"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Food & Snacks, Trek 800, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 29th, 2008
Today’s weather is kind of disgusting…it’s sort of rain, sort of snow. Nieve likes it; Ruby is not so sure. I went for a walk earlier anyhow, because I was getting kind of grumpy about being inside, and also I needed to go to the library and print out some documents, since at the time […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Jul 17th, 2008
I know this is going to sound like “tooting my own horn” here but I’m a pretty unflappable commuter cyclist. It takes a lot to intimidate me, but I’ve got to say that there’s a lot of the Northland (Kansas City, north of the River and north of North Kansas City -trust me it makes […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Apr 7th, 2008
(I’m still working out a few snags with my cable modem, so the pics and write-up from Ouachita will have to wait) – In the meantime: I’ve had a couple of experiences just recently that have brought to my attention how much of customer-service is simply the application of good communication. It is now almost […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Food & Snacks, Hair issues, Lists, Photo entries, Urban Photo Highlight Rides, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Jan 29th, 2008
Because I skipped a few too many days of posting and now I have all sorts of random everything to get down. So. 1. I stayed home sick from work on Friday. I got this weird cold from Joel that seemed to go in reverse, starting with a nasty cough and winding up with stifling […]
Posted in Adventures, Photo entries, Travel, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 23rd, 2007
Well, I may technically fail NaBloPoMo on account of not posting each of the entries I’m going to write during my stay in New Orleans, but I will write nightly my impressions of the trip, and I’ll get them up online when I get home. Since I’ve been having to tote this portly laptop all […]
Posted in Adventures, Photo entries, Travel, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 23rd, 2007
Today was largely a free-day, with the exception of a span of time in the evening during the event Grand Opening when we had to man the booth and start spreading the good word. The Grand Opening was a total zoo, but more about that later. Today, mostly, I had free rein to roam around […]
Posted in Adventures, Travel, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 23rd, 2007
I think I forgot to mention this yesterday, but people are <i>freaks</i> about giveaways at conventions. Seriously, people were just meandering around the convention hall, picking up schwag at random and in bulk. People were stopping at our booth asking, “what’s this,†then requesting to take three. It was astounding. People were wandering around with […]
Posted in Adventures, Well I'll Be Darned, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 12th, 2007
I’m headed out of town again tomorrow. I’m one of four representatives from my department holding down the fort at a big civic government convention in New Orleans. I’ll confess to you that I am pretty darn stinkin’ nervous right now, because I have never been to a trade show, let alone worked at one, […]
Posted in bike commuting, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 2nd, 2007
Yesterday I felt terribly smug about how my journal has become significantly less whiney in recent times. I sure set myself up for something, let me tell you. I had something akin to the adult version of Alexander’s Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day today.  It was a day of bungling, being thwarted, and […]
Posted in Costumes and disguises, dumb things I have done, Super-Short Entries, Utter Silliness, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Oct 26th, 2007
me: “I’m off for lunch…gotta deliver a possum and procure a false beard” boss: (raises eyebrows) oooh-kay me: It’s an artificial possum! The plush possum was a joke gift for a friend, and the beard is part of the weekend’s Halloween Festivities Extravaganza.