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Looking For Quacks In The Pavement

Day: October 4, 2002

  • Post-vacation post-mortem post.

    So why didn’t I get in any journal entries for the last two days? I’m so glad you asked.

    Wednesday was Kiddie Day. I had Hannah as well as little Najoni to mind, then Hannah’s mother and I watched over a houseful of rugrats. Later she went to pick up Wendi and Bernie from the airport, after which we all hung out until late in the evening. There just wasn’t any time for the Internet that day.

    Yesterday was my first day back at the office. You wouldn’t know it by the amount of work I got done, though. John Graefe, my Corporate Boss, was in town to meet with the company’s Internet Director and myself. We discussed issues with website hosting, domain management, in-house audio streaming and the forthcoming intranet project. Let’s just say I have a lot of interesting work ahead of me between now and next summer. After we “did lunch” I showed him around the offices. He met Daria Landar (my trusted comrade over in West Sales), both Jacks (Hutchison the GM and Hernvall the Controller), and Dan Harbison (Dot-com-Dan, the webmaster for KNRK). All in all it was a busy, talkative, brainstorming, chatting, stimulating kind of day. I even managed to get a few small tasks out of the way.

    All that talking made hell out of my throat, though. By the time I left I felt totally raw, and that didn’t get better when we had to spend a couple of hours at the school or when Amy and Michael came over for three hours of Diablo II. (Fun, though. Midnight rolled around before we could find out how badly The Big Pink Teddy Bear was gonna maul our haphazard group of intrepid warriors. We’ve got skill and equipment issues…)

    Today was something a bit more like a normal day. Lots of small fires needed extinguishing. I’m caught up on my email at long last. Most of the people who were having the biggest problems are happy once more. Just about the only really major problem today was that Pacifier/Northwest Link/Europa had a truly stupendous downtime today. The problem first manifested at about 10:25am and was finally resolved just before 3:15pm. I’m not pleased with their technical capabilities right now, you could say.

    I’m looking forward to going home, resting my sore throat and relaxing until Sunday’s marathon project session. I have the usual email maintenance to do, the usual tape backups to run, and a couple of unusual tasks that will fill the long stretches when tape is running…

  • Friday Five: Cinderella Complex

    • What size shoe do you wear? – Nine and a half, wide. Make of that what you will, ladies.
    • How many pairs of shoes do you own? – Usually only a couple pair at any given time.
    • What type of shoe do you prefer (boots, sneakers, pumps, etc.)? – I like any kind of comfortable good-looking shoe as long as it’s black. Black goes with everything, especially my black pants.
    • Describe your favorite pair of shoes. Why are they your favorite? – Let’s see.. there’s a big hole in the top where I insert my foot. There are laces criss-crossing most of the upper portion of the shoe. Underneath you find some sort of rubber-like substance with traction patterns. Oh yes, and the shoes are all black. They’re my favorite because I can walk around in them.
    • What’s the most you’ve spent on one pair of shoes? – Money? $60, if I remember correctly.


    One gets the impression that this week’s Friday Five was contributed by a woman who owns a lot of shoes, doesn’t one?
    Friday Five

  • Only. One. Remains.

    As of a few minutes ago, I am one episode away from completing TMTT. All that remains is “Here Comes Jurai,” the cutesy throw-away episode that closes out the 2nd Tenchi Muyo OAV. I’ll see about finishing that off over the weekend.

    Speaking of music videos, the newly-formed Downloads page has direct links to each of the anime music video files I’ve created. No longer must my visitors wonder where they can find these and my other creative treasures!

    I can go home now. Yay.

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