Life has been good, Erci and I have simply been enjoying the good weather and using cool, sunny weekends to garden. We tackled the section of yard in front of the attached garage. Pulling up crab grass has been very challenging, but we’ve rescued some monkey grass and planted more. We had Merrifield Garden Center […]
Well, in preparation for Erci’s new Fireside loom, which we plan to put in the family room, we’ve “right sized” our furniture by getting rid of the big red sofa and (eventually) the love seat and rocker, replacing them with a love seat and a chair. The new furniture, freshly new from La-Z-Boy, is much […]
I just realized how long it has been since I posted anything, and I am a bit shocked. Life has been very good, but very, very busy. My awesome boss has been on vacation for almost two weeks and in her absence she asked me to try to fill her role as much as possible, […]
Second day into the third week in the new office at work (Sterling/Dulles CC4 6B:J06) and there is a new form of irony that I find amusing enough to share. There were not enough open cubes to go around to all the people who wanted them, so a few of us have to share double […]
Gah! Two weeks of work-hell straight and my neck is twisted out of shape from being on too many long conference calls where I have to talk and type at the same time. I don’t have a headset on my old plain old telephone at home. The trusty old Motorola i85s (Nextel/iDen) mobile phone I […]
Well, I got comfortable in my office again, so the company is moving me to a new building. This will be my 10th office move (11th office) at AOL. I’ve been pretty lucky and usually got nice places to work and great people to work with. Packing today was mildly depressing because I will miss […]
Tuesday night Erci and I celebrated the 14th anniversary of our marriage. It just does not seem like that long. We get to celebrate twice a year because we did the legal transaction about 8 months before we pulled together the big scary public ceremony. We’ve had a fabulous adventure together so far. Fourteen years […]
Oops – Was really was writing again to express how thankful I am to be on a terrific team at work, and then work got away from me (I am oncall again this week) and I did not leave until 10pm Thursday. However, Friday was page and interrupt free (yahoo!) and that meant serious focus […]
Erci and I like wine. We like wine from several places, but we are particularly fond of wines from Bonny Doon Vineyard in the mountains over Santa Cruz, California. We like Bonnie Doon wines so much that we tried to join DEWN (their wine of the month club) way back when it was illegal to […]
I finally broke down and bought the expensive original soundtrack and score to the movie Donnie Darko. I selected the British import version of the CDs because it has all the classical music and the ’80s pop that was remastered specifically for the movie and gave it such a haunting edge. The variation to Michael […]
