Specifically, eating my way across the Moscone Center.

I received the show ticket as a gift, and am waffling (ha!) between excited and grumpy. On one hand, I do enjoy cooking and there will be a lot of interesting/unusual foods, ingredients, and ideas for both. On the other hand, it seems like a rather hollow celebration of conspicuous consumption.

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Dragged myself out of the house to the pool last night - then had a great time once in the water. Funny how that works *wry grin ( Read more... )

No time like the present to be reminded of how badly my iTunes library needs culling. Back in the early days of iTunes, it seemed like a good idea to merge libraries w/the gf. Now I think tune collections should be treated like toothbrushes: to each his own.

I used to love neutronjockey ...but how *could* he post such a *distraction*!

1. Put your iTunes iPod (or ( Read more... )

It was an entirely frivolous evening. No serious thinking or pondering took place tonight.

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A meeting that was supposed to happen today got postponed until Wednesday. That's good, because I didn't do any work over the weekend, AND I still haven't mailed off The Mango's Christmas package. Mind you, he hasn't sent us anything either, and we're celebrating on Dec. 31/Jan. 1 ( Read more... )

1st week after The Mango's visit here (late Aug/early Sept)

No shit, there I was (all river guide's stories begin that way)...

3:23am, and my phone rings. Caller ID shows The Mango's number, and I fumble blearily to answer, as I'm realizing it's 4:23 where he is, and what the HELL has happened?

Me: 'lo?

Mango: (in a chipper tone) Do you have *any* ( Read more... )

A cold night - sitting alone in my empty room ( Read more... )

Heading into short (45min) lunch meeting with colleague and much-liked client, I was 10 minutes early. One of the C-levels invited himself, deleted the "lunch" part of the meeting, and the upshot was 4 foodless hours of scrambling to fix things that were handed over for review and accepted as final more than a month ago ( Read more... )

Today was a day of training ME. It will take more than a day, but some rebalancing is definitely in order. Maybe I just can't do as many awesome things in a day/week/month/year/lifetime as some of you can (you know who you are). At least not right now. Back in the day was another story. Right now, the bar is low, and deliberately so. I want to make ( Read more... )

And what does the FruitStand drag to the checkout counter at Blockbuster?

V is for Vendetta
Adam and Steve
10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

So far we've watched the first two (they'd watched V before and insisted I *needed* to see it). The Banana squealed loudly several times during Adam & Steve, and we all sort of stared and groaned a few ( Read more... )