I’ve been at work all weekend, trying to catch up/get ahead. I’m not working hard enough. Don’t ever seem to get enough done. I used to go to the office every weekend, and I guess I need to go back…
Category: Personal Journal
Doublespeak Fun
Virginia Tech student charged in planting of explosive device – Roanoke.com: “They found an explosive device containing gunpowder and ball bearings, police said. No one was injured, and the device was rendered safe by the state police bomb squad.” “rendered…
More Vue
Because you may not have seen enough pictures of my car yet, here are pics that show the cross-bars I got added to the roof rack and the side and back window deflectors that were added. You’ll especially love the…
Things Not Done
I seem to be not going anything that I should be doing. I should probably be in bed, for instance. But instead, I’m sitting here looking for solutions that don’t seem to be online. I do have a PDF index…
From the world of things that just seem wrong…
eSchool News online – Bias-busting tech keeps kids focused—”A handheld computer with software that randomly selects students’ names is an effective tool for making sure students pay attention and do their homework, an education researcher has found. Originally intended to…
An unplanned day
After a hellish week of what folks of my type might call “women’s issues,” my plan for today was to get get the oil in my car changed at 10 and have them look at the leak near the sun…
Amazingly uncharacteristic optimism
Yesterday I decided that I really wanted ice. Ice in a glass. Crushed ice. Surrounded by icy cold liquid of some kind. So despite the fact that it is the weekend—and I NEVER get dressed or step outside on the…
Sitting around
I’m sitting around in my Tulsa hotel room. Leaving not only means that I have to get dressed and go out into the heat but also that I have to go back to the daily to-dos. The problem with long…
It’s time to load the car and head home from Texas. Unfortunately, I have reached the lazy point of the trip, where I would just as soon sit in the room and do nothing as go out into the heat…
CW2006: Tuesday Wednesday (so I’m a few days behind)
As my audio blogposts mumble, I left Champaign on Tuesday, and I drove and I drove and I drove and I drove. There is much driving to get from Champaign to Lubbock. And the pathway that you drive is populated…