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Category: Storytime
Melbourne
I made it. Total travel time from my door to the hotel door, approximately 60 hours. All of which I was awake for. So after this heroic journey, I rolled into the hotel, caught a shower and a change of clothes, and then went and worked a full day at the office. I am a steely-eyed missle man. (Apparently the… Read more →
Travel Notes
1) The sandwich shop in Heathrow, T3, Arrivals, is sorely mistaken about what constitutes a club sandwich. 2) Watching out the window as the plane come in to land in Hong Kong, on a clear sunny day is now my lifetime personal best “looking out an airplane window” experience. I’ve flown into every major airport in North America, and a… Read more →
Not an auspicious beginning.
The bad: The plane meant to take me from Halifax to London apparently had some serious mechanical problems with the brakes, and they’re bringing a new plane in. The worse: This means the flight will be delayed at least three hours (I.e. they are now saying 2AM instead of 11PM.) The even worse: This means I will miss my connection… Read more →
I am not ready for this.
Apparently it is 40+ degrees in Melbourne today. I am Canadian: I can’t deal with that. Forty below I know how to deal with. Man. Read more →
Two stories for a Monday
Things keep popping up in my inbox and RSS reader that I need to share with you guys. First, a little story passed on from my pal, musical genius Danny Michel: February 17, 2007 Once again, Magic happens at the Black Sheep in Wakefield Quebec. “It’s not every day something this special & fun happens at a show. A while… Read more →
Evening hobbies
On evenings when we have no social plan, after my daughter goes to sleep, my wife and I usually spend a few hours in the rec room, with the television, or a movie, on. Some things we actually watch intently, although very few of themI think we’re down to one show that require complete attention now, and the occasional outstanding… Read more →
Offered without (much) comment
Extracted from this press release: CA (CA) today announced that its Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution, featuring CA Identity Manager and CA SiteMinder, won the “Best Enterprise Security Solution” 2007 Excellence Award from SC Magazine. This award was presented at the 10th annual SC Magazine Awards gala, held in San Francisco in conjunction with the RSA Conference, the world’s… Read more →
Ready To Go Home
I hesitate to jinx it, but it looks like the travel home today should be pretty smooth. Last night they were calling for a few inches of snow, which has thusfar failed to materialize. That had the potential to make my I-90 trip to Logan a tremendous pain, and if it were bad enough, to cause delays in my already-late-enough… Read more →
Hmmm…
…this is getting a lot more LiveJournal-y than I like, but I haven’t had a chance to find out what’s going on the world since I left home yesterday. So, updates: My luggage was found, and was indeed waiting for me at the castle when I finally closed my workday at 10PM EST last night. (19 hours after the workday… Read more →
It gets better.
Luggage lost–not the two laptops that I carried on, but just all my clothes and toiletries. Also, I took the wrong rental company bus (totally my fault–very tired) and had to navigate between rental car encampments aux pieds. I did eventually arrive at the office at 8:55AM EST. More news, including thrilling “did they find my underwear in Cincinnati” updates,… Read more →
I really hate airports.
(Warning: This is essentially a long whine.) So, I heading off to Boston in the morning for a week of meeting with my potential new bosses. The whole situation is a little complicated, and I might expand on it later in the week if I get a chance to blog from the hotel, but the short version is that some… Read more →
HGPA January Tournament.
I suspect the time is nigh for Mangy Jesus and his reign of terror, since portents are amassing: cats lying down with dogs, the night tearing asunder, and Cracker Sean playing aggressively at a tournament. Which is to say: I didn’t even make it into the top half of the ranks on this month’s tourney (after winning 2 of the… Read more →
I Am So Tired…
You never realize just how scary a two-year old is until you are awoken at 2:30 AM by an ice-cold touch on your shoulder, open your eyes, and see a bright-eyed, happy face approximately one inch from your face. “Daddy, I want Cheerios. Get up, Daddy. It’s time for breakfast.” Thinking about it now makes me smile. But I am… Read more →
The Watchman
Today’s entry will be a little bit of a blast from the past; a little story, partly in epistolary form, that I wrote more than eight years ago. It was the result of one of those creativity exercises: in this case something along the lines of “write something based on the title of the next song that comes up on… Read more →
