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Yeah, yeah, sorry. Still no podcast. I’m a good deal of the way done, but I must go to work now. Probably should have even left a little earlier. My bad. Tonight for sure. I hate it when I release this late in the week, but it hasn’t been a good week in terms of me being able to get things done at home after work. I’ve either not been feeling great or I’ve had other stuff to do each evening. Oh well. Tonight. Yes, I know, I should have released the podcast by now. I’ve had a cold so once I’ve gotten home from work I haven’t been very productive, plus my computer has been nicely slow. And well, OK, I just didn’t do it yet. I’ll probably put it together tonight and release in the morning. We’ll see. Also, I woke up Sunday with a stuffy head. Now, about 14 hours later, it is a full fledged head cold. It sucks. I hate colds. It will probably end up moving to my chest within the next 24 hours, and then I’ll be completely miserable. Bleh. On Saturday Amy and I moved my desk and a couple other pieces of critical furniture from my home office upstairs, down to what had been a mostly unused room downstairs (it had Mike the Skink, a hammock, and some exercise equipment in it). Amy did almost all the disassembling and assembling of furniture. The above is a timelapse of the work, first in the old office, then in the new office. And then a bit of Mike at the end. So I’m now in my new home office downstairs. This is of course to make room for a nursery upstairs. And yes, I know we have a decent number of months before that is actually needed, but I figured I wanted to get it done with. And besides, the new office is actually a bit larger. So far, I think I like it. Of course, so far I really have only moved the major furniture and the computer. Many piles of papers and books and other things are still upstairs. I figure I’ll gradually move them over the next week or so. Then the room upstairs will probably stay empty for a bit longer before we ACTUALLY start setting it up as a nursery. In the meantime, I’m enjoying my new office… which for the moment still has a hammock in it too.
Back in November, I posted stats on the “things I want to do at home” that I’d gotten done between August 24th and November 29th. They are here. The summary of that was:
That’s 39 hours in 14 weeks, or about 2.8 hours per week of productive at home work on things I want to spend time on at home. That was pretty sad. But, another 14 weeks has gone by. Lets see how the stats worked out for November 30th to March 7th…
That’s 46 hours! That’s 18% better than last time around. Woo! Go me! Of course, that is still only 3.3 hours per week. I’m thinking a “reasonable” number for this would be more like 7 to 10 hours per week. Oops. If I can get to 7 to 10, I think I’d actually be “keeping up” rather than falling further behind on my personal projects each week. We’ll see if I can adjust things to do a bit better the next 14 weeks. So, last week I made a quick post titled Molybdenum is Coming. It was just a picture of a square from the periodic table. But it was a code. A code I figured at least one of the readers of this blog would get. Indeed, one did, and he proceeded to email a number of the friends we have in common, clueing at least that small group in to what it meant. I also explained what it meant on the last episode of Curmudgeon’s Corner, titled Element 42. I had intended both the original post about Molybdenum, and this explanatory post to happen a little over two weeks later than I actually made the posts, but some folks were anxious to get the news out the door sooner rather than later. Namely, Amy was just about ready to burst wanting to tell everybody she knew. :-) Anyway, for any of my other readers who have not already figured it out or found out through other means, here is the explanation… For many many years, whenever the topic of baby names came up, I would joke that if I ever had a girl, I would name it Molybdenum. Because of course it would be Molly for short and that would be a good name, plus it would be an element, and how cool is that, and also, it is Element 42, the answer to life, the universe, and everything, and you just could not top that! So yes, although there were only a handful of people who would even have a chance of getting the reference… I still figured I’d use the Molybdenum thing as my pseudo announcement that yes, indeed, Brandy and I are expecting a baby…
For those of you who didn’t get the reference, or were not told about this by someone who did, this post is the official, non-cryptic announcement of that fact. :-) To answer the most common questions, either those people actually ask, or that they probably think but don’t ask:
Anyway, we’re all very excited. Molybdenum is coming!
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And since I got a nice little handheld digital recorder thing for Christmas… School of Rock Seattle plays “I’m a Believer”… I remembered way later than I should have, that there is an election going on right now… one where the deadline for submitting your ballots is just barely more than two hours from now. And it is already too late to mail the ballot, as is preferred, so instead I have to drive to the one drop box in my town. (About a 20 minute drive away.) Oops. There is only one item on the ballot this time. Director of Election for King County. The candidates and their information are here. This is a non-partisan office (good). Well, actually I think it should be an appointed office, but if it is going to be elected, at least it should be non-partisan. Whatever. I’m going to go only by the stuff these people have on the voter’s pamphlet, and by what they have on their websites. Here we go:
So, OK, thought process… I generally think this is the kind of position that should be appointed… or actually “hired” based only on qualifications and not on political grounds, and probably approved by the legislature or something to provide a level of protection against political hires or patronage and such. It sounds from some of the reading here (mainly Pam Roach’s site) that there is a bit of politics here unfortunately, and the incumbent may be part of that. So since this *is* now an elected position, I want to go with one of the candidates that is as detached as possible from people currently holding office or running for office, etc. Ya know, I think I’ll go for the banker. Looking at his site (which isn’t pretty or anything) it actually has some content on it regarding the elections process and some problems with it. And listening to the first few minutes of the interview he has on his site, he sounds reasonable. He’s talking about the crap technology used for the elections and how it needs to be replaced by something that is actually reliable, secure, etc. He talks about adding transparency to the process, etc. He seems to actually be THINKING about the elections process, rather than just talking in vague generalities. You won my vote Bill. My vote: Bill Anderson |
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