Monday, October 04, 2004

It’s a beautiful fall day here in the DC area. Despite a horrific accident requiring a Medevac helicopter at the intersection leading out of my neighborhood, traffic was pretty good. I avoided the blocked area by cutting through the 7-11 to get onto Rt 50. Really, I’m amazed there aren’t more accidents in that spot because people don’t drive through that median cut-thru properly at all. It’s highly annoying in addition to being dangerous.

Dang it, the Diet Vanilla Coke I just opened exploded all over the place.

I took pictures of my furniture to show ECD so that we can strategize what of her stuff should be moved and where my stuff will fit in. What’s cool is that she has some empty rooms that I can fill with the furniture that I would otherwise need to store because it won’t fit in the basement. I also have some window treatments that I think she can use upstairs, which will be nice because I love them and will hate it if they’re packed away.

She’s laughing at me because I keep asking questions about specifics of the house that I can’t remember (like the closet space). Her answer is that we’ll figure it all out when I move in, but I’m a planner. I like for things to be mapped out before hand - it saves a lot of aggravation later.

Random TV thought: if you’re not watching Cold Case, then you’re missing out. That’s such a good show. It’s a pain to catch when it actually airs during football season (if you’re on the east coast), but worth the hassle. While CBS News sucks, their primetime shows are the best on television.

Monday, April 19, 2004

It wasn’t my intent not to post anything yesterday, but I didn’t have anything to say ultimately. It was kind of good to keep my mouth shut for a day.

Not so today.

I saw two things on Fox & Friends this morning that piqued my interest:

1. Bill Kurtis of A&E’s Investigative Reports was on to plug some kind of show or something about the Holy Grail. What proceeded was a bunch of heresy about the Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the Holy Grail based on The Da Vinci Code. ARGH! What’s astounding is that people are buying into a NOVEL as truth.

2. Stephen Baldwin was on to plug the Livin’ It movie he did about the Christian skater scene. From his own lips I heard him say that he became a Christian two years ago and that he was excited to see that there are a group of folks who are interested in evangelizing to skaters - skaters who love Jesus and can reach those kids. Very cool. He was fired up.

This post took about 30 minutes to finish because Kirby called me in the middle of it.

Monday, February 02, 2004

Traffic was awful coming is because of two accidents - one that slowed down folks exiting off of Rt 50 onto Rt 28 towards Dulles, the other on Rt 50 itself. It took me an hour just to get the first 10 miles. It hasn’t been that bad coming in since before Christmas.

I’m tired because of my late night. And I found the first episode of Survivor interesting yet unexciting. The dynamics of the three teams is a little beyond me since I’ve only seen one full season and a few episodes from previous seasons. I have a feeling that the others in the pool will do better than I since they’ve watched all seasons.

They’re predicting some form of freezing precipitation, most likely ice for tonight into tomorrow morning. < sarcasm > Yay! < /sarcasm > At least I don’t have pressing work tasks for this week. But I really don’t want to take anymore time off - I’m trying to save my leave for my babysitting week in May. But I refuse to drive anywhere when it’s icy - that’s just stupid.

Enough complaining. I’m going to do a positive post about something…

Monday, June 16, 2003

I don’t have much to share today. It’s a typical Monday.

I did notice that we have several mushroom patches developing in the mulched areas in front of my apartment building. They remind me of the mushroom fairies in Fantasia.

[photo credit]

On the job front, we have to watch this video on sexual harrassment sent to us from HQ. So as I type this, there’s a large group of folks congregated in the conference room watching. There’s much laughter and loudness emanating from that end of the hall. Let me say that we have a couple people who are just LOUD. And that room is at the end of the hallway. I can hear specific things one particular person is saying. And I want to yell, “Shut your piehole!” back there. Sheesh.

Later: LW, The Boss, a new investigator, and I watched the sexual harrassment video this afternoon. I can understand why the laughter - especially with that group that watched it earlier. It’s completely ridiculous. Truth is most of us in our office would be in trouble all the time for saying “inappropriate” things based on the examples in this video, myself included. This tells me that people have chosen to be offended by stuff that should just require a good old fashioned eye roll. What babies people have become...imho.