Today's lessons...

Yes, plumbing repair is expensive.

Yes, if you leave the bedroom door open - even for a moment - the cat will get out.

...and if the crawlspace also happens to be open, the cat will jump directly in and scurry around underneath the house where he can't be reached.

And yes, given enough time, the cat will come back.

Stupid cat.

Oh yeah...

...happy '07 everybody!

CNN quote of the day

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/01/01/self.editingonline.ap/index.html

Rachel Hutson removed some photos from her college sorority days after she took a job as a civilian working for the military. She's also made her Facebook and MySpace profiles private, so that only friends she approves can see it.

"I just don't want certain people to find me," says Hutson, who's 23 and lives in Newport News, Virginia.

That's a good start, right there - getting your full name, a/s/l, and job description included in a story on an international news site.

Let there be...

...lights!!

It's our first year in a "real" house, so the first year with "real" Christmas lights on our own house! And our own 7-foot real artificial Christmas tree! Yay!

Side note: as outdoor lights, dinky little single-strand lights suck. (Not to mention the flared bulbs that shatter oh-so-easily on the concrete driveway.) Icicle lights rule.

Now, to find out what Aki thinks when he actually sees them... mwa ha ha haaa...

Hey baby, hey baby, hey...

I'm an aunt!!





My brother and his wife had a baby boy just before Thanksgiving. I get to see this little critter in person in a couple of weeks. :)

Highs & lows

Low: Stayed up late Thursday waiting for product launch. Got delayed.
High: Flew to LA for research sessions (part of my job I don't get to do often enough)
Low: Stayed up again Friday waiting for product launch.
High: Product went live!!
Low: Had to stay up into wee hours of Saturday morning making sure nothing was broken
Low: Still had to work on my other major project
High: Got to send out the mass email proclaiming product launch & thanking team
High: Execs (including CEO) acknowledged the email and chipped in saying how great it was :D
Low: Scrapped first 2 attempts at other project doc and started again from scratch
High: Got to dress up for Diwali and see family & friends
High: Laughing at Hindi-English couples' charades
Low: Couldn't meet deadline on other project despite staying up late
Low: Had to explain to manager and manager's manager why I wasn't done
High: Discovered I fit into a dress that, according to the numeric size, should be too small :D :D
Low: Remembered that I still can't have sugar for another week
Low: Got up too damn early on Monday
High: Got to demo product for VP's to much applause
Low: Still not done with that other #$%@ing project...

*sigh*


I need more sleep between these, y'know?

Oh, no!

Trump fires sidekick Carolyn

If being a hot blonde yes-woman isn't enough, how's a girl ever going to make it in this biz?

...I mean, other than getting a job from Daddy...

Chew toy

Guard dog destroys rare teddy bears

They left a dog in a room with a bunch of stuffed animals and it went crazy. Imagine that.

In related news, shoe and newspaper museums around the country are re-evaluating their guard dog strategies.


...now we just have to wait for the The Colbert Report segment on this dog's heroism in destroying those replicas of America's biggest threat....