I have a bit of an obsession with eBay, as Heather can attest after staying with me last week. I checked my eBay sales more frequently than I checked my e-mail. Watching the auctions and checking to see if I was paid are the fun parts. Listing items is incredibly…
This morning, I can see the snow-capped Olympic Mountains clearly from the windows of Bauhaus coffee shop just a few blocks from my apartment. There’s barely a cloud in the pale blue sky. The weather today is not, however, representative of the past 15 days. According to the local papers,…
It still doesn’t exorcise my guilt over not voting in 1994. Not after volunteering 80 hours per work for Del Vecchio for Congress in 1996, not after contributing and voting for decade following. But we finally hit the Republicans.
I have recently been unable to resist my old Civilization III addiction–I’ve played the past few weekends. But this morning, I finally took a scissors and destroyed the CD. No more Civ for me.
I’ve been spending an insane amount of time on eBay recently (my name there is mao.public), posting my dad’s comic book collection from the 1940s. We all thought this would be a great way of liquidating his various collections, except for the stamp collection which was simply too large. I’m…
Recently, I wrote about how we had packed P******’s office with chairs as a practical joke. So, our entire group was also about to undergo an office shuffle (it was supposed to happen today, actually, but it got canceled). But before P******* even got back from his business trip, he…
I can’t help but mention another bit of Microsoft culture shock. Of course, it’s less shock now, more amusement. When Brian (from Oracle) went on his honeymoon in Honduras over a year ago, Kevin had the brilliant idea of doing… something… to Brian’s office when he was gone. Kevin’s inspiration:…
The Microsoft company meeting was held this past Thursday, 21-SEP-06. At Safeco Field. For those of you who are not familiar with baseball, Safeco Field is the home stadium for the Seattle Mariners. In other words, it probably holds 40-50,000 people. Now, we didn’t take up the entire stadium. A…
Apparently, I live in a hotel. This is according to Finn and Ellie, who don’t know anyone who lives in a multi-story, multi-unit building. I tried to explain that I live in an apartment building, and I thought the message got through. Until the next morning, when Finn asked if…
Almost all of my close marketing friends at Oracle are pregnant: Kevin, Mike, Nelly, Brigitte and Brian are all expecting in the next couple of weeks/months. Well, Kevin, Nelly, Brigitte and Mike are expecting soon. Madison Louise D***** was born yesterday at 3:42 pm to Brian and Julie. Yeah!
