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After a long, long Friday night of staying up burning CDs for the rental car, and a long, long Saturday of airplanes, airports and power naps, we arrived in safely in Seattle and found our way to wolffire and gr0m1t’s (very lovely) house without incident. After a bit of catching up we walked to […]

Good: Got first big chunk of big project delivered on time and more or less working as desired. Business folks are generally happy with what our team produced in the limited time available.
Bad: Had to miss the holiday party at German class in order to get there, so no Sekt and no […]

In spite of the fact that my car has decided that it wants a new tire for Christmas, things are looking up. Why’s that? Last month, a Starbucks opened inside AG’s corporate HQ, to the general delight of the caffeine junkies. I don’t do the caf, though, so I was unimpressed… until […]

After far too much not-blogging, I think I’m hitting the point where the withdrawal is really starting to bug me, so I guess I’d better take care of that.
Work is fairly unmentionable; I pulled a few 12-hour days last week, which I should probably stop doing if I’m going to be the only one (as […]

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The little dashboard light came on this morning to complain about fuel, so I was off to the pump for the most expensive tank of gas of my life thus far, more than twice as much as I was paying a year ago. A […]

So on top of being stressed out about the huge project I’ve been working on that might or might not launch this week, which kept me in the office until 9:30 PM on Friday night, and Liz being gone for the week for her class, and being ignored by the cats, this week has decided […]

As if by some form of rapturous synchronicity, my car has started misbehaving just in time for its 25,000 mile scheduled maintenance. Today, hopefully, all shall be remedied and return to full automotive joyousness.
I’ve been witness lately to the intermittent but increasingly frequent return of the Naughty Traction Control Light. I had already […]

A spate of amusing and tragic vanity license plates have recently crossed my path:

XPENSIV on a little blue corporate drone conformity-mobile. A BMW I think. The guy may have paid a lot for this car, but apparently he couldn’t afford the optional turn signal mechanism… I see him fairly often in traffic, […]

Good lord, but it’s been a crazy week.
Had an utterly horrible meeting on Monday (half of which involved being yelled at, then being told “no one is yelling, everything is under control,” and that also included the same person completely misrepresenting what I’d said in a previous meeting, to the point that it was nearly […]

This morning I had the overwhelming feeling that I should have just written off the day and gone back to bed. It turns out that my gut feeling was right, and I should really learn to listen to it more often.
Apparently I spent most of last night thrashing around in my sleep, as opposed […]