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Some quick updates
February 24, 2005 ( life )
I've been super-busy with work and life recently, so haven't been updating much.
Let's see. Amusing $job story; our accounting whiz is this black lady, and she brought her kids to work one (cold) afternoon -- they asked her later that night, "Is Mister Jon an African?"
I'd had my rasta scarf and hat in my office.
Otherwise, I'm finally beyond the first hurdle of work-learning, but am now taking on our new DB management and continue to try to wrangle the website into some shape, at least on the backend, that is reasonable, and getting things like logging and stats working. What a concept. On a related geek-note, I really dislike Tomcat.
I've gotta gear up for my trip to Boston, er, next week -- a bit more background on the LifeLong Learning/Kindergarten group would be a good idea, that, and packing.
I'm now truck-less. I took the PRC UT shuttle up today, it's about a 10-15 minute walk from my house to the stop, and it takes maybe 20-30 minutes driving time. Not bad, except it was COOOOOLD again today, and both going and coming I'd just barely missed the bus, so I got to wait the whole time in the unsheltered cold. That was unfortunate. but hey, it's a free shuttle, and I have an alternative, bus #3, which takes a lot longer, but makes stops along the way (PRC is an express).
During my commute, I'm finally getting around to reading "Going Home to Teach" by Anthony Winkler -- it's not fiction, like most of his work, but it's still a fascinating read and exploration into a lot of Jamaica, colonialism, and racism/class issues. It's insightful and true, if often offensive.
Posted by griffjon at February 24, 2005 08:19 PM
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