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| Monday, January 19th, 2009 | | 9:54 am |
You Are a Comma
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You are open minded and extremely optimistic.
You enjoy almost all facets of life. You can find the good in almost anything.
You keep yourself busy with tons of friends, activities, and interests.
You find it hard to turn down an opportunity, even if you are pressed for time.
Your friends find you fascinating, charming, and easy to talk to.
(But with so many competing interests, you friends do feel like you hardly have time for them.)
You excel in: Inspiring people
You get along best with: The Question Mark
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| | Thursday, September 4th, 2008 | | 10:53 pm |
Politics, for the record.
I'm glad the Republicans chose a woman as a VP candidate; it shows that the Grand Old (Boys') Party is coming around. Just 10 years ago such a nomination would have been unthinkable and even then, in the back rooms where the old white rich males hang out in their suits deciding the fate of the economy, they would have really had a big guffaw at the joke of putting a woman forward for such a position. I like the fact that she's lived a real life, and she has speaking skillz that indicate a working brain (despite the beauty queen cr@p - my own prejudice creeping in there). Most importantly for me as a voter: she has such different beliefs than I on core social issues, and no experience with the really serious economy and foreign/wartime issues facing this country right now, I couldn't support her even if I was heavily biased to vote female. I also find it unfortunate that this particular woman has so much family drama, since she would be a "role model" for females if put in power. Other candidates have been dropped from political contention for "personal/family issues" with a moral flavor to them (think Gary Hart, John Edwards), so I don't find bringing up "troublesome" situations that are directly a part of her life versus any other Veep/Presidential candidate's life as sexist in any way. Obama's not getting criticized about his kids because they (1) don't require a bunch of additional care that something like Down's Syndrome entails, and (2) they aren't getting pregnant or making some other publicly-noticeable bad choice at the moment. Raising kids to make good choices is hard for everyone, so I'm not going to judge her personally by what's happened in her house -- au contraire, I feel for her. However, I feel justified in holding an opinion about the gravity of a situation and where I might have differed in handling it and the choices that I would make. Those differences in the handling of situations are exactly why I can't vote for her to lead the country. It has nothing to do with McCain's heartbeat, because a Veep holds enough sway in their activities to make a difference even without the promotion. It has everything to do with the agenda for the country that this Republican Team has decided to go with. | | Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | | 10:17 am |
Car repairs, episode 2: The Minivan Strikes Back
Yeah, so we bought this 11 year old Minivan from a co-worker of Dave's in May to replace the not-resurrected-from-the-dead-yet Jeep. It only had about 85k on it, but it was 11 years old so I knew that we'd be sinking some money into it in the not-to-distant future. ( Read more... ) | | Friday, June 27th, 2008 | | 10:11 pm |
So, today was the last full day...
...at my China Basin cubicle. I'm feeling a bit wistful, since that was a nice clean environment, reasonably uncluttered and a much easier public transit commute from my residence than other locations in the City. On Monday I will start the process of juggling two mostly-separate research jobs, each at 50% time. There will be some continuity, since one is in the same department at the same institution working on a project headed by one of my peers from this last job who is recently promoted (although we're moving to a new physical location, assuming the computer resources get moved soon). The other 50% is on a project at the VA, way out in the non-public-transport nether regions of the city, with people that I've known as professional acquaintances through my last 6 years at the current full-time position (just never really worked for them, if you know what I mean). Then there's also the old boss, who has been essentially forced to leave the institution with the way things worked out. I like this person fairly well, and he is working hard to keep the career afloat with all sorts of "next big things" collaborating with "this person at that institution" and "that possibility with that person at that place". I'm kind of key to him getting set up, at least technically, if one of these opportunities should materialize, so that's another ball in the proverbial air to juggle. The tack he's taking could be very different and very interesting, as well (but also very risky). Outside of these two 50% projects, we'll need to get the research from the last two years published (doing so is directly in the interest of one of the 50% "bosses", so I've got some leeway there). If I thought time and data management was tough in my just-previous environment, this may be even more of a challenge. I'm still thinking about all the options that one might pursue, transition-wise, over the next year, but in looking at what needs to be done to get current stuff to publication and the collected stuff there too, well, I think new math says that 50% + 50% is going to end up being equal to about 145%. Just a hunch. Current Mood:  contemplative | | Thursday, June 5th, 2008 | | 12:00 pm |
| | Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 | | 10:58 pm |
It's official...
Out of hundreds of bedtime books available for request (and suggested by Mom and Dad), Sammy the Seal can be asked for and read a whopping 5 nights in a row. You heard it here first, folks. I don't think we'll be packing Sammy the Seal for tomorrow's road trip to Sacramento over the weekend. Current Mood:  quixotic | | Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 | | 10:53 pm |
Addendum to yesterday's learning:
re: (1). The diaper doesn't have to be poopy if Daddy does the changing; Sammy the Seal gets read by the non-changer of any diaper (Mommy, in this case). Just FYI and all that... Current Mood: silly | | Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 | | 8:44 pm |
Things I've learned as a parent today.
(1) Changing a poopy diaper trumps having read Sammy the Seal for the last 3 bedtimes in a row. (2) There is nothing wrong with wearing one's rainboots to bed, as long as a clean diaper and jammies are also involved. Current Mood: silly | | Friday, April 4th, 2008 | | 3:03 pm |
| | Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | | 5:46 pm |
Orbitz problems anyone?
I was wondering if anyone else has had problems with Orbitz and the hotel billing a credit card for the same night's stay. If so, what did you do about it? | | Saturday, March 15th, 2008 | | 12:45 am |
Something is seriously wrong...
...with our current anatomical reconstruction pathway.
Last I checked, my brain was inside my head, thankyouverymuch.
Current Mood:  worried
| | Monday, February 11th, 2008 | | 5:06 pm |
Phew!
I breathed a sigh of relief this morning when I received an email stating that the reviewers accept our revisions to that oh-so-stubborn paper, with only a few minor things to do. I think I can do those within the next two days and be done with this >5 year project. Yay! This little bit of good news picked me up quite a bit today, and as a consequence I finished all my revisions to a grant we're working on, made it to the post office and gas station, straightened the house, wrote code for the first of the minor revisions to the paper, and installed a new screen door. Current Mood: accomplished | | Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 | | 1:03 pm |
| | Saturday, January 5th, 2008 | | 9:37 pm |
| | Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 | | 10:57 pm |
Guess I should starting thinking about this soon...
As seen in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) beckerbuns journal: 96% Hillary Clinton
94% Barack Obama
93% John Edwards
93% Bill Richardson
91% Chris Dodd
78% Joe Biden
71% Mike Gravel
68% Dennis Kucinich
52% Rudy Giuliani
45% John McCain
39% Tom Tancredo
38% Mike Huckabee
35% Mitt Romney
24% Fred Thompson
17% Ron Paul
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
I was kind of surprised at these results, as I recently find myself "liking" parts of various candidates that appear in the red part of my list (all though I am by no means confusable with a Republican). Perhaps I'm starting to fall prey to the soundbite syndrome???
Maybe I'll go and take the quiz tomorrow morning and see what the reliabiilty of it really is...
( and the next morning... )
Current Mood:  content
| | Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 | | 9:50 pm |
| | Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 | | 10:27 pm |
So, I've been back...
Yeah, I was gone. Off to San Diego for a 5 day conference. Saturday the 3rd to Wednesday the 7th. What? You didn't miss me?!? Got a lot of caching done. It was great. Unfortunately, the time changed when I got there, and I didn't have much daylight to do the caching. Bummer. Came back Wednesday night, then completed a final for my class on Thursday, some clean-up at work on Friday, and a busy caching-event weekend with the whole family (including LeChuck). Yesterday was cleaning house and today saw a couple work deadlines met. Been saving up the list of reading that I've done lately. Got three under the belt now: A Stephen King Hard Case edition, and two Christopher Moore Books -- Practical Demonkeeping and Lamb. What? You think I should have more fun-reading done after being in a hotel room for 4 nights?!? Yeah, probably, but I was busy night-caching. That's about it. Really having issues with career progression, and trying to decide if the academic path is actually worth all the trouble. 'Scuze me while I get another glass of wine and ponder the situation... Current Mood: amused | | Thursday, October 25th, 2007 | | 10:05 am |
Ahhh, roast turkey...
I found this while I was doing some other research, and really enjoyed the commentary. While I know this isn't a reputable source, it still makes me want to revisit what I teach my daughter about why we eat turkey on Thanksgiving (when she's a little older), rather than stay the party line: A celebration of the welfare the Native Americans provided to Europeans. http://www.subgenius.com/scoop/X0011_THE_SCOOP-_The_Stuff.html | | Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 | | 10:11 pm |
The 2 year well-baby visit.
Today I took Mallory in for her 2-year doctor probing. It took for-ev-er to actually get in to be seen, and then for the various ins-and-outs of the components of the visit. Mallory had lost patience with sitting nicely in the waiting room by the time we were called, and was bored with the exam room well before the doctor entered. This wasn't because she has so little patience for her age, but rather because it was long enough that I was bored too. We were on time at 8:30. It seemed like a full 20 minutes or so before we were taken to an exam room. Then another 10 minutes between the nurse intake and the doctor's exam. Then another 5 minutes (which was probably speeded up by Mallory's loud jabbering) between doctor leaving and nurse entering for shots. We left the clinic at 10 am. This wouldn't have been so bad (a half hour later than I'd anticipated), except now we'd missed snack time and hadn't had breakfast before we left home (in order to be on time for the appt). Anyhow, she measured in at 28 lbs and 34 inches. She looked like she might have been another half-inch taller if she hadn't been wiggling around and arching her back to look up when they were measuring her, though. It was recommended that we switch to lowfat milk and consider having her see a dentist, as she has all of her baby teeth now and is working on mastering the art of toothbrushing. Then, 2 shots: HepA and the first flu installment. Afterwards, we were off to get some food in the poor moppet at Panera, and then drop off at daycare. | | Monday, October 15th, 2007 | | 1:43 pm |
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