I tend not to anticipate our vacations very much; I know intellectually that we’re going on them, and then suddenly it’s Thursday and time to pack.
Last Tuesday or Wednesday, I decided that the towel I’d been using needed to be washed, so I dropped it in the hamper and got a new one out of [...]
So if I remember correctly, the guy who started my XP “play group” (as fawnapril calls it) told me that the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt” was actually a cover of a Johnny Cash song. Not being at all familiar with Johnny Cash, I found this concept both odd and disturbing, because “Hurt” is [...]
So about a month ago, I sent out an email to basically everyone I knew in Portland, announcing that I would be doing No More Consulting. This was primarily because it wasn’t anywhere near lucrative enough, and working from home is not an ideal situation (too distracting, etc).
In between wrapping up projects for existing [...]
So as I’m finishing lunch, I glance back at the front page of the paper’s “fluff” section and see a piece about soundtracks for presidential candidates. I’d been vaguely aware that the Kerry/Edwards campaign used “Johnny B. Goode” at the convention, but despite living in a swing state, I’ve been blissfully underexposed to the [...]
An early adopter I ain’t. Six or seven years after the first time I ever took a picture with a digital camera (an Olympus with a whopping 0.3 megapixels), we broke down and ordered a 2MP digital camera. It arrived today, just in time for me to take a picture of the Civic [...]
Wow. So I quit using Blogger for a few years, they get bought by Google, and then I decide to start using them again for a group blog. Turns out they still have as many problems as they did the last time I was using them (in early 2001), which you’d think they [...]
Posted so I can find it again, and so y’all can laugh yourselves hoarse: How do you take a dog away from meat?
This time next week, we’ll be bored off our asses in an airport in Houston. (Or, depending on how we feel that day, we’ll have checked into a hotel for a few hours’ sleep before our flight to London.) We’ll be arriving at the airport before 7am, but our connection won’t take off [...]
I’ve tried using my credit card a few times in recent months and it’s been declined… so I taped it to my monitor as a reminder to call the credit union and find out why. (Hmm. Come to think of it, I hope I didn’t demagnetize the strip… I’ll just have to try [...]
I’ve just packed for a two-and-a-half week trip through three European countries (or four, depending on how you count Wales). Much of the stuff in the toiletry bag will have to come back out for use during this week, obviously, and there are a few minor things left to acquire, like Dr. Bronner’s soap [...]
Happy birthday, kaphine!
Turns out I did get a B in that calculus class. And maybe I deserved it, because my GPA calculation was a bit off — I’m now down to a quite-respectable 3.85. *sob*
So I just got back from a great interview with a great potential boss at an interesting organization. The interview (for a part-time office manager position) itself went really swimmingly: high points included things like “I just know you’re going to be one of the [2 or 3] final candidates” and “Wow! I wish [...]
There are some wacky folks down here in Wilsonville. Two consecutive stretches of Stafford Road have been adopted by “The Green Avenger” and “Sparkling Karl.” Someone put one over on Karl, though — the “congestion” sign now reads “congestion + watery eyes.”
Hey, it was *her* idea…
Heh. We’re on our way home and we stopped by the relatively schwanky grocery store to pick up a few essentials that Freddy’s doesn’t carry. Didn’t feel like going in, so I stayed in the car and whipped out the laptop… and sure enough, someone around here has an open WiFi node. [...]
Just aced the in-class portion of the calc final. Half of the test was take-home; that half kicked my selfsame ass, but after a few hours I figured out how to get the same answer that my trusty TI-92 spat out in under a second. Oy. I know calculators are supposed to [...]
My calculus final is this evening.
fawnapril left this morning while I was still in the shower. Before she went, she asked me if I would water the yard. Knowing I’d forget, I said, “would you leave me a note?” “I already did,” she said.
She said ‘bye, and when I came out to [...]
The completion of my final project in my Flash class means I’ve got another A in the bag. Not so sure about my grade in calculus. I can easily swing a B, and if I can finish enough homework problems by this time tomorrow, I might just scrape by with an A there [...]
My goal in math classes used to be perfect comprehension, so that even with the inevitable flipping of a sign on a problem or two, I’d be comfortably north of 90% on my tests. That ended with my trigonometry class. Although I somehow managed an A (probably out of instructor pity), I *still* [...]