even complete dark out, but that didn’t bother me and I fell asleep rather quickly. Usually, I wake up once or twice in “the middle of the night”, you know, 3 AM or so. But for someone who gets up at 4:20 AM, “the middle of…
As I pulled into my driveway after work today, my car it the 115,000 mile mark. October will be 12 years since I’ve had the car, and therefore, in 11-1/2 years I have driven, on average, 10,000 miles per year. However, since moving to the Metro D.C. area nearly 6 years ago, I’ve driven an…
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Last week I mentioned how one of my retirement accounts took a $6,000 loss in the first quarter of 2008, and then wondered if this was not really a depression. Today, I got my other retirement statement. On this one I took a $5,000 loss. So for the first quarter of 2008, I took a…
Today is the last day to vote for the Locus Poll & Survey. I voted yesterday. I had the opportunity to vote for joe_haldeman‘s novel, The Accidental Time Machine for Best SF Novel. I voted for Kris Rusch’s novella, “Recovering Apollo 8” and Connie Willis’ “All Seated on the Ground” for Best Novellas. I was…