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Monday, February 4, 2008
Passage of Time
As many of you know, I have been working free-lance since I left GuardianEdge as I take my time trying to find that perfect (or as close to perfect) new job opportunity. This has obviously meant that I have spent considerably more time at home without the regular daily schedules that come from being employed at a 9-5 job. Especially over the last few weeks I have started to notice that my sense of time and the passage of time has become, shall we say, less than good. It is as if time has become drawn out and events that feel like they took place several months ago in fact only took place weeks ago. I find myself having to pull up my calendar to recalibrate my sense of when events actually took place.
This is a very odd experience to undergo. On the bright side, subjectively I am not getting old as fast as I was before.
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Other nasty habits
This morning in looking over the various blogs I read, I came across this challenge. Take
- The first entry on Wikipedia’s random page.
- The end of the last entry on this random quote page.
- And, the fourth image from Flickr’s Creative Commons Attribution License random image page.
Now use those three items as a band name, album title, and cover image for a CD cover.
I got quite lucky; I came away with my band as Daredevil, a quote from Robert Heinlein: “A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.” and this image.
I was amused. Now it is your turn!
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
Look and Feel
Well, as you may have noticed (unless you are using an RSS reader), I have changed the look of my blog. I wanted something cleaner. Some things are still a work in progress, but it is getting there. Hope you like it. If it looks broken to you, shoot me an email. Thanks.
Updated: If it looks like crap in IE, I’m sorry. IE is a stinky browser, please use Firefox or Safari.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Shouldn’t I have more free time?
So. As most of you know, GuardianEdge decided to relocate my office to the West Coast and I decided not to go. This is the tactful way of saying that I am unemployed. One would think that when you are not spending 8 hours a day in an office that you would somehow find more time to relax and enjoy yourself. Sadly no. Not that I am overly unhappy, just busy and stressed and a bit worn out.
Hmm. Might have something to do with the nearly 800 miles I traveled in a 45 hour span starting at 3am on Monday morning. You think?
Not much news I feel like writing about on this topic. I know that people are curious and I know that people care how I am doing, but it gets a bit tiring talking about it all the time. And since this is my blog, I’m not going to. I’ll let everyone know when something is more solid.
Have a good…um…what day is it? I guess there are some side effects of this after all.
P.S. click on the picture above to see some things from my NYC trip.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Anchovy Tomato Garlic Pasta - A Tour
A month or so back, Brianne sent me a link from the New York Times for a video by Mark Bittman that showed him cooking what looked to be a wonderful anchovy, tomato, garlic pasta. The comment was made: “This recipe with garlic, olive oil and anchovies (do I even like anchovies??) actually seems really yummy.” My memory of anchovies was the same kind he describes in the video, those cans that had the somewhat fun looking, but never the less boring little keys that you used to open them. My dad used to get them all the time and would eat them raw. Not exactly appetizing to my 8 year-old mind. Yet events conspired to change this opinion.
Yesterday at work, I saw that one of my coworkers had brought in a bucket of (not anchovies) Roma tomatoes. I picked up a few of them thinking I would make something with them. Then at the grocery store on the way home, I saw oil-packed anchovies. “Hmm”, I said, “I could make that recipe.” So I bought them, and I did. I hope you enjoy the chronicle below.
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