After a roller coaster week (pissed off the Navy and the prime contractor on one day [and burst into tears after multiple emails yelling at me], and the next day had the Navy expressing absolute delight with my work [because I am very good at what I do]), I welcomed the weekend for fun and [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
A day in the life
Monday, February 23, 2009
0600 Alarm goes off.
0602 Get out of bed, turn on the two space heaters, fling myself in the shower, get ready for work.
0640 Turn on the local news and nuke some leftover pizza for breakfast.
0655 Finish getting ready for work.
0705 Out the door, walk a couple blocks, catch the bus. Nicely timed; I get there [...]
My ride home from work yesterday
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
I decided to take the N22 bus to Union Station and then grab the D6 for the rest of the trip home. It’s a longer route than my other bus alternative of “anything heading east” followed by the 90/92, but it’s a lazy route, and I was feeling lazy. Also, that route makes it easier [...]
The hippo was particularly entertaining
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Today, the zoo! It was cool and cloudy, which meant the concentration of people was light, which was what I was hoping for. The perfect zoo day. So I spent a few hours wandering around, up and down (the place is very hilly), becoming one with the animals. I’ve seen better zoos (the Brookfield Zoo [...]
The city mocks me
Friday, February 13, 2009
Washington, DC is apparently feeling vindictive. I got home, dropped off my work stuff, and grabbed my purse to go to the post office to pick up a small package they wouldn’t deliver. I took out my GPS and left it behind because I wasn’t going far and knew the way. What could go wrong? [...]
Random post of questions and answers
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Gakked from another blog because I don’t have anything to do at work right now:
Make a list of things you can see without getting up:
Computer, phone, water bottle, lotion, iPod, sticky notes, tissues, cup of pens, two calculators, 2008 AP Stylebook, a bunch of papers, stapler, notebook, two hard copies of a document.
What were you [...]
Indians and flowers
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Today was fun. I did the tourist thing. I started out at the National Museum of the American Indian. I stayed 2 hours, but I’ll have to go back again and peruse the displays more carefully. There’s a lot of text, and I stopped to read only a few things. I enjoyed getting the overall [...]
Seven things
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
1. It’s Tuesday. I’m sure this comes as a surprise to you, especially if it’s already Wednesday in your time zone. It didn’t come as a surprise to me, though. I totally and completely expected Tuesday to happen.
2. The extra computer is still in my office, and though I wish IT would carry it [...]
Extinct giant sloths
Monday, February 2, 2009
The good: Last week, Version 1.0 of the user guide I wrote for some software went live. It was distributed to everyone in the program management group, and it was used for some Thursday afternoon training on the software (a mere 2 hours after I finished it). It’s being used down in Florida this week [...]
My weekend
Sunday, February 1, 2009
My weekend began Friday evening with a drive to Potomac, Maryland, for the opening session of the Sunstone Symposium. Sunstone is an LDS (Mormon) organization that focuses on “Mormon experience, scholarship, issues and art,” which sounds all well and good, but things are never that simple.
They have a symposium in Utah every year, but I’ve [...]
