September – 2006 – Got the Jimmy Legs

Monthly Archives: September 2006

In a uniform with two white stripes

I was slowly wandering back to work when I was halted by what appeared to be every single mounted cop in town. They were all parading down Church Street in front of the WTC site. I have no idea why, but it was amusing. More photos. UPDATE: So the parade was to attend some memorial […]

Imagine my surprise

Yesterday, I had an early conference call which I did from home, and then I just kept working from home. I'd been ill all week, and I even considered contacting my boss to let her know I was too sick to come in, but it all seemed like a lotta trouble, so I just didn't […]

Six inches forward, five inches back

Dear god, this is pathetic, but I'm sick of my malfunctioning, impossible-to-maintain blog. I started the old blog script with the notion that as my skills increased, I would get fancier and fancier, taking pride in the knowledge that I did it all myself (the script was a hacked guestbook, I implemented everything and manually […]

Took a whole lotta tryin' just to get up that hill

Word has been handed down: my office moves on October 5th. Wait, that's a Thursday. Why the hell are we moving on a Thursday? That's what Mondays are for. It's the end of an era, almost as much as moving from Clinton Hill will be (later that same month). Except for a couple of weeks, […]

Spinach blasters

I contracted some kind of virus over the weekend. My first thought: contaminated spinach! But I don't think I had any; in fact, I sort of stopped buying the bagged spinach because I always forget to use it before it goes bad. This is the gamble of buying produce. And what an exciting life it […]