August 31, 2008 – 7:02 pm
From one who is a member of the tbbs-Land family, and whose technical advice, for better or worse, helped launch this humble blog, a note via FriendFeed, from Dragon*Con:
“Going to a party in Grant Park, leaving the protective bubble of the geekosphere. I’ll be back, I’m not ready to return to standard reality yet. You [...]
August 31, 2008 – 1:00 pm
My little bride and I are in the throes of relocation logistics. Planning, organizing, cussing and discussing. The butterflies are swarming with a vengeance. In short, it’s not the least stressful thing I’ve ever done.
Then, a check of the email reveals not an offer, but a strong interest from a firm I’d sweep [...]
August 30, 2008 – 1:32 pm
I’ve been meaning to blog this for a while, but there’s a cool mp3 search engine that lets you find and play tunes right on your Linux laptop computer. SeeqPod. Just go there, search on artists/titles, and crank it up.
If I’m late to the SeeqPod party, excuse me. I’d never heard of [...]
August 30, 2008 – 1:25 pm
Every other Friday is free franchise-made bagel day at my current job. Normally they are delivered to an office adjacent to my shabby cubicle. Yesterday, the three occupants of that office were gone1, so the bagels went to the hinterland parts of the fire-trap of a building where I work.
Bottom line, is [...]
August 30, 2008 – 12:39 pm
Seems like every time I visit this old blog, the West Virginia University logo is in the right sidebar. There are three graphics that display, in some sort of random order.
No matter. Go Mountaineers! Except for basketball season1, in which case it is, was, and ever shall be Rock Chalk Jayhawk!
And maybe [...]
August 30, 2008 – 12:34 pm
More precisely, the friend is one of my little bride’s current co-workers. Even better, he lives in Bridgeport.
MLB called him earlier today; he’s gonna show me the Bridgeport ropes after I get to the area.
There’s nothing like someone with local knowledge to show one around. Our West Virginia network has a [...]
August 30, 2008 – 10:04 am
I love three day weekends; Labor Day has always been one of my favorites. Even after NASCAR, in its quest for ever-more-ringing of cash registers, moved the Labor Day Cup event from Darlington SC to Fontana CA. I see the race is called the Pepsi 500 this year. The event was formerly known as [...]
August 29, 2008 – 8:08 pm
We’ve made contact with a West Virginia realtor, thus far by email. I sent her a general overview of house styles, locations and price ranges that would trip our trigger, and she promptly sent back links to 7 houses.
MLB and I looked at them the other night, and 4 of the 7 [...]
August 29, 2008 – 6:45 am
One week from now, I leave my shabby cubicle for the last time, to venture off to a new workplace. The work environs and suitability of the new gig are largely unknown at this point. Then there’s moving, selling our house, and acquiring new digs.
Times like this prompt me to ask the question: Are [...]
August 26, 2008 – 8:25 pm
My resignation “letters” throughout my career1 have been more precisely resignation sentences, following this template:
I resign my position with insert company name here effective COB insert independence day date here.
In a dead tree version, I print it, sign it and hand it in. I vastly prefer to send resignations via email: no muss, no fuss. [...]
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