So I'm driving into my office today, feeling sorry for myself (details not relevant) and I see a sign on the fence at the local high school (written about 8 ft high) saying "We Love You George" and I'm wondering what's up.
Whilst buying coffee at the Starbucks I see a notice that a young man of 13 is returning home from the Children's Hospital today. He has acute myeloid leukemia and is terminal. Apparently, the welcome home sign is because he was due to pass the high school about an hour ago.
It just puts everything in perspective.
I haven't been making a lot of entries of late 'cause I sliced up my left thumb quite badly on a spinning propeller last week. It's healing well and I can now type through the pain..
Tyrone Willingham just got hired at the University of Washington (go dogs!) and I just got an offer from Siemens/Microsoft. I've accepted and will be a program manager. Working for Siemens as an employee and contracted out to Microsoft. That's the way they do things these days in the world of contracting.
No problem for me as Siemens has a great reputation and I get a very interesting and stimulating job out of the deal. I start January 5th but hope to get in to get paperwork done, office set up and meet some people before then.
Seems like my blacklist is working pretty well for comments. I checked the activity log today and it must have stopped fifty attempts at leaving comment spam in the last ten or twelve days.
Thank goodness for some sanity (and the fact that comment spammers are idiots).
It was a brilliant game and I had to miss it.
Olympiakos visited Liverpool yesterday in Champions League play and all I could watch was an online scoreline. No transmission of the game here on non-pay TV.
I was picking up a new IMac G5 at the Apple Store during the game and went I checked the scoreline it was about 29 minutes into the game and Liverpool were down 0-1 in a game that they had to win to make it into the knockout rounds of the Champions League.
This game was worth a good ten million pounds to them (advancement is quite lucrative) and they need the money both to retire debts and to buy a new striker in the January transfer window. (#1 striker Djibril Cisse is out with a season-ending leg break.)
Also, team captain Steven Gerard has been making noises that he might leave the team if they don't make it further in the Champions League draw. As he is possibly the best English midfielder this would be a huge loss to the team.
But they came back in the second half, depleted as they were by injuries, to score three goals and advance to the round of 16.
A huge (and memorable) win and I only got to see the goals in a highlight show. Very frustrating. Too bad I can't buy Sky here in the States.