Special Ordered, Arrived Yesterday

It’s been a tough week at work. We ran into a problem that I was asked to troubleshoot. Not that I mind troubleshooting; it makes a nice change from pencil shoving and postmortems. In order to observe the problem, however, I had to be at work no later than quarter to six in the morning….

I watched Clueless as I fed him this morning. I paid attention to more than just the food this time. I realized that he’s eating only to please me. Perhaps he even eats because he remembers there was joy in it. But he doesn’t eat because he wants to. Today he was sound asleep in…

From: yarngirl I never can find files after I’ve downloaded them either. Usually if I go back to download them again, I’ll find them. Click on the link to download, and when the window pops open asking where you want to put it, look for the name of the link on the list. The right…

Doubleday just doesn’t “get” it. I receieved a reply from them on Friday, which I responded to today regarding our little ongoing discussion on spam. From: Double Day Service Reply-To: Double Day Service To: Salamander Subject: Re: You must be joking. Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 17:04:30 -0500 We apologize for the email correspondence that…

Ever hear this old chestnut? Q: What’s the difference between a surgeon and God? A: God doesn’t think he’s a surgeon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Talk today at the lunch table in the cafeteria touched on the plight of that poor teen in North Carolina who had the mix-up with her heart-lung transplant. She was waiting on a…

So I’ve been sitting on the Dear Diary Update Diary page since April 8th (no exaggeration) trying to compose an entry. For some reason I tend to freeze when I actually sit down to write something these days. I think I’m finally realizing that I’m not as interesting as I think I am. Under “Regrets”,…