Entries from November 2008

November 27, 2008

Thanksgiving

A coworker sent around a bunch of Thanksgiving cartoons today, and of course this was one of them. The reason it’s particularly humorous: this Thanksgiving I got tasked with bringing “dinner rolls and beer.” That’s right – the two things that you tell people to bring who usually mess things up, are what I [...]

November 25, 2008

Running shoe experiment

I hate to admit it, but my running has gone down n the past few weeks. I haven’t been lazy (though with the icky winter weather I am definitely hitting the snooze more) or too busy- the weather has just been downright unfriendly for running!
I tried running outside last week, and didn’t make it more [...]

November 21, 2008

Some Thoughts About Email

Yesterday, I mentioned to a colleague that gmail had rolled out some new themes, and I was pretty excited that when it was sunny outside, my gmail showed a sunny landscape. If I chose the beach landscape, at night the sun would go down on my gmail. Pretty snazzy.
She was taken aback. “Gmail?” she asked. [...]

November 4, 2008

A typical voting experience

I was one of the estimated 300,000 people in Cuyahoga County that voted early.

I voted yesterday…and waited 2.5 hours. 
I was pretty excited for my first time voting in a Presidential election as a resident of Ohio. Coming from NY, it wasn’t that I felt my vote didn’t count, but really, we all know what is [...]