Paul's birthday Went to Crestwood Mall with Larry and Sarah, ended up playing with a Pug puppy in the pet shop. It was a small size puppy in a large size skin, with the biggest, widest feet I have ever seen on a toy dog. Very cute.
Ouch! I have no idea how this happened, but the bottle of grape juice I was carrying out of the store leaped out of the carrier bag and shattered, just inside the store. I now have a 12mm oval shaped cut, a small puncture wound and a couple of scratches, all
Job hunting Applied for six jobs today, three yesterday. It's galling the number of senior posts I could get if I had, oh, four more years experience. How on earth do you get the experience when no-one lets you experience anything?
Jewellery and jobs Went shopping for a tougher chain for the cross I gave Hubby for Valentine's. Instead of going to the mall close by, I drove about 20 minutes out to Chesterfield and got there just as the woman was putting out the trays of jewellery. Wandered off and waited,
Valentine's Day It's a nice sunny day, I'm meeting Hubby for lunch, and we're going out to dinner tonight.
Important Dates Everything happens in a rush. Anniversary of the first date. Valentine's Day. Paul's birthday. My birthday. All within five weeks.
Voice Mail Hell I really, really, really, hate phoning the health insurance company. First I called the number on my card, went through two voice mail menus, waited five minutes and talked to someone who was very nice, but said I had to call another number because another company was responsible for refusing
A Round Tuit Finally got around to doing some things I've been meaning to for ages. Changed the vacuum cleaner bag, that's at least a year overdue. Mailed all the stuff stacking up on the dining room table. Boxed and posted the Payday bars, smothered in bubble wrap and
Formatted Paul changed a whole pile of things to access a static runtime config object, and the database format changed. It's five minutes to ten, I dropped Paul off, got the groceries, got a box from Mailboxes Etc to pack the PayDay bars in, transferred the code from desktop
Drive Thru Drive through coffee. Now I've seen everything. There was a big queue of cars at the kiosk on Manchester Road. I have no idea what city it falls in. You drive through Glendale, Rock Hill, and Webster Groves within a few hundred metres.