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missives from the great beyond (2009-08-29)

29 August 2009 at 22:18 Comments off
  • Seriously, having WindowShadeX broken is going to kill me. I hope Unsanity releases a Snow Leopard compatible one soon. :( #
  • @eddieizzard My God, man. This is beyond compare, but also completely insane. :) How much money have you raised so far? #
  • I just had a vaguely epiphanic thought, something I thought I would never say, but now it doesn’t seem to bother me much at all. Hmmm. #
  • @richwolf If it makes you feel any better, I used the time to upgrade to Snow Leopard. :) & will try not to forget next time! #
  • @jime60647 Straight-A students getting Bs! in reply to jime60647 #
  • Today decided to ignore the #whitesox game. A Contreras start == you already know how it’s gonna end, so why experience the pain firsthand? #
  • Perhaps weirdest part of lace design is turning from someone who laughs at idea of swatches to someone who not just knits but blocks them. #
  • Working on swatching star patterns for Shawlcago. Going OK so far. Next is flames & flames-to-Ys (ahem: Flames-to-Muncipal Devices of Chgo). #
  • @talkchibaseball The devil you know…? Sorry, that’s all I got! #
  • @suezq_WI Good luck! I’m terrified of steeks, myself. Well actually, I’m terrified of all things colorwork, steeks are just part of it. :) in reply to suezq_WI #
  • @talkchibaseball We better hit so many the umps rule we have to go back in time and apply them to games we played this week, to make room! in reply to talkchibaseball #
  • @BaseballStone By “funny,” do you perchance mean “at times somewhat desperate”? :) in reply to BaseballStone #

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missives from the great beyond (2009-08-28)

28 August 2009 at 22:18 Comments off
  • Esp cannot take much more since have to write Sox a fat check for postseason tix which most likely will not actually ever be printed. #
  • Lace knitting, curry, Pros accomplished. Mac upgraded with no tears. Cannot say the same for the Sox game. Cannot take much more of this. #
  • @talkchibaseball Yeah, first 6 innings on the radio all they could talk about was the homer friendliness. For teams who are not us, I guess. in reply to talkchibaseball #
  • Starting snow leopard upgrade now. Wish me luck! If you don’t hear from me by tomorrow evening, send Kleenex and a bottle of Scotch. #
  • Are you kidding me? Still no new Quicken Mac until next Feb (“honest!”), & old 2007 won’t run under Snow Leopard? WTF INTUIT. #
  • @richwolf D’oh! Crap! I totally forgot about Jak’s! in reply to richwolf #
  • @BillCosby Welllll….the employed could just leave for work a few minutes early, but I suppose that’s silly! in reply to BillCosby #
  • You know what? My evening’s going to be: 1) Curry, 2) #whitesox and/or The Professionals, and 3) Knitting. Because I am an *awesome* nerd. #
  • Mmm. Taste of Greektown this wknd. Dead of delicious phyllo-containing-dish overload just thinking, but at least I died happy. #chicago #
  • As usual, I wasn’t going to care about #cubs today, then @writchrd showed me the #mets DL & I feel bad for them. Go Mets! http://is.gd/2E3M2 #
  • Kiyoshi always looks slightly surprised when he snuggles my vertical blinds, pushes them away, and then they swing back towards him. #

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missives from the great beyond (2009-08-27)

27 August 2009 at 22:18 Comments off

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missives from the great beyond (2009-08-26)

26 August 2009 at 22:18 Comments off
  • @cst_sox Some days, lies are better than the truth. Days like every day this week… in reply to cst_sox #
  • Tiny scrap of lyric in my head, can’t remember enough to google or actual source, & is similar to a bit from another song – driving me nuts! #
  • @tinapurl Intimidating isn’t the right word. “Terrifying in its potential for making a ginormous mess of perfectly good yarn”? That works. in reply to tinapurl #
  • Public notice: Tomorrow is International Quit Reading Negativity into Everything I Say Day. Esp as regards pizza and national public radio. #
  • Was a great mug. It was always the 1st thing at new workplace, & last to leave. Many cups of coffee and tea in its lifetime. How to replace? #
  • I am officially in mourning. Was getting my morning coffee, accidentally knocked my 11 yr old Verio mug onto the floor, & it shattered. :( #

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a sad wednesday

26 August 2009 at 09:30 Comments off

There was a death in the family this morning.

My Verio coffee mug met its end today. As it was reporting for duty for the second cup of coffee this morning, I bumped it and it slid off the countertop and tragically shattered on the tile kitchen floor at work.

Verio gave out the mugs to WWA people as another pointless token of their excess dot-com VC money a reminder of their “Extra Mile” employee recognition program, but its main virtue was that it was very big; it held about 16 oz/500 ml. Many people have remarked on my coffee quantity over the years. It was, in a word, a “thing.”

My mug was responsible for many thousands of cups of coffee and tea in its over 11 years of service. It saw me through six employers: Verio, NTTC, FastWeb, the JFI at U of C, NSIT at U of C, and now Gelber. It kept me caffeinated at the jobs I was clawing at the door to leave, and at those where I was sad I had to go. It faithfully conveyed coffee of all sorts, from the disgustingly awful crap the operators at U of C used to call coffee (which was the Coffee of Last Resort), to yummy fresh french-pressed Intelligentsia. It held in equal esteem all sorts of black, green, white, and even herbal tea. It never leaked, not even once, and didn’t have so much as a single chip, though over the years it did get a little stained on the inside (nothing a little vinegar wouldn’t fix, if I would just take it home).

If you figure I used it three times a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year, for 11 years, it served eight thousand, two hundred, and fifty cups of hot beverage to me. That doesn’t count the times I just used it for a cup of water, which it also bore without complaint.

Go in peace, my beverage-holding friend.

mournfully, and with coffee in a lame, backstory-free paper cup,
–s.

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