I can now declare with certainty that freezing rain is very annoying. After I made it down the stairs in front of my apartment (which my landlord had just salted because he knows I leave early, so they weren’t too bad, but weren’t too good, either), I quickly ditched the sidewalk concept and walked in [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
The Great Office Move of 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Ugh. The Great Office Move of 2009 is getting underway. In my previous place of employment, I moved approximately once a year, sometimes just to a nearby office or cubicle, sometimes a nearby building, sometimes a building separated by several miles. Sometimes it was just me moving, sometimes an entire group moved. I was there [...]
The day before the inauguration
Monday, January 19, 2009
The tourists! They’re everywhere! Aaaaa! Run for your lives!
So, yeah, the tourists were clearly out and about this afternoon, while I escaped work and went home. They’re surprisingly easy to pick out – they move like they don’t quite know what they’re doing or where they’re going, they’re often in larger groups than normally seen, [...]
Guess I’ll be staying in my homeland this year
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The family reunion that was schedule for July was canceled. Disappointing. I love the family reunions; fun relatives and lots of frolicking in a national park or two. In theory it has just been postponed until 2010, but I would say there’s only a small chance it will occur now that we’ve broken the momentum [...]
Obama Soda
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Check out what I saw at the grocery store today. The universe is a very strange place….
A short story
Friday, January 9, 2009
My alarm went off at 6:30 this morning, half an hour later than normal. But it’s Friday, and I decided to treat myself to a little extra sleep. As I sat in front of the Today show, eating my instant strawberries and cream oatmeal with 50% less sugar, which I really enjoy, my phone rang. [...]
A memory…
Friday, January 2, 2009
Usually when I’m in the shower, my mind is pretty close to off. For some reason, though, this morning I was actually awake and I remembered something I haven’t thought of in years and years, something inconsequential but nice from my mission.
When I’d been out for about a year, I was transferred to what [...]
