Thursday: Went to the Company Meeting. I blew off the morning events in favor of getting a small number of things done at work. The best time to get things done is when no one is around to distract you. I showed up for the afternoon, though, picked up a little bit of swag...then I headed off to Bass Northwest since I feel this should be a ( Read more... )

In the long-standing "I wish I could $@%!ing do that" department...and while feeling far too inadequate to play in a Real Band (tm ( Read more... )

In the end, I don't think Washington Mutual's retail banks are going down--too lucrative for East Coast firms with little Western presence. I expect I'll have an account with JP Morgan Chase in the near future ( Read more... )

Today my manager unequivocally stated his support for my interviewing for other positions in MS. We had talked about early exits previously. (There are many more details--I'll let them lie for lack of desire to describe them, or to rehash.) This is the best news I've reported to people all year. A contrast to the six months of doom and gloom out ( Read more... )

From time to time we get swag here at work as product teams do their thing and release stuff. T-shirts, small items, etc. The usual ( Read more... )

After my little stint with the smartass edit to Geddy Lee's Wikipedia page--which was completely justified, I'll mention--I've felt that I should make some legitimate edits. And I have, using knowledge normal people wouldn't have, etc etc.

To which, I present:

SR-520You can't make fun--I'm just contributing to the sum of human knowledge ( Read more... )

Got up a bit late and just spent the afternoon screwing around at home on things of little importance ( Read more... )

Tonight I went down into to the Showbox to see a few bands play ( Read more... )

Provided without comment. Although I suppose there is an implicit dedication here.

Tickets To Waterfalls

( Jack Bruce - Tickets To Waterfalls )

Hammered isn't quite where I got to last night...nicely drunk, though.

From a casual review of Wikipedia, it's amazing how many freeway revolts cite the opinions of self-absorbed architects--or worse, architecture critics--for justification.

I agree with reaperezekial that this has been a pretty crappy year all around for most people I know ( Read more... )