Another thing that sucks is picking up a cement nail in one of your tires. Those suckers leave big holes! It sucks even more when the hole is so big that your attempt at a patch fails miserably. And it sucks even more when the tire place you end up driving too tells you the hole is too close to the sidewall to be repaired. Oh, and by the way, ( Read more... )

I have only one thing to say:
Working on 2 projects at the same time, and working on 3 different things for one of them and 4 different things for the other one, and serving on an unspecified number of tools, methodology, and leadership forums all at the same time sucks!.

I need a promotion... and sleep.

and I survived, somehow.  No one should ever, ever be forced to go through that.  OK, so it wasn't 8 straight days, since there was a weekend stuck in there.  But it was 8 straight workdays.  Basically, 8am to 6pm each day.  High level design reviews can be painful as it is.  But 3 of them in a row, back to back to back?  What did I ever do to ( Read more... )

This may very well be the first time that something good has ever come of a phrase that begins with the words "Mouse Testicles"...

To those of you who read this LJ and live MA... I'll be in town this weekend! I should have posted this a couple of weeks ago, when I first made the plans. But I was busy picking out, ordering, and then building my new computer system. Actually, I'm still working on it. But I am mostly done ( Read more... )

Well, it has now been a week since the last parts of my new PC arrived. And I finally have everything put together and up and running. I didn't get to start until Sunday evening, and I was only able to do a little bit each night. I didn't want the case open with components exposed while Nelia was running around, so I had to wait until she went ( Read more... )

So, the weather forecast in NC for this weekend is mid-70s. The weather should be beautiful, aside from the occasional scattered thunderstorm. Perfect weather for me to lock myself in my office. For you see, I ordered a new computer system last weekend, and the last pieces of it arrived yesterday. So now I get to start putting it all together ( Read more... )

We took Nelia to her first ever hockey game tonight. Ashley was able to get ahold of some free tickets at the last minute, so we thought we would give it a try. If she didn't like it and wanted to go home, it wasn't like we would be out much money or anything (just the $7 parking fee). She loved it ( Read more... )

Man! I thought I had a lot of scheduled meetings to attend before. Now that I have been made a team leader, I long for those days again. At least when I was working with a team that was 80% remote, I could just dial into these meetings from my office, use a headset, and still get work done. But now enough of the team is local that I have to ( Read more... )

For those of you who care about such things, I have just updated my daughter Nelia's web site with a bunch of new pictures from the past 6 months or so. The update covers July up through her birthday in November. I haven't finished with the Christmas pictures yet, so I expect another update sometime in the next couple of weeks ( Read more... )