Alright, so the sad fact is, we did charge over $3,000 in one month to the credit card. My payment I sent yesterday should help, but it's amazing to me that we spent that much. I guess... that included eating out a lot, a night in Eugene, baby stuff, and remodeling stuff. I shouldn't find it all that surprising I guess ( Read more... )

Nolan's got a new trick. Kirby asked him to say his ABCs the other day to keep him busy, and to her surprise, he said them all. Alright, so he kind of mumbles through a few of them, but he hits every syllable and picks them up pretty strongly on the sequences he knows ( Read more... )

Today the bomb was dropped that I knew was coming. Basically, that they would prefer not to fill the vacant position from the firing we did last week. I could see that coming a mile away ( Read more... )

Survived my first board presentation. I was warned that I would get off-the-wall questions, and I did. But I actually kind of liked the energy of the director who was asking them. I don't know, maybe I wasn't taking it formally enough ( Read more... )

I always think I have so much to say, until I sit down to actually type. We're back home after spending most of the week in Eugene. Yesterday we went to the aquarium and Nolan would love to tell everyone about the sharks, and the turtles and the sharks. Oh, there was crashing water, and jellyfish and fish too, but mostly sharks and turtles ( Read more... )

Nolan's getting to that very cute age. You know, the one where he does lots of things that are bad, but they're cute ( Read more... )

I read a productivity recommendation once that you work short days for a month or so to really get into the groove at work. The idea being that you'll cram a lot more into a few short hours and kind of adjust to that schedule over time ( Read more... )

At this point I have no idea when I last wrote, or what about. It may have been a week ago, maybe less. Everything just seems to run together ( Read more... )

Spent a little time this morning thinking about the fruit fly in my car. Here was a little guy, in a car going 65 mph on the freeway and he was buzzing around in circles effortlessly. Now, I get the idea that he's already going 65 before he starts flying, but it just seems like after buzzing around for a couple seconds he wouldn't be able to keep ( Read more... )

On my desk at my old job is a fortune from a cookie I received about a month back: the project you've had in mind will soon gain momentum ( Read more... )