This morning, the first roofing contractor I’d called arrived to draw up a free estimate. He tromped around on the roof for a bit, then basically attempted to explain the whole thing by saying that whoever built our roof did a shit job (immediately shooting his credibility into the toilet, unbeknownst to him). [...]

I was going to title this post “I’m Doing Science and I’m Still Alive,” after a line from the end credits song for Portal. But I didn’t, because a cursory Google search revealed that a ton of other like-minded nerds did the same thing — months ago, in fact — so it’s already passé. [...]

So on Monday night, I came down with that disgusting flu thing that’s going around. And while I’m doing a little bit better today, I still feel like I was hit by a truck.
This year’s flu is really, really nasty. It seems to be of the “intestinal” variety, if you know what I [...]

It’s a quarter after one in the morning, and we’ve finally finished launching and testing our new company websites. There were a couple of minor hiccups, and some nitpicking that needed attending to, but I think we are finally done. Of course, the DNS hasn’t fully propagated yet, so I’ll check it out [...]

At work, we recently started doing some advertising in print magazines — a first for us. Our company is pretty small, so the director of marketing is really just our most outgoing salesperson. He came up with an idea for our print ad campaign that was definitely out of the box, and actually [...]

In retrospect, it all started last Wednesday. I was in a cerulean blue funk, feeling stuck in a predictable rut of work, and knowing that any real payoff for my efforts was still a distance away. My Xbox 360 was “in the shop,” if you’ll excuse the colloquialism, preventing me from unwinding with [...]

Here I am, back at it — on Windows XP. I do love Acronis TrueImage — it’s the software that enabled me to save an exact copy of my entire 21 GB OS drive, then flawlessly restore it in one hour when I decided I was done being Vista’s whipping boy. As an [...]

Since it’s been a long time since I posted anything of any substance here, and because I have some developments in both my work life leisure life to mention, I thought I’d divide today’s post into two parts: Work and Play.
Work
At my day job, things have been great for a while now. I’ve been [...]

This has been one incredibly, laboriously, unbelievably long month. Almost every day of it has been filled to the brim with work and responsibilities, which in and of itself isn’t unusual for me — but the round-the-clock nature of those responsibilities has been. For the last two weeks, with both of my managers [...]

Today was one of those days — where if somebody were to show up with a sunny smile on their face and say, “Hello!” the first thing I’d be inclined to do is tell them to stow that happy somewhere physiologically unpleasant. Maddeningly, I can’t even give you a good reason why I’m in [...]