Christmas was FABULOUS! Between the new job, cross-country move, and other expenses, money and vacation time were in short supply, so going back to Utah for Christmas to spend time with the parental units just wasn’t realistic. Some family on my mom’s side invited me to North Carolina to spend Christmas with them. It was [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Christmas Greetings
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
I’m not sure whether or not I’ll have internet access at my cousin’s so…
Holly
Sunday, December 21, 2008
The tree in front of my apartment this morning, after the rain froze:
My preciousssss…
Saturday, December 20, 2008
I can never go back a GPS-less life. I am hooked.
In preparation for this coming week’s road trip, I went to Toyota to get my car lubed and oiled and the alignment fixed. The alignment always needs to be fixed. I’m glad I went because they found a huge nail in one of the [...]
Christmas lights hither and yon
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Crazy busy at work. It kind of nice, though. It’s a nice mix of projects, lots of variety. Rather enjoyable. I’m loving that I get to do types of writing that I’ve never done before.
Last night, since it wasn’t raining, I went to see the Christmas lights at the Washington DC LDS temple. It’s [...]
Cities, ships, and federal agents
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
I’ve recently become obsessed with the TV show NCIS. I’d never watched it until a couple weeks ago, but I saw somewhere that it was set at the Washington Navy Yard, which is where I happen to work now, so out of curiosity I checked it out. I fell quickly in love with the characters, [...]
Go Navy!
Friday, December 5, 2008
Tomorrow is the Army/Navy game. I find myself rooting for the Navy. I have to admit, I feel much more warm and fuzzy towards the Navy as a Navy contractor than I ever felt towards the Army as an Army contractor. I don’t plan on watching the game, of course, because it’s football and I [...]
It’s a Friday
Friday, December 5, 2008
Today was quite productive. My PKI finally worked, so I was able to access all the .mil websites I needed. Turned out it really was the fact that the sites hadn’t updated their certificates yet. Actually, only one worked for me this morning, but I knew who could update the other two sites I needed, [...]
Dear Engineers
Monday, December 1, 2008
Dear Engineers,
GAH! If you want to turn adjectives into nouns when speaking, go for it. If your group understands what is being said in your shorthand way, I really don’t care. Hey, we all do it. I also don’t care if use adjectives as nouns in informal written communications amongst yourselves. But when writing a [...]
