And if the scary drive home last night weren’t bad enough, today was a typically stressful day back at work, almost extraordinarily so, though what I used to think extraordinary in terms of pressure and workload sadly here has become commonplace, for all of us. A few of the contractors are having a mock pool […]
While Jeff was in California visiting his folks, I decided I’d go see my family over the weekend, which also marked my sister’s 40th birthday. Normally I try to leave from there early Sunday afternoon–no later than 2 or 3–so that I still have some time Sunday evening after getting home to recover from the […]
Not even a month ago I posted about my frustrations with the cafeteria at my agency. Since then I’ve continued to try to stay away as much as possible, though it’s hard to avoid for lunch since it’s the only place on-campus; unless you bring your lunch, you have to drive off-site if you want […]
Within seconds of posting the previous entry, the phone rang. When I picked it up, the caller ID showed Jeff’s last name and for a moment I was confused, since he should be in the air a third of the way to California. Then I realized that the name following the last name was not […]
Just a little while ago, I dropped [my] Jeff off at Dulles; he’s on his way out to the Bay Area via JetBlue to spend the next few days with his parents. Having been away myself this past Sunday through Tuesday afternoon, this week we’ll only have spent a few hours together yesterday evening (during […]
As [the other] Jeff points out, he (as well as others) had been holding off on upgrading Movable Type to version 2.661 because of the new feature in comment pages that hides the URL of the commenter within a redirect. This had the effect of making it no longer possible to see the home URL […]
Day two is over, and I’m beat. I ended up skipping the “networking dinner” because I didn’t have the energy to schmooze any more after breakfast, lunch and nine half-hour one-on-one meetings with vendors, along with the plenary sessions. While exhausting, it wasn’t as bad as I feared it would be; a few of the […]
I got your messages. That was certainly an ingenious way to reach me. Thanks for the kind words. I hope you’re well.
Last Tuesday I posted about an upcoming trip to a conference in Cambridge, Maryland. The conference is now underway, and I arrived around 1:00 this afternoon after a pleasant drive (averaging 50mpg, thanks to the Prius!) from Virginia. My boss’s boss told me the other day that I “would owe” them for their having let […]
Jeff has reported over at Rebel Prince about our outing last night to see the Washington Opera production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola. It was a very enjoyable evening, even though it appears that we differed somewhat in our reviews of the performers. He said: …I wasn’t familiar with La Cenerentola–though it’s basically the Cinderella story–so […]