It being early in the year, this meant it was time for the annual Girls’ Time Out with my female in-laws. The emails started flying early last week, choosing dates and making plans, and the date was finally set for today.
I’m not sure how long my female in-laws have been doing this, but they’ve [...]
Since the article was posted for the Sunday paper, I decided that we ought to get an actual paper copy. I know my mom prefers to have the hard copy, and I’ll admit I was curious to see where they’d put me. So this morning we headed for one of the local coffee shops, and [...]
When I got home from work today there was a message on the machine from the insurance company, asking for additional information on the stolen laptop. Since I wasn’t sure Richard would get home before they closed and I knew he was anxious to get this resolved, I called them back.I couldn’t find where Richard [...]
Yesterday I finally stopped hitting the Snooze button on the little reminder that’s been dinging impatiently at me for the past week on my computer. That curriculum I was supposed to be writing was due by the end of the day today, and I’ve been putting it off and putting it off. I did do [...]
My fifteen seconds of fame has apparently been extended (now I figure I get 30 seconds). An email from Bev yesterday morning started it, with the rather cryptic (well, to me) note congratulating me on my article in the Enterprise. Um. What article? I went poking around and, surprise, it turns out that the two [...]
This morning I got up far too early for a Saturday and headed off to pick up a friend before heading down to Santa Clara for Stitches West. Last year it was a little closer, since it was in Oakland, but apparently they outgrew the convention center there and had to find larger accommodations. A [...]
I went to Curves this morning, even though my mom is still sick. I used that as an excuse all last week (well, I did go last Monday but only because I found out she wasn’t coming while I was parking outside the gym, and it seemed silly to just go home at that point) [...]
Today has been a day of warm fuzzies. It started with tracking down the perfect Javascript code snippet that I needed to transform an insanely long list of items into a series of nifty nested, expandable lists – a code snippet that turned an otherwise dull HTML file into something which garnered many a ‘cool!’ [...]
We fully intended to get our taxes done this weekend but I never got around to sorting through the pile of forms to make sure we have everything (to avoid those mad dashes back home to find some crucial bit of paperwork which we’ve done before, mid return preparation session). So that will have to [...]
Back when I was a database nerd (back when I traveled around the country and worked for big soulless companies who didn’t care if I lived or died as long as I churned out billable hours) I used to routinely be given tasks to do that involved things way outside my scope of knowledge. My [...]
