Posted in Daily, Drrr, Stories on May 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I scheduled a meeting to discuss metrics for an upcoming project. I then found this Dilbert cartoon and sent it out to 2 friends who I’d invited to the meeting.
Actually, the one guy’s calendar showed that he would be out of the office, so I didn’t actually invite him to the meeting, but I [...]
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Posted in Drrr, Stories on May 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
All week I’d been feeling like going on a “date,” so I planned a simple dinner & a movie for last night. We were going to have dinner at this little supperclub T had been wanting to try and then see Pan’s Labyrinth at our favorite little theatre downtown (it has swank, retro furnishings and [...]
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Posted in Stories, Work Travel on April 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m flying down to So-Cal today for work today and so I packed last night, but I really, really hate packing, so I wasn’t really packing so much as doing everything I could to avoid it, and then finally after 2 hours, at 9PM, I hadn’t even eaten dinner yet so I figured I could finish in [...]
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Posted in Friends, Stories on April 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
On Saturday night we met our friend Bryan and one of his friends out for drinks (before The Long Winters show) and they left it up to me to pick the place. So I picked Shorty’s, a dive bar with lots of old arcade games (and Chicago style hot dogs!), and best yet, it was [...]
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Posted in Stories, Trips on April 2, 2007 | No Comments »
We went to The Coast for the weekend and OMG did I ever need that. Although I still WOKE UP FROM A COMPLETE SLEEP on Sunday morning freaking out about a work-related issue (yah, I handle stress real well), the rest of my weekend was completely restorative. We slept in, napped, played games, drove around [...]
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Posted in Bacon, Stories on January 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
the other day my friend Mark forwarded me an ad from craigslist for some microsoft usability study. basically they were looking for people who blogged and subscribed to RSS feeds. and since i recently started doing both (!!!), i was excited to help out and join the study. so i filled out the application and then [...]
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Posted in Photos, Stories, Trips on January 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
T and I went to Hawaii for a week in December and this was the first pic we took. Here’s the story behind the smile on our faces (besides the fact that we’re in Hawaii!)…
Our flight was delayed 8 hours (but luckily Hawaiian Airlines had called us the day before and warned us) so we [...]
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