Category: Me
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Good news everyone!
This is definitely one of those times where I need me an icon of Professor Farnsworth from Futurama, because he’s totally in my head right as I type this! But the news, oh, it is good. It is SHINY. Internets, I’m getting promoted! QA Engineer II, baby! This comes from an excellent year of slurping…
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Taking a net furlough for a few days
After this weekend kicking me in the teeth, I’m not feeling up to dealing with the Internet for the time being. I need some me time, people. So I’m going offline for a few days. Anybody who needs to talk to me, please send email, text, or call. If you don’t have the means to…
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Anna vs. H. pylori, or, the Very Bad No Fun Not Good Weekend
A lot of you who follow me on the social networks and/or who also follow got all this in real time as we were posting about it, but for those of you who might have missed it, I was in the hopsital from Wednesday night until yesterday morning. What put me there was a bleeding…
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Et maintenant, une journée avec Anna
Dans ce post, je vais pratiquer mon français! Si vos etes un francophone, j’invite vous à m’enseigne si je faire une erreur! Au matin, j’étudie le français avec SuperMemo sur mon iPhone. Je peux étudier sur le bus pendant que je vais au travail. Je suis un testeur pour notre site web à Big Fish…
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A moment of medical self-reflection
I went in for my semi-annual checkup with my endoc this evening, the last holdout of my adventures with the BFFN. Which went well, as expected, though I had to sheepishly explain to Dr. Kohn that I was ragged around my edges thanks to dental surgery AND fighting off a cold. And on the way…
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The Great Canadian Adventure, Days 4 and 6–Montreal!
I don’t have any pics from Montreal, I’m afraid, so y’all are going to have to just make do with my textual descriptions to cover Days 4 and 6 of the Great Canadian Adventure–which I am combining on account of Memoire et Racines, Day 5, gets its own post! The bulk of Day 4, really,…
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The Great Canadian Adventure, Day 3!
And now, let’s get back to recounting the details of the great Canadian Adventure, shall we? Because I gotta tell you people about Memoire et Racines, not to mention GBS, but I ain’t skipping ahead! Our last day in Toronto involved less wandering around than the two previous ones, in no small part because we…
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The Great Canadian Adventure, Day 2!
Day 2 of the Great Canadian Adventure involved more wandering around through Toronto, and in this particular case, that meant that our fine host cow took solarbird and me along Queen Street towards downtown Toronto. The plan was to stop and have lunch and hang out for a bit, until it was time to meet…
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The Great Canadian Adventure, Day 1!
So yeah, the Great Canadian Adventure has begun, folks! solarbird and I made it safely to Toronto last night, after a surprisingly relaxed and groovy jaunt out of Sea-Tac. Thanks to spazzkat kindly running us down to the airport on his way to work, we got there super-early and had acres of time to kill.…
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Great Atlantic Canadian Trainventure!
As I posted on the social networks earlier tonight, Dara and I will very soon be commencing the formal planning of the Great Atlantic Canadian Trainventure! We are looking at a rough range of dates from July 21st through August 7th, as that’s about as much time off as I can spare and still account…