Archive for March, 2004
Tuesday, March 30th, 2004
What’s in a name?
Jane has named one of her stuffed animals “Rational Rabbit”
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by bbendick
Monday, March 29th, 2004
More Overtime
At work. 1a. Monday morning. Now to temper that fact a little, I wouldn’t normally be in bed yet anyway. I wrote 2824 lines of code this weekend. I don’t ever count lines of code, but that seems like quite a bit.
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by bbendick
Saturday, March 27th, 2004
Overtime
11p. Saturday night. Working. This night could be indistinguishable from one ten years ago. Except tonight I’m sacrificing quality time with my wife and family to finish a project on a deadline. Ten years ago I would have been huddled in my office for lack of a single other option. Or in the rare chance [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by bbendick
Friday, March 26th, 2004
Interviews
I’m part of a hiring committee for a job on campus, an entirely different department. They asked for me help evaluating the applicants, and for some reason I agreed. It’s an insane amount of time, even bigger than I initially feared, but I always greatly enjoy the process. It always makes me think of my [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by bbendick
Thursday, March 18th, 2004
Security
Yesterday I found yet another magnetic “lost a key” box on the outside of the house, this time buried in the flower bed outside the door. This is at least the 6th set of keys we’ve found, and it’s a year and a half since we’ve been there. When we moved in he was fairly [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by bbendick
Thursday, March 18th, 2004
Blah
I feel like my domain name should have been “impletethoughts” or “abortedthoughts”. That last entry stunk. I need wireless ethernet in my brain, I come up with a ton of posts standing at the bus stop every morning.
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by bbendick
Wednesday, March 17th, 2004
End of an Era
My boss’ last day of work was Tuesday. To call her my boss seems incomplete and wrong hearted, even if it’s a perfectly apt description of our work relationship. “Boss” seems like a perfunctory, almost dirty word. Nonetheless, Karen was my boss at work. Also a fantastic friend. She’s the friend I’ve had longest in [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Uncategorized by bbendick
Monday, March 15th, 2004
Motivational Trough
Yet another project I have negative desire to do. This one has a definate and hard deadline, which makes me want to do it quite a bit less. Blech.
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by bbendick
Friday, March 12th, 2004
Darnit
It’s frustrating when Rhythm Nation comes on right when I’m heading to the Locker Room. What a waste of a fantastic workout song.
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by bbendick
Wednesday, March 10th, 2004
I Thought My Father Was God
“I Thought My Father was God”, edited by Paul Aster, is an amazing book. It’s a compilation of 180 stories from folks who listen to “All Things Considered”, and sent their stories to the National Story Project. Go out and pick up this book (which is dirt cheap at Amazon and was in the bargain [...]