Important Dates
Everything happens in a rush. Anniversary of the first date. Valentine's Day. Paul's birthday. My birthday. All within five weeks.
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Voice Mail Hell
I really, really, really, hate phoning the health insurance company. First I called the number on my card, went through two voice mail menus, waited five minutes and talked to someone who was very nice, but said I had to call another number because another company was responsible for refusing
A Round Tuit
Finally got around to doing some things I've been meaning to for ages. Changed the vacuum cleaner bag, that's at least a year overdue. Mailed all the stuff stacking up on the dining room table. Boxed and posted the Payday bars, smothered in bubble wrap and
Formatted
Paul changed a whole pile of things to access a static runtime config object, and the database format changed. It's five minutes to ten, I dropped Paul off, got the groceries, got a box from Mailboxes Etc to pack the PayDay bars in, transferred the code from desktop
Drive Thru
Drive through coffee. Now I've seen everything. There was a big queue of cars at the kiosk on Manchester Road. I have no idea what city it falls in. You drive through Glendale, Rock Hill, and Webster Groves within a few hundred metres.
Anniversary of the first date
Today is eight years since Paul and I went on our first date. We went to a little Italian restaurant off the High Street. Being a starving student, I wolfed my pizza down, while Paul lost his appetite. He lent me his scarf on the way home because I said
Reasons why
Why am I keeping this blog? I know a couple of people who are reading it (Iceland and UK show up in the web stats, so does Germany, though I'm fairly sure I don't know anyone there.) It's probably half development journal for Chronicle,
Discoveries
Today is a special day. The second day of the second month of the second year, 02/02/02.
One good thing about having cable TV is the Discovery Channel. "There's always more to discover" is their slogan. And they're right. Just think, I
Circle Line flashbacks
It would be really nice if a Chronicle macro could insert HTML tags, especially paragraph, bold, italic, image and link tags. Those are all the ones I'd use regularly. Definitely the image tag, because a chap called Steve MacLaughlin made this blogsticker, which I love.
I remember walking
SSN
My Social Security Number finally arrived! I am not a free person, I am a number! Woohoo! The last obstacle between me and a job is no more. And it only took 4 1/2 weeks, instead of the two I was told.
Got a lovely java compiler message the