Getting a word in edgewise
Hey all,
Especially those of you who know Dallas. I’m heading out there mid november for a boardgaming convention at a hotel near the airport. Any suggestions for a good place to stay? I’m looking for cheap, but close to the airport, with t3h intarnets. The hosting hotel itself costs $125/night for a room w/ 2 beds. I’m more than open to sharing lodging costs with friendly geeks.
Cheers!
-Stephen
Let’s see that’s two guys who expressed strong interest and failed to make plans for this weekend, and one guy who stood me up because work need him.
Great night I’m having.
2nd date this past weekend. Board games at my place and with the hets yesterday.
Last night after grocery shopping and WoW and associated chatting with friends, I was up until shortly after midnight. Then this morning I got up at 6am to make stuffed mushrooms and berry cobbler for my church’s young adult potluck and boardgame night this evening. (Which I prepared in the wrong order, but that’s okay).
Oh yeah, 3rd date this weekend, speaker panel thing on thursday, dinner with friend on saturday, lunch next week with head honcho at the environmental management program.
Well, I certainly don’t feel like I need to get a life. I may in fact have too much of one. Now I want sleep.
Pumpkin spice red tea is tasty, also, sadly, seasonal.
I wonder if there’s anywhere around here I can get pumpkin (note: not pumpkin pie) ice cream…
I have decided to get all DIY on my bike. I’m going to replace the handlebars and seat. I’ve had good luck with split seats in the past.
My current (drop down) handlebars are covered with disintegrating rubber foam crap. I could just replace the coverings (how do you get that crap off? My current inclination is to use something sharp to cut them off, then maybe burn them ritually, but if they’re adhered to the bars, that plan won’t work nearly so easily.)
I’m wondering if the bullhorns are a good idea. My intuition tells me that they won’t let me push as much power as the drop downs, but they do seem like they’d be more comfortable. Any thoughts?
I want to add a rear rack to spare my back and possibly enable grocery and camping trips.
Of course there are a few other changes I’d like to make. It has decent speed now, but I would like higher gears. Since I’m in chicago, lower gears really aren’t necessary. For the first time I’m seeing the appeal of a fixed gear.
I have a great game called “Puerto Rico” which some friends of mine refuse to play. Not because it’s a bad game, but because the game involves little brown “colonist” markers that the player uses to activate plantations, factories, and other things.
It occurred to me that it would be very simple to “reskin” the game as a moon colonizing game where various settlements are competing. Starting by painting the colonists silver.
So a couple questions:
As per usual responses that don’t fit in the boxes can go in the comments.
Some highlights from the past week:
I think I can get used to an eventful life.
The firewall function was blocking my DHCP. Only way around it? Disable the firewall. Microsoft, you are truly a class act. How have you come to dominate the market?
This was after I had to delete a random, registry key to allow a re-installation of WoW.
Lovely, truly lovely.
I have this cook book, called “the single vegan” or something like that. It has recipes grouped into a week’s worth of dinner recipes, plus a dessert and a lunch for sundays. (apparently, I’m supposed to have much higher caloric needs on Sunday).
I’ve been talking about how I should cook more often, so I ordered the stuff on peapod, and made the first meal of a week this evening: cauliflower and pea curry with brown rice. I should have pre-cooked the cauliflower more, but it still turned out pretty good. I’m skeptical of the recipe that calls for rutabaga (I’m substituting turnip) and brussel sprouts. I’ve had brussel sprouts before, and they did not appeal (ditto for turnips. For those not in the know, apparently a rutabaga is a kind of turnip, according to wikipedia). But I’m giving it a shot. Also, I need to find Aduki (or Azuki?) beans.
Having a honey weiss along with a meal I made myself this evening, after doing dishes and taking out the trash made me feel a bit like
In terms of doing something other than healthcare finance programs analysis, I’m thinking I probably will end up taking some courses. Probably not go for a full ‘nother master’s degree. I’ve already got an impressive looking piece of paper (or 3). What I want is some knowledge. And truth be told, I may just pick up a couple syllabi and see what I can do with independent reading and research.
I sent in my 3 year service agreement yesterday (for the student loan repayment program). And today I find myself browsing sites about immigrating to canada (the us dollar is trending down, I expect canada to have the currency advantage by this time next year) while day dreaming about various environmental grad school options.
Really there is one option for enviro grad school that is compatible with my current job (nearby w/ night classes), but it’s spendy and rather sub-optimal in other ways.
My other options staying with gao involve moving to atlanta, dc, or seattle. Nowhere will I find a comparable managerial rapport to what I have here.
There’s nothing wrong with my life that moving will fix, or rather, the harm that moving does would far out weigh the good it would do. But the wanderlust it is strong within me.
We also just got a union. I am almost ambivalent about it, but not quite. It also seems that we’ll be tight on budget for the next year and the expansion of our organizational mission I’d hoped for is unlikely to happen any time soon. *ennui*