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May 16th, 2008
 | 11:11 am - Manny being...
Since everyone has asked me about it, yes, I did see it live. I was working at home watching the game. Yes, I laughed. Yes, I can link the video: ( video link )
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 | 10:14 am - Standing in the half-light, you're almost like her
I found Robbie last night. SO HAPPY! He was still in the suitcase from the Cape.
Yea! I just came across something I found very irritating and I decided to look up who did it, so I could be miffed at them, even though I suspected it was going to be me I was annoyed with. But it's not! It's Six! Yea!
(it's not technically wrong...it's just something that's unnecessarily complex, and very hard to test for. However, if she's been consistent in doing this (*crosses fingers*) the sweep I'm doing now will inadvertently pick them all up since it also has the thing I can test for associated with it. I'm not deliberately being cryptic. I'm getting rid of popup windows and in consequence of that work finding glossary items that point to the external location of one of the old glossaries. See, wasn't that much clearer?)
I have to close this post now so I can write another one.
Current Music: Sheena Easton "Strut"
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May 15th, 2008
 | 05:12 pm - Booking Through Thursday
Booking through Thursday question
Following up last week’s question about reading writing/grammar guides, this week, we’re expanding the question…. Scenario: You’ve just bought some complicated gadget home . . . do you read the accompanying documentation? Or not? Do you ever read manuals? How-to books? Self-help guides? Anything at all?
I will usually read the documentation out of sympathy for the writer. I do not usually note corrections and send them back.
How-to books, I have a love/hate relationship with. I do use some as long as they don't try to insult me. (I'm looking at you "Dummies" and "Idiot" guides. I've broken my rule once and regretted it, although at least it's signed.) Lesson #1: If I'm paying you money, you probably shouldn't insult me. Yes, I did take a course in college that I called "Physics for the clinically brain-dead" and it's okay if *I* do it. It's not okay when I'm paying someone else to do it. Even my therapist doesn't insult me, and she could probably get away with it.
Self-help guides, I'm not fond it. They suffer from Jerome K. Jerome syndrome: you read them and assume you have everything described in the book. I like a customized approach to help that takes into account who I am and what my actual needs are.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/think.gif) contemplative
Current Music: The Dubliners "Whiskey in the Jar"
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May 13th, 2008
 | 10:45 pm - a quiz for you
Pick one or two songs whose title and/or lyrics describe:
1) Your job situation
2) Your housing situation
3) Your immediate family
4) Your love life
Repost in your own LJ and share the meme-ness!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/sick.gif) sick
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| 12:18 pm - I don't mean to go all screaming fan-girl
But there's nothing that makes me happier than the words "unassisted triple-play"!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/geeky.gif) geeky
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| 09:14 am - Thinking
Anyone interested in starting a sci-fi book group? I don't want it to be too big, maybe 6 people at the most.
We could meet like once a month.
I've been avoiding sci-fi recently, and I think it's time I stopped.
I'm going to screen replies, that way if no one answers, or only one person, which isn't enough for a group, I don't have to depressed and embarrassed publicly, and just quietly let the subject drop.
Current Mood: contemplative
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May 12th, 2008
 | 04:56 pm - It's a very big mountain
Dana: How 'bout this? If I shot you out of a missile silo, you'd have to go 29,000 feet in order to clear the peak of Everest, land on a pile of rocks in Tibet, and shut the hell up.
Jeremy: I'm just saying, it's a big mountain.
Dana: And I hear ya.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/blank.gif) blank
Current Music: Bad Company "If You Needed Somebody"
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 | 12:39 pm - Blogging in yesterday
I'm going back through ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) filkergem's blog trying to see if he mentioned what brand of shake flashlight he had. I came across this. http://filkergem.livejournal.com/45422.html I wish more people had posted then. And I'm glad I didn't wait until it was too late to tell him what he means to me.
I did not find out anything about the flashlight. So if anyone has recommendations (or anti commendations), I'd love to hear them.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/snore.gif) drained
Current Music: Company "Sorry/Greatful"
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| 10:42 am - planning
This is not set in stone or anything, but I'm throwing it out into the world to see how the universe feels about it.
Leave Boston, Sunday June 8th and drive to loloformdy.
Spend a couple of days working/playing/visiting in the area with (see above), Nechama+kids, and kyttn.
Leave on the 11th to drive the rest of the way to NC to help with the move.
...
Come home at some point. Haven't gotten that far.
Current Mood: thinking
Current Music: Kate Rusby "Broken Hearted I will wander"
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May 9th, 2008
| 10:09 am - Spamarama
Dear Hoppie,
When parental spam arrives at the house and you get the mail, feel free to junk it without passing it along to me.
Thank you.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/annoyed.gif) irritated
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May 8th, 2008
| 08:18 am - Booking through Thursday
Writing guides, grammar books, punctuation how-tos . . . do you read them? Not read them? How many writing books, grammar books,dictionaries–if any–do you have in your library?
I don't read them much any more, but I have quite a few and I keep them handy. Just in case. I could probably come up with a number, if pressed.
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Alice Wonderland - All The Golden Afternoon
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 | 07:41 am - A brief update
Another brilliant Diesel Sweeties: The defeatist
I spent most of yesterday catching up at work. It was a "whew" type of day all day. Lots of near mishaps and narrowly averted calamities.
Dad and I finished our puzzle.
Mom taught me to knit. I can cast on, and I'm getting better at stitches, except for the first and last of each row. I'll get there. Maybe.
Hoppie has his "I shoot evil in the face" shirt.
I was just wondering where my jacket was, then I noticed it was on the back of the chair I'm currently sitting on. Bravo, smart girl!
It's raining outside and the weather is deliciously cool. Maybe it's just me because of the sunburn, but I'm delighted to feel it.
One of the problem is insomnia is that when everyone else is waking up, you're just nodding off. Although, 7:40 probably still seems pre-wake up time to most people, I guess?
Current Location: Falmouth, MA
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Countdown Mix Masters - Le Freak
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May 7th, 2008
| 11:40 am - Great day yesterday. Blah today.
I worked in the morning, went on a whale watch with my parents (after sitting through my hour long, never-ending project update meeting). We saw 13 different humpback whales, 5 finbacks, and 2 harbor porpoises. (You'll be able to read the log here next week: http://whalewatch.com/blog/)
This is our guide: http://whalewatch.com/research/naturalists_briga.php
I have pictures, but no batteries and no CF card reader here, so you'll have to wait until I get back.
I got my moostickers.
I miss my husband.
I'm dreadfully behind at work. I spent 3 hours looking for a file. Then discovered problems with a related file. I'm completely frazzled.
back to it, then...
Current Location: Falmouth, MA
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/confused.gif) scattered
Current Music: The Pointer Sisters "Automatic"
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May 6th, 2008
| 09:19 am - That's 110 percent!
Process and Tools is 30% logic
70% obfuscation and misdirection
10% bluff
Current Mood: cranky
Current Music: Process and Tools conference call
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May 2nd, 2008
 | 11:21 am - Dear self
You created scripts to save yourself the trouble of manually making the same changes repeatedly. Maybe you should run them instead of manually making the changes?
Current Mood: drained
Current Music: They Might Be Giants "Whistling in the Dark"
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| 08:39 am - Not exactly a Hallmark holiday...
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Take a few extra minutes to be nicer to people who are different than you are.
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 | 08:13 am - A word on inevitability
Despite knowing a thing is inevitable, we always expect a different outcome. Sometimes we hope for a different outcome. Sometimes we fear the different outcome, but regardless of what we feel, here's the thing...it's inevitable. It's going to happen. There is no possible chance it will happen any differently. And yet...maybe this time will be different. But, I know it's inevitable, but...maybe....this will be the one time it won't turn out that way.
Inevitability in a random world is a hard concept to grasp. Logic suggests it shouldn't exist, but experience consistently bears it out. (Please no comments about how humans only retain data that supports their conclusions. It's ridiculous on its face. We're equally likely to remember outliers and deviants because they cause logical disorder, and if you're documenting everything, you'll have notes on any outcomes that arise, whether they support your theories or not.) Of course you can toss a coin 100 times and get heads every time and from that you could conclude that heads is inevitable when it isn't. It could occur naturally or indicate a skew in test environment.
Or it could be inevitable. In which case, it's just annoying.
And before you think you know what spawned this thought, you don't. In a month or two, I probably won't either if I don't make a memorandum of it. But I won't because it doesn't require being coupled to an event. Inevitability is a universal concept that transcends mere incidences.
Current Mood: contemplative
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May 1st, 2008
April 30th, 2008
 | 12:25 pm - Reformatted songs
I just posted some transcript logs of phone calls to the operator. Some of them are funnier than others.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/idea.gif) creative
Current Music: Phil Collins - Easy Lover
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