… in pictures! Tuesday: WTF is this, bumper wings? Wednesday: I finally got my office arranged how I want. Thursday: There was a pretty sunriseon the way to work. Thursday: This guy IS SO FREAKING COOL!@!!@@# Thursday: Minneapolis on the way home. Friday: “Eagan” would be a good name for Egon’s twin sister.

I was talking to a friend of mine today about the deplorable state of some of the software I’m working on at my new job. As I enumerated problem after problem, he cut in and said “Welcome to real software written by real idiots.”

… that I’ll post about my new job everywhere on the internet except to my own weblog. I started on Tuesday. The week before, I applied on Monday, had two phone interviews on Monday, on Tuesday I got a call to come in for an interview, interview on Wednesday, and I found out I got [...]

Ahhh, it’s just that time of year where not a whole lot is happening. But that’s the way I like it. This time of year goes by SO fast…We were going to go to the zoo last weekend to visit the new baby panda but a terrible winter storm blew through here. Tee Hee, actually [...]

Last night we went to the gym and played some racquetball with Jenn and Les. I played with Jenn because the guys hit the ball really hard and we’re not all that good. Last time we played we went to these courts that were very closed in and seriously smelled like gym socks. True, after [...]

Oh man, just when it seems things are rollin’ all smooth and everything at work–I get work drama. Or in typical woman fashion, I don’t have the drama yet but am anticipating drama and getting worried. Here’s the deal: At work everybody is all mixed in together and whenever one person is planning anything everyone [...]

Mr. Fuzz decided to step outside for a bit today, although yesterday he was content to lay around on a pile of clean laundry.

In retrospect, it was a bad idea to “wait until the needles start falling off” before taking the christmas tree out of the house. *sweep sweep sweep*

I think I have a horomone deficiency. I’m really gloomy today. I don’t know why. It reminds me of a ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ where Calvin wakes up and goes to school in the rain, has to eat a crappy lunch, gets beat up at recess, has homework instead of getting to watch TV or play [...]

For the past six months I’ve been learning the .NET framework api, this whiz-bang new model for Windows programming. It was designed from the ground up to be easy to use, powerful, and internally consistent. And it really is, it’s even got these interoperability hooks to interface with the current Win32 functions. Many times in [...]