Back From Break
My plan for the holidays included taking a grand total of two extra vacation days to leave me only working three days between December 23 and January 2. This worked fine. What was not in the plan was having all the children and eventually myself get beastly sick with chest colds. This culminated in a (somewhat) recovered Molly going with Laura and Liam to visit friends and family in Chicago. I being very sick myself was to stay home and tend Jo who was also too sick to travel. Finally in grand Anderson tradition Jo and I visited the Mercy E.R. on New Year's Eve for a prescription for arythomycin to combat the secondary infections that had her with a fever of 102. Everyone is on the mend now.
The good news is that on or about December 28 having decided that I could hardly feel much worse and realizing that unless I took drastic action the racking coughs were a foreshadowing of my (sooner rather than later) death stopped smoking. Five days on now and doing fine.
Illness also allowed me to spend quality time with my primary Christmas present, Civilization IV. Basically, a further refined and tweaked version of the classic game with killer 3D graphics.
I also finished Counting Heads by David Marusek. As brilliant a first (SF) novel as I've read in a long time, it really pulls the reader in and features terrific characters and an interesting future. The strength of the plot and characters are undermined by what I thought was a very jarring and incomplete end. But still worthwhile. The Clinton library has a copy.
As of tomorrow I will begin working under the organizational umbrella of the Downstate Illinois technology division of Clifton Gunderson. No more Mr. Do-It-Yourself. I'm getting everything I wished for: less grunt work, more sales work, an actual supervisor and goals. That's the good news. The bad news: I'm getting everything I asked for: less grunt work, more sales work, an actual supervisor and goals. I'm going to be actually expected to work for a living now. So, possibly many fewer posts here. But we'll see.
I'm planning on buying a cheap audio recorder and taking notes when I'm driving -- something I'm going to be doing a lot more of -- and I hope then to have more original material to put up.
Happy New Year everyone. All ten or twenty of you!
The good news is that on or about December 28 having decided that I could hardly feel much worse and realizing that unless I took drastic action the racking coughs were a foreshadowing of my (sooner rather than later) death stopped smoking. Five days on now and doing fine.
Illness also allowed me to spend quality time with my primary Christmas present, Civilization IV. Basically, a further refined and tweaked version of the classic game with killer 3D graphics.
I also finished Counting Heads by David Marusek. As brilliant a first (SF) novel as I've read in a long time, it really pulls the reader in and features terrific characters and an interesting future. The strength of the plot and characters are undermined by what I thought was a very jarring and incomplete end. But still worthwhile. The Clinton library has a copy.
As of tomorrow I will begin working under the organizational umbrella of the Downstate Illinois technology division of Clifton Gunderson. No more Mr. Do-It-Yourself. I'm getting everything I wished for: less grunt work, more sales work, an actual supervisor and goals. That's the good news. The bad news: I'm getting everything I asked for: less grunt work, more sales work, an actual supervisor and goals. I'm going to be actually expected to work for a living now. So, possibly many fewer posts here. But we'll see.
I'm planning on buying a cheap audio recorder and taking notes when I'm driving -- something I'm going to be doing a lot more of -- and I hope then to have more original material to put up.
Happy New Year everyone. All ten or twenty of you!
posted by -cman- at 1/02/2006 10:09:00 PM
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