I saw a poster that showed various indications of dog mooods. You know, various body positions (body curving to the side means friendly and polite, tail and head held high means alert) and a few facial expressions (dog "smiles" and the "feed me now" stare).
One of the expressions indicated a need for space. The dog points his nose away from you, but ( Read more... )

I was talking to a friend of mine -- Sunny M -- today. She has a sales position that requires extensive travel, and her husband is a contract programmer who works from home.
She was talking about a conversation she had with a friend of hers, a mother of five, whose husband is an airline pilot. The mother was lamenting that her husband would complain ( Read more... )

When my husband and I were about to be married, we did some exercises in a pre-marital counseling-type book. It was extremely useful in revealing where we had some major disconnects ... always good to get those out of the way before you actually sign the paperwork, right?
One of the "bomb" questions was a list of about sixteen kinds of intimacy, and ( Read more... )

I had dinner this evening with a bunch of airline nerds and two airline pilots. Captain Denny Flannigan is a long-time pilot for United, and also a motivational speaker for customer service and the "be excellent to each another" philosophy. One of Lycangeek's Mile Flighting friends invited Capt. Denny (and his first officer) out to dinner, and ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, there was a fellow who liked to go bass fishing. He liked bass fishing so much that he was the president of the local bass fishing club, and it flourished under his leadership. Part of the club's purpose was to provide friends with whom one could go bass fishing. They had events, and parties, and tournaments.

I asked: what happens ( Read more... )

A friend of FaceBook and her husband have been talking about how on certain days (such as yesterday), the planets are in alignment in such a way that you can stand a broom on its bristles. They took pictures of all their brooms standing upright in the middle of the kitchen, and their friends took pictures of their brooms, and it was a little freaky ( Read more... )

I just finished narrating "Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon" by Donna Andrews, and have begun reading "Alpine Vendetta" by Mary Daheim.
Ms. Daheim apparently found out we're narrating her books, and sent over a passel of 'em ... including some large print versions for the sight-impaired section. (We're for the Blind and Visually Impaired, so it's a ( Read more... )

I had an interesting experience at work today. I sent an email to the other module developers saying that our manager and the fellow in charge of the e-learning/customer interface, had requested a change in how we name the modules. I outlined the change in the email. I sent it off without a second thought.
The problem with being remote is that I can ( Read more... )

At work our department head has started a program she calls "1% Goals." Each person in the department is supposed to come up with a way to increase their efficiency by 1%. Given the current political climate, I think it's an unfortunate title (one of my co-workers calls it "Occupy Efficiency") but it's not a bad idea ... I just wish it were a ( Read more... )

I have a rule of thumb that when I'm absolutely surrounded by rude morons, no matter how much evidence I have that they're wrong, wrong, wrong ... that the one who's really a jerk is probably me.
I wonder if that's true for bad days? This morning everything went wrong in a dozen different ways. (Bless my husband's heart for texting me "go buy a ( Read more... )