• newborn tees come with mitten cuffs to cover little hands with sharp fingernails. the critter always works his left hand free. left handed? #
• i just made the executive decision that I will catch the 7:23 instead of the 6:53. for the coffee, man, all for the coffee. #
• 97% of new visits to my website are for a misspelling of a popular skin care product that I twittered about **once**. amusing + depressing. #
• Oddly amusing: watching the conductor who completely passed me over when asking for tickets hassle some 20 something for $0.15. #
• A crowd parts for the middle aged cell phone using driver of a red bitchen! camero late-yellow turning against traffic – a pedestrian moses? #
• Ever look up from texting twitter while walking only to stop and ask yourself hey–how did I get to this side of the street?? #
• @popejephei what’s getting installed? That new 100% life sized replica of Rodin’s Gates of Hell? Something else? Details man we want detail #
• I’m at a tech party, wife is home with the kid. He’s cranky and she’s miserable. I feel horrible. #

* The random things that come up (e.g., today’s, “You’re moving to Japan!” followed quickly by my, “No, I’m not!”)

* We’re doing cool shit. So cool that we just won the 2008 ITA Rising Star Award. Fucking A.

* The people I work with pretty much rock. None of us are perfect, including me, but everyone works pretty hard. Nobody phones it in.

* No one bitches at me about my messy desk, but I am often soundly mocked for other, less important things, like my coffee habit.

* I make a difference in the projects I work on.

* Lots of company lunches.  Today’s?  Panang Thai to welcome a new developer, Roman.  Mmmmm… Ginger Chicken!

Hooray!  BTW the company is Model Metrics where I’m Senior Technical Architect.  Mmmmm.  Technical Architecture…. so meaty!  And yeah, we’re almost always hiring so ping me if you’re interested.

To Sleep!