We’re in the end-run on the bathroom. We’re going to have our bed moved to the house on Friday, and we currently have an entirely gutted bathroom with no other shower in the house. We have toilets and sinks downstairs, but we have no functional…
After a week during which I was actually expected to work, I find myself with four hours on a train with no constraints on my time. I think that I managed to actually achieve my goals – which were to remove one mid-level to major…
Gorgeous morning on the early train here. I boarded around 5:20 at the station perhaps 10 minutes from my apartment. At 9:15 I’ll get off the train in Newark, NJ and rent a car for the day. A quick drive down to New Brunswick working…
It seems fitting that I should mention the good things every now and again. Work was gratifying today. We met with a long term customer who intends to renew for a fourth year. The certainty with which they treated the question – obviously they need…
Okay, it’s time for some serious internet blog whining. I intend to vent. You are under no obligation to read this, much less to respond … I say it mostly to get it out of my head. Here I shall say nothing that has not…
My father (in law) wrote a book: A Leadership Vacuum is available as softcover, e-book, and even for the Kindle. The core message is that there is a difference between leadership and manager-ship. Leaders are distinguished by the fact that they have people who choose…
The Washington Post holds a neologism contest each year … asking readers to supply new meanings for common words. You are welcome to use Google to find the entire list … but a couple reduced me to uncontrolled giggles: 1. Coffee (n.), the person upon…
I got DSL service at the house from a company called “speakeasy”. I realized today that they had promised me a rebate of $100 after the service was all set up, but I hadn’t done anything about that. So I sent a note: I realized,…
For the record, hitting a cast iron tub with a sledgehammer *does* break it into pieces, and I have to imagine that the two hours of work (or so) was way better than trying to carry it out of the house intact. The tub is…
I’m totally sold on Montreal. The city appears to be made out of art museums, good restaurants, and cool festivals. For example, this evening we intend to attend a session of the international fireworks competition. Seriously. They have fireworks every Saturday, all summer, like –…