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Got a chance to sit up in the suites for the CSU game.� It’s an awesome view!!
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Sent by Romey on the road through his Treo
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Office Frustrations (not MS office – the real office)
At work I was previously working from home the majority of the time, and in the recent months there’s been an initiative to bring people back into the office. Right now my office-to-home ratio is about 60/40, and for the most part I’ve been challenged by being in the office. While I admit that working at the office increases my technical productivity (less distractions with the temperamental home computer) – my overall productivity has decreased with the amount of distractions. With many recent job cuts my work area has been reduced to essentially a ghost-town. Once upon a time my aisle had 14 offices, but over the years that has been reduced to four people, three of which spend most of their time from home. Sometimes things are lonely, but I have grown to appreciate the quiet atmosphere.
All that changed today.
Right now we’re doing a bunch of building-moving, and with it there is an attempt to consolidate the current occupants on my floor and move us either upstairs or downstairs. As they are in the process of moving everyone, they’ve arranged our area as a temporary work area, where people will work for 2 months before they permanently move. Today they began converting all of the work areas around me to have the new equipment and furniture, so I’ve been working in a construction zone throughout the day. I’ve been listening to a lot of music and podcasts to help reduce the distractions, but this is a polar opposite from the quiet area I’ve enjoyed. Now I have a slew of new neighbors, none of which I regularly with with. I find myself looking forward to moving myself just to be able to connect with people in my organization.
To make matters worse I went to go buy a pop this afternoon, only to find that they’ve raised the prices again. It’s now $1.25 for a 20-oz bottle! How outrageous! After a 25% increase from the original $1 price I’ve thought about setting up my own back-alley pop business just to bring some competition to the thugs running our vending machines. This is nuts!
Great Gig Tonight!
I spent Monday evening in Denver at the Larimer Lounge, playing Greenfoot’s second gig, also our second one in 10 days. I was really pumped up with how we played and pleased with the gig overall. Going into the show I was a little nervous about not being able to practice in between gigs, but we were able to knock off any rust that we had right away and played very loose.
Larimer Lounge at 10pm on a Monday night had the crowd one would expect late on a Monday night – definitely not big, but it was great to have family and friends out there to support us! This was also a great opportunity for us to get our foot in the door at this venue and we hope to be back soon with a better time slot. Larimer has a really cool stage, it’s elevated and it has some great lighting. The one thing I was frustrated with was the sound system monitors, and the fact that I really couldn’t hear anything. The people out and the crowd said that the mix was pretty decent, but I found myself having to rely on my muscle memory a lot more.
Personally I was really happy with my drumming at this show. Being relaxed definitely had a positive effect on me, and I lucky was able to relieve a lot of tension that built up throughout the day. I was also pleased with how I was able to physically sustain myself during the show. At the end of the night my drumming chops were definitely warm, but they weren’t tired or sore.
Overall a very good night!
12 on the 12th – Once again sneaking up!
While Friday the 13th (in October no less) is definitely a memorable date, it’s important not to forget Thursday, October 12th for the latest rendition of 12 on the 12th! This almost slipped past me so I wanted to shoot out a quick reminder and ask those to participate!
The concept is simple: On Thursday take your camera, take 12 pictures, post them on your Flickr, blog, MySpace – somewhere where people can see them and share them! Show off your corner of the world! If you’d like, check out my entries for September, August, & July to get an idea!
Cooking Salmon – in a DISHWASHER?!?
Typically in the beginning the week when our meals aren’t planned, Bethany and I shoot emails back and forth during the day to try to figure out what’s for dinner. We started the conversation after I was reading an interesting article on Digg, so I responded "Are you interested in being experimental for dinner?" How about some Dishwaster-cooked Salmon?
I stopped by on the grocery store and picked up two salmon fillets and some lime juice. Bethany met me at home and we wrapped them in foil, placed the seasoning and loaded up the dishwasher.
We fired it up on the normal setting and let it ride. It took a little over an hour to get completely through the cycle, and we were both wondering whether we were threw $10 worth of fillets in the trash. The drying cycle just about completed, we opened up the washer and were ready for the moment of truth.
Believe it or not – it fully cooked! The inside was definitely moist, but I think it was due to the fact that it was steamed. It looked like the water stayed out of the foil. In the end, the only benefit was that this was entertaining. We usually cook salmon in the oven for 5-10 minutes, instead of putting in the dishwasher for over an hour. Next time we’ll do the oven, but maybe next time we have a party we’ll do salmon in the dish-washer.