My brother gets into town this evening and that marks the beginning of about 100 hours (from this evening until Monday evening) of fun. We’re driving up to Cooperstown, New York tomorrow, with a short stop in Albany along the way to say hello to Eric. Well be in Cooperstown Friday evening, all day Saturday,…
I was looking forward to coming home, sitting down and relaxing, and watching the Yankee game. But the game was rained out. Now what am I going to do!?
Once again, I decided to try the Cookie place in the Mall below my office. There was a different girl there this time, so I figured what the heck. I got 2 cookies and 2 milks and headed back up to my office. I popped open a milk, took a swig–and it was spoiled. I’d…
I’m getting ready to head out to our 4th softball game of the season. For those who keep track of such things, we are 0-3 so far, but hey, we’re just out there to have fun. This evening we’re playing Senator Nelson’s team at 3rd and D SE at a cool little park. It’s a…
I’ve been doing a lot of C# programming lately and for the life of me, I keep making the same dump coding error. Instead of doing this: if (objFoo.IsNew) I have been doing this: if (objFoo.IsNew = true) The thing is, I know that the second way is wrong and will lead to all kinds…
I have a theory: I think you can tell a lot about a person’s character by how they drive their car.
When I got into work this morning, I had a voice message from someone asking for a reference for a person who used to work for me back when I was managing staff instead of managing projects. The eerie this is that except for the name that they gave me, I have almost no memory…
My raise goes into effect today, as do all raises for folks in my group. That means our new raises show up on our paychecks two weeks from Friday. However, slow as things are bureaucratically, I have no idea what the raise is. I have not yet met with my boss and no meeting has…
I’m about 1/3 of the way through JPod and it is hilarious! It also really hits home. I imagine much of it won’t be very funny to people who are not software developers or IT people, but if you are, this book is more Dilbert than Dilbert. Part of the premise is the frustrations that…
I just finished watching a pretty crazy game in which the Yanks beat the Red Sox 13-5, and batted around twice, in the second and the third innings. Boy was that a fun game to watch on a Monday night!