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Thoughts on the Day

  • There is nothing like waking to the lilting tones of your work pager, joyously interrupting your slumber.
  • I refuse to be held responsible for information I gather from a Java web application, across a slow VPN, while juggling two chat lines, two phone calls, and a five year old who wants a hug from dear old Dad, right bloody now.
  • For those of you who are curious, the weather today at the Louisville airport was clear and cool, with a slight breeze out of the southwest.
  • I’m not sure what our computer room is wired with, but it makes an excellent Faraday cage against cellphone reception.
  • Project planning math:  Take the amount of time that the vendor tells you it will do a given task, multiply by 1.25, then round up to the nearest prime number and use that as the amount of hours it will actually take.
    • For back-out purposes, take your original estimate, multiply by the 2012 GDP of Zimbabwe, then divide by 1024.
  • You know that little voice that tells you to do things when no-one else is at home?  Mine told me to GI the kitchen this afternoon.
    • Irish Woman’s hairy barbarian domestication program appears to be progressing very well.
  • I’ve never felt so disgusted with myself as I did when I cleaned out and scrubbed our refrigerator today.
  • Note to self – it is a pain in the hands to clean out pebbles of tempered glass from a bathtub.
  • It’s an uncomfortable moment when, along with your darling wife, you open one of those family portrait Christmas cards, don’t immediately recognize the people, say “I know that woman from somewhere….”, then realize it’s from your Congressman.
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  1. Unknown's avatar

    Anonymous

     /  December 29, 2013

    Oopsie on the last one… And didn’t you mean MULTIPLY by 1024??? Sigh…

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