Category Trials and Tribulations
The Ride: Impromptu Century
So this happened today: For full stats, you can click on the link in the “Garmin Connect” widget in the lower right-hand column of this blog. How, you ask? Simple: I got on a bike at 6:30am and didn’t get off again until 1:30pm. (Okay, okay, so I did get off a couple of times in between — […]
Not myself
Okay, so here’s a weird thing that my family (or, at least, I) learned about my grandfather recently: He apparently gets migraines but doesn’t feel them. I mean, he can tell they’re happening and all because other symptoms (like the aura) occur, but he doesn’t feel any pain. Which is kind of cool, like a quasi super-power […]
The Ride: Spring and Sting
Those of you who read this blog and live in DC know just how cold and horrible this spring has been. Months of rain and gray and cold; the cherry blossoms delayed so long they basically missed the festival. Seriously, we might as well have moved to Minnesota. But the past week and a half, or so, […]
Phone-less, again.
I am having the worst luck with iPhones. I’ve hade one for less than a year, and already I’ve lost two. The first time it fell out of my bag in a Crate & Barrel while I was shopping for shower curtains. This time it fell off my seat during a standing ovation at the Kennedy […]
Addendum
Okay, so you know that saying, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”? Well, I read that as giving me permission to say whatever I want as long as I say something nice while doing so — which is why I put all the nice things I had to say […]
Denver – Christmas Spider
Getting out of Denver was kind of an ordeal. My flight was supposed to leave at 8:00am, but when I tried to check in I learned that it had been canceled (surprise!). “Not to worry,” said the agent comfortingly, “we’ve already rebooked you for the first flight out on Friday morning.” Her benevolent smile evaporated […]
Nuit blanche
The message at 10:00am this morning: “It’s Friday before a holiday weekend, and we’ve got people who need to leave for family and vacation. Let’s get as much done as we can before 6:00pm, and then we’ll break and wrap things up when people are back in town.” The message at 10:00pm tonight: “We’re not stopping, and […]
Livin’ the dream
It has been nine days since I flew to New York on a last-minute trip for an urgent client matter with a suitcase packed for two nights. In the seven days that followed, I billed 115 hours, including two consecutive days of over 20 billable hours each and only four hours in between. That means that in […]
If it isn’t one thing, it’ll be another . . .
So I come home (and by “home” I mean my hotel room) after work today and walk into a cloud of cigarette smoke. Sickening cigarette smoke permeating the room, pouring out of the ceiling vent. Instantly I had a headache and hated whoever was smoking on the other side of the vent. For about five […]
Sad llama face
Remember how on Sunday I said I was about to move into Step 4 of my work/life (im)balance cycle? Well, I was right. Too right. Step 4 hit like a ton of bricks today at work — such that it feels a lot closer to Step 5 than I would like. Superman is flying awfully close to […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 