Yesterday was our semi-regular staff retreat at work. We don’t do team-building games or sit around the fire singing Kumbaya, but we do tend to get a lot of longer-term planning and projects discussed and started, and it’s always nice to get out of the office for a while and really focus on stuff without …

so let me just say, Sunday’s looking REAL good for packing! I don’t wish flooding or hail or tornados on anyone in our general vicinity, but I hope it storms — and storms WELL — in north Texas this weekend. We *REALLY* need the rain!

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Our TiVo was working overtime last night, so I didn’t get to see but the first 30 minutes of the Cowboys-Redskins game, and that was fairly uneventful — though, the Cowboys did miss a pretty easy field goal attempt during those first 30 lapsed minutes (obviously *NOT* 30 game minutes). But then, the TiVo wanted …

I’m in a REALLY good mood today … maybe because I’ve made such tremendous progress on my pile o’ reading this week, it’s Thursday (which is almost Friday), and I’m just generally feeling great today. So, here’s a quick snapshot of my life today. It is: 9 hours until the bachelor party at Dave & …

muahahahaha Just now, one of my coworkers (hi catpants!) found me in the supply room/kitchen and asked if we could get away with me signing off on an order of business cards. Why me? ‘Cause my boss is on vacation and I was the only director in the building. Yes! For three seconds, *I* was …

I was doing some reading tonight for school and stumbled across a line of thinking that got ME thinking… namely, the author of one of the articles I was reading was asserting the notion that, to become very adept and/or expert in basically *anything*, you need to have been doing it for at least ten …

I’m going to a bachelor party tomorrow night at Dave & Buster’s. I’m not sure how I feel about that. There WILL be another girl there, but it IS a “let’s get the groom drunk, mmmkay?” bachelor party. Hmmmm.

Ha! Google has a new blog search device, so I decided to blog-search my last name. Apparently, only the 22-year-old Swedish model Daniel Norell is higher than me! (Not sure what to think of that…)

Texas has ruined me. The pervasiveness of Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine means I’m almost always craving nachos and/or chips & queso. In fact, on this Weight Watchers odyssey, I’m finding it most difficult to give up queso, then ice cream, then Chinese food. In that order. It just really, really sucks when I see people …