Because I’m in a funk

Because I’m in a funk and feeling sleepy, I present my
Favorite Sad/Mellow Songs (song:artist):

  1. Teardrop: Massive Attack
  2. Weather Storm: Massive Attack
  3. Wish: Mephisto Odyssey
  4. In Spite of Me: Morphine
  5. The Night: Morphine
  6. Take Me With You: Morphine (sensing a Morphine theme here?)
  7. Gone for Good: Morphine
  8. Is Jesus Your Pal?: GusGus
  9. Anthem: GusGus
  10. Jayme Lynn: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
  11. Nothingness: Living Colour (only good song off their last album)
  12. She’s Already Made Up Her Mind: Lyle Lovett
  13. North Dakota: Lyle Lovett
  14. Family Reserve: Lyle Lovett (all off of Joshua Judges Ruth – what an excellent album)

There are more. I forgot a lot of people, like Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman and Jeff Buckley. Leonard Cohen for writing Hallelujah and Jeff Buckley for singing it, and The Last Goodbye. Randy Newman for several songs, but mostly for one he played on Session at West 54th that he said hadn’t been recorded yet called, I Miss You. That song tore me up. And actually, it’s the last song on his new Best Of CD. I know what’s going in my stocking this year…

There’s something about real sad songs, and movies, that I can’t shake. They can’t be stupid or fake. They can’t be Hallmark sappy. There has to be genuine, or at least the appearance of genuine pain behind it in order for it to work. Sad songs, like the Blues, make me happy. Sadness is life-affirming. Sadness means that you’re still kicking and will most likely be happy again. I don’t like constantly morose songs, or Goth depression. Real sadness in a song though is refreshing. You should try it.

If I don’t get more

If I don’t get more interesting, I may have to join the Dull Men’s Club.

Problems

Is it a bad thing if I’m a software engineer (that’s my title anyway) and I can’t stand C? I’m working through the Tome of the language (K&R), and jeez, it’s just ugly. In order to achieve Geek First Class, do you have to know C?

Feast or Famine

I’ve spent the last two months being incredibly busy at work. I got about a dozen project dumped on me all at once. I’ve finished all of them that need finishing. One’s in QA now, which means I get to sit around waiting for bug reports, do something when I get them, redeliver, rinse, repeat.

What does that mean? It means I don’t have a lot to do at this very moment. As you can see, I spent about 20 minutes redesigning the site. I think the rest of the day will be used either surfing or shopping. I can’t decide.

So, the spur-of-the-moment redesign is

So, the spur-of-the-moment redesign is done on one page… what do you think?

Google Search: pregnant wetting -potty

Google Search: pregnant wetting -potty -car ~~bed~~ So far the most disturbing query to send a hit to this site. What were they ACTUALLY looking for?

Who decided that keeping the

Who decided that keeping the work environment at 80 degrees farenheit and with 75% humidty was a great way to get people to be productive? I’m coming in a swimsuit, tanktop and flip-flops tomorrow.

The Party

It wasn’t as good as last year. I got us totally lost getting there. I hate driving in DC. I think the streets were laid out by dropping a bunch of tinkertoys on a map and calling it a day. To go about 80 miles roundtrip, we went 125. We went across the Key Bridge four times going, and thankfully only once on the way home (I swallowed my pride and bought a map on our second trip through McLean).

Ok, other than getting absolutely lost, the party was a little flat compared to last year. All the bands were lame cover bands with a slight twist. There were slight cover bands in techno, swing, blues and funk. They all covered the same songs. I think they were actually the same bands with one different instrument. Weird.

The rooms were themed with colors instead of actual themes. Last year, they did TV Shows, which rocked. The themes were actually themes, and each room had different things to do in it.

I’m praying that next year, they move the party back out to the suburbs to a larger location like last year.

I am The Norm. The

I am The Norm. The Norm is me. I consider it a point of pride that I keep my inbox empty at all times and deal with mail as it comes in. I don’t know why everyone can’t do that. I walk by my friends’ desks and they have an unconquerable mountain of mail. How do they live with themselves?

So, I’m sitting here at

So, I’m sitting here at my desk at work on a Saturday aftenoon. Why, you ask? Well, I forgot to bring the directions to the party home last night, and now I’m burning a couple CDs for the car trip to the party. I never realized how cool having a 100 CD-R’s, iTunes and a brand new G4 could be. I think I’ve burned 10-15 mix cd’s in the past two months, three or four Linux ISOs (that’s free software, baby…), and two backups CDs of all my project files. How cool is that?

I shaved off my beard last night as part of our “Beauty Night”. It was Jen’s idea. I shaved off my beard (thank you, beard clippers!). We did facials and had a Loofa Bath Party, where Jen hot-oil conditioned my hair. Then, we moisturized and went downstairs to watch Once and Again. I feel so pretty.