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In an effort to get my mind back on track, the world gave me a fun problem to solve! There’s a leak in the water supply line to the heater! Hooray for fun problems to solve! Thanks world! –UPDATE– The plumbers have come and gone. $832. I was staring at their handiwork when I heard . . . → Read More: Thanks, world! Feeling a little sensitive this morning … like the emotions are a bit too close to the surface. Things are hitting me harder than usual. My morning started off with this Short movie about a grocery bagger who put his thought for the day in the customers bags. Oh yeah, he has Down’s Syndrome. Nice, . . . → Read More: Sensitive We convinced Dan to do an “advanced” class last night for a small set of students (me, Dustin, and Sean). He decided to show us some ground-work. Grappling. “Today, you learn how to tap out when it hurts too much.” Damn, that’s a workout. I’m pretty sore today, but it was good stuff. Tonight: Throws. . . . → Read More: Grappling I gave my talk yesterday at Bio-IT World and it went okay. I had half an hour, which is just a dumb length of time to speak. I can do 5 or 15 minutes pretty easily, but then there’s this window out to about an hour where it’s hard to get rolling on anything in . . . → Read More: Bio-IT World My opinion has been solicited, and so I solicit you: If you got to nominate up to 10 “up and coming” stars of science – who would you pick? I don’t have any answers to the rules, conditions, and definitions, so don’t bother asking. If you have suggestions for rules and conditions that would make . . . → Read More: Up and coming geniuses Birds visible from my desk, as I write this: * Goldfinch (male) * Some sort of wren (investigating one of the birdhouses) * Cardinal (one male, one female) * Tufted titmouse * House finch * Mourning Doves * Grackles OMFG, de-thatching is sweaty, ass-busting work. Stay in school kids, manual labor is *hard*. Yesterday was fairly productive. Dropped redmed off at the airport at 7 in the morning, so I was able to make the 8am yoga class at Eyes of the World. A nice two hour workout, first thing in the morning, does wonders for my attitude. Stopped off at Home Depot on the way back, . . . → Read More: Weekend. Long day at work today. I was halfway through some rather delicate changes to a 90TB storage array, when the power cut out to a decent portion of it. The ensuing fountain of profanity caused the ex-marine sitting in the same room to perk up his eyebrows and say “wow.” Long story less long: There . . . → Read More: Tired, part 2 Drove from Rockville, MD to Hampton, VA today after work. On the way, I stopped off in Richmond for dinner with my fellow road-warrior. He’s the other guy from my company who’s on the road constantly. He picked up a 30 day car rental today, and is planning to stash his suitcase in the car, . . . → Read More: Tired |
