Monthly Archives May 2008

Life is Good

I can’t believe how good things are today. The weather is sunny and mild. I had lunch with friends. There’s plenty of work, but no big rush on any of it. I’m taking an afternoon ice cream break at Cold Stone with a few co-workers. The weekend is still wide open. And sharing some of [...]

Inconvenience

One thing this job has taught me: how to spell inconvenience! [co-worker]

So Many Things to Say

Despite protesting that I live a simple life where nothing ever happens, things have been happening. And I haven’t been documenting them very well. I think part of that is my denial. I want things to be simple, so I try to overlook things when they’re not. Classic avoidance. I haven’t been at a total [...]

Like a Round Peg in a Square Hole

I started to write a long post reflecting on the last few weeks at work, which have been a true test for me with my only teammate gone for two weeks, but realized that it was all a lot of uninteresting navel gazing. The project didn’t blow up and I survived. It also wasn’t as [...]

Clickier

While writing an email about click through rates and lamenting a publisher’s click averse audience, Outlook recommended an unusual grammatical substitution: more clicky visitors becomes clickier visitors I didn’t even know that “clickier” was a word, let alone a better option to my first, admittedly poor, choice.

Just One Word

You Can Only Type One Word: Now copy, paste, change the answers to suit you, and pass it on. 1. Where is your cell phone? purse 2. Your significant other? adorable 3. Your hair? straighter 4. Your mother? mom 5. Your father? pa 6. Your favorite thing? creating 7. Your favorite flower? poppy 8. Your [...]

Pizza! Pizza!

I probably shouldn’t have, but when I was in Manchester on Saturday I stopped to check out the Little Caesars. It’s just down the street from the Paper Tree and you have to stare at it while waiting for the light and the end of the exit ramp from 293. When I stepped in the [...]