A quiet Friday night allows me to catch up a bit on all of my usual goings-on. I haven’t missed being online all that much, to be honest, perhaps because I’m in a fantastic city with people I like. And, o yeah, I’m getting some work done, too.
The flight from SFO was nicer [...]
I would do the “five things you don’t know about me” meme that is floating around, but after nearly nine years of keeping an online journal, I think you know everything about me I’m willing to catalogue.
My farewell dinner was fantastic: hanger steak in marsala cream sauce with lentils. It smelled so good in [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...My most excellent SFlickr peeps showed me how to do a few things with my new camera last Thursday. Now I am less afraid of using it, but more antsy to take Great Photos, which just isn’t happening yet and won’t for a while. Still, some have come out better than I expected, [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Well, now! What did the royal we do with the first half of our week? What’s that? Recover from food poisoning? Marvelous! Just how we wanted to spend it.
I leave for London in what I now call “a week and a half” because that unit of measurement is enticingly vague: [...]
Unsurprisingly, I have quite a few bookmarks, and also as unsurprisingly, I like to keep them organized. For the past year or so, I’ve been using del.icio.us to do this — where the “Clicking” links in the leftmost sidebar are from — and I don’t hate it. In fact, I quite like the [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Apropos of a conversation I had with some coworkers yesterday, about misspellings and mispronunciations:
I used to get very upset about people misspelling my name. I even refused to set up email forwarding to catch various misspellings. Now when someone does it, I don’t get upset. I just immediately and without exception think [...]
When the MSG invited me to dinner tonight, I didn’t think much of it. We haven’t been going out to dinner lately, so his announcement that we should seemed to make sense, despite just having spent a long weekend together, filled with plenty of good food.
Just after 21:00, he texts me with his location: [...]
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