It's been really nice having a bit of breathing room around the office this past week. Last week was such a firestorm that it left my head spinning. This week, though, I've been able to get to a lot of things what needed doing but I couldn't make the time to do previously. Documentation, disk recovery, software installation, all that fun daily ( Read more... )

Last week at the office was nuts. Major fires in every project I'm attached to, and some I'm only barely attached to. But the week is over, and we survived. We found the causes of bugs, we fixed said bugs, we ran demos, we presented ideas to division heads, we briefed results to VPs, we tested systems with real users. We did a lot ( Read more... )

The following is a transcription of a hand-written collection of stories by my great-grandfather's brother. His name was Numa Boudreaux, and my great-grandfather is the Sidney mentioned in the story below. Numa wrote this down a years ago, before he passed away. I've tried to keep the punctuation, spelling, line breaks (since they seem to be ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is July. I can hardly believe that we're in summer now, and closer to 2011 than 2009. And Luc's first birthday is a month away! The past year has been quite an adventure. Along with the arrival of the bean, there's been a ton of house construction, a new car, an album release, and all kinds of stuff in between. But even though I know of ( Read more... )

I've been doing a lot of random Psycliq stuff lately. Foremost is work on the new album. I've got four songs pretty much finished at this point and several more started. I'm going to be borrowing a friend's Wavedrum to lay down some rhythm. Live drums will be a first here! And speaking of firsts, I've been putting the new Seagull acoustic guitar ( Read more... )

I noticed something on Livejournal here recently: the friends page feed is date-limited as well as content-number limited. This was never an issue in previous years, as the content was always being refilled ( Read more... )

All the little things in life never seem to stop. It doesn't matter if you've been out of town, or not getting to sleep, or just had too many other things going on. Bills still need to be paid, laundry needs to be done, and dishes washed and washed again. So here I sit paying bills while Deb and Luc are out at the grocery store because I've got a ( Read more... )

I'm up at quarter to four in the morning with a sick Debbie. Since it seems to be some kind of food poisoning, and we ate the same thing for dinner, I'm obviously a bit nervous here. It doesn't help things that I was going to be up in a couple hours anyway to board a plane to Texas. This is of course if the weather holds out. Seems I've decided to ( Read more... )

Called bank of america tonight for a routine tax question. Ended up talking to a refinancing rep and got a good deal on a new loan. Cut our rate down by over a percent and cut the term by 10 years (effectively only seven) and ended up with the same basic payments. Crazy how much of a ripoff this whole thing really is.

We had Luc's first Superbowl last night. He seemed to really like watching it, lots of things going on to see, and the kid definitely loves looking at exciting things. To the point that we had a little trouble getting him to bed either during or after the game, but he did eventually conk out. Woke up in a great mood this morning though, so we're ( Read more... )