I got an email today with six words, and a twelve digit tracking number. FedEx allows you to receive package updates via SMS on your cell phone, so I can stop looking up the package status every five minutes ( Read more... )

My fiscal schizophrenia continues ( Read more... )

well... this has been a wild and crazy weekend ( Read more... )

Does anyone have a small remote controlled car and/or a couple of hampsters? I need them for tonight's demo.

I've spent the last few days pounding out code, getting the latest release of 'project X' out the door. It's strange. Even though I can work whatever hours I want now, everything still gets done at about 2:15am ( Read more... )

Last nights CV presentation was a revelation.

The topic wasn’t especially unusual. I’ve heard my share of coming out stories. He didn’t add any new wrinkles to the old story of the New York lawyer who transitions from staid family man to gay leather man.

There were some wonderful turns of phrase: “The unlived life it not worth examining”. “We ( Read more... )

I hate working in Starbucks on the weekend.  The music is blaring, and I'm stuck next to a man who has been yelling psychobabble into his phone for the last hour.

It’s just too hard to concentrate here, but I don’t have anywhere else to work right now.  Agatha is using the sewing machine on the work table, and I need someplace with wifi ( Read more... )

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Out of the hospital with a bunch of antibiotics. Yay being healthy. :)

Medical problems always seem to consist of almost equal parts of stunningly good luck, and horrific bad luck ( Read more... )