Anybody here?

I have to write a full-length post tonight. I have to! I'm hungry for it ( Read more... )

I'm still here. I miss this place!

Yesterday I missed a very limited-time deal on an awesome home computer for $299. I have my minimum requirements mentally defined, and this one exceeded them all for exactly $299. It came and went on the deal sites before I could see it. So frustrating! I've subscribed to DealAlerts so I won't miss it should it happen again.

For three days now, I've been waiting for a phone call from the parent company that will give me the security clearance to find out what the project is that I'm supposed to be working on. In the meantime, I'm supposed to report status every morning at a meeting in which almost no one realizes that I'm working on something secretive. So I have to ( Read more... )

I've been feeling pretty restless lately. Fragmented in my thoughts, overtaxed at work. I took this week off and I think it's starting to help me feel more relaxed (although I've learned that being at home with the two kids is often not very peaceful ( Read more... )

I began today by feeling quite overwhelmed by the deluge of details I'm required to manage here at work. Sometimes when that happens I have to make a simple things-to-do list, but even when I do that I still feel uneasy about things that might be falling through the cracks ( Read more... )

Without further ado, these are the books I read in 2008.

( Booklisting gratuitousness! )

Too much for a Facebook one-liner, but not well-thought out enough for a proper journal entry . . . here goes anyway ( Read more... )

What was supposed to be a month-long project is going to continue indefinitely - I still have a large number of listings on Amazon, although the new purchases have been dwindling a bit. In the month of January I sold about six hundred and fifty nine dollars' worth of CDs. Now, I had to pay for mailers and shipping, which takes a chunk out of it, ( Read more... )