OG! Life is just one thing after another, isn't it? My project team has been whittled down by Big Fantastic National Pursuit and Mega Project in Chicago, as people got pulled off my dumb ole lil thing to work on other hot potatoes. (That project in Chicago's been sucking resources out of offices all across the country for months with no end in ( Read more... )

After meeting with the requisite specialist, we don't know any more than we did before. The problem needs surgery to fix it, but at the present stage the risks of surgery are greater than the risks of living with it. At some point, as things get worse (and they always do), the risks will be switched and it will be better for K to have the surgery ( Read more... )

We definitely are Puget Sounders: Moss is growing on our car. No joke ( Read more... )

The problem with making declarative statements like "we're definitely moving to Germany in mid-June", is that things change. Life, nicht wahr ( Read more... )

We're definitely moving to Germany in early-mid June. Monday we will each notify our employers, and this week we will get estimates from 3 separate movers. K's new employer is paying for the move. We will haul one load of stuff back into storage in Spokane, so I have to get that packed and ready for the May 1 trip. Mostly books and china back ( Read more... )

This afternoon, the network went down. Horrors! The whole international company, all offices (except the single project ones, who have their own individual systems not connected into the company network). No electronic filing system, no transfer drive, no networked files, no exchange drivers, no printers, no telephone message system! The whole ( Read more... )

More deadlines. At last the client provided us with the comments they were supposed to after 3 weeks. Only now, of course, it's been 9 weeks and guess what?!? We've blown our schedule! So Client's all over me about making up the time, like it's our fault. Oh, well. That's life in the consulting world. Luckily (or experienced-ly; in the words ( Read more... )

A conference! with 650 of my professional colleagues from across the country (only 22 of whom are employed by my esteemed firm), presenters, guest speakers, moderators! And nary an "um", "uh" or "and so" in earshot. That's because there are no engineers here ( Read more... )

Am at home today, lazing around like a lady who lunches. D1 and friend are here making delicious smelling things in the kitchen. Later they are going to hard boil eggs and dye them (natural only, of course!) for Easter ( Read more... )

Back from a very nice long weekend in the Columbia Gorge. B&B with compatible hosts, walking distance to good places to eat, lots of natural history, museums, local artists, wildflowers, fish hatcheries and even a life size replica of Stonehenge ( Read more... )