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It’s been a week. – I am ecstatic to report that I successfully briefed someone else’s slides with less than 12 hours of notice (10:30pm notification that colleague was stuck in Texas to 8am meeting, and I did sleep). It’s a minor milestone in building my marketing, technology breadth and adaptation skills, and went off […]

Despite Brian’s cold, we decided today was the day to get the Sheldon’s piano. First we did a thorough cleaning and re-organization of the living room to figure out where we were going to put it. We pulled up the braided rug, took most everything out of the room, and did lots of vacuuming and […]

Nick Karanovich, Principal of Memorial Park Middle School (he introduced himself that way, as if that were his full name), liked to boast about who his students would become. As a fine arts magnet school, he always believed we’d turn out to be the next generation of writers, singers, actors, and educators. (I’m sure engineers […]

When I became a Section Lead, people advised me about how much I’d have to travel. I didn’t notice any major upswing, though I did go on a few more customer trips. When I became a Director, my colleagues were more cautionary, “Now you’ll REALLY be on the road a lot.” But I actually travelled […]

I have been on my own since Brian left on Tuesday morning for the vowel states. After three full days, I’ve noticed the following: Slinky meowed insistently on Wednesday morning. He barely moved from his chair on Thursday morning. Friday morning he meowed to make sure I was up, but then let out only a […]

Saturday morning was spent running errands around town – literally. I wanted to get some exercise and fresh air but I wanted to get a bunch of things done before the Sheldons arrived in the early afternoon. So, I put on my running clothes, laced up my shoes, and headed off. First I ran up […]

We’ve heard that we won two proposals (see Feb 5 post) and have gotten a “call back” on the white paper, which included a 3-hour briefing and cost estimate. So far, the hard work of proposal season seems to be paying off. Yay!

It’s been over a week since I’ve posted real content, so I’ll revert to a highlights reel. My cousin (well, my Mom’s cousin’s daughter) Michelle came to Boston to visit her friend Rekha, who recently moved to Somerville from Indy. We met up for Sunday brunch and compared notes on living in New England vs. […]

For at least the past year, the water intake to the upstairs toilet has been corroded. I noticed because the flapper on the back of the toilet was leaking just slowly/quietly enough to be annoying and I couldn’t turn off the water to the toilet to replace it. In addition to the apparent paranoia about […]

We went show-shoeing at Bradley Palmer State Park, a good chance to practice using our new gear before we go to NH next weekend. I enjoyed seeing people at church and singing at Sunday afternoon choir practice for our Easter cantata on April 1. I caught up with Ab and Dave on Sunday night for […]