Monthly Archives: April 2006
Going
My mood is: I just finished writing a functional brief and deploy instructions for a project I’ve been working on. Now it is out of my hands. So tomorrow we leave for Oman at around 3pm. I am so happy … Continue reading
King Wenceslas
My mood is: Normally our neighbor across the street annoys us w/ constant hawking and spitting (if I can hear you clear your throat and spit from 5 floors up, that is some loud business) and blasting habibi jams and … Continue reading
Top 0xA
My mood is: 2 o’clock and all’s well. Today was as pedestrian as they come…I worked till around 10pm, Amy made some great white bean soup (and cooked up the chocolate left over from Mary Ann’s icecream-filled pastries from Friday), … Continue reading
t-minus 37
My mood is: Our weekend in brief…I put my foot down and was strictly 9-5 on Friday (my day off). Our friends Matthew and Mary Ann came over with their daughters for dinner. A good time was had by all. … Continue reading
Get Node
My mood is: In other news, Built to Spill has a new album out. It’s supposed to be a return to form and blah blah blah and all that rot. I guess I’ll have to buy it off iTunes and … Continue reading
Mood Rings
I should start making icons to reflect my mood in journal posts, like our friend Joumana does over on her site. Right now my mood is… It was another “rear window” day for me, shackled to the machine. Maybe that’s … Continue reading
Errata and a Draft
Right now it’s about midnight and some of the students in the neighborhood are revelling…hollering and singing happy birthday and whatnot in the street. I love our apartment and Hamra, but I’m certainly not going to miss living on dorm … Continue reading
Consider It a Feature Downgrade
In brief, I had this project at work I was pretty excited about. It was to be an ASP.NET implementation of a solution for posting xml data to third-party background check services. I planned it out to be flexible and … Continue reading
To Me You Are a Work of Art
I took Friday off in what I hope will be the beginning of a pattern for the remaining 5 weeks I’m working here. To facilitate the day off, I worked until about 2am on Thursday, and then further stayed up … Continue reading
8-9-10
Well, I haven’t really been up to much since my last post. I worked all day yesterday, taking some breaks to read Kerry’s NYTimes opinion piece on an exit strategy for Iraq (which I unfortunately can’t find a link for), … Continue reading