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17 December 2004 - 11:52 pm

"The West Wing," back when I used to watch it, had an episode called "Take Out the Trash Day." The idea was to hold a bunch of news until Friday and then release it all together. The idea was that no one reads the Saturday papers so the impact would be lessened and even if they did read the paper, the impact of any one item would be overshadowed by the other items they released. It's a form of spin control.

So I'm going to have my own Take Out the Trash Day where I fill you in on a number of things that I haven't gotten around to posting about yet or things I promised to post about but never did. This isn't exactly trash, but that ruins my introduction, so just ignore that aspect of things.

First, back in August I promised to share all the pictures michael and I took in California. I never found a good way to host them and display them here on -273, and in the meantime I'd started playing around with flickr, so the easiest way to let you see all the pictures is to send you over there to see them.

While we're on the topic of flickr, has anyone else played around with it before? It seems pretty full-featured, but the free accounts have some bandwidth restrictions that prevent you from making full use of the system. And I don't want to pay money for something that turns out not to be good, so if you have any experience with flickr or flickr alternatives, please let me know.

On a different topic, I seem to have gotten away from postings about me and the non-trivial aspects of my life. I guess the important news is that about six weeks ago I got a promotion at work which was retroactive back to my one year anniversary date in late September. My actual job hasn't changed in the slightest, but I think this bodes well for my career at E--.

More recently, I've been pretty psyched about Christmas this year. I don't really know what's come over me, but I wanted to go all out for Christmas and I've pretty much done that. I bought myself an awesome tree and with a great deal of help from michael and Rachel I got the tree lit and decorated. I've also enjoyed shopping for presents this year, which is odd because I've had a lot of trouble deciding what to get people. But with a week to spare I finished all my shopping today at lunchtime. I even had time this evening to get my Christmas cards stamped and addressed. Tomorrow when I drop them in the mail I'll be do my last act of Christmas preparation.

As I mentioned above work is going fairly well. Today there was actually some good news (in a two steps forward, one step back kind of way) for the little project I'm the lead on. Our software vendor finally figured out how to fix the problem that has had us at a standstill for six or seven weeks, but within minutes of us getting things up and running we had a scope change that will probably set us back three or four more weeks. But the end is finally on the horizon, which is definitely a good thing.

All right, that's enough trash for one night.

Posted by on 17 December 2004 at 11:52 PM

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David, congratulations on your promotion, and I'm glad to read things are going so well for you. Can you post a picture of the Christmas tree? Or if you send me your coordinates I could stop by.

Posted by rkc on 18 December 2004 - 8:26 AM

I'll get a picture of the tree up today. Anyone who'd like to is welcome to stop by. Just drop a note to michael or myself to make sure we'll be around.

Here's how you find the apartment:

Directions to 8166 Whitburn Dr., Apt.6

From Clayton Rd. take the first street West of Brentwood. This is Clayshire Rd. The ScholarShop is on one side of it and a bank is on another.

Take Clayshire until it ends and turn left.

You are now on Whitburn. Directly ahead of you you'll see that the road turns to the right. On the outside of that turn is beige, brick building. That is 8166 Whitburn.

Go up the stairs in the front and then go up to the second floor. Apartment 6 is at the end of the hall.

This link should help you with directions.

Posted by david on 18 December 2004 - 8:59 AM

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I'll get a picture of the tree up today. Anyone who'd like to is welcome to stop by. Just drop a note to michael or myself to make sure we'll be around. Here's how you find the apartment: Directions to 8166 Whitburn Dr., Apt.6 From Clayton Rd. take the first street West of Brentwood. This is Clayshire Rd. The ScholarShop is on one side of it and a bank is on another. Take Clayshire until it ends and turn left. You are now on Whitburn. Directly ahead of you you'll see that the road turns to the right. On the outside of that turn is beige, brick building. That is 8166 Whitburn. Go up the stairs in the front and then go up to the second floor. Apartment 6 is at the end of the hall. This link should help you with directions. David, congratulations on your promotion, and I'm glad to read things are going so well for you. Can you post a picture of the Christmas tree? Or if you send me your coordinates I could stop by.
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